I'm kicking off this blog; a new adventure for me, as an effort to escape the confines of electronic media and get back to the joys and simplicity of reading books. This is something I've neglected dearly since middle-age arrived and I'm making an effort to actually spend more time with real, hand-held, manually operated books.
I'm calling it the Reluctant R(L)eader for two reasons. It goes back to my childhood in Battle Creek, Michigan were I spent countless hours in one of the greatest book stores in the world...Read-Mor Book Store. Their slogan which was on their sign and on their bags was "Readers are Leaders."
It was on the block in downtown which is now occupied by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. It was more exciting...and current...than the local library and better lit as well. It also had nearly every magazine published in that day and they could order a special magazine if you asked. The store pre-dated Barnes & Noble and all the other big name book stores by years. They were truly ahead of their time, but time marched on and urban development took over the entire block and it faded from memory.
Their slogan, "Readers are Leaders" has always stuck with me and I believe it. My goal in this blog is to do "Book Reports" and reviews of books I've read and share the knowledge and highlights. It also forces me to do more reading to keep up with this, thus the "reluctant" part.
So, as I start this endeavor and learn the nuances of blogging, I hope you will bear with me. I'll post my first review soon.
In the mean time...Read-Mor!
T. R.
