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Give ‘Em Some Credit

March 8, 2019 by eLPy

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Part of blogging is being a part of the blogging community. You browse, you read, you like, you comment, at least you should. Whether you’re a book blogger or other sort, this is just part of what you do.

It’s come to my attention however that many of us bloggers and/or blog readers aren’t so good at this. Morgana’s post Book Bloggers Made Me Buy It got me thinking about this. Too often people visit blogs and read them but never “like” let alone comment. Maybe you’ve done this (certainly I have) without meaning to. I’m not always in a position to comment and sometimes it’s late and I fall asleep before remembering to like. Or maybe you’ve done it on purpose because you didn’t like what you read. Such instances as the latter don’t count for what I’m talking about here, I’m referring to – and fellow bloggers are also – the posts you DO like. And I’m not so much telling you what to do if you do or don’t like a post, consider this a “consider this” moment.

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Sometimes it’s intimidating to comment. Maybe you feel silly because you don’t know what to say. Whatever your reason, consider that that blogger will probably smile just to know you liked what they read. We want to interact with people. We want to know what you think. Even if you just hit “like” and then tell me you liked it (redundant you think), that means a lot. In addition to showing other readers our blog has other readers (:D) your comment might give others the courage or the little extra push to leave a comment themselves.

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While hop-skipping around the world of book bloggers on WordPress I found Morgana’s Book Box, as noted at the top of this post. In addition to that one (that really got me on this topic) I also took interest in a relevant and related post The Art of Surviving As A Book Blogger, I think you will also find it interesting. Props Morgana for bringing this topic to the forefront.

Now just what these bloggers think about my long comments – hopefully they don’t cringe 😉 – we’ll see. But I shared with them that I plan to recognize the people, blogs, podcasts, booktubers that I follow and have found books through, among other things. Since you might know I’ve been talking about this it only makes sense I’d get all excited talking about it with other folks. In fact I’ve already started. When I added another book – Angelfall – to my 2019 TBR, one I found in January but thanks to Morgana’s review I pushed it up, I linked back to her review saying as much as I am here. 😀 Scroll down my TBR to find the link to her review.

What do you think? Do you want to comment more now? Did this get you thinking about your comments or lack thereof? Are you a blogger and do you give ’em some credit? Will you now?

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  1. P Laurence says:
    March 17, 2019 at 2:45 pm

    Good call on the bloggers and those of us who aren’t and leaving comments.

    I’m not a big reader, and def not a blogger but am interested in reading people’s thoughts on certain subjects, books in this case.

    Almost all of these books I’ve not read but for some reason it is still interesting to read others peoples thoughts about other people’s thoughts, in this case books, that are written captures of other people’s thoughts.

    Thank you for the opportunity to go somewhere I wouldn’t otherwise‼️

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    1. eLPy says:
      March 21, 2019 at 2:30 pm

      Goes to show the power of putting one’s imagination and creativity to work! Thank you for your comments.

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