We’ve reached the midpoint of the year, which can be a good time to ask how all those New Year’s resolutions we made last January are panning out.
As this year opened, I resolved to record the name of every book I read. The idea came after I wrote about my friend Linda Lightfoot, who’s kept such a reading journal since 2005. I was also inspired after visiting with Tricia Day, a Baton Rouge woman whose late mother, Kitty Day, kept a reading journal from 1937 until her death in 2007.
The stories I shared about Lightfoot and Day sparked a nice conversation about how reading journals have shaped the lives of other book lovers…