Hello!

So, I'm going to attempt blogging. It's a slightly scary experience for all kinds of reasons. The main one is that I am quite terrible at writing; I ramble on too much and I have dreadful grammar. I can barely type, which makes it look like I can't spell at all, and I'm not the best at that anyway, and my syntax is rather ordinary. In addition, I'm far too fond of popping a comma into a sentence where it probably really doesn't need one. No, punctuation isn't a strength at all.
Anyhow, enough of my many shortcomings, my intent is to attempt to review some of the books I read as part of my job. I am a children's bookseller and I read a fair few children's books. Sadly probably not as many as I should, but we can all say that.
There are many wonderful things about children's books, and indeed about selling children's books, and if I started listing them I'd be here all evening and then that would probably turn into an unedifying rant into the worse aspects of bookselling, which I don't want to start, just yet. However I must just say that in my opinion, the best thing about my job is the variety of books that I deal with on a daily basis; from babies books to books for young adults, the sheer range of books that are available for children today is both exciting and inspiring.
So why start a blog now? Well it's something I've been thinking about for a little while, but I've lacked the courage to bother, frankly. However yesterday a book arrived into the shop that just needed shouting about, and though I know a new blog won't get any readers and therefore I'll fail in my task of spreading the joy, every little helps and I'll feel better for having done it!
So I'll be reviewing books, hopefully on a regular basis, attempting to be honest about them. Sometimes I'll despair, sometimes I'll gush. I'll overuse words like "brilliant" and "marvellous" as they are two of my favourite words, so I'll have to dig out my thesaurus, and I'll basically give a 36 year old's view of books intended for people younger than half my age. It's a good job I've never really grown up.
I think I may enjoy this.