Remembrace

My biggest fear is to die and not have some kind of mark on the world. The world...is huge. I'm so small and there really isn't anything really significant about me. I live in a small town, am married to a wonderful man and have two children. Sounds typical. Go to church and live my life according to God's plan and not mine. It just seems like I'm doing what I should do and waiting to die. Not a lot going on. I want to change that.

When I was a child, I used to read every book I could get my hands on. I went through a period in my teenage years where having fun with friends and boys were all I really cared about and I books stopped being my passion. Then, very recently, it started again. I always wanted to be a writer. I freelanced for a couple of years and honed out whatever things could pass as "good" writing. The passion to read...other people's work has always been where my interests take me. I don't start a book unless I am content on finishing it and I can honestly say that there has been nothing in my life that compares to the feeling of completing a really long book, being able to sit back and dwell on its content for 15 minutes and then pick up a new one that has new adventures and interesting facts that haven't been discovered (by me). I am a discoverer, but not in the sense that many people would consider a "discoverer" to be.

To feed my paper problem, I have decided to be AGAINST any electronic devices to read. There are several reasons why I'm bypassing the tablets and Nooks and Crannies ...or whatever. I like the smell of the book. I like knowing I'm human and knowing that my child can rip one of the pages to my book. I am not a robot and refuse to act like one. I like perusing books, I like flipping the pages and I like the fact that when I get them wet in the bathtub they wrinkle up and feel ever-so sand-papered when they dry. The fact that I sell books and have a hard time putting them out on the inventory unless I've actually READ them, may be a sign of passion or just a cry for help. I guess if you follow this bl

og, you'll find out if a sanatorium is the better end of the stick for this girl.

With all this being "said"--sorry, more like shoved down your throat..I want to invite you come along with me for a 13 year journey. Yes, 13 years. Thirteen wonderful years of my ENTIRE life, where books are the topic of discussion. I will undertake The Guardians "1000 Books To Read In Your Lifetime" and I will finish it. In this time I will discuss the book, let you know if it's worth your time and most of all, discover if by the end of undertaking this ridiculously large an sporadic list of books, I am a better writer? 13 years of my life dedicated to other people's words may sound a bit crazy for a few of you to understand. What is the point of writing if we don't read anymore? What happens to authors? Will books become "boring" and be left up the shelf to collect dust....just to be thrown away during a particularly productive Spring cleaning? Stick to this blog and you may start to develop an appetite that could match mine. Ready?