Welcome to my blog!

Hi all, I’m Doug Thomson and this is my blog. I recently retired so I now have time to write about some of my interests and publish them for others to read and comment. My primary writing interests are book & music reviews and commentary. I have been writing book reviews on GoodReads.com for some time and I would like to move that activity over here, which will give me more flexibility. For example, on GoodReads I can write a single review of a particular edition of a book – say, one of my favorites like Gertrude Stein’s Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Here on my blog I can write more than one essay about the book, for example a general review plus a post highlighting all the funny parts of the book (and it is a funny book). Then I’ll set up links from GoodReads to the particular essays I want to be visible through that platform. I also want to use the blog to write about one of my other big interests, music. This will be a new adventure since I don’t know of a GoodListens site comparable to GoodReads.