Introducing: The SPK Reading Journal

I think we all know by now just how much I like books. It’s a lot. So it’s prob­ably a pretty safe assump­tion to ima­gine that I also read. A lot. The two would seem to go together.

Whether I am order­ing books from Amazon (home to everything you could ever want) which I don’t have space for or I’m haunt­ing the local and cent­ral branches of the Dun­dee Lib­rary (home to what I think is the best teen­age read­ing sec­tion on earth and pos­sessor of some real hid­den gems), look­ing for some­thing new.

This vora­city of con­sump­tion can often pose a prob­lem when com­bined with my short atten­tion span and lack of memory for any­thing that happened more than a week ago. A lot of the time when I try to remem­ber what book it was I read a month ago and what it was like I just plain old can’t, which can make review­ing or recom­mend­ing them to any­one quite difficult.

With that in mind I’ve prod­ded Ryan into rig­ging me a simple read­ing journal (to be found in the won­der­ful header menu under ‘books’) where I can record when I remem­ber to (which will hope­fully be often) the books I’ve recently ploughed my way through. This would seem to both sets of my prob­lems — remem­ber­ing and ‘review­ing’ (if that’s what you can call what I say about any of them) — at once.