There are a lot of book blogs out there, I know that. But here at Readin’ Redheads, it’s less about the book and more about the reading. By that I mean you’re not going to hear us give big long book review spiels. We’re not going to rate books or run out and grab the latest release and do a write-up of it. Sometimes I think we get so caught up in the reading of a book that we forget to think about the book.
I do anyway. I have that problem, it’s true. I was a voracious reader growing up. It was one of my very favorite pastimes, and for an outdoorsy person, that’s saying a whole lot. But I couldn’t tell you a whole lot about the books I’ve read, because I can’t remember all the nitty-gritty details. I was a fast reader and I’d get through with a book and toss open another one without ever slowing down to think about what I’d read. To roll around in the ideas and emotions and thoughts that book had elicited in me.
That’s the beauty of reading, I think. It allows us to experience all these places, ideas and situations we’d never otherwise be able to. But as has been my MO in the past, I’ve never taken enough time to get all that I should be getting out of these places, ideas and situations I’m experiencing between the book covers.
Besides, the older I get, the more forgetful I am. Readin’ Redheads is the place I intend to write about the books I read, the ways in which I react to them and the potential impacts they may have. Reading is powerful, yo.
