My own little book club

I'll just get this out there, in case anyone happens to come by this blog. I have learned that I LOVE to read.

There are three types of readers:
Reader A - Reads a lot as a child, reads a lot as a teenager, reads everything assigned in school, reads a lot as an adult. Enjoys reading the paper. Reads during airplane travel. The lifetime reader.
Reader B - Reads a lot as a child, reads less as a teenager, reads Cliff notes to get through school assignments (or doesn't read at all for said assignments), becomes a science or math major in college and thus does not have reading assignments...

I was wrong. I think there are two types of readers (A and B). However, reader B can become one of two types of readers:
Reader Ba - Continues on in life to be a non-reader. Watches the news instead of reading the paper. Sees the movie instead of reading the book. May try to read books, but usually never finishes an entire book from beginning to end. Simply does not find reading a source of enjoyment.
Reader Bb - The convert. Discovers a love for reading at an adult age. May find it a great achievement to finish an entire book. May feel as though it deserves a medal of some kind. Goes on to be a lifetime reader.

Clearly I am reader Bb in my system of reader-types. I find that if I'm supposed to read something, I won't (I used to say "can't", but no one likes a quitter). There is a difference between reading for assignment and reading for enjoyment. Although I may have enjoyed the books I was assigned, I didn't give it a chance. And now that I am free of anyone's assignments I actually wish I had read those assignments. Maybe not The Once and Future King. I digress.

All this to say that I updated my reading lists. And I added a "Recently Read" section. How exciting! I finished reading entire books. Books! Plural! As I read more, I'll let you know how it goes. As Mr. Darcy says of an accomplished woman in Pride and Prejudice, "...she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading." So what if I got that quote from watching the movie.