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Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme, hosted by Rukky @ Eternity Books & Dani @ Literary Lion, where they discuss certain topics, share their opinions, and spread the love by visiting each others’ posts.

AUGUST 27: HAVING A BLOGGER IDENTITY CRISIS (RUKKY)

Prompts: Have you ever had a blogger identity crisis? What triggered it? How did you get over it? Has an identity crisis ever led you to significantly change the direction for your blog? Do you think having an identity crisis every once in a while can help you become a better blogger, or is it just a sign of insecurity?

Welcome everyone to the last week of August on LTB! Summer is basically over and it’s back to the regular scheduled programming I guess! Today’s topic is a bit interesting, I wonder how many people have experienced it and where it has led them on their blog. Without further ado, here we go!

I haven’t really had a personal blogger identity crisis here. I think I recognize that this really is just a platform for me to express myself in whatever way I see fit, in a way that’s hopefully also interesting to you as an audience. That being said, I think we are pretty comfortable here at DRTH to also change as the time goes – sometimes we’re even too busy for our own blog and I think that’s okay. The blog doesn’t have to be a perfect reflection of our lives, but it doesn’t have to be something stagnant and unwavering all the time either.

I don’t think (although I speak mostly for myself here) that either of us here have really had an identity crisis here with regards to our blog. I think we constantly keep in touch and work together on which way we want to push our blog forward. What new content do people want to see? What content do we want to see? I think these all become important questions and will drive the course of our blog.

However, especially though with bigger blogs out there, I totally understand the need to keep up with what you have always done and what got you there in the first place. I also don’t know what we would do here at DTRH if we had triple or ten times the number of followers. Would we feel differently if we felt a connection between what we posted and what we owe our followers?

Obviously I know most readers don’t actually expect anything unreasonable from the bloggers they follow, but that little bit of expectation can always fester into something more sinister. The obligation we feel as bloggers – I know people can relate – is one that many of us experience. Yet it is definitely still something to be enjoyed so I want to remind any of you who might feel the pressure building, that I as a follower would always be understanding of a blogger’s personal situation! Don’t feel the need to be anyone in particular or a version of yourself that you no longer relate to. We can grow as an audience just as well as you can grow as a blogger.

At the risk of sounding more and more preachy, I will stop here for today. Have any of you had an blogging identity crisis? Or relate to the invisible pressure of having to put out certain content? Let me know in the comments below!

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Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme, hosted by Rukky @ Eternity Books & Dani @ Literary Lion, where they discuss certain topics, share their opinions, and spread the love by visiting each others’ posts.

AUGUST 20: WHAT IS ONE BOOK EVERYONE MUST READ? (MIKAELA @ MIKAELA READS)

Prompts: There are some books that are just required…or at least you personally think they are! Maybe it’s a book that changed your view on everything, or maybe it’s just the BEST vampire book ever written. What book do you try to get everyone in your life to read, even the non-readers?

Summer is almost ending, and I’m just not ready for it! Today’s topic here on LTB is super subjective, but a good exercise nonetheless in what we each think that others must read. Can’t wait to see what other bloggers have to say about this topic!

I think there probably aren’t any books out there that are an absolute must read for every single person on earth. That being said though, I feel that many books would really benefit the society as a whole if they were read. Raising awareness on social issues, or providing perspective on topics that people are privileged in are often good ways that books can benefit society.

I think it’d be fairly difficult to convince a non-reader to read something that they’re not interested in anyway, so it’d be hard to impress upon them a book to be read out of interest. It may be easier to suggest a book that has social implications, or just an interesting perspective/moral in general to try and tempt them.

Having read books like Punching the Air or Braiding Sweetgrass (review coming soon), I would like to suggest these books to everyone. These books really provided great perspective for me in terms of cultures and societies so different from my own that I had no idea what they were experiencing. It really opened my eyes to my view of the world and I think that everyone should have a chance to listen to these stories and decide for themselves what’s important.

What are books that you all find are important to share? Do you try your best to actually get people to read them? Or just leave them with the suggestion and let them figure it out on their own? Let me know in the comments below!

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Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme, hosted by Rukky @ Eternity Books & Dani @ Literary Lion, where they discuss certain topics, share their opinions, and spread the love by visiting each others’ posts.

AUGUST 13: CAN BOOKS BE EFFECTIVE HORROR? (DANI)

Prompts: Some people love to be scared – others not so much. When it comes to reading do you think books can be scary? Are you less scared because there are no pictures? Do you feel other mediums such as film are more effective for horror? Have you ever been kept up at night by a book? 

Welcome everyone to another Let’s Talk Bookish, a meme here at DTRH hosted by Rukky and Dani (linked above!). Please follow them over on their blogs if you enjoy their content. Without further ado, let’s begin.

Horror books. Hmmm. While I love my thrillers and mysteries, I have to say I don’t generally consider myself to be a fan of horror, there are obviously unavoidable horror elements in these dark genres. I definitely think books can be scary, very scary. Although usually in thrillers, the emotional suspense is what makes it exciting, not necessarily horror components. That being said I have read some very dark and graphic thrillers that I wasn’t the biggest fan of.

It is arguable that books aren’t as scary because if you do get scared you could always just close and put down the book and look away, unlike a horror movie. On the other hand, the imagination is a very powerful thing, and even after I have put a book down, I can often feel the lingering emotions of imagining and visualizing what I have just read.

I think film does lend itself to very graphic and intense imagery, as that is literally what the medium was designed for. However, that isn’t to take away from the power of effective writing. The way a book can take me through an emotional rollercoaster page after page is honestly something far more impressive than any movie has reached before. Let me know in the comments below if you feel the same way about books vs. movies.

In the past when I was younger I have definitely been spooked by books. Not even really that scary of a book too. It was one of the Goosebumps series in which there is a haunted house I believe, and for some reason that really gave me a fright when I was younger. I think it was called Welcome to the Dead House. I don’t even want to look it up haha! But ever since becoming an adult and enjoying thrillers and mysteries, I’ve never been kept up at night or spooked by a book. I have read some books that made me cringe in disgust though – but I try to avoid those.

What do you all think about horror in books? Never as heavy as a movie? Or perhaps your own imagination in scarier than any CGI reality a movie could make?

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