Today I was eating lunch and into my head popped a thought: I wonder how long I have kept my blog going? It seemed like I started it one summer. Well, I was close. I started this blog on July 1, 2005. So I missed the actual day by 1 month and 9 days. Welcome to my 12th Blogiversary!!
Some people would tell you that I am persistent. Others would tell you that I am really good at getting out of things I don't want to do. In this case, it appears that persistence has won out. When I was looking for images I was struck by how many there were for a 1 year blogiversay, quite a few for 2 years and then it just goes general. Apparently there is a high drop out rate. The image I picked has 27 candles. I know, optimistic aren't I.
Another thing I noticed was links to articles about what people learned from blogging. I will not bore you with one of those. I am also not doing a give-away because I give all my no longer wanted books to Little Libraries and at reading group book exchanges during our holiday parties. Instead I will give you my innocent, somewhat funny and for me hugely nostalgic first post:
Maiden Voyage to Blogdom Friday, July 1, 2005
Anyway, welcome to my blog. It will be mostly about books that I am reading, have read or want to read. Today I am reading The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. So far it is wonderful. It is obviously written either by or in the voice of a fairly young man. That is fine because I like young men. It takes place in Barcelona, Spain, which is where my lovely artist niece just spent a semester. Her name is Elizabeth and she designed the cover for my latest CD, but I digress.
I am also in the middle of The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, a sad and somewhat disturbing book. I will finish it but first I have to finish the above book for a reading group meeting on Tuesday night.
OK, this is just a short post to get the blog rolling. More to come soon.
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1544 posts later, I thank you all for reading, following, or just lurking. I hope you have enjoyed yourselves. I hope you will keep coming. I know that blogs aren't cool anymore but I just don't feel like starting a podcast. As long as we don't blow up the world or run out of electricity due to climate change or some other more horrendous disaster, I might as well keep going.
My purpose is to celebrate reading. Yes, let's celebrate that!! If you still drink, raise a glass to Keep The Wisdom, to book bloggers and to reading books. If you don't, put something else in the glass and raise that. All of us readers are the greatest, smartest people in the world!!!
Happy blogiversary to you!! Congrats to you on blogging for that length of time.... In fact I think you're the longest blogger I know of who is still blogging today. :-)
ReplyDeleteI think it's wonderful that you chose to write your blogiversary post today as it is Book Lovers Day! So happy reading to you and keep posting wonderful book reviews in the years to come.
As a side note, I've been blogging for just over 5.5 years. I had wanted to start a blog years before hand, but for various reasons I didn't start mine until January 1, 2012. I've kept with it all this time and look forward to many more years of book blogging.
You're right in that it seems like more people are moving to podcasting or vlogs on YouTube... I'm not sure I am ready to move in that direction myself as I keep pretty with reading, knitting, and posting to two blogs already.
Right after I posted I learned that it was Book Lovers Day! I guess I am really with it. Let's just keep blogging! I am so happy to have discovered your blog lately.
DeleteYes, let's keep blogging! I am happy to have discovered your blog as well. It seems like we pretty much enjoy/are interested in the same books. Happy reading!
DeleteHa, love your first post from 2005! I hope you do continue on for many many more years -- it's a wonderful blog and I get so much from it. Happy 12th Blogiversary. I started in 2009 so I'm a bit behind you but still enjoy it. I'm old-school so I'll stick with blogs & even newspapers, remember those? Hooray for reading ! Keep on Keeping On.
ReplyDeleteThank you Susan! I feel the same about your blog. Let's hear it for being old-school. I will take a book blog over social media any day.
DeleteHappy Blogiversary to you, Judy! 12 Years...! That's a lot. I have been blogging for just 7 years but I don't celebrate. Anyways, it's good to know that you stuck with it long enough to make it well known. Here's to many more years chronicling our reading in blogs, because I won't be making the conversion either. Geez, I don't even know what a podcast is. :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you Carmen! And keep up your good work on reviewing both books and movies. You have become one of my trusted sources.
DeleteHappy blogiversary, Judy. 12 years is very impressive - I started 8 years ago and thought that was a long time! I'm glad you're planning to keep going with your blog. I won't be doing podcasts or anything similar either!
ReplyDeleteThank you Helen! And I will keep following your blog for all things historical when it comes to fiction.
DeleteCongratulations on your blogiversary. Yours is one of the blogs that I never miss reading. Interestingly, we both started blogging around the same time, although at first mine was on the Houston Chronicle website. For a while, I was posting on three separate blogs, but eventually I consolidated them all into The Nature of Things on Blogspot. As you know, I still post regularly on birds, the environment, and the garden which were the focuses of my original blogs, but I'm more oriented towards book reviews these days, and the impossible task of trying to keep up the reading pace that you set!
ReplyDeleteThank you Dorothy. Three blogs! How did you keep up? I never miss reading your blog either and you keep me informed on the environment better than any other site on the internet. Thanks for telling the story of your blogging years. Hopefully we can read every book we want to in the years to come!
DeleteHappy 12th Blogiversary :-D
ReplyDeleteThank you Jessica!
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