Plans for This Blog

I have decided that I am going to start posting some of the reviews that I originally posted on Epinions here.  I think that most of the time when I do that, I’ll probably make at least a few changes.  When I do repost one of those reviews, I will mention that it was originally posted on Epinions.  If I have recently reread the book, then I might just do a whole new review.  I think I will still mention that I had previously posted a review of the book at Epinions in that case as well. 

I have managed to read more books again recently and I hope to get some reviews posted soon.  I just need to get back into writing more consistently than I have lately.  When Epinions closed down a few months ago, it did cause me to lose motivation, something I am still dealing with.  Hopefully I can keep my motivation so I am able to post more consistently and often. 

I think at times that I will make posts about what I am currently reading or about a new book - or books - that I have gotten.  I also want to set up a page, or maybe it will just be a few posts, that list the books I have reviewed along with links to the reviews.  I had something like set up for my reviews at Epinions.  I will be doing this for each of my blogs.  I know I don’t have many posts on any of them right now, but I figure that this is a good time to get started on that.

Purple Dragon Books

Welcome to Purple Dragon Books, the blog where I will write about different books that I have read.  I haven’t decided for sure yet, but I think some posts will be at least somewhat like the reviews on books I use to post at Epinions.com - before the site ended the ability to post reviews - and others might just be me talking a little bit of what I am currently reading, want to read, or things like that.

I have loved to read since I was a child.  I read all of the Ramona books - at least I think I did - before my mother got me my first Nancy Drew mystery.  I got hooked on mysteries at that point, and I still enjoy them.  I also still have my Nancy Drew books packed away somewhere.  I do like a wide variety of books, though in the last several years, I think I have read more cozy mysteries than anything. 

When I really enjoy a book, I will read it again...and again...and again.  So I will probably, at some point, end up mentioning some books more than once.  I have actually been thinking about starting in on my Harry Potter books again - yes I love Harry Potter - even though it hasn’t been a year yet since I last read them and I still have, well, never mind how many books piled around, waiting to be read.  When I was younger, I would just have one or two books that I hadn’t read, and I would wait to get more.  That is no longer the case.  Usually when I find a book that I think I might like, I’ll go ahead and get it then regardless of how many books I still have waiting to read at home.  Sometimes I jump right into one of the newer purchases, and other times they sit and wait a while.  I think that now something just wouldn’t feel right to me if I didn’t have several new book options at any time. 

So far this year, I haven’t had a lot of time to read thanks to long hours at work, though in the last month or so, I have managed to get some reading done.  Hopefully in about two weeks I’ll have more time for reading - as well as movies, and writing.