Half time report

As it is now officially closer to this Christmas than last Christmas, we must be halfway through the year so now is probably a good time to stop and take stock a bit. I have to say I was overwhelmed by the initial reaction to the project, both the number of people who've talked to me about it over the past six months, not to mention the willingness to lob all kinds of books my way. Those who have been brave enough to stick their head above the parapet and recommend me something, at risk of me slagging off their childhood fave or irrevocably branding them with poor judgement: I salute you. Without your input this would be nothing. 

Likewise, the many (yes, many – I can see the page views in the analytics) people who have been following the blog, I salute you too. You've all been a great motivation to keep going, stay on track and to write what I hope are fair, balanced, interesting and entertaining reviews. Or at least some of those things to some of the people some of the time. Some reviews have certainly been easier to write than others in that I either have better ideas for them or possibly just more to say but I hope there have been more hits than misses.

And that has certainly been the case with the offerings. I've enjoyed the variety of what I've been given: a mix of genres, fiction and non-fiction, things I've never heard of and things I've never got round to reading. Which was basically what I was hoping for and I'm delighted that it's turned out this way. I'm not going to go all High Fidelity on you at this stage and do a top five or anything but I suspect that come the end of the year I'll end up doing something like that. Until then, thanks once again for recommending and reading, and it'll be back to the day job for me.