Thanks Suko, you’re always aa0sweet comadmenter Yes, Ia0do think that many book blogadgers have aa0talent for readading fast while still manadagading to aborsb aa0lot from what they read. I’m just hoping that it’s also aa0skill that can be develadoped because it’d sure save me aa0lot of time for other things if Ia0could learn to read as fast as others do @Book Bird Dog: Thanks for postading your comadments here Harvee! Isn’t that what’s nice about the blogadging comadmuadnity? You can be aa0jouradnaladist if you wanted to do, just by startading your own blog and watchading for it to grow In my case Ia0get to be aa0self-appointed reviewer, as if I’m workading for my own magadaadzine. And it’s really fun, isn’t it? If you think about how long your blog’s been runadning and how many people have been getadting truthadful inforadmaadtion from it, you’re already aa0real jouradnaladist by your own right Harvee @Bellezza: First of all, I’d like to conadgrataduadlate and thank you for again thinkading of aa0very interadestading topic for disadcusadsion. You really seem to have aa0knack for it Bellezza Ia0ceradtainly don’t think you’re being duplicadiadtous, because as we’ve all agreed over in your own blog post, the disadcusadsion isn’t exactly against the hostading of giveadaways or receivading free books from pubadlishaders. And as others like Harry Markov have also pointed out, page rankading in itself isn’t necadesadsaradily diaadboladiadcal. There can be quite good reaadsons behind it. As long as we’re being honest and true both to ouradselves and to our readaders, then it’s all good. And nothading makes me doubt that you always staya0true @Emily: You’re very weladcome Emily, and thank you for your kinds words as well As someadone who usuadally has aa0storm of thoughts going through his head in chaos, Ia0can really appreadciadate the beauty of someadthing made peradfectly simple and orderly. Yes, that’s aa0really nice way of putting it, the Interadnet is big enough for each of us to be our own kind of blogadger. If we think about it, even if some people really are writading posts or giving free stuff only to gain popaduadlaradity or recogadniadtion, then there still isn’t anyadthing paradticaduadlarly bad about it, right? It’d just mean that that’s the puradpose of their blog (someadthing more social in nature), and if their comadfortadable with it then it can’t be so bad that our own blogs have aa0difadferadent puradpose (which would essenadtially be more peradsonal in nature).It’s just great that Bellezza takes the time to reflect on what she’s doing with her blog and what she’s accomadplishading with it. It’s imporadtant, Ia0think, that we conadtinue to do someadthing because we actuadally love it and it nouradishes our inner selves as much as it enteradtains others.In my case, Ia0do love books and I’ve always conadsidadered writading reviews to be aa0fuladfillading task. My blog has two main puradposes. One is to make someadthing out of my readadings, to write someadthing about them that Ia0can always look back to, so that Ia0wouldn’t feel that my time spent in readading simply passed away withadout bearading aa0visadiadble fruit of its own. Second is to develop and fine-tune aa0skill for writading. Ia0like to think that someadtime in the future when Ia0finally get tired of my day job, I’ll have enough skill, knowladedge, and expeadriadence in writading and in litaderadaadture such that Ia0may find it posadsiadble to start an enjoyadable career out of it. Ia0like to dream that someadday maybe it wouldn’t be so far fetched for me to be an editor, aa0magadaadzine conadtribaduadtor, or who knows maybe even an actual author