One Hundredth Post

My first post on this reanimated blog was on August 12, 2024 ~ an impulsive act due to my desire to write about a movie. On my old WordPress blog, I would post a hundred times a month, filling the space with all kinds of pointless crap. Well, there’s still plenty of pointless crap here too, just at a much slower pace. And now I’ve hit the 100 post milestone, woohoo.

I thought at first that I would write lots of in-depth reviews, but it turns out that’s boring, so I mostly just write a few lines about what I’ve read/ watched, and that’s enough. I don’t do prompts or post pics or links to songs, nor do I say much about politics. All that is a giant drag, but it fills most of social media, as opposed to any original thought. I try to form my own opinions, not that I feel compelled to shout them all in public. 

I have a confession: when I shared the link to my Kitty vs Man post and a bunch of Facebook friends showed up to read/ react/ comment, that felt pretty pretty pretty good. Sometimes I miss that type of feedback, so the next time I write a funny (not book reviews, since most of my friends don’t read fiction for pleasure, which is something I will never understand), I will share it on FB. Don’t hold your breath ~ it could be another year before I am clever again.

Speaking of books, yesterday I almost abandoned the 2025 Reading Challenge because every book I started for the “recommended on Facebook” category was a DNF. The heck with this, I thought, imma read what I want instead and get through these huge TBR piles. But then… epiphany! There’s nothing sacred about the challenge; it’s just a bunch of random ideas jumbled together. So why can’t I simply change their categories into my own based on the books I wanna read when I can’t fit something into theirs? No reason whatsoever.

For my first self-created challenge category of “woman falls in love with her rapist,” I read The Demon Lover by Victoria Holt and gave it two stars. Usually, I rate her books higher, but this one was so annoying. This wasn’t my first encounter with the WFILWHR trope from Ms. Holt, but it was especially galling here given that the “heroine” was supposed to be highly intelligent and independent. I barely even consider Demon Lover to be a romance novel, bleh. 

The second SCCC is “MC falls in love with the boy next door.” The India Fan by Victoria Holt inspired this challenge category, and I enjoyed the novel very much. It was truly romantic (as well as historical fiction), and the novel contained exciting adventures/ travel along with local color and interesting side characters. Yay!

Onto the next hundred…