I kind of disappeared off the face of the earth when it comes to book blogging/Instagramming around the end of August, didn't I?
Oops.
The last few months of 2017 were hard, I wasn't reading, I wasn't going out and seeing friends as much as I had (as someone with extrovert tendencies, I get energised by being around other people and I just... didn't for a fair bit last year without realising how that affected me until I started a new job and was around people pretty much every single day and had a massive mood lift) and there was one specific political thing that happened that got very personal very quickly and I just could not focus on anything that I loved doing.
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| I literally felt like I was dragging myself out of my funk when November came around |
Come November, I started to push myself to get writing again since NaNoWriMo had come around again. NaNo has become an annual thing for me, and as much as I wasn't energised as I had been in previous years, it felt wrong not to do it. So I wrote, and I was below par for most of the month, but I was seeing friends on a consistent basis, which really helped, and slowly I started reading again, and now I'm back in the headspace to not only be actively thinking about my writing and reading goals, but I want to share them again! Yay!
Not that I think many people noticed, but that doesn't matter so much to me right now. I started this blog because I have so many thoughts about books and I want to at least just put them somewhere where others can see them, even if it's only a handful of people.
So, Hello! I'm back!
I will try not to disappear for months on end again, now that I have a better understanding of how my mental state works and how I can keep that healthy (pro-tip: if it's something or someone on social media - block them! or at least hide their stuff from your timeline, it's such a good thing!)
Now, onto the books.
I'm thinking about joining a ReadAThon in the next week, but haven't decided which one yet (probably the DuoDecathon, it works better timewise for me) but I will post my TBR list for whichever one I do, and that means there'll be a follow up post, and also reviews, if I think I might want to for that book.
I might end up doing an 'Illuminae Files' post because I went to the Obsidio launch and the series just absolutely deserves to have everyone read it, because of spaceships and murderbots and space and badass women and SPACE. I am also starting 'Children of Blood and Bone' and I am SO VERY HYPED about reading it because it just looks and sounds absolutely fantastic. There are other books that I might make posts about but I don't want to go off and make this post a bunch of half-thought-out sentences about unrelated books. (I could, it IS my blog, but it's late and I do have work in the morning and I'd be here all night.)
Long story short: I'm back with more book thoughts and more desire to send those book thoughts into the interweb aether, with an over-use of Disney gifs and probably comma abuse, but we'll see.
Until next time, Meg
