Lost in My Library

At the beginning of May, I made a post about my blogging goals. I originally gave myself until the end of June to make a good start on them, with the promise th at I'd make an update post . And then the end of June happened...and then summer happened...and here we are. Let's see how I've done on my blogging goals! 1 . Always have at least one scheduled post. As of right now, this is more of an almost always , but here's one huge bit of progress - I'm always writing posts in adva nce! That never used to happen at all. And I even have a schedule: new posts Tuesdays and Fridays, with a little b it of flexibility because come on, I haven't made that much progress. 2. Write reviews qui ckly after reading the book. Definitely improved on t his one! I found that i f I know I'm going to be d oing a full revi ew of a book, it really helps if I jot down a few quick notes while I'm reading. It usually adds up to about a page of bullet points, and it mak...

If you've been following my blog, you've probably noticed that I've been a bit of a sporadic blogger lately. I'm happy with the content I've been making, but I've been posting a lot less often and replying to comments pretty slowly. My life has been prett y hec tic for the past couple of months, and it's going to get less busy soon, so I think I'll be able to get more on track then. But I want to be specific about what I wan t to do. So I've decided to make a list of my top 5 blogging goal s right now. I'm posting them here because it's my way of holding mys elf accountab le and actually going through with them. I want to at least have ma de signi ficant progress on all of these by the end of June. ( I also have things I want to do with how my blog looks , but I have no ide a how long those will take , so I didn't put them here.) 1. Always have at least one scheduled post. I am embarrassingly bad at this. I'll sometimes fin...