About

"Reading in the Garden" 1915 by Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky

Hello and welcome to my bookish haunt! I’m called Risa hereabouts and I’m a stay-at-home mom who looks for any opportunity that arises (they’re not as many or as long as I would like them to be) to read or talk about the things I read.

Note to authors/publishers looking for reviewers:
If you’re looking for a reviewer I’m afraid I am not the blogger for you. My reading time is very limited and I prefer to spend it reading all the books I have wanted to read for ages or would like to add to my book collection. Thank you for considering me, though.

"Reading the Letter" by Thomas Benjamin Kennington

My reading tastes.
I went through a five year lull in my reading until sometime in 2010 when I picked up The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart. Since then I’ve been having a wonderful time reading again. I noticed, however, that my reading tastes and preferences had changed. From reading plenty of romances, fantasy, spy and war thrillers, and books with happy endings, I decided to venture out into the unknown, reading classics with no happy endings, literary fiction, christian non-fiction and non-fiction in general. I still read high fantasy (I love anything to do with elves and dwarves and dragons), and I enjoy the occasional historical fiction as well.

While I have many favourite books, I’m going to put down one book per genre in the following list:

• Classics: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Children’s Classic: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Modern Classic: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Literary Fiction: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• Fantasy: Song of Albion by Stephen R Lawhead
• Action: The Way to Dusty Death by Alistair MacLean
• Historical Romance: Venetia by Georgette Heyer (Heyer’s books are the only historical romances I read.)

You will find a complete list of my favourite reads here.

"Study in a Wood" by Daniel Huntington

My reading goals.
I don’t have any particular goals in terms of my reading. I am aiming to read as many of the classics I missed out on in my earlier years simply because they weren’t Romantic or Victorian, or their endings weren’t of the happily-ever-after sort. And, for the same reason, I’m trying not to say no to some good literary fiction.

Why I love blogging.
What I really love about book blogging is the number of ways we get to interact with other book bloggers. It’s fun to take part in reading challenges and see how others are doing; to take part in memes where we get to learn the tastes and opinions of fellow book lovers; to get together for events and discuss various books read in common. Until I got drawn into the book blogging community, there were only three people with whom I could share my love of reading. Now, there are so many!

What you will find on this blog.
Mostly appreciation-like posts on the things I read. Which means, spoilers are likely with the hopes of sparking off discussions on said reads. However, this sort of post will be made only on classics or works being read as part of a read-along or group read. Newer works will receive reviews to entice and encourage…or discourage as the case may be. Either way a warning of spoilers will be issued should there be any. Apart from these I love taking part in memes and reading challenges, and I’ll have a random article every now and then about something reading related.

"Girl Reading" by George Cochran Lambdin

A little history about this blog.
As of October 2011 Breadcrumb Reads is a little over a year old. I began blogging about books sometime in 2010 in the view of keeping track of books I’d been reading and what my thoughts were. I had absolutely no idea that my blog would be read. I had no idea that there was even a book blogging community until many months had passed. And of course, I soon discovered Goodreads that made tracking my books so much easier, and gave me free rein at commentaries on my blog. I started out using Blogger, but it was recently that I decided to give WordPress another try (I had moved to WP earlier in 2011 and had had a very hard time navigating the site).  I’ve been spending sometime getting used to this site’s layout and inside workings. I’m hoping I’ll have a friendlier experience with WP than I did the last time round.

Speaking of which, you are bound to find links to my Blogger blog here. I have a few reviews from my 2011 reads that are likely to lead you there. In case that happens don’t panic! I’ve a similar post on WP and I would prefer it if you commented on this blog.

Get in touch with me.
email id: breadcrumbreads@yahoo.com
twitter: @breadcrumbreads