Our Fourth Blogoversary!

It’s our blogoversary! Shar and I have been writing about books for 4 years on this little site, and we’ve changed a lot over that time, and hopefully gotten better at writing. We’re going to sort of interview each other about it to celebrate, because writing posts together is fun. This is definitely something to celebrate, and we’re so glad to be here to do it!

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On science, reading, and why I’ve been getting into more nonfiction of late

^^^ I hope this post lives up to its title hahaha I titled if before I started writing. As you may know, I’m a science student. Most of the book bloggers I know that have been/are at university are doing arts. This post is about why science people often disregard reading (fiction) and why I think this is silly.

Is it still worth reading if you don’t remember it?

Hi Virtually Readers! The other day I was writing a review that I’d started two weeks after finishing the book, then left half finished. By the time I’d finished it, it had been more than a month and I had forgotten one of the main character’s names, as well as a lot of the minor plot points. To be honest I forget the details of most books I read—a year after I’ve finished it, only a few slightly random snippets of information will remain. So this got me wondering: is it still worth reading a book if you’re not going to remember it?

Book Bloggers Responsibilities

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about whether it is a book bloggers responsibility to promote reading, and if you want to know my thoughts on that, go read the post! but I also promised to write a post about book bloggers responsibilities in general, and this is that post. What are a book blogger’s responsibilities? After all, this is something we do by choice; not just reading, but reading and then making things out of it. Do we have any obligations? And what does that mean for me?

How to make time for reading (when you’re a busy student)

Hey Virtually readers! Remember how I wrote a post recently about why university students don’t read? Well, here’s some tips on how I make time for reading even though I’m a busy, stressed student. I know Lara did something like this, and we might have too, but here are some more suggestions nevertheless.

Discussion: Why don’t university students read?

Shoutout to past Shar for writing this on a long bus ride and saving present Shar, ensured in the business of the last week of semester, to still post on time. Love you, past Shar! ❤ ❤

Discussion: Do I rate books based on genre?

I recently noticed something shocking; I was writing a review, and thinking ‘it was quite good—for a contemporary’. Contemporary isn’t my favourite genre, but there are also SO MANY good YA contemporaries out in the world. This got me wondering: is my star rating affected by genre?

The Responsibility to Promote Reading?

Hi Virtually Readers! Today I thought I’d talk about something which I’ve been thinking about lately (as opposed to talking about something which I haven’t been thinking about lately lolol), which is: what responsibility to we have as readers? and more specifically, as bloggers. Because here’s the thing: I love reading. I think reading is important, and I want more people to read. Should I be trying to get more books into people’s hands?

explorations in non fiction

A few weeks ago, I wrote about my evolving reading tastes, a delirious, chaotic post with little order and only some sense. I said that I wasn’t sure why I read non-fiction yet. But I’ve been thinking about it more, and I have some ideas (okay jk I finished writing that last post and had a bunch of ideas about non fiction and started writing this immediately afterwards). Basically, non-fiction satisfies my curiousity in a different way to fiction.

Why don’t dystopias talk about climate change?

I went through a dystopian phase a few years ago, and I also read a lot of sci-fi and books set in the future. But few, if any, of them deal with climate change; they’re either set in a post-apocalyptic hinterland, an oppressive government’s culture, or some place with high tech space travel. Note: Climate change and global warming are used interchangeably in this post. Also note: this post has been a long time coming, and could probably do with more refining. Maybe one day, but for now I’m happy with this.