The title of this blog comes from a passing line in Jamie O’Neill’s seminal work At Swim, Two Boys. I’ve read the book four or five times and for the longest time I assumed the line referred to masturbation, but it doesn’t. It deals with the minutiae of moving things. Regardless of what it refers to, the line truly struck a chord with me and it stuck (probably because I’m rather odd the way I move and always run into things).  The alternative title was Journal of the Movement of the World, which if you’ve read The Elegance of the Hedgehog you’ll recognize this line.

The blog itself started when I had a lot of downtime transitioning between a year of AmeriCorps and finding a full-time job.  I randomly stumbled across the 50 book challenge and thought ‘Hey, I can do that!’, and started this blog. (You can see the original post here.) My original goal was to read 50 books in the last 164 days of 2010, but that failed miserably.

However, I enjoyed writing about the random books I read and it encouraged me to read books from my monstrous list of books to read. I kept reading and writing and this past June was my one year blogging anniversary.