These days I'm probably happiest when I see my two daughters loving one another.

When I post a review to book-blog.com it probably takes me - apart from writing the review, of course - 20 or 30 minutes to finish all my related tasks.But that's irregular, depending on how quickly I'm reading.

Research is all well and good, but I definitely enjoy writing the most. I will happily sit at my computer and work on a single paragraph for hours. And there's no better feeling than when your writing is going well.

Every now and again your life's course can turn on one simple thing, some small decision the import of which isn't at all obvious at the time.

I'm always impressed that as we go through life most of the stuff we do doesn't matter that much, at least not ostensibly: you go to the grocery store, you work, you go to school. If any of that were omitted, most days, it wouldn't matter much.

I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished.

If you neglect your blogs they don't take up much time.