Welcome, Book Nerds!

So you're probably asking yourself, "What the hell does that title mean, anyway?"

When I was in grade school, I used to bring books with me to read during the day. Not kid books, either. I'm talking novelizations of the "Halloween" and "Omen" movies, or whatever horror novels I could talk my mom into letting me read*. It never failed that every time I'd sit down to read, some kid would come up to me and say, "How can you read that? There's no pictures!" in an aghast, awe-struck voice.

So from my very early days, I was a book nerd. I liked to read. And I read a lot. Mostly horror. I didn't mess around with that girly Nancy Drew or Trixie Belden crap. I dabbled in the Little House in the Big Woods series, but only because it was during a summer library program and the librarian expected a 10 year old girl to read about other 10 year old girls, not teenagers like "Carrie." Didn't matter, though...I'd read Carrie years before.

Nowadays, I go all over the genres. True Crime. Horror. Romance. Non-fiction. Whatever. If it sounds good to me, I'll read it. I'm no snob. Actually, I guess I might be, because I cannot abide "literary fiction." Nope. Sorry. Had enough of that during my Bachelor degree days. So if you're expecting reviews of NY Times Bestsellers here, you might want to look elsewhere. I'll admit it...I'm lowbrow and I love it. No pretensions. I like what I like, and that's just the way it is.

So I hope somebody out in cyberland finds this little blog and feels like a friend is telling them what books they just HAVE to read next. Enjoy.

*Full disclosure: I also took copies of Famous Monsters and Mad magazines to school too. As you can probably guess, I wasn't the most popular of girls.