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A few weeks ago I entered my depressive state and started thinking about stopping blogging for good, but then I listed my least favourite reasons of being a book blogger and there was only one thing: writing up book reviews.
Book reviews are not at all easy to write, in fact they are very time worthy. A review may take me up to 2 hours to write, whereas in that time scale I could've written up 3 or 4 other blog posts. And the real truth about book reviews are that they are the least viewed/watched. People are scared to read a review in case they are spoiled, which I understand, because no one likes being spoiled on a book.
So this morning I woke up to an eye opening blog post from Queen of Contemporary - Bye, bye reviews! In the post she discussed that writing book reviews are seen as being a "real" book blogger, but in fact, is not.
So from now on, I am shaking the book blogging core and bringing my own way of introducing you guys to great books. Every 3 months, I will be posting up specific book recommendations from the books I have read during that time period (Dystopian, Fantasy, Contemporary and New Adult Recommendations). Each and every genre will have their own recommendation posts, which I hope everyone will like.
Writing book reviews doesn't show our love for books, our love for books come from our hearts and my heart is brought out while writing about any book, whether that be in a book tag post or a book recommendation post. But just know, I am so happy about this change! And I hope you welcome it with open arms.
Very brave and honest decision! There's honestly no point in writing things because you feel like you have to. I actually like writing reviews but I just wouldn't bother if I didn't enjoy doing it. I look forward to your recommendation posts :)
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Thank you! I'm excited because this will give me a lot more freedom with my blog posts. I just hope Publishers won't hate my decisions.
DeleteGoing with your gut, especially while managing depression and self expression is very important. I didn't blog once last year despite loving my blog! In fact I wrote my first post in 15 odd months only the other week. I think reviews work best on purchase point sites personally. But I like the idea you are proposing too. As an author, I'm always grateful when bloggers review, but personally feel book reviews of new authors work best when there is a supplementary hook to 'peg' it on. Hope you feel better soon, Yasmin x
ReplyDeleteCompletely agree!
DeleteReviews are great, especially for authors because it's their way of knowing the readers enjoyed their books, but with today's social media, I feel like I can just tweet an author and let them know.
Reviews are definitely time consuming! It takes me about an hour or so, (maybe longer, depending on what I'm doing) to compose a review. But now that I'm used to the swing of things as far as blogging goes, I can knock out a review in about 45 mins, on a good day. But I do understand your reasoning for wanting to quit the reviews. As book bloggers there are plenty of other ways to express our love for books, and to give recommendations to our readers. I look forward to seeing what you have in store :)
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