Hello all. Long time no see. It’s been nearly two months since I posted anything here, for which I apologize. There were a few reasons for this, some obvious, some not so much.

The last couple months have been difficult on a global scale, for pretty much everyone. On top of the continued stress and anxiety and weirdness of the COVID-19 situation and quarantine, those of us in the U.S. (and to a smaller degree, in other countries) have been dealing with the powerful resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, in response to continued and escalating police violence against the black community. This has obviously been a particularly difficult time for the black community, but it has also been difficult for those of us who consider ourselves allies. (I have been very vocal and active on this matter in other places – Facebook, Twitter, petitions, donation campaigns, etc. but I’m not planning on getting into here for the very simple reason that pretty much no one reads this blog anyway.)

On top of all of that, I have also been dealing with my own particular issues: financial instability, severe depression, and a family death.

I have been considering simply discontinuing this blog. Despite starting it in January, and posting very consistently in February, March, and April , it has seen almost no growth in views or reader interaction. And that’s fine. I knew when I started this that the big “moment” for blogs had mostly died down, and that I didn’t have any particular hook or unique angle to pull in a readership. It was an experiment, to see if I could get back into it the way I did with my old blog from 2011-2014 (Ironically, on my old blog which has not been updated since 2014, I still get an average of 100 views per day! Here, not so much). And I find it is an experiment that has mostly failed. No one seems particularly interested in what I have to say, and while I am content to mainly write for myself, there are other things I could/should be devoting my time to if I’m just going to end up talking to myself on here.

But that is a decision I am still on the fence about. And in the meantime, I have a few more book reviews and such that I am working on that I might as well share here, just in case a small handful of people are actually interested. To that end, some time over the next week or so you should expect to see:

1) not a review, exactly, but more of a rant about how much I love Artemis Fowl – possibly with my opinions on the movie which was released on Disney+ today (I’m still trying to decide if I’m masochistic enough to watch it)

2) A book review of Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott, an ARC I have from work, due for release in July

3) A book review of Queens of Animation by Nathalia Holt

After that, we’ll see how I feel…