Weekly Geeks: A Bookish Journey

A Bookish Journey

How it gets picked…Rather randomly. Most of the time I pick up a book after perusing my shelves for a title that strikes my fancy. Sometimes choice is determined by my challenges, but even then what specific book gets read is dependent upon my mood.

How it gets read…Mainly I just read. I tend to read one book at a time and in large chunks. Rarely do I spend more than two or three days with a book, and most of the time I finish a book in the same day I start reading it. It is very rare that I write while reading; sometimes I dog ear pages with particular passages that I want to revisit, but quite often I read with very little thought to reviewing later.

How it gets reviewed…Very little time passes between finishing a book and writing a review. Most often I close the book and immediately open my blog and start typing. I tend to write reviews in the moment, never writing, putting away, revisiting and revising, before posting. This is probably not the best way to do things but it works for me.  More than this would feel a bit too much like my job (I teach composition, literature, and film).

What happens after…I have quite a process with my books. After reading and reviewing on my blog, the book is entered on my yearly reading list, I catalogue it in an Excel spreadsheet, the review is copied over to LibraryThing, and if relevant the appropriate link is posted on a challenge blog. Then the book is placed in my library according to basic genre – Literary Fiction, SFF, YAL, Romance, Personal Stories, History, Philosophy, and Education. If I don’t wish to keep the book – which is rare – it gets logged onto BookMooch.

In short:

1. Choose Book
2. Read book
3. Review Book on eclectic/eccentric
4. Log Book on Hominem unius libri timeo
5. Copy review to Library Things
6. Add link to challenge blog (if relevant)
7. Update Challenge Lists on Hominem unius libri timeo (if relevant)
8. Finalize Challenge Post on eclectic/eccentric and add to finished challenges list on hominem unius libri timeo (if relevant)
9. Catalog book in Excel Spreadsheet: Alive/Dead Author, Fiction/Nonfiction, Challenge/Non-Challenge, Genre, Link to Review
10. Place in library or add to BookMooch