A whole year?

I haven't updated this blog in over a year. I am a fly-by-night, follow-the-trend-then-abandon-it kind of girl. I had a facebook page for about six months too. Life has thrown me a lot of crap in the last year, last two years, actually, but there has been one constant: books. As long as I can still take refuge in a fictional world, the real world is a little easier to traverse. My reading over the last year has been spotty, and my views clearly colored by what I've been going through. I know The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is an excellent novel, but because I was reading it as my mother was dying, it is forever tainted. I've abandoned a lot of books over the last year as well, some unable to hold my interest, others I've deemed a waste in a short life. My love of books has brought me back here, and I think I'm going to give mini-reviewing another go.