She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain

Hello! My name's Susan, and I have this horrible tendancy to blog about books!

... On livejournal.

Apparently very few people are silly enough to do this, and so I have done my usual sheepish trick of following people to Wherever There Is Most Talking About Books! (Albeit not without GREAT CONCERN, expressed best through cowboy analogies.)

I tend to give a reaction shot rather than actually review a book! This is a blog that will be filled with keysmash and lists of impressions rather than actual reviews. It may also contain necroreviews of books I read during 2008, in which case it may me more a test of how memorable the book is than how GOOD it is. (I also have a tendancy to compile them into Reading Digests. This is intended for the SHORT posts, which... Only really works if I DON'T explode in tl;dr everywhere, which doesn't happen often.)

I started bookblogging as a New Year's resolution for 2008 - I was going to read seventy-five books and post at least a sentence about all of them! I ended up reading about a hundred and forty and blogging about the last ten I needed five minutes before midnight on December 31st, but pfft...

I am extremely Not Picky about what I read - I prefer fantasy novels to other kinds, and I would rather read the back of a cereal box from the other side of a room without my glasses than read a romance novel, but if it has words I will probably give it a try!

I LOVE comic books. I am a complete Marvel fangirl! This is unfortunate because my local library was stocked by DC fans, which means I will have a lot of reaction shots prefaced by I HAVE NOT READ A LOT OF STUFF IN THIS UNIVERSE, MY REACTION IS BIASED AND ALSO CONFUSED. Manga, I am completely unpicky about in that I will pick up anything and at least have a look at it - however, my patience for sugary series and standard shoujo tropes is steadily decreasing.

A lot of books reviewed here (and the fact that this blog exists at all!) are COMPLETELY the fault of Renay (the shiny awesome force behind YA Fabulous!), please feel free to blame her entirely! :D

I am trying to learn Japanese and relearn French for the sole reason of increasing the number of books I can read. Feel free to suggest books or mock, whichever you wish.

Now, I'll be transferring a lot of my reviews over here and trying to figure out what the hell the equivalent of an LJ-cut is on this thing! See you soon!