My First Post!!

Okay, Book People! I finally bit the bullet and got one of these new-fangled blog things. Guess what--I have no clue as to what I am doing on a blog, much less how I am going to go about completing my quest to keep it up and interesting. But, hey, I figure I can talk a lot, I certainly can blog my feelings about the books I read. Bear with me, please, while I flounder a bit in these first few weeks (or months <grin>), I hope to catch on eventually.

First up I will fill you in a little about me. I have come to  love with my ereader more than I ever thought I would; it does not leave my side. I have  a few and they even have names, but that is for another blog. I finish about 6-8 books a month and would love to do more than that, but somewhere in there I have to find time to work (heavy sigh). Since one of my friends told me about Pixel of Ink, my Kindle library has grown to almost 900 books. I read mostly thrillers and murder mysteries. I just cannot stop my finger from hitting that "Buy Now With 1-Click" button when all of these great-sounding books are free or almost free! There must be a support group coming for people like me; maybe I will be their poster child. I also do a little bit of beta reading when I get the chance. Being an author would have been a dream to me, except that I have no talent to write. I figure that beta reading is the closest I will ever get to writing; if I can "help write" a book and brag about that, you bet I am all over that game! ;) Because I am a perfectionist, I also am taking an editing class, which has turned out to be harder than I ever imagined; I will leave that for another post also. (Look, I am already finding all kinds of things I can post about and I haven't even gotten to any book reviews.) The rest of my life is spent on my full-time job, my teenage and college-aged children, my husband and our home. My time seems to fill up very quickly!

So, what is my purpose here? My goal is to 1) tell you what I am reading; 2) give a review on what I have read; and 3) give you a glimpse into my "book" life, whatever happens to be going on interesting with my reading life at that particular time. I will probably throw in a few personal items here and there also. And I am going to keep you abreast of what the total of Books on My List in my Kindle is at the time I am posting.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by and "listen" to my chatter. Happy Reading!
Mary
Number of Books on My List = 899 minus 36 read = 863 TBR