Cyclone asked dovegreyreader to introduce her blog and her reading life …

http://dovegreyreader.typepad.com/

I am a Gt Ormond Street trained paediatric nurse by training and until recently had worked as a health visitor in rural Devon for thirty years. Books have always formed a huge part of my life and I started dovegreyreader scribbles in March 2006 to explore whether there was an audience of like-minded readers out there … there is, and last time I checked they came from over ninety countries across the world. I’m also fortunate enough to live in splendid isolation with my family in rural Devon and occasionally I share a slice of country life and my other passions, quilting and sock-knitting, but mostly it’s books, books and more books. I love to share thoughts on my reading, subjectively and emotionally, how a book has fired my imagination, how a book has made me feel, what has it made me think about, what does it make me want to read next, why would I press this book on you if we met in the street?

Whilst working in the NHS, where using my imagination landed me in deep water, I had to be clinical and objective, now at dovegreyreader scribbles I can be a flouncy bouncy book Tigger on a daily basis.

I don’t and won’t do excoriating criticism; the blog is about reading for pleasure and sharing my love of good books. If I’ve loved a book you’ll know about it because this is all about sharing that bookaholic passion for reading that so many of us have. I read widely across the genres and will never write about a book that hasn’t touched me or made a resounding impact of some description and if I write about it I’ve read it, cover to cover . Comments are the oxygen of dgr scribbles and I love to hear other people’s thoughts and feedback either in comments or by email.

If you’ve got this far, congratulations and thank you for reading so why not take a trip to beautiful Devon via dgr scribbles where you’ll find some great reading ideas, woolly socks, warm quilts plus there’s always a cup of virtual tea in the virtual pot!

dovergreyreader will be covering Charles Lambert’s The Scent of Cinnamon in January 2009.