Category: not a review

Why do you choose to read the books you read? How often is it just because that’s what you feel like?

It’s been a while since that was the main reason I chose a book, but I’m finding that these days it’s the only successful way I actually finish anything. When my time and attention have a lot competing for them (children, work, housework, chronic illness) reading has to fit into the small gaps left over, and if a book doesn’t manage to lodge in my brain and remind me to pick it up again at every opportunity, it will take me a lot longer. I need to be invested. 

• life update
• 2021 reading
• reading and writing plans in 2022

Hi, internet. It’s been a while since I blogged here.

I’ve been away for a while, for the same reason I’ve been away before – in 2021 I had my second baby, and being pregnant and then having a newborn are exhausting, and priorities have to be chosen. Blogging is something I do for fun, so it drops off the list fairly quickly.

I’m currently about to return to work again after being off on maternity leave, and I’ve built into the new routine some time for writing. Primarily this will be about finishing my novel (finally, please, finally) but occasionally I’m hoping to write a little post here about what I’m up to. I’ll be on Instagram and Twitter to chat writing and books as well. On here I’m expecting to be writing some reviews, some posts about the writing process. We’ll see.

This blog is on a temporary hiatus
while I focus on other creative projects.

I’ll be back in a couple of months with lots more bookish posts!