Book diary

Well, I have just retrieved this draft post from the 4th September 2010 (it's now 16th October 2011) so it's been in the pipeline for quite a while! The draft only consisted of photos, and it has leapt written being today and I have filled the last page today!! And I am immensely proud.  I came across book diaries in nice bookshops and thought how much I would like one and was given this, which was just a notebook but has worked pretty well. 

I have recorded each book I have read since Easter 2006 with a comment on almost all the books - ranging from a few lines to a couple of pages.  Sometimes it includes my thoughts on the story, or my situation of reading the book or occasionally seemingly unrelated ramblings!

I have absolutely loved having it to refer back to and keep track of how much I have been reading.  I recorded the date I finished the book and sometimes there have been gaps of several months and sometimes a few in a week when I've been on holiday. 

At the back I made lists of books:  books I wanted to read, the 'highbrow books' that I had read, books I'd read more than once.  (Admittedly some of that was to fill the book up as I was given a new one last year which I wanted to start using!)

So drum roll... between April 2006 and October 2011 I have read 118 books!  Woop! I am tempted to write out all those books so there is a record here... maybe one day!  I think that was what this post started out as - another blog vs diary post!

I have also recently retrieved my notebook of books I read from 2002 to 2005 so that's a pretty good record I've got going on! I will try take photos of that sometime too!