Yes, I recommend wordpress. Its so quick and easy, and you can do anything you need to with a MNS. As far as a theme goes I suggest you do a search for Flex squeeze Nulled here on the forum, its my favorite theme by far, must customizable theme ive ever seen.
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Since you are new, you probably arnt aware of the plugins either. Here are a few plugins I like to use, and what they are for:
Contact Form 7 - To add a contact page easily
Easy Privacy Policy - Easily adds the Adsense privacy policy to your site
Platinum SEO Pack - For your onpage SEO
Simple Google Sitemap XML - Makes a sitemap for you (I suggest the sitemap being located on the root, not in the plugins folder where it automaticly puts it)
Ultimate TinyMCE - Good for extra functions when adding your posts (tables, fonts, font sizes)
Quick Adsense - Easily add adsense to your page ( most themes can also do this, but Quick adsense gives a little more flexability)
I also suggest that you check out statcounter.com so that you can track your sites traffic.
A plugin to do backups would also be a good idea, as Wordpress sites sometimes get hacked (not very often, but it does happen). I had a site go corrupt on a WP update before also, so I was glad I had a backup. I use a plugin called WordPress Database Backup for that.