The Art of Tracing Footsteps

Okay, to start off, SHAME ON ME. It’s been SO long since I’ve made this blog, and have I kept up my one chapter a day goal? Um, no. Doesn’t look like it. I’m pretty sure aspiring to do anything daily is a sure fire way to fail. But I will persist!

Today marks the beginning of June, which means pride month. I already have a modest collection of LGBT+ books on my bookshelf, and after I bought one more, Barnes and Noble were ever so kind to give me a little pamphlet thing recommending a few more. How many (mostly rereads) can I cram in before the end of the month? That’s yet to be seen. But we will! See, I mean.

Currently I have what I think is all of Oscar Wilde’s works, Carry On by Rainbow Rowell, A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue (Mackenzi Lee), The Song of Achilles (Madeline Miller), Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Becky Albertalli), and, since yesterday, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Benjamin Alire Saenz). I’m also currently on hold for Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo.

The big question is what to read first.

I will PROBABLY update on that when I get to it. No promises, though! I’ve already proven myself perfectly capable of lying, apparently.

Bye-Bye!

Welcome, readers, to what is essentially my own completely unnecessary way of getting me to do stuff that I already wanted to do, but didn’t want to spend the effort doing. Before we get started properly, in summary I put this blog together because I’ve gotten nostalgic for my middle school years, when it felt like all I was doing was reading books and dreaming up stories (and putting off homework). This is just my way of getting myself to read a little bit more than I am now, which will, I hope, inspire me to get writing a little bit more. If the reading doesn’t, then I’m sure getting into the habit of putting together these blog posts will.

Arthur Conan Doyle once wrote, “there is no branch of detective science which is so important and so neglected as the art of tracing footsteps.” I’m taking this a little bit further, applying the art of tracing footsteps to my reading habits.

My current goal is to read one chapter a day, a number I hope to get a little higher as I get back into the swing of things. If I don’t update daily, shame on me.