Fourteen years of the complete review

       Yes, I've been at this for fourteen years now: the first reviews were posted at the complete review on 5 April 1999. (The weblog part -- this Literary Saloon -- is a relatively late addition, as I only started that in August 2002 .....)
       There are a few perks -- easier (and free !) access to a lot of books I'm interested in, for one (though given the length of my on-reserve list at the local library -- I'm finding it easier just to get the books there than I am from some major publishers ... -- obviously not across the board) -- but given the limited rewards, tangible or otherwise, and the amount of time lost spent working on the site (which I could instead be spending actually reading ...) I'm hard-pressed to say it's been worthwhile.
       Regardless: today it's fourteen years, and 3109 reviews and books down, a year from now it will be fifteen years and presumably over 3300 reviews down .....
       So it goes, and continues to go.

       Thanks, of course, as always, for your continued interest and patronage.