Thursday, August 25, 2022

Sunday Post #467




Thank you to everyone who commented well wishes to my mom. Last week I mentioned she was in the hospital and she is home now, thankfully. She has follow up to do but is doing well at the moment. I meant to reply to everyone this week but just never seemed to have time (nor did I post anything). I did finish my current book and wow. I'll be sharing it this week. 

I happened to mention in a Top Ten post a couple weeks ago that I could start a pulp blog and never run out of stuff to review, and someone commented they would read it. It got me thinking. I don't actually want to START another blog, but... what if I reviewed more pulp stuff here? Or vintage stuff generally? Instead of just highlighting pulpish covers what if I actually reviewed some or spent more time in general? It's a possibility.  

In other news, I wanted to talk about something else I ran across this week. It's been discussed before of course, but how much do your family or friends know about your blog? I saw a discussion this week and numerous people were saying their family doesn't even read their blog, or knows about it... sorta. That seems really common- like book bloggers find their tribe but they keep it separate from their regular life? 

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This will no doubt generate discussion. I accidentally came across this from a Twitter thread maybe about different aesthetics of Cottagecore?

61 comments:

  1. Me alegro que tu mama este mejor. Me gusto el video y la portada de la semana.

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  2. That video just blew my mind. I have never used Tumblr but wow! Now I know more than I need to know. LOL.

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  3. re: blogging
    My extended family knows I have one but only a cousin, who has similar tastes in books, reads it. Mrs B reads all the non-review posts once a month (she's the reason I actually started listing all my non-review posts in my monthly roundup&rambling posts) but doesn't really participate. Blogging is 'my' hobby and while I'm ok if family wants to participate, I don't bring it up in conversation.

    And more book reviews is always a good thing as far as I'm concerned :-D

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  4. Love that pulpfiction cover! I am glad things are on the mend. Hmmm..they know I'm here. Kind of. They know I write, but they aren't really interested. Occasionally, one might ask from time to time, "Are you still writing?" I have my friend from PA who always wants me to e-mail her something, but I find that tiring. And she forgets what she reads so easily. Although, she has inspired me to write so many different characters, yet she doesn't even notice if she does read any of it. As with all things there is a story within a story.

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  5. I'm glad your mom is back home. That has to be a relief for you all. And I've blogged for so long, that tons of people know about it but I don't know that a ton of people actually read it. However, I do have a TikTok that I mostly keep secret as much as I can. LOL

    Lauren @ www.shootingstarsmag.net

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  6. I'm happy to hear your mom is back home. 🤗

    Everyone knows I blog. Ha ha. My son doesn't read it, but that's because he doesn't read blogs. We do talk about things I have posted from time to time, though. He told his friends once that I had a book blog and one of his friend's girlfriend used to read my Tell Me Tuesdays because she had similar taste in books. She used to comment every once in a while before I switched to Disqus. I don't know if she still reads it because she is no longer his friend's girlfriend. I know when I did the tribute post about Jani a lot of his old friends read the post because I mentioned it on a mutual friend's Facebook, but that was just a one time thing.

    No comment on the cottagecore. 🙄 I might watch it because I was thinking about doing a discussion post about it, but I'll have to have a martini first. Ha! 🍸

    Have a wonderful new week. 🌞

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  7. I'm glad your mom is doing well.

    My family knows I have a blog and my daughter will even take pictures for me and send them to me for my blog but no one reads my blog. I have a neighbor who knows about my blog and he reads the Sunday post since he lives here too. lol

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  8. So glad to hear your mom is back at home. That's good news. Bring on the pulp content! As far as family knowing about my blog: my husband proofs virtually every post for me (he is the BEST proofreader) so obviously he knows. lol I'm pretty sure my mom and sisters are aware of it but to my knowledge they never visit/read it. If they do, I don't want to know about it. I wouldn't want to start being overly conscious of what I say/share because of them viewing.

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  9. I think it would be fun if you reviewed more pulp stuff here. I always love those covers you show. And while my family knows I have a blog, none of them ever read it. And I've never told any of my friends or co-workers about it. I like having it be my own thing, you know?

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  10. My family do not care about my blogs. In fact, they have a view that I should keep things to myself. These days, blogs are good trails of life that I could visit when I become a lot older

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  11. Yeah, why start another blog? Sounds like too much work to me, lol. Just post here. I like the fun pulp covers so having pulp reviews would be a nice add.

    My sister and my daughter know I have a blog, but they don't visit it. My husband knows of course, but not the rest of my family. A lot of my family are very religious and would be judgmental on the books I read so I don't invite that kind of scrutiny. I'm not that close to anyone other than my sister and daughter because they aren't judgy. I don't share with my co-workers either.

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  12. That is good about your mum :-D

    Only a few people know about my blogs and they don't bother reading them haha!

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  13. Glad to hear your mom is doing better! I'd love to see more pulp reviews or vintage reviews on your blog. I've taken a few pop culture classes where we discussed pulp books and that stuff really interests me.

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  14. If family are not into books or are too busy to read, it's useless I find to tell them about my book blog. Oh, well. Thank heavens for the universe of book readers and bloggers.

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  15. Glad to hear mom is doing ok. That's good news, and you know what, you do those pulp fiction features if they make you happy. You know what they say - if you write it, they will come.

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  16. So glad your mother is back home! I'm all for a blogging about vintage stuff and I would definitely read it. My family knows about my blog and I think periodically some might read it but it isn't something I talk about a huge amount. I hope you have a wonderful week!

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  17. I'm relieved to hear your mother has returned home.

    I've thought about starting a horror book or movie blog before, but I've always decided against it. Even the thought of managing two blogs is overwhelming to me. Instead of starting a new blog, you should only post pulp reviews and blog posts on this one.

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  18. I'm glad your mum seems to be on the mend. I'd love to see some pulp reviews - I have a Goodreads friend who reviews bodice rippers from the 80s and 90s, it's fascinating to see how the world has changed over the decades.

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  19. I am glad that your mum is on the mend.

    You could always do a separate page for pulp stuff or just mix it in with this blog. It's nice that a blog can always evolve.

    My family don't read my blog (my dad reads my posts from Facebook though). They aren't interested and some members have made that very clear.

    Have a good weekend.

    Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
    My post:
    https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2022/08/28/sunday-post-46/

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  20. Glad to hear your mom is better and home. Sending well-wishes of a speedy recovery!

    "I did finish my current book and wow. I'll be sharing it this week.
    🥳

    Ha! If you do a vintage feature or something, I'm sure you'll be able to keep it interesting. You have such love for oldies 👍.

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  21. Hi Greg! Glad your Mom is better.

    Regarding vintage and pulp - yes!! I would like that. I don't much, but that's the point isn't it? So that your readers can learn something new??

    Regarding family and friends reading your blog - I mostly link up on Instagram and Facebook as well and my friends read it from those links. My Book Club girls always read my reviews and I have a couple of students' parents who also read it. I don't have a huge following, but that's okay. Maybe one day I'll chase it a bit more. For now it's just fun.

    Take care and I am eagerly looking forward to seeing what your latest read was....

    Elza Reads

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  22. Great to hear that your mom is home! Regarding family reading my blog, they will sometimes read posts that I share on Facebook, but since most of my blogging posts are shared on Twitter and Instagram, they don't see all of them.

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  23. Yes, more review of the pulps.
    My family knows I have a blog but engage with it. My mom and I run a book group on GR but that it.

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  24. I think it is your blog, include what you want on it! We all move and grow and change. And my mom I think is the only one reads my blog. Lol. And I am glad that your mom is home!

    I will have to watch that Cottagecore breakdown. Lol. So many "aesthetic cores" out there lol. Dark Academia, cottagecore, goblincore, faeriecore, lol the list goes on and on.

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  25. I am so glad your mom is home Greg! And my family know of my blog but aside my husband, they don't read it either!

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  26. Yes! I'll read all your pulp reviews or even if you just talk more about it!

    As for the blogging, my sister visited once, my mother looked it over once... my partner only goes on if I've published one of his stories... my future father and mother in law know but they've never seen it. They would disown my partner if they knew the stuff I read.

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  27. Good news about your mom.

    As for family knowing about my blog(s), my oldest son sometimes checks out a post, usually if it has something to do with him, LOL. My granddaughter knows about it and is fascinated.

    Enjoy your week!

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  28. No one in my family reads my blog. I think they know about it for sure. But most of my family are not really readers. Glad to hear your mom got to go home! As to the pulp reviews, etc, I say yeah! I do all types of books on my blog: young adult, romance, whatever I'm reading. :-) Have a great week!
    Lisa Loves Literature

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  29. Wow you certainly started a couple of conversations this week, didn't you? As I scan through the responses, it sure seems that for most of us the core of our readership or fans is NOT friends and family. My sister is a big reader and will check the blog periodically and I have a girlfriend who checks regularly for ideas for her book club - otherwise, everyone knows, no one has subscribed or ever asks me about it. Maybe it's because I'll talk their ear off about whatever I'm reading, whether they ask or not!
    I also agree that it's your blog and if you love reading pulp, put it here; you've got a built in audience. While I may not read it myself, I'm interested to learn about it and what you enjoy about it. The idea of creating a special tab leading to pages about pulp might accomplish the separation you like but keep it all in one place.
    Thanks for the conversation starters!
    Terrie @ Bookshelf Journeys

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  30. So glad your mom is doing better and home! My family and friends know I have a blog but they don't subscribe, read, or ever ask about it. It's okay though, I don't do it for them, I do it for me :)

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  31. I'm glad your mom is home and doing well.

    I'd totally read your pulp stuff. I say bring it on! :D

    My family used to know I had a blog. My nieces used to read it and comment on it all the time, but that was when they had their own personal blogs. Now, none of my family read my blog. I don't mind, though. I met a lot of my IRL friends through blogging, but I'm the only one who's still blogging regularly or at all. That makes me sad, but I'm glad I've found other friends around the blogosphere.

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  32. Hi Greg, so glad your mom is home and doing well. My family knows I've had a blog since 2008 but, I think perhaps my DIL, an avid reader and book lover is the the only one who might read it from time to time. If others read it they are all lurkers LOL I agree that once we bloggers find our community we post for them as well as a log of what we've read or would like to read. I get some many ideas from other readers. I never read noir but I think I may have learned about Jason Mott from you and I loved how he writes. Hope you have a good week.

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  33. So happy to hear your Mom is home and I hope the follow up is uneventful. My family does not read my blog although they know about it - I find this a little hurtful if I’m honest as it’s important to me and it would be nice to hear what they had to say about it. I hope you have a wonderful week ahead Greg.

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  34. So glad to hear your mom is doing well. My mom went into the hospital last weekend for Covid. Scary but she came out a few days later doing well.
    That's so interesting about book blogging and keeping it separate from family cuz that is exactly what I do. Even my close friends don't know.
    Hope you have a wonderful week.

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  35. So glad that your mom is doing better! You know my theory on blogging content- you do absolutely whatever makes YOU happy, and that you find fun to do! (And then I should take my own advice, but alas.) My family doesn't really read my blog. They know about it, and usually just make fun of it. So that's... special.

    I am watching this video, and holy crap what a mess. I had no idea that this... TradWife bit was a thing, and honestly, I was happier in that blissfully unaware life? I want to take those loaves of bread and throw them at these women. Like look- if you like to cook and clean and shit, great, you do you. But any woman being like "you need to be submissive to and obey your husband"? Ah HELL NO, women who behave this way are genuinely harming other women- and extra especially if they have children. I had to tag out at around 10 minutes because my rage was too much.

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  36. If you *want* to read more pulp, read more pulp!! I'll read your reviews. I try to keep everyone I know away from my blog, my goodreads, my socials, lol. I come here to get away from all aspects of life. I want my books, my stories, and my blogosphere to be untainted by my every day life. :)

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  37. I hope your mom is on the road to feeling better. If you want to review pulp, do it! It's your blog and some of us will be interested and some won't. My daughter reads my blog and I have a few real life friends who know I blog, in fact 3 of them blog with me: Robin, Melanie and KC. I knew them in real life before we blogged together. Melanie was already a blogger but I had to convince Robin and KC.

    Anne - Books of My Heart This is my Sunday Post

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  38. I'm glad your mom is home. I hope she's doing well. My husband knows about my blog but doesn't read it. Less than a handful of people in my "real" life know about it. I guess I just want a place to call my own. Comments and posts on FaceBook or Twitter are there for everyone to see. My blog is really for people I've met in the blogging world.

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  39. I think my mom might read my blog but I'm not sure, lol. I honestly don't want anyone I know personally to read it. Also it weirds me out when relatives leave comments, they are usually pretty bizarre. But maybe I'm the exception? Lol. I'm glad your mom is home!

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  40. My 95-yo mom doesn't even know what a blog is. Hahahahaha and she's really the only family I have so...I'm more worried about if my co-workers know and secretly read my blog. I am very careful about what I post, just in case they do read it.

    Glad to hear your Mom is home!

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  41. I am glad that your mom is out of the hospital and doing better. My mom and sister read my Weekly Wrap Ups but I think they skip the reviews. I don't think anyone else in my family ever looks at anything on my blog.

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  42. My family and friends don't read my blog, a kinda lost expression comes over their face! Mostly we read different stuff and they don't blog! Good that your Mom is improved, always a worry. Pulp fiction while I don't read it I can't see why you can't post more about it on your blog here.

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  43. Glad you mom is home! Yes i think you should write more about pulpy and vintage stuff. No I don't think my family reads my blog- def. more just a my creative outlet

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  44. Wanna be in that summer ambiance video. Have a good week and well wishes to your mom :-)

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  45. If blogging about pulp and vintage stuff would make you happy do it!! Your blog!

    Glad your mom is doing better!

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  46. Do it here :D Two blogs sounds like a handful

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  47. It's so good your mum is doing better! You should blog about it here -- I think those posts and covers for example, are just so funny to see!

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  48. My husband is very proud that I blog. He often tells other people about my blog. I keep telling him that I'm not one of those famous bloggers, but he continues to tell others about my blogging.

    I think you should read and review pulp fiction here.

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  49. I don't think any of my family know about my blog. My brother is a reader but I doubt he's ever seen a blog in his life. I would also enjoy seeing your reviews of pulp fiction here. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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  50. It's so nice that your mom is out of the hospital now. I hope she's doing well.

    I remember telling a few people about my blog when I first created it, but they aren't book lovers, so they cared for about ninety seconds. 😂

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  51. I'm glad to know your mom is home and doing well. It was interesting to read the bit about family and if they read our blogs. I thought I was the only one in this boat, but apparently not! I have shared mine with a few family members and close friends, but for the most part, only fellow bloggers and some friends who are not bloggers read it. I don't mind keeping it separate from my "other" life. It's a hobby I enjoy and not everyone will want to read it. I'm okay with that. :-)

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  52. I'm happy your mom is home and on the mend! My family know about my blog but none of them care about what I read - even my IRL reading friends can't be bothered. They read a ton but stay off the internet. They're probably wiser than I am!

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  53. I'm so happy to hear your mom is on the mend! As for the pulp, I say bring it on! It is funny to think about how family interacts with blogs. My husband is not a reader, so while we talk about what I'm reading, he doesn't read my posts. While I can't point to a big part of my family reading my blog, I do know that they use it to see which books I've already read before buying me a book as a gift!

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  54. My family knows that I write and that I blog at my website. Do they read it? No, I don't think so. I'm happy to hear your mom is doing better! Great news!

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  55. I'm really glad to hear your mom is home and doing better.

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  56. I'm glad your mom is home and doing ok! And if you want to review or do more posts about pulp stuff, you should! It's your blog. And it's not even like that's a completely unrelated thing to what your blog is already about (and even if it were, you could still do it anyway).

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  57. You have so many active commenters on this blog (Yes, I'm extremely jealous!) I don't think you should start a separate blog, either. I'm not really a pulp fan but maybe you can convert me!
    I think my husband, one sister, and one daughter are the only regular readers of my blog in my family. (But they don't comment often.) I don't talk about it much or connect it to Facebook or anything, so I guess it's pretty separate from my personal life.
    I've been finding out through FB, though, lately, that I have more readers in my wide circle of acquaintances through my other big hobby (line dancing) than I ever realized, so maybe I should try to recruit more followers there!

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  58. I'm glad to read that your mom is on the mend.
    Most of my family know about my blog, but I don't think any of them read it. I have a few friends who do, but they are as keen on books as I am.

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  59. Happy to hear your mom is feeling better. Take care and have a great week!

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