Hello!

Quite often when I get to writing a post, I will accidentally ramble about 2000 words out in one sitting and it’s my favourite kind of post to write – it reminds me how much I love just sitting, the sound of my fingers flying over the keyboard, writing something in a real stream-of-consciousness style that feels chatty and like I’m catching up with a friend.

But when I look around the internet at other book blogs for content inspiration, it seems 90% of them are only writing book reviews or are participating in these themed weekly ‘meme’ posts answering questions around bookish themes. I like the idea of dipping into one of these discussion posts and getting to know more people in the book blog world, but I don’t think I’d commit to doing one every week just because I don’t think I could write more than a few sentences on some of the topics! But then there’s the book reviews…

I designed my entire journal on being able to write longer book reviews – I had the BookTok journal in 2023 and don’t get me wrong, it’s a great journal, but I like designing my own in a bullet journal style too much so in 2024 I had my first homemade book journal and I’ve built on that in 2025. I picked a square journal because the way I designed it allowed lots of space for me to write written reviews… but then I don’t really put them anywhere else! Sometimes I’ll use some of those words in my Instagram review, but I don’t put that review on Storygraph or expand my thoughts in a blog post.

My fear is that it would become repetitive, especially when considering not spoiling anything – in my own book journal I can say anything because it’s just for me, no one else is reading it and if I want to say something about a plot point from the 95% mark there are no consequences, but I couldn’t morally post that on here!

I think I would just say much of the same things over and over again.

Realistically, I should take some time to read other people’s reviews for inspiration or maybe I should just be okay with making posts that aren’t short dissertations, because realistically we live in a time-poor society and a long, rambling review is taking crucial reading minutes away when we could be reading more of the books on our never ending TBRs!

The whole point of making book content is about sharing reviews to help other people evaluate whether a book is worth their time and money, but I think I get so wrapped up in the kind of creators I watch on YouTube – who I engage with more because I like the vibes, rather than specifically looking for book reviews – that I forget that’s what I’m here to talk about.

And then there’s the part of me that needs to find a system for which books I review – do I review every single I book I read? Do I pick one book per week to write up a review for? What if I hate a book? I actively try not to make negative content so I don’t really talk about the books I don’t like.

The conclusion is simple – this is my blog, I should write about whatever I want when I have the time to. I don’t ‘have’ to do anything – there’s no rules to blogging or YouTube-ing or Instagram-ing or TikTok-ing, especially in the book sphere. The point, which I have lost somewhere along the way, is sharing the joy for reading and making an effort to engage with other bookish people online too.

So I might try doing a book review here and there. I’m definitely going to make more of an effort to read more book blogs and leave comments and engagement. And I’ll also make my TBR posts, my wrap up posts and anything else bookish I feel inspired to talk about!

I hope that’s okay 💜

I hope you’re having a great day and I hope you’re reading a great book!

Sophie xx