Look here! I'm FINALLY going to talk about what I intend this blog to be about!! 

So, bottom line is I've loved books since…well, I think since I could read and I could go on about how books were my escape from reality especially in my teens when I felt like I was in a crappy school with crappy spoiled rich kids and felt out of place and alone in this world—not to mention my existential crisis

Who am I, why am I here, what's the point of all of this?

…but I’ll spare you, dear reader, from all that hormonal angst. I like a good book, it can take me places. I just like me a good book. I’ll read anything and everything, which means I may have to make obvious series on this blog, but we’ll cross that bridge if and when we get there. This isn't to say that I like ALL books, no, I have some standards.

Stuff like this I laugh at and scorn

I do not read, *no offence intended to the author and its readers (ok, maybe a little judgement), I just grabbed the picture off Google*

This blog will be focused on reviews, book reviews to be exact but as I write this the idea of doing music, movie and even series reviews seems like a good idea, albeit ambitious seeing as I’m likely to post annually- surely I mean this book review situation seems far-fetched enough already. There might be other generic posts, but again bridge and crossing.

I've given some thought about what I’d like my reviews to be like, I could do the whole nine yards and deconstruct the piece, delve into elements like plot and setting and character development and literary technics and have discussions about the nuances of what the author wanted to say and how they said it but what they really came off as saying…yes yes yes, but I will not. I’m not a literature student and while it would do me some good in terms of becoming a good writer, I’m honestly just too lazy and I’m not too keen on my writing skills so *shrug* you may stop reading now.

If by some miracle you've continued reading and are still with me, you brave soul, I warn you, my reviews are going to be painfully subjective and filled with adulation and/or rants or something in between. My foreseeable distaste for some works is not because I’m anywhere near qualified and therefore know any better but because this is the internet and I can— the beauty of freedom of thought and…I’m sure expression goes somewhere here too. Basically its going to be about out me loving/liking or hating/disliking a book and giving my reasons why without giving away too much of the story...that's right, no spoilers. I hate them myself, bane of my existence, so I shall not do unto others what I do not want done unto myself. There will be mention of characters and likely references to scenes and whether there was a happy or a crappy ending (don’t get me wrong, crappy endings are good too). If I deviate from this and you, dear reader, are affronted enough, you can refer me to this post and reproach me all you want.

I’ll also try really hard to cut down on the memes and GIFs, no promises though; they give me a false sense of humour so they’ll be hard to do without, bear with me.

And with that…

somewhere in the world, it must be a crime to fold the corner of a page #literaryoffences