When I was sixteen, back in the fresh again decade known simply as "the 90's", having access to a website that allowed millions of people to build friendships over books/authors, discuss such books, rate such books, and build a wish list of books to read, I would have been in serious trouble. I would have spent very little time doing anything but visiting the site. This is both true because I love talking about books and because I would have been a prisoner to a slow dial-up connection.

Fast forward twenty years and such a site - and much speedier internet - exists, I'm fortunate enough to be a published author, and I'm now finally getting around to being an active member of a community I would have LOVED when I was a kid.

So what took me so long?

Life.

It's a generic answer, but it's true. Life has a way of sweeping you into different avenues. But I'm here now and happier for it!

While I do not have a set plan for my goodreads activities, I'm excited to share thoughts, review books now and again, and most importantly, interact with other incredible book lovers. I'll try my best to keep my thoughts/musings to the literary world, but there might be digressions now and again. You've been warned.

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