Introduction to Book Brackets

Welcome to Book Brackets, a blog dedicated to the consideration of books I have read over the course of a month. This blog is mainly a resource for myself so that I can record not only the books I have read, but my thoughts about them. I want to track the books I read and capture my impressions of them for future reference. If you have stumbled upon this blog and decide to explore, do not expect professional or scholastic critiques; this is the endeavor of an amateur.

Being a competitive person, it made sense that I should not only weigh the merits of these books as individual works, but that I should also pit them, one title against another, in single-elimination combat. An example of the format is depicted here:

At present, I have no over-arching, defining criteria for why one book wins out over another. That may perhaps develop over time. Until then, the listed reasons in my explanation of why I chose one book over another will have to suffice.