What the
title says. AKA my new-ish policy.
Because,
honestly, does anyone even read my reviews? *shrugs*
And yes, I have said that the purpose of this blog
is mostly as my personal notebook, so I don’t forget all about what I read. But
in that case I may just as well jot down some notes in a Word doc I keep and keep it to
myself.
With
Goodreads having improved their features a lot since I started this blog,
posting my thoughts there can serve for self-reminding and cataloguing purpose just
as well. And takes far less time and effort, since it requires less styling both
visually and content-wise.
In particularly, time is the key word here.
In particularly, time is the key word here.
I think reviewing
has been one of the reasons for not reading much for the past two years. I have
read a lot more this year when I stopped reviewing every single book. But I
have come to a stall in the last two weeks again, and today here I am, having
finished another book, contemplating how to review it – and the one that came
before that… and I feel done.
In the time
it takes to craft a review I could be reading (because that is the point, after
all) or writing or doing any number of other things. So, that is what I will do
from now on.
I don’t
intend to abandon this blog, because it is a valuable archive of the past reads
and reviews (not all of which are cross-posted elsewhere) and because I am sure
there will come occasions when I will feel like writing a long thought-out
review. But I will no longer feel guilty about not having reviewed whichever
latest read and, therefore, postpone picking up the next one until I do so.
