A Woman of Mystery

I spend a lot of time reading books – reading and singing are my two main hobbies. I read books across many genres, but like most people, I do have a favorite genre: mystery. And within that genre, I greatly enjoy reading books by women authors and/or with a female protagonist.

For 2007 I decided to start keeping a book journal, not just of mysteries but of all the books I read. Primarily, I think this will help me keep track of books I read in advance of needing them for homeschooling, which is the educational path for my two girls (11 and 7) and my boy who is only a toddler. I also enjoy giving books as gifts, except that reading so many books makes it hard to remember whom I’m inspired to gift!

It recently came to me that since I do make a concerted effort to read a specific subset of the mystery genre, I could build a blog that was limited to that theme. I have a personal blog, Closer to Fine, which contains entries on a diversity of things that interest me, but it appeals to me to take what I know about these books and start another blog. For now, I decided to host the blog at WordPress (which is the blog software that I use for Closer to Fine), but I splurged and bought the domain names for A Woman of Mystery with the thought that if this proves successful I can migrate the blog to an independent location.

Anyway – Welcome!