My husband read me an excerpt from the article and said (in jest?), “you should blog about that.”
Me: “I don’t write about movies”
J: “Why not?”
Me: “I write about books, authors … quirky little things about language.”
J: “But you wrote about book group names, and running a triathlon with women from your book group. It seems a slippery slope to blogging about movies you watch with your book group, then restaurants you eat at together!”
Me: “Well, I have to draw the line somewhere!”
But where to draw it? I’ve been thinking about this over the past couple days. My intent in creating SheIsTooFondOfBooks was as an offshoot of the cataloguing and reviewing I do on LibraryThing. Sometimes I have a comment about a book that doesn’t constitute a review, and sometimes there are other (random?) book-related thoughts that I want to share. This blog seems a good way to contain those thoughts, and it’s interesting to see what feedback and conversations develop.
Back to that line … I’ve decided that, yes, book reviews, and comments about authors and book-related musings are obviously going to have a prominent place here. Will there be asides about books that have inspired me in my life, and connections I’ve made because of them? Will that “slippery slope” lead to a review of a movie based on a book I’ve read? Is it crossing the line to discuss the Indian restaurant I visited after reading The Space Between Us? Do all these questions sound at all like something Carrie Bradshaw would wonder? Where do you draw the line?
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I’ve told myself that my blog is going to be all books, all the time. So I haven’t put up the movie reviews I’ve written on Amazon. Personally I think I’ll only comment on movies if they are related to the book review I’m writing.. ex a review for “Lord of the Rings” will mention the movie of the same name…. of course my blog is new and only time will tell! I’ve also just added you to my LibraryThing Bloggers page, so drop by to make sure your name and link are correct
I had the same thoughts on the movie/book connection … but I realize I’ll encounter the chicken/egg paradox, since I (generally) would see a movie *after* reading the book on which it’s based. It will be interesting to see which paths we take as these blogs grow!
Thanks for linking me in; I’ve got you on my LT page as well.