It can be tricky to decide what to write about on here. There are all my usual topics: bears, cats, etc. Sometimes life updates, although that can be tricky, because it’s important to be respectful of the privacy of my family. Perhaps the cat would be embarrassed for everyone to know she threw up on my favorite blanket. But then again, perhaps she would be proud. It’s hard to tell with cats.
And of course, there is the writing updates, which may or may not be why you are here reading in the first place. (It’s also hard to tell with humans.) But if you are interested, it might please you to know that my current work in progress is still book three of my Bookland series. It’s still in the early drafting stage, but I am pleased with it so far and I think it should be a fun read once it is ready.
Sometimes I wonder if I should be updating my Goodreads with the books I’m reading personally. I do not know if most authors do that or if I should have a separate personal Goodreads account for myself. I have never really used Goodreads in that way. I made an account once, but I could never remember to go update it as I read, so I felt like I was constantly trying to remember what I had read three months ago and add it after the fact, which is not as helpful.
Plus, sometimes, the amount of publicness in the world makes me oddly uncomfortable. Some books I am more proud of reading than others, but does the whole world need to know what I am reading?
And then, I get to the rating part, which is easy, if I loved it, but if I didn’t and it was just okay or if I actively hated it, then what? I don’t want to be responsible for crushing another author’s spirit. You know how sensitive authors can be.
After all, just because I hate it doesn’t mean it’s bad. It’s like Glee. Just because I love it doesn’t mean it’s good.
I’m often baffled by people who seem so comfortable putting their whole selves online. I sort of admire them, but also I don’t understand them. Like, is it a facade? How can you be that open with strangers online if it is the real you?
Sometimes I feel like the second I consider posting anything on the socials, the Observer Effect kicks in and then whatever it was going to be is different immediately due to the fact that it will be observed by others.
I find I can only truly create things when I’m not aware of other people looking at it. Which is very challenging for social media, since the whole point is to not only let others see it, but to hope that lots of them do.
Perhaps you are asking yourself, what about this blog, then? Well, actually, it’s quite easy to believe that no one is really going to read it, so don’t worry, you’ve got 100% authenticity here!
And I am currently reading The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green, Chronicle in Stone by Ismail Kadare, and The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware. In case you were wondering. But do not tell the whole world. I’m really a very private person.