International Blog Delurking Week 2024
It may or may not be International Blog Delurking Week. The first full week of January (January 7 – 13, 2024) 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, still typing my website in like I’ve written anything on my blog in the past decade….and glad you’re still posting.
Here <3
Still here after all these years!
Here. 🙂 (I’m always here, lol — even when I’m not commenting.) And, like Susan, glad you are still here too! <3
The last good book I read: I read a couple of good ones over the holidays. Probably the most fun one was "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid. It's been on my TBR list for a while.
Hello! I’ve been reading your blog since my early IF days, years before my 13-year-old was born.
I enjoy your thoughtful commentary on the world and really love your monthly list of books you’ve read. I’m doing the Bruno series now because of you and tore through the Inspector Gamache series over the summer based on your and other recommendations. Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear is a cozy mystery series that reminds me a bit of those two but with a fabulous female detective. I’m also on a YA kick and enjoying the Shadow & Bone series by Leigh Bardugo + just read “The Cruel Prince” by Holly Black, which was a page turner (with the Folk/Faerie world vaguely reminiscent of that in Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett).
I’m here. Of course I am! And like the others, I’m glad you are here too.
I’m sitting here under my open skylight, with a glorious summery day outside, finishing my blog so I can go outside in the shade and read Circe, by Madeline Miller. I’ve just finished The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, by VE Shwab. A little bit fantasy (ok, maybe a lot) set in modern day NY and historical France, it was fabulous.
Hello!
I’ve been popping in a few times a year for the last decade, before which I was a more regular visitor. Its always a pleasure to have a browse and catch up on what is uppermost in your mind. Microblog Mondays are a fave.
I remain impressed with both your consistency in blogging and the valuable resource you continue to make available to the IF/TTC world.
Thank you.
Lisa. x
I’m here. I enjoy your writing. I live in CO with my husband, 10 year old son, and 8 year old fraternal twin daughters. I’m not sure how I stumbled across your blog, but it was likely referenced through other blogs I follow.
maybe the delurking doesn’t work so much cos the only people still lurking have lurked for SO long that it feels weird to suddenly delurk… – found here after an ectopic pregnancy via an IF forum, and stayed here ever since… I hope you keep on writing but I understand that the conversation is a bit one-sided now and maybe less fun. Just failed the wordle for the first time in years… – but thankyou for providing with my daily wind-down of games, and blogs after putting my hard-won child to sleep and prior to washing up…
Hello! Very new here (found through Nicole & Maggie), but enjoying the thoughtful posts so far.