tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2315549757556103515.post763955411132533394..comments2023-09-25T16:45:55.402+01:00Comments on The Sweet Bookshelf: Busting the Newbie BluesMARY IN SCOTLAND http://www.blogger.com/profile/04390613561715464322noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2315549757556103515.post-67820354704789667572012-01-22T18:02:55.950+00:002012-01-22T18:02:55.950+00:00@Hannah It's always hard to be the new guys. ...@Hannah It's always hard to be the new guys. Don't worry about it so much, do what you want! For a long time when I was pregnant and just had my son I ONLY did reviews on my blog. That's it. Just books. Isn't that what we all want anyway?! I didn't have time for anything else. I was fine with that. I wanted to keep blogging because I love it, but I didn't have the energy/time to put into anything other than reviews. That's just fine! My readers are still here. I may not be as big as others, but I'm OK with that. I'm still having a good time.MARY IN SCOTLAND https://www.blogger.com/profile/04390613561715464322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2315549757556103515.post-27569683117745161612012-01-22T15:22:11.933+00:002012-01-22T15:22:11.933+00:00This was a good post to read!!! Thank you very muc...This was a good post to read!!! Thank you very much :) I'm a new blogger, and it is very daunting at the moment because I kind of have no idea what I'm doing, and at the same time you see people who are getting amazing books or attending amazing events or having authors on their blog and I feel like, "Am I doing something wrong?" but then I tell myself I am a new blogger and I need to be patient and do what I love doing, which is reading and then telling everyone about the books I read!!! <br /><br />By the way, your blog is awesome. I love it!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2315549757556103515.post-60487315262795117362012-01-22T04:25:39.816+00:002012-01-22T04:25:39.816+00:00I see you are getting back to Virgin River! I finn...I see you are getting back to Virgin River! I finnished my first one just before Christmas when you suggested Bring me home for Christmas, then I went back to the beginning and I have read 9 more! I love this series!! Thanks for the recommendation.Brittanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10930011137944665106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2315549757556103515.post-72567615486927743762012-01-21T13:57:12.118+00:002012-01-21T13:57:12.118+00:00@Natalie I LOVE to see my blog growing! I want it ...@Natalie I LOVE to see my blog growing! I want it to be growing for the right reasons though. That it's growing because people like what they see, not because of a giveaway or follow hop. <br /><br />@Jen I wonder what those people's google reader looks like! I follow very few book bloggers these days. I find the ones I like, and enjoy. Period.MARY IN SCOTLAND https://www.blogger.com/profile/04390613561715464322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2315549757556103515.post-46465645296963149852012-01-21T13:48:34.613+00:002012-01-21T13:48:34.613+00:00I'm not a book blogger, but agree with a lot o...I'm not a book blogger, but agree with a lot of your thoughts. Especially on the follow hops, etc. to up numbers of followers. I went through a stage where I did that, thinking I wanted higher follower numbers and then decided, like you have always known, that I wanted people who were really reading my content. I am all for a link-up here and there, to find new bloggers to connect too, but the following just for the sake of getting a follow back has started to bug me. Seems to lose the spirit of what the blogging community is about. I KNOW that people can't be reading the 500 blogs of their 500 followers. There isn't enough time in the day. :-)Jenny https://www.blogger.com/profile/10076043522662731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2315549757556103515.post-57944968037131127332012-01-21T13:45:11.490+00:002012-01-21T13:45:11.490+00:00Great thoughts on blogging. I agree the numbers ga...Great thoughts on blogging. I agree the numbers game can get discouraging both in comments or followers. Or the fact that you have a lot of them doesn't mean that they all come back regularly. But I do love watching my blog grow.Natalie Aguirrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03756087804171246660noreply@blogger.com