Anyway, I'm ba-aack! I won't bore you about why I was away, suffice to say I'm ready to get blogging again. In the time away I did manage to catch up on some reading, so I have plenty to write about.
I have made a few decisions though about what I want to do with this blog.
I'm not good at living to a schedule. My mother loves a schedule, she finds it gives her a sense of order and control and she knows what's going to happen and when. I feel totally the opposite. Knowing that there's something I have to do on certain days makes me feel like I have no control, that my strings are being pulled for me. So, I am dropping the schedule of posting certain things on certain days. I might still put out a 'First Paragraph's' now and then when I find a great one, but it won't be a regular thing. The only meme I plan to keep up is the Top Ten Tuesday, as it's fun, and I know what's coming up, so I can write them ahead of time when I feel up to it.
The other decision was around ARC's. Advanced Reader/Review Copy, books sent to types like me who will review it and post about it ahead of the publication date. Getting the word out there I guess. I was given an ARC a little while ago. But I found I don't like the pressure of having to read a book I'm not necessarily in the mood for, so I can review it and get more ARC's. So other than reading my current ARC next week while camping in Weymouth, I will not be accepting or requesting ARC's in future. My day job gives me a fair amount of pressure and I want to be reading for pleasure, not obligation, and sharing on here my thoughts on the books I love, or hate.
So, look out for my upcoming posts... including a review of The Woman Who Died A Lot by Jasper Fforde, and a collaborative effort with Mrs F from Fennell Books.
Hurrah, great to see you back in the blogosphere. They joy of blogging is that you can do whatever you want, as it is yours to play with as you please :)
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