6 Month Blog Anniversary (pfftt not a big deal) // Reading and Reviewing my old posts.

So I am not sure if my 6 month blog anniversary was on the 21st, 22nd, 24th or the 28th.

I know that most people call blogoversary I guess but I just find it difficult to spell so blog anniversary it is.

So wordpress tells me that this is my 60th post AND my 6 month anniversary so yes I am the symmetry queen*. But apparently this thought struck me that since I don’t have any post ideas for this month what better way than to look at my cringy and maybe a lot more “professional” posts.

I know it’s waaaay too early to do a post like this but who knows I’ll probably write this kind of post every 6 months** (??)

But let’s get started although I am really scared.

*I don’t know what symmetry is?? Sorry but it’s my school’s fault

**Sounds like a lot of work so probably no.

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FIRST BLOG POST

Date published – October 22, 2017

Excerpt – I personally love reading books. They are great companions when you are sad or even when you are happy. And after reading, I just like to think about them and figure out what this world is out of these books. So I decided to review them on here so if you are planning to read them, you know at least something about them. I love fantasy and sci-fi novels especially.

Thoughts – Soooo….why do I feel that I copied this from a book on cheesy lines. But jokes aside I feel like I didn’t know what I was talking about in this post. Because I don’t think that I like sci-fis actually that much. And I used like waaaaay too many so(s) in this post.

I got like 1 to 2 comments on this post and I don’t think that I actually cared about it that much because at that time I just wanted to write, write and write.

SITA: WARRIOR OF MITHILA // BOOK REVIEW

ft. my really bad skills when it comes to photography (and it still hasn’t changed)

Date published – October 23, 2017

Excerpt – All the characters were really well developed and I wanted to read the story from the point of view of all the side characters.

One thing I hate about this book is its ending. The ending was totally unexpected, it came out of nowhere. The cliffhanger aaahhhh.

This book had its ups and downs, the beginning could have been better, but nevertheless, I really enjoyed reading this book and I can’t wait to read all the other books.

Thoughts – I freaking published this the next day so I must have been pretty excited. But this was my first review. Well not exactly because I had published a book review on the Hunger Games trilogy somewhere (I don’t know where though) but I deleted that some time later.

The thing is…..I don’t know what I am talking about here. Like I use the word “developed” but in reality I didn’t know what it means and I still don’t know. Not to mention that I don’t actually remember anything about this book. But I think that my way of writing reviews has changed.

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FANGIRL // BOOK REVIEW 

I tried my hands at graphics for like the first time.

Date Published – November 15, 2017

Excerpt – And then coming to the star of the book, Simon Snow. Simon Snow is like the Harry Potter of this world. Cath writes fan fiction about it and there are certain excerpts from the Simon Snow series and Cath’s fan fiction which sometimes interrupted my flow of reading. I found them a bit annoying. I would have liked the book a bit better if they had been avoided but I guess since they were an important part of Cath’s life, they had to be included

Thoughts – So this was one book review where I actually knew what I was doing. I changed my style of reviewing. And I have to say that I was very lenient with this book.

I started reviewing books with the help of lists and honestly that list made it more difficult. I got about 8 comments on this post and that’s a lot seeing that this was my second month of blogging and I still get excited even when I get 1 comment.

I actually wrote this review in a hurry because I had school the next day. I was really scared because I didn’t want to say anything wrong and hurt people’s feelings.

TOP 5 TUESDAY // TOP 5 REASONS WHY I BLOG

Date published –  November 21, 2017

Excerpt –  Relaxation- I find blogging really relaxing. It’s like after having a really stressful day, you can finally relax and spend some time with your keyboard. I seem to forget all my problems while I am blogging which is a good thing to do in this stressful life of ours.

Thoughts – I wrote this post like a day before. I used to take part in bookish memes but now I don’t think I would because it just gets tough to generate a post every week. I like my pace of blogging right now. Where I can post whenever I want to. But T5T did make my blogging journey very enjoyable.

But I didn’t even double check this post nor did I spend any time in like making it look presentable(??)

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I legit used this same graphic for 25 days and now I am just bored with it.

TYPES OF READING SLUMPS I EXPERIENCE

Date published – December 14, 2017

Excerpt – The I-know-what-to-read-but-don’t-have-that-book Reading Slump – This is the reading slump I am currently stuck in. I know exactly which book I want to read but I don’t have that book nor can I buy it because I am on a book-buying ban. So yeah, this reading slump sucks.

Thoughts – So I think this was the time when I started writing Blogmas posts and if I look back I don’t think I would ever take part in Blogmas because even though I was posting “consistently”, the quality of my posts wasn’t that good. This was one of the post which I really enjoyed writing. But since I had to post everyday I used to keep on doing tags something which I don’t find enjoyable.

But this was the post where I realized that maybe I should branch out(??) and write more than Book Reviews. 

TIME OUT – ‘I’M SORRY, HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE YOUR NAME?’

Date published – December 21, 2017

Excerpt – Let’s take Hermione (from Harry Potter series) as an example. Now any Potterhead out there would be like, ‘pfft, this is easy to pronounce.’ And yes, I know this is easy to pronounce. But the young eleven year old me didn’t know that. I remember when I started reading this series, I pronounced Hermione as Her-me-oh-knee. I guess Victor Krum and I were twinning, but seriously how is one supposed to pronounce Hermione. I was pretty sure I was pronouncing it right, when my sister brought me back down to Earth.

Thoughts – You know what? I’m really proud of this post. This was my first discussion post and I loved writing it. And to be honest I love the way I’ve written it. It’s way better than how I write now. I had been thinking about this post for a long time and I finally decided to write a discussion post on it.

Again I wrote it in a hurry. But I really liked writing it and I think that I should write more posts like this. Although this post seems short, but when I was writing it, it felt longer.

So this post was basically me looking at my old posts and seeing how and in what ways my writing style and I have changed. As much as I am trying not to cringe at these, if it hadn’t been for these posts, I wouldn’t have been here (okay, I’ll give this speech when I win an Oscar). This was a really great way of looking at how things have changed. I know that this post was boring but if you’ve read it…THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR READING!!

Also I wanted to say thank you to everyone who follows me, likes my posts and takes time to read them. I never actually thank you all and that makes me feel very selfish, BUT THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH. 

Also special thanks to all the people who read/liked/commented on my last post. You all made me feel a lot better. AND THANK YOU FOR PROTECTING ME. I’LL PROTECT YOU ALL TOO!! Because this friendship is not one-sided (okay I need to stop watching Bollywood movies)

Do you ever feel like reading your old posts? Do you feel that your writing style has changed a lot? If you could change something about your old posts, what would it be? Tell meeeeee!!

❤ aDiTi