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Way back towards the end of December, when I was doing my New Year’s Resoluting, I decided that one of my goals for 2014 would be to start a book blog. I thought to myself, “This will be awesome, I'll still be able to read all of the books, AND I’ll also be working on my goal of writing more, so win-win. Piece of cake.” Then I proceeded to read a ton of books and write amazing reviews for all of them.

 Haha, just kidding! What actually happened, was I gave myself a ginormous case of writers block, with a bonus round of the  inability to focus on anything I tried to read. The result was I was not reading all of the books like I thought I would (in fact, I was reading none of the books), but finally (mainly due to membership in a couple of book clubs) I actually managed to finish reading some books.

 It was great. I read a book, Plain Kate by Erin Bow, which I really loved, we had a great discussion about it at our Saturday night book club meeting, and I was planning on writing up my first review sometime the following week. Well, I never got around to writing that review, because that Tuesday, my mother died.

 I am not exaggerating at all when I say that it felt like the bottom dropped out of my world. Reviewing and even reading books suddenly became the furthest thing from my mind. I’ve barely had the attention span to read a book, much less write about how I felt about it.

It has now been about a month since my mom’s death and while my world is still topsy-turvy, the mundane day to day tasks still have to be done, and so, since I have returned to work and returned to my normal daily activities, I have decided that it is time to attempt the blog thing.

 Now because some time has passed since I read Plain Kate and I don’t feel I could give it the justice it deserves, I am no longer planning on that being my first review. However, I will say, if you enjoy a good, dark, old-world fantasy, you should definitely give it a chance because it is really great.

 So long story short, this is my blog. Welcome to it! I’m going to read some things and attempt to write about them here. I’m scared and excited and I hope you’ll join me on my bookish journey.