Two words for you this evening.
Tsundoku. Japanese. All those books you have bought but haven’t read.
I don’t know if I feel better knowing there is a word for my problem or not. At least it is a thing I am pretty sure we can all share. As long as it never makes an appearance in the DSM, I think we’ll be ok.
Blogiversary. Webish. The anniversay of one’s first blog post.
Today happens to be mine. If my calendar had not popped up a reminder I would have completely forgotten! It’s lucky thirteen folks. Can you believe it? I am having a hard time wrapping my brain around it and I am the one who has been writing blog posts for THIRTEEN YEARS!
My blog is a teenager! What does a blog going through puberty look like? Will it get moody? Will it start sleeping a lot? Will it run around making bad decisions and doing stupid things? Maybe its voice will change? Or there will be some interesting curves where there were none before.
I guess I will have to wait and see.
Thank you all for hanging around, talking books and chickens and gardening and cycling. Thanks for your kindness and encouragement. Thanks for sharing stories and expanding my world and understanding. You are wonderful people and have made these thirteen years of blogging pretty darn amazaing.
Congrats!! 🙂 Love your blog!!
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Thanks baog3!
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Congratulations on thirteen years. That has to put you among the “oldest” book bloggers in the world, I suspect. You were a pioneer, and we who came after you, salute you. 🙂
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Sam, thanks! I do feel rather old in internet years 🙂 There are a few book blogs that started up before I did that are still around but the pool is getting smaller. A few more years I might be the senior! 😀
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Wow, happy blogiversary! Yours is the oldest blog I know of, certainly the oldest one I read regularly!
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Thanks Jeanne! The time has certainly sped by, that’s for sure.
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Happy Blogiversary, Stefanie! Your blog is one of the reasons I started a book blog of my own. So thanks for that! Also, I love that there is a word for my book buying habit. 🙂
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Thanks Laila! Gosh, really? I am so flattered! I am glad you decided to blog because your voice has been a nice addition to the conversation.
Tsundoku is a great word isn’t it? Now the trouble of remembering it! 🙂
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Congratulations! That is a great achievement. Meanwhile I just got back from the bookshop with 4 new books to add to the 3 I got on the weekend and all the rest. I need to remember that word for that.
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Continue to blog so entertainingly! A teenage blog….reminds me of those early days of Blog Around the Clock!
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Thanks Ian! Heh, teenagers are so unpredictable 🙂
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Kathryn, thanks! I can’t believe how the time has gone by so fast. Ha! As long as you read those books you won’t have to worry about tsundoku, but if you are anything like me, at least one or two of those books will still be unread five years from now! 🙂
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I think some will remain unread. Unless I stop buying.
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Happy blogiversary!! Let’s hope that your teenaged blog will not have pimples 😉
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Smithereens, thanks! Let’s hope there are no pimples! 🙂
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Happy blogiversary! Glad you’re still reading and blogging. And I really like both those words.
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Thanks Jeane! Isn’t tsundolu great? I have to keep saying it over and over so i don’t forget it 🙂
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Wow! Congratulations! I feel like I must have missed a lot by only discovering you a couple of years ago. Best wishes and thanks for sharing your life with us.
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Joan, thanks! Nah, you didn’t miss anything. It only got interesting about the time you started reading 🙂
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Happy 13, Stefanie!
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Thanks Jenclair!
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Wow, thirteen years! Congratulations!
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Thanks AMB! It’s kind of crazy to think about all those years!
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It’s really impressive! 13 “blog years” is probably way beyond puberty!
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Let’s get the party started – congratulations on your 13 years! Love visiting with you and look forward to many more years!
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Thanks Iliana! Your blog will soon be a teenager too I believe! It’s so weird to think about all those years. But I am glad you have been around for so many of them 🙂
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Congratulations! I started in 2003 as well, but I changed my URL in 2010, so that doesn’t really count with as much umph. Heheh You should treat yourself to something. And I love love love that term. And echo your relief that it’s not yet made an appearance in some diagnostician’s reference manual.
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Buried, thanks! I think your url change doesn’t disqualify your achievement at all! My treat is buying a new bike two weeks ago and getting a new tattoo this weekend. that should hold me over on treats for quite some time!
Tsundoku is an excellent word 🙂
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But shouldn’t it be one treat/year? 😛
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Thirteen years, that’s amazing! Happy happy blogiversary, lovely friend — I am glad you are part of the blogosphere. ❤
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Aww Jenny, thanks!
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Tsundoku! Yes, I’ve seen that word pop up a few times on Facebook etc but I try to close my eyes! My daughter did one of those 10 second instagram videos of my tsundoku piles, shelves and bookcases – yes, I have them all – and it was embarrassing. the good thing is that those 10 second videos have a short shelf life! I have started “lending” my sister-in-law books from these piles and telling her not to return them! I reckon the ones I give her I’ll never read anyhow – well written stories but not necessarily high priority for me anymore. I feel very virtuous. The last one I gave her she LOVED. I can’t even remember its title, so a good decision I think.
Oh, and yes, I think you will need think about writing some coming-of-age posts for your blog, but we’ll leave you to figure that out as you gradually come-of-age!! Congratulations! A wonderful achievement. I look forward to your adulthood. Will that be 18 or 21 in your neck of the woods?
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whisperinggums, I have never heard the word before but it is most excellent and most appropriate. I would have loved to see that instagram video! Moving your tsundoku to your sister-in-law’s, virtuous or devious? 😉
And thank you! At 16 the blog will be able to drive. Adulthood here is considered to be 18 and drinking age is 21. Lots of milestones ahead 🙂
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Well I don’t think you’re an adult until you can drink so you have a way to go before you’re a full adult!
Seriously, though, while I don’t necessarily think it’s bad to delay the drinking age, philosophically it seems weird to us on this side of the world to call someone an adult, expect them to go to war even, but say they have no right to drink.
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It is weird, I agree. But in the US we have always been freaked out about alcohol more than we have about guns and killing people which is really messed up.
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We probably all have our blind spots – much easier to see those of others than our own so please feel free anytime to point out things you see here!
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Congrats! How exciting–a baker’s dozen of blogging years. And I guess I need to learn and let it become a part of my vocab since Tsundoku is rather a problem in my life, too!
tsundoku, tsundoku, tsundoku……. 😉 I wonder what the cure is and if there is a word for that, too??
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Danielle, thank you! Oh baker’s dozen you just made me want some pastries 🙂
I have a big tsundoku problem though I have not been adding to it as much these last several years it still manages to grow somehow!
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Happy (belated) blogiversary!
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Thanks Carolyn!
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Congratulations! One of the first and one of the best. 🙂
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Aww shucks Helen, thanks!
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Congratulations! Thanks for consistently good stuff.
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Thanks Grad!
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