Also, the brain tends to edit memories. Basically, the more often you reminescence what happened the more you are editing and overlaying your original memories with other material.

There was a fascinating experiment what people were equipped with head-mounted videocams walking around a city, and asked afterwards to describe what they remember seeing. The stories changed each time they were told to tell about their walk.

When they were finally shown what they actually saw vs. their recollection, it was quite a shock. People had a completely different recollection of their walk around the city than what was recorded on video.

During this summer I have read quite a few good books, and have now seven more reviews drafted for publication (after a bit of polishing).

When I started writing book reviews about ten years ago I didn't have any idea that at some point there would be a hundred of them published. But somehow reading a good non-fiction book and writing about it go hand-in-hand.

If I don't write a review, I'm not really reading the book. Writing makes reading concrete, and forces to try to understand what the author is trying to convey to the readers.

Also, there is all too few non-fiction books published in Finnish. Thus writing book reviews is also a way of rewarding the authors with a bit of publicity.

Of course, sometimes the book disappoints. Usually I don't write reviews of failed books. There have been a couple of exceptions, however, in cases when I disagree with the author(s) and want to make my disagreement visible.