Blogging: At Home with Books

I find that I don't care for most books being read by casual bloggers I encounter or perhaps it is that I have yet to do a proper search for lack of time/ambition/desire/engagement to do so. But today, I found an interesting and unpretentious blog called At Home with Books.
Perhaps, I had not been properly engaged by books for so long that I felt somewhat disenchanted and bored with others' recommendations. The technical writing that I have to do for my academic work had dissolved the engagement, the enthusiasm, the love I had once felt for literature. But that is all in the past now. Especially since I have been simultaneously reading A Literate Passion, Nin's Diary (vol. 1), and Tropic of Cancer, all by Anaïs Nin or Henry Miller or both, I have rediscovered my love for words creatively strung. Of course, the academic remains ever present, but it has now been spiced up with some fine prose.
I will be very honest and say that I have yet to peruse through the entirety of At Home with Books (http://athomewithbooks.net/). But its author, Alyce (rhymes with peace), seems to do a fine job of selecting interesting reads to showcase in her blog. Rather than adopting the latest vampire trends (God spare me) or selecting sentimental grocery-store lightweights, she seems to give more care to what she ingests through words than many a blogger out there. However, be warned that if you are seeking an aesthetically pleasing site, one that soothes you or puts your senses at ease, you're not finding it here. That aside, I like books, all books, and so I will give her the opportunity to point some interesting ones my way while overlooking the fallacies of non-design. It's not like I'm a typographer-ista, I shouldn't care.
Oh, the irony!  Of course, I had to select the day she chose to put Rob Lowe's biography on her front page, but that can be forgiven for some counterweights she throws into the mix in older posts. Of course, it is her blog, and she has children, so you will also enncounter a fair bit of her personal life among the books. I don't mind it at all if she herself doesn't object to sharing it with her audience. I go for the book titles and reviews anyway, but it is nice knowing that some kids out there in the ether world have a pretty cool thinking mom who loves books and doesn't mind sharing it with the world.