{"id":891,"date":"2016-07-12T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=891"},"modified":"2016-07-11T20:32:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T08:32:19","slug":"top-ten-book-blogger-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"top ten; book blogger facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-893 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/bookworm-things.jpg\" alt=\"bookworm things\" width=\"500\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/bookworm-things.jpg 500w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/bookworm-things-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s Top Ten Tuesday by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brokeandbookish.com\/p\/top-ten-tuesday-other-features.html\">The Broke And The Bookish<\/a> has such a broad topic that I got a bit confused for a second as to what I wanted to do. I mean, facts about me? As a person or as a blogger or as a reader?<\/p>\n<p>It made sense to put together a list of book blogger facts about me. What I did, I will admit, is check out <a href=\"http:\/\/paperfury.com\/\">Cait @ Paper Fury<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/paperfury.com\/what-does-book-blogger-do\/\"><em><strong>What Does A Book Blogger Actually Do?<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/paperfury.com\/book-bloggers-worries-insecurities\/\"><strong><em>10 Things Book Bloggers Should Not Be Worrying About<\/em><\/strong><\/a> and see what applied to me as a blogger.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of the things on Cait&#8217;s lists applied to me so, here we go!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-907 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/top-ten-tuesday.jpg\" alt=\"top ten tuesday\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/top-ten-tuesday.jpg 500w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/top-ten-tuesday-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I started book blogging, on Tumblr, a few years ago, but I was mostly putting up reviews and reblogging (and creating!) edits and quotes.<\/li>\n<li>I think I&#8217;ve read less since I started this blog than before I had it. Oops?<\/li>\n<li>I keep telling myself I will set up a schedule but have not yet, leading to inconsistent posting. It&#8217;s a good thing I have a backlog of reviews from my Tumblr to transfer over, right?<\/li>\n<li>I have never gotten an ARC. And &#8211; I don&#8217;t really care? I mean, I never read well under pressure, and that&#8217;s all ARCs are for me, for some reason&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I am pretty sure this format and theme will slowly evolve and change but I&#8217;m hoping it won&#8217;t be too drastic that it becomes jarring for people. #aestheticstress<\/li>\n<li>My TBR keeps increasing, while my Read pile remains the same size. Help me.<\/li>\n<li>A lot of times, I wonder if I&#8217;m simply saying things people have already said before and that&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t get hits and comments.<\/li>\n<li>The amount of &#8220;WHY DON&#8217;T PEOPLE TALK TO ME???&#8221; I feel has become ridiculous.<\/li>\n<li>I have only had the one book photoshoot, and I keep telling myself I will have more, but I never sit down and plan them out. Again with the not being scheduled enough, I guess.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m doing most of the time, but I&#8217;ve been enjoying myself, and I&#8217;ve made a few new bookish friends, so that&#8217;s a good thing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, ten facts about me. Any of these resonate with you? Link me to your Top Ten facts too! Or just post them below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-686\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/signoff-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"2016-04-12 11:46\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/signoff-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/signoff-768x379.jpg 768w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/signoff-1024x505.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/signoff-1200x592.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Top Ten Tuesday by The Broke And The Bookish has such a broad topic that I got a bit confused for a second as to what I wanted to do. I mean, facts about me? As a person or as a blogger or as a reader? It made sense to put together a list of book blogger facts about me. What I did, I will admit, is check out Cait @ Paper Fury&#8216;s What Does A Book Blogger Actually Do? and 10 Things Book Bloggers Should Not Be Worrying About and see what applied to me as a blogger. A lot of the things on Cait&#8217;s lists applied to me so, here we go! I started book blogging, on Tumblr, a few years ago, but I was mostly putting up reviews and reblogging (and creating!) edits and quotes. I think I&#8217;ve read less since I started this blog than before I had it. Oops? I keep telling myself I will set up a schedule but have not yet, leading to inconsistent posting. It&#8217;s a good thing I have a backlog of reviews from my Tumblr to transfer over, right? I have never gotten an ARC. And &#8211; I don&#8217;t really care? I mean, I never read well under pressure, and that&#8217;s all ARCs are for me, for some reason&#8230; I am pretty sure this format and theme will slowly evolve and change but I&#8217;m hoping it won&#8217;t be too drastic that it becomes jarring for people. #aestheticstress My TBR keeps increasing, while my Read pile remains the same size. Help me. A lot of times, I wonder if I&#8217;m simply saying things people have already said before and that&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t get hits and comments. The amount of &#8220;WHY DON&#8217;T PEOPLE TALK TO ME???&#8221; I feel has become ridiculous. I have only had the one book photoshoot, and I keep telling myself I will have more, but I never sit down and plan them out. Again with the not being scheduled enough, I guess. I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m doing most of the time, but I&#8217;ve been enjoying myself, and I&#8217;ve made a few new bookish friends, so that&#8217;s a good thing. Well, ten facts about me. Any of these resonate with you? Link me to your Top Ten facts too! Or just post them below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,101],"tags":[140,64,102,59],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-post","category-top-ten-tuesdays","tag-book-blogger-facts","tag-discussion","tag-top-ten-tuesdays","tag-writings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}