A Librarian Reads the G&M Top 100 for 2006

Hi. I'm a professional librarian. I used to work on the Information Desk but now I'm a geek - working in the backroom concerned with the delivery of whatever (the online catalogue, web pages, etc. etc) over the web. Sometimes I really miss the interaction with people and every year when I read the Globe and Mail's "Top 100 Books that you should have read this year," this overwhelming sense of guilt and shame starts to come over me. I'm 54 and I have to admit that while I still love to read, most of what I read is fluff - entertainment - something I look forward to at the end of the day or during a couple of captured hours up at the cottage.

I really do try to read all those books I "mean" to read one day - but there's just so many good stories out there - laugh-out-loud Evanovich novels and seriously gripping Elizabeth George mysteries - well, the years just roll on. So many books ... so little time.

I've also thought for some time now that I should really start blogging. Trouble is, I'm a typical self-effacing middle-aged Canadian and what could I possibly have to say that people "ON THE INTERNET" - complete strangers no less - might want to read? Well, as I read the Globe and Mail Top 100 again, for 2006, I decided that I would take my reading list in hand, and blog it out.

So I'm challenging myself to read these 100 books between now and the end of 2007. And I'm hoping that blogging about it will help me keep my commitment. I have to end up a better person at the end of this, right? Lots of these books will change my life, right? Well, we shall see. I might have to send out a plea for help. I'll add up around June and see if I'm going to make it. I figure that with all I read for work, and all the "comfort" reading I do probably adds up to at least 200 books a year so all I have to do is sacriface some of those professional journals ..... Later