Elmine and I almost always buy books we want to read. I used to have a library card, but as I was always late returning the books, buying them in the end was cheaper than the mounting library fines. Since we are also both avid readers, our house holds quite a number of dead trees with stories printed on them. When we moved house last year the movers planned a full extra day just to pack up our books.
In my blogpostings I regularly refer to books I own or have read, and there is a (sleeping) section in the right side bar giving some hint of what I am currently reading. However I would like to be able to refer to books more easily than always having to hunt down the link to Amazon again.
So I have opened a book blog, where I post books from our book case with a little description of what I think about it, or where I got it. They all link back to Amazon sites or the Dutch Bol.com site, so if you buy a book through here, I will get a few cents. Let’s see if we can top the 17$ I made last year on Amazon referrals 🙂 I also put the last 2 postings in the right hand side bar.
There is not a lot there yet, it will be a slow process I guess, and most of it is currently SF, as I started with a meter of those. But it will grow over time. Slow time that is, as discussed in the latest Bookblog posting about Eriksen’s book Tyranny of the Moment.
Continue reading “Tyranny of the Moment” »