I've realized something about myself as I continue work on this blog, and I should probably share this insight as it has a potentially major impact on this project.
That insight is this: The reading of a book is far more important to me than writing about it.
That's not to say that I don't enjoy this blog, because I do. It's just that I get so caught up in reading that I forget to update these entries. That's why, for example, the entry on Midwives is still (at this moment) empty, even though I finished that book almost a month ago. It was a difficult book to read for its emotional content and I think that's part of why I have trouble going back to it and reflecting on the experience of reading it.
Other books aren't nearly as emotionally draining but I still get caught up in reading the next book and thus forget to finish the entry about the other books I've finished. I'm trying my best to get them all done, but bear with me :)
I will always be a reader first, a writer second.
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