Back to the book blog

I've been thinking a bit about whether or not I want to keep up my book blog lately, and that's one of the reasons I haven't posted much there. Of course, there's also the bit about me having a lot of other things going on in my life so that writing up book reviews (and sometimes even reading books in the first place) takes a lower priority.

I know that not a lot of people link over to my book blog (though I also know that some people do), and so sometimes I'm not quite sure who my audience is when I write. I also feel some pressure, from myself, to write about every book I read, so if I fall behind I feel like I need to catch up before I write about my most recent reads.

But the reason I started the book blog in the first place was to give myself a venue to think through what I like and don't like about the books I read, and to be able to talk about what I read. Unlike TV shows or movies which I usually watch either with or at the same time as or on the recommendation of another person, I feel like I do a lot of my reading in isolation, and I don't get to have conversations about what I read very often. My book blog is a way to open up the conversation at least a little if anyone happens to have read the same books I'm reading, or to encourage people to read the books so I can have those conversations. But in the end, my book blog is for me to process what I read a bit, after the fact, and it helps me enjoy reading even more than I already do.

So I think I'm going to keep it for now, even if I'm not writing up everything, and even if the posts get just a few hits. But I just want to let you know that it's still there if you're interested, and it would be great to know that people are at least skimming it.

I'll be back to normal blogging soon. It's just that right now everything I think of blogging has to do with leaving Ann Arbor and ends up feeling emotional, and I'm kind of done with being emotional for a little while. I need to think of a lighthearted post or two before I do my final goodbye to Michigan.

(On a related note, I just posted two new book reviews: A Passage to India by E.M. Forster and In the Woods by Tana French. Both worth reading, if they're up your alley.)