I used to blog pretty heavily back in 2004 and 2005. It just dried up, not sure why. But I usually blogged book reviews of the things I’d read, and since I’m on a goodreads kick right now, I thought I’d trawl through the old blog and see if I wanted to lift any of those old reviews to paste into goodreads. Some of them, yeah, but in general that old blog was profane, strident, and usually each post was hacked out in a matter of minutes with no proofreading. Like this one.

Still, some of those entries are worthwhile, and it’s certainly been valuable to remember what I thought about particular books immediately after I’d read them. I think everyone who reads should at least keep a journal so they can someday look back and remember.

Like, I go through most of my days in 2008 thinking that there wasn’t any big deal about Lolita but now I realize that when I read it in 2004 I was moderately disturbed by what Humbert Humbert did to that poor nymphette.