What I'm Reading

Back in the good ol' US of A, I used to like to read. I loved discovering a new author at the library and walking out with 3-4 of their books...the anticipation was fantastic. Here in Ukraine I have been pacing myself (read procrastinating) on the one book that I have and have been in serious spy novel withdrawals.

I now do most of my reading via the internet; news, blogs, etc. Now every time I find a great new blog, I get a little bit of that "new author" feeling again. Since bloggers are usually at least semi-obsessed with traffic numbers, I wanted to recommend that you visit and inflate the traffic at the following sites:

Friends

a little R & R - This is the blog of Sarah's longtime friend Jenny, dedicated to her twin girls. If you like to occasionally laugh till you cry about hilarious kid stories, stop on by. I still use one of her daughters lines as often as possible; "I'm an expert at everything; except disobeying."

It is Quite Cool - Amanda is the wife of a guy I've known almost my whole life and an English teacher in Greeley. Good writing and funny commentary.

And the Others

BooMama - This is one of the funnier writers I've found. Her topics aren't always up my alley but I sure like how she writes about them.

Global Voices/Neeka - Global Voices is a group of bloggers who monitor news or other blogs for commentary or interesting content which is then reposted/linked. One of GV's people is Neeka, a Kyiv native; I read her personal blog for an English-language Ukrainian perspective. Plus she linked up my Fortress Kerch post on GV yesterday and I thought I should return the favor.

Update: Although I've linked to it before, I forgot to explicitly mention that Slick has a new blog and that his last 2 post are very good.