I’ve mentioned before how much I like LibraryThing, one of the best Web 2.0 type services anywhere. Yesterday I decided to use it to begin tracking the books I’ve read recently. I started using the tag ‘read’ and then used the handy blog widget LibraryThing provides to create a feed of those books tagged as ‘read’. You can see the most recent five books I’ve read in the sidebar of this blog. So if you really care to know, you can check up on what I’ve been reading. You will see that I have been reading a lot of mysteries, especially historical mysteries. I go through phases of different tastes and sometimes I don’t feel inclined to read much at all, but lately, I have enjoyed finding and reading books by authors whom I’ve never read before. Once the children are finally tucked into bed at night, or when I’m on the train going to and from work, it is great to just sit and read a good book!

A side benefit of starting to keep track of books I’ve read via LibraryThing is finding out how many I actually read in the course of a year, something I’ve never done before.