Another weekend passed with plenty of time to play, go for walks, cook seafood paella (yes! though it turned out somewhat blander than expected it was good to try it again after some years!) look at the garden that needs some replanting for Winter veges (am I too late?) And finally, I summoned the courage to actually look at some other blogs on books and writing. Well, I never! There is one place to find a ranking of the top 50 blogs on books! http://www.invesp.com/blog-rank/Books As it is sparklingly clear to many of you sophisticated blog-readers and social media types, I am a complete novice. Laughable even. So yes, I could let self-doubt and embarrassment creep in at this point but am sick of allowing myself to do that so I am just ignoring it. Anyway, most of them accept advertising!
The secret of the blog is that it is actually working. I have finally unlocked, after just a few days of trying this blogging caper, a renewed enthusiasm for writing my academic history due at the publisher in September. Hurrah! I was processing ideas all day until finally at 8.30pm last night a flood of academic sentences hit the page on my laptop. So, if the blog is good for this - and making it public on Facebook helps to know it has some kind of 'purpose', however limited - I'll keep it up.
Stay tuned for blogs on Anita Desai, Tea Obreht, Toni Morrison, and many more.
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