Want to read: Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science by Anna Reser and Leila McNeill 📚
Trusting my (book blogging) intuition
Fourteen years ago, I started a book blog - or, as I called it at the time, a reading journal. I jumped in and started writing without any worries about doing it “right.” (For one thing, 2007 was early days with respect to book blogging.) Over time I became part of the kidlit book blogging community.
I slowed down on book blogging long ago, but now I want to ramp up the bookishness of my personal blog. So I did what you do, I googled “book blog.” For months I’ve been reading book blogging introductory articles and posts.
Most of the advice hasn’t sat with me quite right.
I don’t want to book blog like anybody else.
I want to book blog like me.
It turns out 2007 Kimberly has a lot of wisdom when it comes to book blogging. I’ve started looking at my old posts to see how they might be models for how I write about books in the future.
I’m already feeling better about book blogging. I’m excited to get back into it.
Just finished the introduction to SUCCEEDING OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY. Excited to read the rest. It seems like having 14 informational interviews in a book. 📚
I woke up with a migraine today. I’ve had enough caffeine that it’s significantly receded but now I’m SO AWAKE. I would normally read a book but I’m waiting to get new ones from the library tomorrow, so I think I’ll try some comics.
Do I know anybody who works in youth services in the Wake County Public Libraries? If you do, will you let me know? Mind if I message/email you with some questions?
I may have added, um, 40 pages (mostly quotes and tables) to my findings chapter in revision…
Okay. I finished pulling quotes from the last interview. I was like, “Cool! Time to move on to the justification writing!” and my body said “Hold on there, Kimberly.” So I’m going to have a bit of a liedown.
Only one interview left to pull quotes from for my findings chapter and then I can move on to the part where I justify my data analysis decisions. Dissertating is mentally tiring work, y’all. It feels like the closer I should be to done the further the horizon stretches away.
Just updated my Fan Studies in LIS page to include some scholars I met at FSNNA20!
OKAY. I finished pulling quotes from that giant and awesome interview. Three more interviews left to pull quotes from, then some writing up of my data analysis rationale and some definitions…