I have reached the point in my life and career where, while
I’m not reading any less, mustering the time and mental energy to write book
reviews that are worth anything has become a challenge. It’s hard to walk away,
but the older I get, the more I find that the world gets by just fine somehow without
my opinions on everything, much as I love to give them.
I began this blog in 2007 as a personal exercise to help me
hone my ability to read critically and analytically. To that end, I consider
this endeavor to have been a great success (and I think that if you compare my
recent entries with some of the earlier ones, you’ll probably agree).
If you have derived any enjoyment over the years from The Book Review, I’m glad. If I’ve upset
you with anything I’ve written here, I’m sorry; I could have been gentler,
especially early on. Beyond that, I regret only that I never came up with a
good name for the thing.
The Book Review will
remain up in perpetuity; however, this is the final post.
And yet…like a phoenix from the ashes rises a new blog:
MOTUReview.blogspot.com. This Masters of
the Universe-only site will archive everything MOTU-related that we’ve looked at on this site (that content will remain
here as well), and it is there that I will continue to take quarterly looks at
the current DC monthly, plus whatever else appears in the future as well as the
odds and ends from the 1980s that I missed the first time around.
Below, you will find my final review on this site. I think
it’s an appropriate bridge between the two blogs.
Goodbye from The Book
Review, and, one last time, thanks for reading.
