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How Blogging Has Changed My Reading Habits

1. I read more books than I used to. This must be something that pretty much every book blogger can identify with. Even though blogging itself takes up a lot of time, it’s pretty hard not to start reading more when following other blogs leads to so many new sources of book recommendations. However, I also know my limits and reading during my commute to work and sticking consistently to one or two blog posts a week feels achievable and has helped me avoid both reading and blogging burnout.

2. I read more new books than I used to. This is partly a consequence of receiving review copies from publishers but following other bloggers with similar reading tastes and literary award longlists means I often seek out copies of newly published books from other sources too.

3. My reading tastes have diversified a lot in terms of genre. As well as newer books, I have been reading more non-fiction and translated fiction and I don’t think I would have made so many new discoveries if I didn’t run a blog.

Parks and Recreation April Ludgate reading a book

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What I’ve Learned From Blogging

I started blogging pretty much on the spur of the moment.  At the time, I was a final year undergraduate student and I was reading a lot of books that were not related to my university course and found that I had things to say but nobody to really talk to about them.  And so my Little Blog was born on a Monday evening in March 2012 right at the time when I should have been revising for my final exams (fortunately, I did alright in the end but it wasn’t really an ideal time to start it). Continue reading

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The Daily Post

After the madness of being Freshly Pressed two weeks ago, my post ‘The Rise of eBooks: evil or essential?‘ has now been featured in the Daily Post!  It is quite funny reading an analysis of how I managed to make my post Freshly Press-able without me even realising it at the time.  It’s also a nice confidence boost for me as I am far from being an expert at blogging. Continue reading

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Freshly Pressed!

After less than six months of blogging, I’VE BEEN FRESHLY PRESSED!!!  

Thank you to WordPress for choosing my post and thank you to everyone who has had a look at my Little Blog especially my very dedicated followers for posting so many comments and generating quite a lot of debate on some of my posts!  I start my Master’s degree very soon so I might not be posting quite so frequently over the next few months but I will still try and blog as regularly as I can!

Also, it is going to take me hours to reply to everyone’s comments on my Freshly Pressed post on eBooks which are still coming in thick and fast so please bear with me on that!  Thanks again, you’re all lovely 🙂

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