My name is Alan Jobe.

I’m a reader, a writer, a publisher  and a book reviewer.  For more than four years and more than 500 posts I have been reviewing books at my site Libdrone Book Reviews. When I first started the book review site it was a combination of personal diary and book reviews. Fairly early on, I took some good advice and migrated the personal diary entries to this personal blog and focused the book review site on the book reviews.

Many of the posts on this site are “stream of consciousness”, “from my heart through my fingers to your screen”.    While I generally try to avoid using real names,  particularly when I write about emotional things,  this site is primarily intended as my personal safe space to write about my feelings and explore ideas that my mind puzzles over.     I welcome your comments,  and hope to have a conversation.    I approve most comments,  but if you only say two trite words (“nice post” or the equivalent),  Askimet rather me probably has marked you as a spammer  :)

While I know enough about blogging to understand posts will look better and be more readable if there is a picture,  I am SO not a photographer.    As one friend commented about my first (and as it turned out only) uploads to Flickr  ”yep,  those are trees alright”.     So while I  am aware of copyright and try hard not to infringe,   and I also try to link every picture published on this site to the place I downloaded it from,  I know that mistakes can happen.    If you find I’ve used your image and you’re not cool with it just leave a comment and provide me with the exact URL of the image I shouldn’t have used.   I will take it down right away.

My late father’s motto was illegitimi non carborundum.   That’s Latin for  don’t let the bastards grind you down.       It is my blog motto which I dedicate to all who have been affected by bullying.

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