I'm crazy about books - always have been. As soon as I was old enough to read I totally immersed myself in stories and utterly devoured every book I could get my hands on. Nowadays I'm a little more discerning about what I read, but there are still never enough hours in the day to get through all the books I want to. I only ever used to read Scifi and Fantasy (with a smattering of fiction), but over the past few years my interests have expanded substantially. Now I read a lot more Fiction as well as Biographies, Travel Writing, and pretty much anything to do with food. Occasionally I'll read some Popular Science or History, but I've never really gotten into Crime for some reason.

I'm definitely an avid (if amateur) collector. Sometimes I'll try and buy a signed first edition because of it's importance or because of it's inherent value or simply because I've read the book and loved it. However I have been known to buy old books simply because of their sheer beauty. I have a few cherished leatherbound volumes at home that smell just the way old books should. None of them are really worth anything, but just looking at them and handling them makes me deeply happy.

This is the first time I've ever really tried to maintain a blog and my aim is to review books I've enjoyed, muse a bit about my experiences as a bookseller, and generally share my love and enthusiasm for all things literary. I'll try to keep my personal politics out of here and just make this a purely book-related blog as I can always post those kinds of opinions somewhere else. I'll try to read and review a wide variety of genres, but I guess there will always be a slight bias towards scifi, simply because that's what i've always enjoyed.

Anyway, I hope you like what you find here, and you're always welcome to comment or share your views or even recommend other titles you're excited about. At the moment I'm reading Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs by Irvine Welsh. I've never read anything by him before and I'm quite enjoying it. I'll be reviewing it properly as soon as I'm done, but before that I'll post a review of The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot: His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred by Carl-Johan Vallgren.

Thanks for stopping by!