Simply speaking, I haven't been very active on this blog so far this year.  Part of it is that I've developed other outlets that I get more response to...one of my problems here has always been that there are no comments.  Another problem is that readership apparently tanked after I inadvertently let my "blog rental" slip about this time last year and they canceled the blog.  I think lots of folks must have had it on RSS feed or something because I had readership up to 5000+ a month (somehow) and it went back to about 500 a month.  Try as I might, I couldn't get the readership back up much.  (Lately, in spite of very few posts, readership is above 1000 for July and August.  Go figure.)  Finally...I just kind of ran out of ideas.  I never wanted this blog to be one of those that simply link to other articles and opine on things.  That's useful but other blogs do that.

So, here's my new idea.  Don't know if it will increase readership or not but I think it will at least provide something of a public service:  book reviews.  Not just any book reviews, mind you, but reviews of books of interest to lean, Six Sigma and continuous improvement practitioners.  It'll get me reading some books that I haven't gotten around to reading and provide you with some info that might steer you to the good ones and away from the not so good ones.

I've never done book reviews so who know if I'll be any good at it.  I tend to like to talk about movies but sum books up with a quick, "Yeah, it's worth reading," or "Don't waste your time."    But I figure any info at all will help you make some decisions as to what to read and what to ignore, right?