Sunday Salon: I Wish I Were a Better Blogger

I wish I were a better book blogger.

I wish I could write an amazing post every day. I wish each post were so good that hundreds of people would comment on my post and say things like, You are the best! and, You should write a book.

I wish people from the New York Times would send me e-mails and ask me to write book reviews for them.

I wish I were a better book blogger.

I wish I kept notes on every book I read, like I did when I was in college. I wish I'd spend hours a day rereading parts of books and writing brilliant observations about the plot and characters and literary devices used in the book.

I wish I knew how to post all my reviews (I have over 2,000!) with links in alphabetical order by author and title.

I wish I were a better writer. I wish I were a better book blogger.

Our school year is just beginning and last week our superintendent addressed those of us work at the schools, telling us that what we as teachers are doing is attempting to repair an airplane that is up in the air. The sermon this morning at church was about how God calls ordinary people from ordinary places. I like to think that this blog is my attempt, as an ordinary person from an ordinary place, to work on an airplane while the plane is in the air. Now and then, the plane may come close to crashing, but I keep working on the plane because, every now and then, I can peek out the window and see how beautiful it is to be flying.

How about you? What's the view from your window?

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What is the Sunday Salon?

Imagine some university library's vast reading room.

It's filled with people--students and faculty and strangers who've wandered in.

They're seated at great oaken desks, books piled all around them,

and they're all feverishly reading and jotting notes in their leather-bound journals as they go.

Later they'll mill around the open dictionaries and

compare their thoughts on the afternoon's literary intake....

That's what happens at the Sunday Salon, except it's all virtual.

Every Sunday the bloggers participating in that week's Salon

get together--at their separate desks, in their own particular time zones--and read.

And blog about their reading. And comment on one another's blogs.

Think of it as an informal, weekly, mini read-a-thon,

an excuse to put aside one's earthly responsibilities

 and fall into a good book. 

Click here to join the Salon.