Sunday Salon: In which we celebrate Blogiversary the Second!

Happy Sunday, everyone! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, and that Santa brought everyone some fantastic books! (Or, if you don’t celebrate Christmas, I hope you had a nice day off in which to do nothing but curl up with a good book.)

My Christmas has thus far been lovely, if somewhat lighter on the books than normal. I got some new fantasy books from my LibraryThing Secret Santa, and two very intriguing-looking recent books from a friend… and that’s it for adding to the TBR pile. I did get a knitting pattern book and a cocktail cookbook from my parents, who seem bound and determined not to give me anything more to actually read… which I guess is fair, since a) they had to help carry Mt. TBR the last time I moved, and b) I still have one of the books they got me for Christmas *last* year in my suitcase, still unread. That’s what I’ve decided this January’s going to be for… plowing through the Books of Christmas Past (and Present).

January will also be the start of my third year as a book blogger! The fact that this is my second blogiversary is so bizarre; on the one hand, I feel like I’ve been doing this forever (maybe because while Fyrefly’s Book Blog is only two years old, I’ve been reviewing books online for twice that long?); on the other hand, the time has totally flown by. I mean, two years? That can’t possibly be right.

(Technically, it’s not. I created this blog on 29 December 2007, so I’m celebrating two days early. Oh well. :)

I started this blog because – no lie – I didn’t like the fact that my reviews on LibraryThing didn’t have the book covers and my start/finish dates associated with them. Since that time, I’ve put up over 500 posts, including over 350 book reviews. But the truth of the matter is, all those posts pale in comparison to the best thing about this blog, the thing that I never expected when I started… and that’s you, readers! Thank you all for reading, and commenting, and indulging my rambling, and letting me share my love of books with you. Cupcakes for all!