The Chase

Hello, and welcome to the beginning of a new blog. 

Like so many others, the birth of this blog was conceptualized for wholly selfish reasons.  I publicize my exploits in the hopes of actually completing the project that I am proposing.  To be honest, right now the task seem daunting, overwhelming and fantastically time-consuming.  Nevertheless, in order to prove to myself that I am not a time-wasting ninny and a complete braggart, here goes.

I have a problem, an addiction.  Every time I walk past a bookstore, I must enter.  I must browse for hours among the long forgotten stacks of books and I must purchase something that tickles my fancy.  I think to myself, "how clever I am, having found a copy of Umberto Eco's Serendipities" or "I didn't know that Katherine Dunn wrote a book other than Geek Love.  I can't let that go".  I swiftly purchase my find and, gently cradling my new friend, I wander back to my hovel where I promptly read thirty pages or so, get distracted and forget that I ever had any intention of doing nothing this afternoon but drinking tea and reading an entire novel.

And so, my little discoveries have amalgamated into a half-read-book-lined shoebox... ahem... apartment. I think myself in somewhat an intellectual vein.  I think before I think... or something like that.  But, I haven't read even a fraction of things that I have the intention of reading (and have committed time and money into possessing). 

And So, To The Chase: To catalog my entire library, make a list of all of the books I have not read from cover to cover, and READ THEM ALL. 

I thought about adding a clause here saying that I couldn't buy any more until I was done... but I think that I will just keep that habit to a discerning minimum.  What can I say, a vice is a vice and there are worse ones out there methinks.  

Along the way, I think I'll find some real gems and some real stinkers.  I will write my completely biased (and often foul mouthed) opinion of each book as I finish it, hopefully to someone's amusement. In the meantime, I must get to cataloging. 

Ta for now, ET