My Blog...

I realize that I have not posted anything since the day before Reese died.  I have always felt like that's appropriate in some way, and I have not felt the need to change that.  Our lives changed in an irrevocable way that day, despite the fact that we had always known that day would be coming.  I miss Reese every day and I always will.  A chapter/phase of our lives ended on that day.
But now another chapter is ending.  We will be leaving Ralls this summer and moving to Sundown so Jeremy can be the Middle School principal there.  I will no longer work in the library at the Elementary School, and I am going to miss that a great deal.  I love what I do.  It has been an honor and a privilege to be in charge of all of these books, and to help all of these students find books to read.  This has been an amazing opportunity.

Early in the fall of my first year as the librarian, back in 2014, in one of the many emails I began receiving from publishers and websites and book companies, I stumbled upon the term "ARC."  I thought, "What is an ARC?" So I googled it.  Advanced Reader Copy.  "What is that?" I thought to myself.  So I clicked on the link.  And a whole new world opened up to me...  You mean I can read books before they're published?!  For free?!  Just because I'm a librarian?!  I am a "Professional Reader?!?!!"  And so I signed up for a NetGalley account.  And an Edelweiss Above the Treeline Account.  And I clicked on any link that would give me the opportunity to get an Advanced Reader Edition of any books that looked interesting.
Then, however, I realized that I was expected to review these books that I was reading.  And I got a little behind with my TBR pile...oops.  Eventually I caught up, and ever since I have been loving the fact that I can read awesome books for free--before anyone else does!  (Of course, some of the books are not awesome; but I always include that in my reviews.)
Now, however, since I am faced with not being a librarian anymore (at least not for the foreseeable future), I have been wondering what it will be like if I don't get my weekly email from Edelweiss.  I am pretty sure I will not like it.  And so...

I will now be putting all my book reviews on my blog.  I have already reviewed quite a few books.  They are not the best-written reviews, I will admit, because I have read lots of reviews that are much better than any I have written.  But they are reviews, and have been posted to Goodreads, NetGalley, Edelweiss, Litsy, and sometimes even Amazon and Barnes & Noble.  I will post all of my old reviews here, and beginning with the book I am currently reading (The Darkling Bride), I will put my new ones here, too.  And I promise to do a better job from now on of writing better reviews.  😉  I'm sure in the past 4 years I have lost most of the followers of my blog.  But that's alright.  I think I have always done this for me, and not any one else.  So, we'll see how this goes!
HAPPY READING, EVERYONE!