September 10, 2020

Somehow it's been 6 years...

 


SOMEHOW IT'S BEEN 6 YEARS...

    This month marks 6 years since I started this blog. I honestly can't believe it's still going (barely, but it's here, so that counts). I've been off and on with my care for this blog as I've gone through different stages of life and reading. When I started this blog, I was a junior in high school. I have since graduated high school, graduated college, had a post-college job (which I ended up hating, but hey, it was a necessary life lesson), and now I'm in a graduate post-bacc pre-PhD program trying to move forward on my journey towards becoming a PhD doctor. I've had many ups and downs through this time which has led to many different stages in my reading and attentiveness to this blog. I wish I was as dedicated to reading and this blog as I was when I first started, but that just isn't possible. There is hardly enough time in the day for me to do everything I need to do, much less put energy towards being an active blogger. But I'm not completely giving up. Even if it means only putting out 5 blog posts in one year, this isn't something that I'm ready to let go because I'm proud of the work I put into this. I love being able to go back and read my thoughts on a book I read in high school and cringe because I just reread said book and realized how completely problematic or sucky it was. Reading is still something I do pretty regularly and that I love very much, I just don't feel as much pressure to put out full reviews of my thoughts like I used to. Sometimes it's great to just read a book and cherish those feelings you have towards a book without worrying about how your opinions are going to be perceived by others. And speaking of community, I've said this before, but I've never really felt deeply a part of the bookish community like others. This is in part, my fault, but sometimes I'm glad I haven't completely rooted myself in it because some of the noneness and drama that goes on is just ridiculous. I feel like this community stopped being about sharing our love for books and became a beast of its own. Well this is has been a lot of rambling, and if you're still reading this, thank you. I will forever be grateful for the handful of you who felt that my words were worth reading. I won't sit here and promise I'll post more, but I can promise I'm not going away. I will continue to publish my sporadic wrap ups and reviews as I feel inclined to and honestly that's enough for me. Maybe someday I'll be able to be back where I was when I first started this blog, but I know now is not that time and that time won't be for a while. 

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