A birth

Glad am finally doing this. For years, I have wanted to blog....primarily because I think blogging is such a creative activity...and I thought I was creative...so how come I couldn't blog? To be honest..at some point I just wanted to keep up with a fad....it was cool and sophisticated to blog...I want to be cool and sophisticated. But still...I couldn't blog. This is the third blog am doing...I can't for heaven't sake remember the others. What I do know though...they didn't last long. Oh yeah...I remember one. It was called Levi's diary. Levi is my son and my only child. Well...he is  quite interesting and I love him to bits. He was a good subject...being always up to one thing or another. He is 4 but he has had a life time of adventure already. I just discovered he is autistic....and it was truly a Eureka moment...only that I couldn't run out to the streets naked. It explains a lot about him and the things he does. Am not sure why I couldn't sustain that particular one....Oh well.

A book, A thought is a blog about my first love...my longest love of all. BOOKS! I have always loved reading...but I have found over the years that my reading pace has slowed down....to a snail pace actually...trudging along...ever so slowly. I want to write a book one day...am not sure about what and that in itself tells me that perhaps..PERHAPS, am not an author after all. Which author does not know what they want to write about???? Crazy.  Back to my love for books...I started reading at an early age. My reading list consisted of Hardy Boyz, Nancy Drew, Famous Five...something or other Four...I eventually graduated to Mills & Boons, Sweet Valley High by the time I was 10. At age 14, I was reading Daniel Steele, Fredrick Forsyth (sp) and Sidney Sheldon! In high school, I secretly laughed when I saw my fellow students reading books like Sweet Valley High...I wondered where they had been all their lives! Oh my word...it was an exciting world. I love the way a book has the ability to "steal" one from their present reality and take them on a wonderful ride...walking in the characters shoes...feeling their pain, bringing excitement, fear, evoking love......I LOVE IT!

This blog is about my personal journey and thoughts through books. Am also hoping to accomplish one very important thing. To buy books and start a home library so that my son can read too. You see...in my 33 years of life...I HAVE NEVER BOUGHT A BOOK FOR MYSELF. Whose books did I read then?  Ever the perpetual borrower...am determined to stop.

I must say...setting up this blog was greatly inspired by The Julia/Julie Project. I watched the movie...and I finally understood blogging..in my hearts of hearts.

In closing, I thought I would give mention to the two books that have greatly influenced my life. The first one was "The Celestial Bed by Irving Wallace". I had no business reading such a book at the age of 12. But I read it anyway. The second book, I came across about a year ago. I read it all the time...over and over again. "Why Men Marry Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship by Sherry Argov.  That book has changed me in ways that I cannot even explain. But that's a story for another day!

Come with me and let's journey on....

Sheekow.