International Blog Delurking Week 2023
It may or may not be International Blog Delurking Week. The first full week of January (January 1 – 7, 2023) is when we’re supposed to slither out of the reading closet and check in with an “I’m here” comment. I don’t know if anyone does this anymore. In the olden days, people would pop out of the woodwork. Nowadays, not so much.
So let’s see what happens.
So welcome to International Blog Delurking Week. I make a badge every year to mark the occasion, giving you full permission to right-click and grab it for your own.
My reward for remembering to do this (when I could have just as easily forgotten) is that you have to delurk for this worldwide holiday, which is super serious and important. Right?
It is relatively easy. Leave a comment in the comment section below, admitting that you’re here. You can raise your hand and meekly acknowledge that you’re here with a simple, one-word “here” comment; or you can proudly raise your hand and tell us all a bit about yourself (my preferred method); or you can tell me the last good book you read (see, I’m trying to make it easy for you by even providing a comment prompt). The point is that I want to know about the people who read me since there is a huge discrepancy between the number of readers in actuality and the number of readers I actually know are reading. Or a tongue-twister like that.
And that’s all you have to do to celebrate.
So (clears throat to nudge you along), who is here?
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I’m here :)! And so happy to be here reading and learning. I’ve been rereading Anna Karenina–loving it mostly. Some parts are a bit of an ideological slog as Tolstoy tries out some proto-socialist stuff. The complexity of characters and life though… simply breathtaking!
Here! Thank you for writing. <3
I read an easy mystery-type fiction called You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott while traveling for the holidays. It wasn't the greatest, but it wasn't bad. I enjoyed it. Now I'm taking a break before school starts back up next week and I'll be knee-deep (neck-deep?) in textbooks and journal articles.
I’m here! Just finished Find Me by Alafair Burke and ready to start another one of her thrillers.
I am a lurker… – found you via an If forum… stayed for the general chat. Thankyou so much for introducing me to the blog world and keeping on going – despite the dwindling. I like the routine of reading 5 blogs, doing the wordle, guess my word, quordle and nerdle before going to do the washing up of an evening. I bought “murder and croissants” as a christmas present for my OH… on the basis of your recommendation (plus the latest Andy Weir, Hail Mary since the Martian is one of my favourite reads…), and am now in the holding pattern of waiting for them to be read before reading them myself. MY christmas present was lots of Donna Andrews books – not sure if I heard about them from you or from the grumpy rumblings people – they are highly enjoyable fluff. I was hooked on Louise Penny for a while this year, following you talking about them – but then they just got too dark for me – despite my fondness for the main characters. I don’t have the impression you are a space-opera fan, but Becky Chambers books, and also about the first 10 Kris Longknife books by Mike Shepherd are family favourites… Am also entering peak self-help time-of-life so am reading “the disorganised mind” (the bookseller gave me a very “knowing” look when I bought that one) and jen gunter’s “the menopause manifesto” since forewarned is forearmed always…. Happy start to January.
I’m here… but I’m always here, right? 😉 Have been for 15+ years now. 🙂
Thanks for the reminder that this was Delurking Week. I had/have a lot going on recently and have been struggling with what, if anything to write about it all. Maybe I should just set that post aside (for now, at least) and invite people to de-lurk. 😉
As for books, I just finished my first of the year — another D.E. Stevenson novel — one I don’t remember reading before. It’s written in 1936 but set in the distant future year of 1973. In a real change of pace from her usual light romances, it’s a dystopian/apocalyptic sci-fi novel about a group of survivors at what appears to be the end of the world. I wouldn’t say it’s her best work, but it’s an interesting premise and provides some food for thought.
I’m here! I read regularly, and comment occasionally.
Book — I’m reading 2 on happiness right now that are not literally, but somewhat, at odds with each other. One is Stumbling on Happiness, which I’m actually listening to and the other … I cannot remember the name of right now! I’m enjoying both, the Stumbling one more than the other (the unnamed one is sort of a positive psychology one, which I find OK but it’s not fully my thing).
Lurker here. Very much appreciate that you’re still here, after all these years…
I’m here. Not as long as Loribeth, but it’s been over a decade now! I’m glad you’re still here writing. I used last year’s badge on my post this week – hope you don’t mind!
I’m reading Celeste Ng’s Everything I Didn’t Tell You at the moment (or rather, listening to the unabridged audiobook), and thoroughly enjoying it. And I’ve read half of the biography of Angela Merkel, The Chancellor (I heard an interview with the author), and it is fascinating. Recommend both these books.
Correction: Celeste Ng’s book is Everything I Never Told You.