Introduction

I started this blog for a more specific purpose than usual. I have been a reader for about forty years now, forty years of reading books for adults. I read some of them then, as a teenager; occasionally I find myself reading the same books, or authors, again, now, as an aging but still immature man. I have noticed how my impressions have changed, and I started this blog to record them.

I doubt that I will manage to hold to this purpose, any more than I have to any other, but that's the idea.

I am currently reading Burr, by Gore Vidal, which I first read when it was a best seller, in 1974. In all the years from then to now, I have never had any inclination to read anything else by Vidal, or reread Burr.