This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is for posts that give you the best glimpse of me. Let’s give it a shot…
- Guilty Pleasures. To quote this post, “fuck that noise”. I don’t believe in ’em. I went all the way back to 2015 looking at my discussion posts, found this one, and agree with every word of it still. No such thing as a guilty pleasure.
- Spoilers! Also an old post, and still true: I like spoilers. I have read all sorts of stuff about the later sections of Heaven Official’s Blessing, and it really adds to the experience for me.
- Why reread? This is a topic that’s come up over and over again: I like to reread books I enjoy, and re-experience them. There’s another more recent post, and it’s not even the only one…
- On giving up, but positively and Discussion: Putting the Joy Back Into It. Both of these are about reading/blogging habits I wanted to stop in order to stop feeling a sense of obligation around blogging. I can’t say I’ve always stuck to these resolutions, but it is something that’s important to me in reading and blogging: I’m not doing it as a job, I’m doing it for fun.
- Discussion: Real Life. How much should you talk about your real life on your blog? I guess that depends on you, but I’m fairly open about mine (while keeping it mostly about the books).
- Why haven’t you read ___ yet? And here you will learn that I’m contrary, and if everyone wants me to read something, I… probably won’t.
- Review: Return of the Black Death: The World’s Greatest Serial Killer, by Susan Scott & Christopher J. Duncan. The book is arrant nonsense. My reaction to it is probably pretty telling about the kind of person I am.
- Top Ten Tuesday: Reading Memories. This is a recent one — but what better way to know me than through my most salient memories of reading?
- Top Ten Tuesday: Authors I’ve Read The Most By. You can know me by the books I love…
- Top Ten Tuesday: Things I’d Have At My Bookish Party. My idea of a “party” is pretty telling, I think.
That was harder than I thought, because these days I mostly post reviews, Top Ten Tuesday, WWW Wednesday and Stacking the Shelves/Sunday Post. But I think you can still get a solid idea of who I am and who I’ve been!
I totally agree with you on the Guilty Pleasures thing. If you get enjoyment out of a book, that’s a good thing.
I rarely read romance, but I sure do enjoy ghost stories. No guilt needed. 🙂
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Yep, exactly! Why be guilty about enjoyment?
100% agree! There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure!
It’s often just people being snobbish, too, and shows that they’re looking down on something other people like… Why would you want to do that, right?!
I’m just about to start my first le Guin!
Ahh, enjoy! I love Ursula Le Guin’s work (the fantasy maybe a bit more than the SF).
I love these! I agree so much about giving up, but positively! I feel like there’s a bit of a toxic culture around not giving up and making people feel like a failure when they do. I don’t see a reason to keep going on certain things when they don’t serve their purpose anymore, and I think the toxic culture isn’t helping because it just wastes everyone’s time and makes everyone miserable when you feel like you “should” keep going. You write such thoughtful posts!
Yes, definitely! It’s so poisonous to fun to feel obligated to keep on doing things the same way even when it’s not working for you.