in the beginning...

there was kira and she loved books. alot.

actually, this story starts last january. i decided that i was going to read 365 books before the new year.
and i did! i kicked my resolutions butt 6 ways to sunday. my final number was 370 something. only counting each book once in the year (if i counted them each time i read the book, the number would have been much higher. i also got bored half way through the year and stopped taking precise notes on what i was reading. And i only counted the fiction books i read.

so in december i hit my library account and checked all my search info and request info and then hit my own shelves to go through all the new books i had picked up, and sorted through the pile of books i had read recently but hadn't properly reshelved. that was how i finished off my list. it wasn't 100% every book i read, but once i hit past my goal i decided i could stop trying to figure it out.

this year i have decided that i'm going to do it again. only i will take a better count, and that every time i read a book it will get onto the list. and i have decided that i'm going to write about it. every week i will update my lists. i'm going to have two, one for fiction and one for non fiction. i'll also be writing book reviews and book reccomendations and just rambling about the type of books i love and why i like them.

one of the other things i'm doing this year is writing a book. i've got the plot points mostly figured out, but it need a lot of reasearch, so i'll be blogging about the research i'm doing and the books and stuff i'm reading for that.

so yeah i'm kira and i'm crazy about books and reading. I have 4 book shelves and i have somewhere around 1600 books. i need to get more bookshelves and i definitly need to get more books. I speed read, and have for as long as i can remember. My parents were big on reading and my mom has a fantastic collection of romance novels, so when i was growing up reading was more than encouraged, and i have always been happy to curl up and read.