Old English Rose Reads

A Spot of Housekeeping

The observant among you may have noticed that I’ve been shamefully neglecting the blog in recent weeks.  This is partially due to time being spent on more pressing needs (I have no idea how the Old English Thorn and I have accumulated so much stuff but, thanks to our loving parents, it is all now sitting in giant plastic boxes taking up space in our study and needs sorting through and [hopefully] disposing of), and partially due to the fact that my poor little laptop is dying.  I’ve had it for about eight years now, which is ancient in computer terms, and it can no longer cope with running anything which requires it to work at speed.  Such as the Internet, for example.

I highly doubt that I’ll catch up with all of this year’s reviews before we’re well into the next one, so I’ve decided I’m not going to worry about it.  The reviews will continue to trickle in and I will write them for everything I’ve read, but some may be more complete than others depending on how much of the book I can remember.  Thankfully I’m unlikely to have the same problem next year, as my greatly reduced post-wedding reading rate means I’m reading about half the books that I was before September and so it should be much easier to keep up.

As with all things, the further I fall behind, the less inclined I feel to write reviews and so instead I’ve been doing a bit of blog housekeeping in the fleeting moments when I can persuade my computer to do something online without timing out:

• I decided that the list of all the authors whose books I have reviewed in the right hand sidebar was getting too long and unwieldy, so I’ve cut it down so that it just shows my favourite authors.  It makes things much tidier and also gives a better overview of my literary tastes than the complete list.
• The giant alphabetical list may have gone from the sidebar, but it has migrated to a different location.  Instead it is now hidden under the ‘Author Review Index’ tab at the top of the blog, so it’s still easy to see at a glance which authors I have read and reviewed.
• Although I started Old English Rose Reads in August of 2010, prior to this I reviewed the books I read on GoodReads and LibraryThing.  I’ve now copied those reviews over to this site (somehow managing to fit them all in between the date of my first post and my first review on the blog so that they’re all still in chronological order) and they’re all tagged with Archive Review.

I have a few other blog-tidying projects in the works, but I’m going to be good and accomplish a few more reviews before I allow myself to be distracted by such things.  Or so I tell myself anyway.

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