One of our criteria for Blog of Week is that it not mention zombies. Such sites are not easy to find these days. We think we have a winner in A Book A Week by Becky Holmes, a Wisconsin woman who has read a book a week for 25 years. Becky, who reads mostly literary fiction, blogs unpretentiously about each book as if in conversation with friends.
Note her succinct take on a detective in a mystery that she placed in the Abandoned category: “It takes her a long time to figure things out and I think this is a deliberate ploy on the part of the author to s-t-r-e-t-c-h out the action. This book is 506 pages of dithering (Julia) and glowering (Nicholas). Luckily I only read 109 of them.”
But Becky is far more the enthusiast than the basher as her listing of Grade A’s nearly equals her total of all other grades she hands out. It’s good to know readers like Becky Holmes are out there.
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I don't know. Is "reading a book a week" a worthy way to spend one's time? Think of the opportunities lost, the life missed, the couches worn out. This is perhaps heresy, but reading books is not the end-all.
Is El Tigre serious? I'm not even the blogger in question and I'm a little bit insulted. First of all, reading one book a week does not take every minute of one's free time. At such a pace, there is still plenty of time left over for other hobbies and, dare I say, worthwhile pursuits (as if reading were not one). Second of all, reading a book is not a lost opportunity, and rather than causing one to miss life, such a habit distinctly enriches it. I am not sure why I am even responding to this, as any avid reader knows full well that life is just not long enough to read all the great books that have been written (let alone all those that are "merely" good) and many of us only wish we could read more than one book a week.