Friday, September 9, 2016

First Official Blog: HOW DO I DO THIS?!

Hi, everyone! This is my first ever legit blog post. I mainly use tumblr and I finally decided I needed to buckle down and start to review in a "real" blog. For the first few weeks, I'm going to be transferring all of my book reviews to here. Not just links, but whole posts, along with updating the reviews in the process. 

I have no clue what I'm supposed to blog about, so I'm just going to wing it.I guess we should start with some introductions.  I'm Allie. I'm 26, a Hufflepuff, library employee, and fiercely (but somewhat quietly) feminist. I love YA fiction, Urban Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Memoirs and Biographies, and most of all, Horror.

I started low-key book-blogging on tumblr in February this year as a way to keep up on critical writing and thinking until I go back to school, but it turns out I kinda like it. I've been working on keeping my tumblr busy, but I'm very bad at posting original content, mostly because I don't know where to start. I thought it was high time I gave real blogging a chance. 

I'll mostly be posting book reviews, but I'm going to work on some recommendation posts and updating the progress on the teen displays I do at my library. I do them monthly but work on them for a long time before it's time to put them up.

Since I started in the booklr community, I stumbled upon a Discord server that's focused on books and reading. I lurked for a few days, and finally introduced myself. Now I've got a whole host of book-loving friends! If you're interested in joining or would like to learn more, please check out my friend Lauren's post over at Booksandtea about our chat, and come say hi! Someone is always around and we have tons of read-a-longs and read-a-thons, and even traveling book projects going on all the time. Honestly, this server is one of the best things to happen to me this year. 

I think I'm going to schedule to post twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays starting today, with the first book review I ever wrote. Keep in mind, I'll be updating them a little while I make the transition from tumblr to here, so don't be upset with my if they're late or off schedule in the beginning. While I'm moving all the old reviews here, I'll also be writing and scheduling new reviews and posts (moving all the old posts here is just to give me time to come up with content XD). 

If you have any suggestions for things you'd like to see, please let me know, I'm very very open to suggestions!

Feel free to check me out at the usual places!!
Goodreads | Instagram | TumblrTwitter 
Thanks for reading,
-A

1 comment:

  1. Hey Allie! You've seen me around tumblr and occasionally on the discord server I guess but I also have a wordpress blog which I haven't used in a while (oops) but I don't know if I want to use it for reviews. It's just for bookish thoughts I guess. Best of luck with your blog! I'll check back every now & then. x

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