Abot ths Blog: Who should read it?

A few words about this blog, or about how and whether to read it: These posts are not meant to be reviews of books and stories in any conventional sense. They're a daily record of my reading and my thoughts about my reading, a way for me and for anybody else interested to see how a novel or story unfolds, opens up, takes shape, or doesn't, in the mind of the reader. They're a way for me to make sense of my reading (and, on Elliot's Watching, of my viewing) and to integrate multiple narratives into my life. For you, be warned: there are lots of "spoilers," and I make no attempt to keep hidden any element of the plot of story. You might consider these to be not reviews but postviews, and my hope is they may be a way for you to recall or recreate a book that you've read or are reading, a way for you, in a sense, to read along with another reader, with me. On another note, I make no attempt while writing these posts to check for accuracy, for character names, for actor names, and so on. The entries are in that sense "raw," and it does amaze me how often I (and others?) can't exactly recall various details, particularly names, when we sit down to recollect and write. In my professional life, I'm always looking up facts and details because what I write at work is very public and must be accurate to the T. With this blog, I step aside from that pressure and demand and just write as I recall it. If I or anyone else were ever to publish any of these posts in any other format, I suppose I'd clean up the errors - but here you are reading the notes of a reader in their most immediate and uncensored form.