Welcome to PonderingBooks!

Thanks for stopping by. This is a new (as of December 2022) blog, authored solely by me, Jay Thompson.

Why a book blog?

Couple of reasons. One, I’m an avid reader. Two, I enjoy dinking around with WordPress (the platform this little slice of the internet runs on). Being “selectively retired,” I have enough free time to, hopefully, supply you with some insight into various and sundry books, genres, and the publishing world.

Yes, there are book blogs a plenty out there. Some are brilliant, some not-so-swift. Time will tell where this place winds up on that scale. Let’s hope it swings to the brilliant side, and mostly avoids the not-so-swift.

Why Pondering Books?

Couple of reasons. One, my woefully neglected personal blog is NowPondering. So there’s a bit of a tie-in with the name. Two, the domain name was available. Pretty much everything with “book” in the URL was sucked up ages ago.

What will you find here?

I don’t know. Of course there will be book reviews. Curated reading lists. Suggested reading. I’d love to interview some authors and publishing industry types, but it’s going to take some time and effort to build “street cred” before someone’s going to give up precious time to chat with some blogger with a fishing pole in his hand.

Who am I?

A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Just ask Winston Churchill. I don’t really know what that means but it sort of fits.

I “retired” in 2018 when I was 57. The plan was to spend a lot of time traveling with my lovely bride of thirty-something years. But COVID reared its ugly head and shot that plan all to hell. So we packed up the car, including an aging cat and a citron-crested cockatoo and drove from Seattle to the Texas coast, with no place to stay other than some fishing shack we found on AirBNB.

We bought a house, and a fishing kayak and I spend significant time plying the Texas coastal flats in pursuit of Redfish and Speckled Sea Trout. The aforementioned wife crafts beautiful quilts. We miss our adult children terribly and see them as often we can and their schedules permit. Recently, our first grandchild was born, and life, love, and travel have taken on a whole new meaning.

Where to find me

I’m pretty easy to find. Email is the best/fastest way to reach out. My DM’s and PM’s and whatnot are a train wreck.

Email: [email protected]

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