Yeah, this is not gonna happen for a few weeks. Maybe a few months. Nothing against Top Ten Tuesdays or The Broke And The Bookish in general, but I burned out. It's an amazing blog activity and I love to read it, but I don't feel I can be an interesting contributor for a while. Here's the reasoning behind that. You can only read a certain number of books every year. One, maybe two a week, depending on the time you make for books. Being asked to mount a thematic top ten every week is fun for a few months, but after a while you're starting to repeat yourself. I can urge you to read THE GREAT GATSBY or THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO* a thousand times, for a thousand different reasons, but only you can pick them up and discover them for the first time.
So I'm deliberately pulling myself from the Top Ten Tuesdays for a while. I want to read intensively and renew my pool of interesting recommendations. The Tuesdays have been such a powerful vehicle for the bookish word, I want to start giving better Top Tens than I have been doing during the last weeks. Maybe I can work this on a yearly schedule. Three months in the Winter and three months in the summer, something like that. It's going to be a pain for the traffic, because my top tens brought me close to a hundred visitors on publication days alone, but it's not the type of blogger I want to be**. So, see you next January, Broke And Bookish folks. Hopefully by then, I'll have a while new set of recommendations***.
* I'm gonna start to cap titles like this. Seems to be the industry standard.
** I'm so going to weave this in this week's topic anyway.
*** That said, nothing can prevent you from following my day to day activities here.
** I'm so going to weave this in this week's topic anyway.
*** That said, nothing can prevent you from following my day to day activities here.