A Woman of Mystery

I just got the first four of the Irene Adler books, by Carole Nelson Douglas, in from the library. However, tech week is starting for my chorus, which means rehearsals or concerts every night tomorrow through next Sunday. I don’t anticipate getting to finish anything to review until April is here – I may not even get to start one! I have a review to write up for the newest J.D. Robb book as well, and that I may get to.

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!