I've always loved reading. When I was younger, I was the kid with her nose buried in a book. I am able to shut out the sounds of traffic, the T, or people talking just a few feet away from me to read a good book. Somewhere between college and graduate school my want and need to read vanished. It probably had to do something with schoolwork getting in the way of reading for the simple joy of reading. However, I knew something was missing from my life; I always reveled in my imagination's ability to take me out of the world that was in front of my eyes and transport me to the docks of an opium trade ship leaving India or to the streets of Boston during the BPD strike of 1917.

I want to rejuvenate my passion for reading and I want to share my thoughts with you about the books that will reinvigorate my love of books. I'm not going to try to read a book a day, or anything crazy like that. I'll read the book as my interest in it sees fit. Some will be finished, others will be discarded. But my analysis and comments on each one will be posted here. If any of you find my comments interesting, or have differing opinions, please post them here. I certainly don't consider myself a critic by any stretch of the word.

But, I need a book to start this off. So, if any of you out there have any suggestions about good books I should read, please leave them here. I'm interested in most everything of substance; I will not read books with Fabio on the cover, or anything that just doesn't interest me. But alot of things interest me, so I'm willing to try anything. I take Francis Bacon's quote seriously: not every book is meant to be devoured in one sitting; it should be savored. Just as not every book is meant to finished at all.

Amazon.com, here I come. The journey begins!