For once, I remembered to celebrate – today is the blogiversary of StuckinaBook. And it’s old enough to get a driving licence in the UK – 17 years old!!
It’s seems quite extraordinary that I’m still going after all these years, and still enjoying it. More to the point, I’m still enjoying the community and the book recommendations and the readalongs and clubs. I’ve been doing this for almost my entire adult life (I was 21 when I started), and blogging about books is now firmly embedded into the way I think about reading.
The heyday for blogging was more than a decade ago, but there is such a great community who keep going – and I love how thoughtful and interesting and personable people can be with the space to blog. YouTube and Instagram and, I daresay, even TikTok all have their place and are wonderful tools for sharing about books and reading – but, for me, nothing else quite measures up to what blogging allows. (Oh podcasting is delightful fun too, of course.)
I wouldn’t keep going if people didn’t read and comment, so thank you so much to everyone who engages with StuckinaBook in one way or another. Here’s to the next 17 years, I guess?
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