My first book blog was made in December 2015. Until now, I can still remember how clueless I initially was. I spent my first week reading and reviewing books en masse -- and get this -- not interacting with other book bloggers. I did know that book blogging was ✨ A Thing ✨ and a significant number of other people were doing it. However, I did not imagine that making friends through blogging was possible. (Clearly, even back then, my functional brain cells were far and few in between. ?) Having zero knowledge about blogger-to-blogger engagement was only the tip of the embarrassingly huge ... Read the Post...
Shut up, Shealea 2.0: Relaunch & Giveaway
Eight months. It's been eight -- long and insanely eventful -- months since I formally announced my indefinite blogging hiatus on social media. And it's been ten(!!!) months since I last wrote a blog post, which was a positively glowing review of Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger.* To say that "it's been a while" hardly does justice to nearly a year's worth of FOMO (fear of missing out), existential anxiety, self-doubt, and exhaustion. But on a much brighter note, it was also many amazing months of soul-searching, focusing on my final leg of college (yep, I've graduated!), recovering from the ... Read the Post...
