Not being one to ever make New Year Resolutions that I know I can't keep I am not sure why I have set myself this task but here goes.
I suppose the best place to start is by introducing myself and explaining what I am hoping to achieve here. I am going to try and post everyday and review or discuss the book that I am currently reading or have just finished.
My name is Tina, I love to read - paper books, kindle books, blogs, the back of cereal boxes, you name it - if there are words there then I have to read them! I can't remember a point in my life when I didn't have at least one book on the go. Romances, erotica, Sci Fi, fantasy, I honestly don't mind because I will give almost anything a go although I cannot read horror (gives me nightmares!) and I'm not keen on suspense/thrillers or poetry. I also enjoy crocheting (and making up my own patterns), watching movies - especially sci-fi, spending time with my family and pets and, oh yes, my computer! Whether its being on various of the social network sites, playing or running cribbage tournaments or playing fantasy war games my computer is just about always on.
Through my childhood I can remember loving anything written by Enid Blyton, the Famous 5, the Secret 7, her Naughtiest Girl series, The Magic Faraway Tree, the Mallory Towers series, and so much more. Each offering in its own way a chance to escape into a world so different to the one I was living in. As I grew a little older my taste in books became a little more eclectic - the complete works of Shakespeare (in old English verse!), Georgette Heyer, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and anything else that I liked the look of in the school Library. Oh and then of course there were the Mills & Boon books that my mum loved to read - they became my guilty pleasure.
By the time I hit my early 20s I had discovered this wonderful author who could only be found in certain book shops. The author must have been a very prolific writer as there were always lots of new titles available and as they were very reasonably priced I built up a rather good collection of them. The author's name was "Anonymous" and the subject matter was, well to put it simply, erotica. It's funny because that was 30 years ago and yet if you read certain newspapers erotica for women (or Mommy Porn) was something brand new that happened a couple of years ago when the 50 Shades books came out. What is even funnier, at least to me, is that those top shelf books that I read all those years ago are being re-released but this time instead of the author being "Anonymous" they now have names although that's about all that's changed in the books!
Last April a good friend of mine opened up my reading world even further when she gave me her old Kindle because she had a newer, better, one. I'd always sworn that I wasn't interested in them and that I much preferred the feel of a real book in my hand but I was wrong. The Kindle has opened up an even wider reading world to me. I can download books instantly they are released, usually much cheaper than the paper versions, I can get books totally for free or a greater reduced price by signing up for a couple of email alert groups that hunt out these offers and now I am also getting to read books before they are even published by getting ARCs (advance review copies) from various publishers. The only proviso to accepting them is that you are willing to post "an honest" review on one of a number of sites to promote the book prior to publication. That's not a hardship as I tend to do a written review on both Goodreads and Amazon anyway. So mentioning reviews, I am an extremely fast reader, I can manage up to 3 full length novels a day, sometimes I am reading them for the first time and other times I am re-reading particular favourites. From first registering on Goodreads in April 2013 until 31st December 2013 I registered 243 books as read. This year I am aiming to post a review everyday of something that I have read.
So with that in mind, here is my first review of the year:
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