Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Update (hiatus of sorts)

Ahhhhhh...I hope this post doesn't offend people, so just to give you guys a heads up, these are my thoughts and concerns.

Nooooooooooooooooo...don't start freaking out! I'm not leaving again. Let me explain before you click away. I've been "absent" for a while both on here and twitter because of personal situations. I'm planning to make a comeback but in a completely different direction. The book realm has always been my escape from everyday life. I can delve right into a book and be taken to a different world. Discussing what I loved with other book nerds made me happy. Book events, Goodreads, and booktube all made me happy. Lately, it hasn't. Years ago, I left the book world like as in I scrapped everything. My blog gone. My Goodreads account gone because of various reasons. One reason was that there was a shit ton of drama happening in the book realm and I already had my own drama to deal with. I came to a realization that drama will always follow you no matter what you do or where you go. I decided to focus on drama that I could control and cut out from my life and, unfortunately, the book realm had to be cut. I came back this year excited to start anew! It was great being back and for a while, I didn't see any drama unfold.

So, enough with the backstory and onto the hiatus! Sometimes when something gets a little too negative for me like the news or social media, I detox. I take a hiatus for a couple of days and come back feeling fine. With the book realm, I'm planning to take a couple of months. The book realm was my escape from drama and now there's drama happening every week. This drama isn't something you can skirt past because of how small this community is. I'm not putting the blame on anyone and I'm not saying people are right or wrong. I just see a storm brewing on the horizon again and I don't want to be in its' path.

Now we got that out the way, what does this mean? I'm not going to be active on Goodreads at all and I will not be doing Read-2-Reviews for a while, so if you want me to review your book, I'm sorry. My blog will also show the change as well. It'll be more about my writing updates and gaming stuff. Reviews are not going away, they just won't be a main focus anymore.

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