Book Reports

Once upon a time, book reports were a necessary evil. They were something that my teacher required upon my finishing a book so that I could display what I learned and prove that I did in fact read the book. The necessity of the book report back then was questionable. One could argue that it was just another hoop to jump through in order to obtain a letter grade which signified…what? 

But now I don’t have to write book reports. I do so by choice! Who would have thought such a thing might one day occur. I want to write about books that I read as I finish them, so with any luck you should see these “book reports” popping up from time to time. I like to keep track of what I’ve read, what my take on a given book was, what my favorite quotes/passages were, what it taught me, etc. I’m hoping that my writing about what I’ve read isn’t a horribly boring thing to read about. But at the same time, I’m kind of doing this more for my own record than anything else, so if you decide to come along for the ride then great, but if not, then no harm done!

I do love to read, though I have not been moving through books very quickly in the last year. I think I maybe average a book a month. Maybe. And I usually have several books going at once. For a long time I liked to read fiction more than anything else, but have developed an increasing fondness for non-fiction. These days I often have at least one fiction and one non-fiction book in my book stack at a time.

I’m going to play “catch up” with these book reports a little bit, and start with the first book that I finished this year (Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis). Then I’ll post about the books that I’ve read since then as well.

So here we go! This is fun because I get to be the student and the teacher here, which means that I’m the one who sets the deadlines and passes out the grades. Maybe instead of a letter stamped at the top of a paper, my grades can involve cinnamon rolls. That sounds like a good idea. One completed book report = one cinnamon roll. Yes!