Reading - Screening Lists

I'm back from Spain as of last night and have stuff I want to write about in the coming days and weeks. To start things off though, I'm going to introduce a change to how things are done here.

When I started this blog, I used it mainly to write brief responses to the books I was reading and to the movies I was watching. These served as lists of what I'd read and seen and provided a reason to pay attention and reflect. They also gave me a steady stream of subjects for posts and got me blogging.

The logs were a success. I enjoyed writing them and over time kept adding to the list of things I logged: first TV shows, then theatre, then exhibitions.But as a result, and perhaps inevitably, the logs have become a chore. I have lists and lists of logs I'm supposed to write, often on things about whichI have nothing really to say.So taking a cue from my catch-up posts of the past few years, I'm going to stop trying to log everything. Because, sanity.

Instead, I'm going to keep a few simple lists of what I read and watch. (You'll find them in the right-hand column.) When I have something more to say about a book or a movie, I'll posta log and link to it from the list.

This change should keep me from living under a perpetual (and demoralizing) backlog of "posts that must be written!" and will hopefully create some space for me to write about other things.