Showing posts with label blogiversary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogiversary. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Celebrating 16 years of True Book Addict!!


Another year in the books!

What a worthwhile experience it has been...starting out blogging here and gradually branching out to running a full online reading community. My reading group on Goodreads, my horror blog, Castle Macabre (which will celebrate 14 years on August 16th), my readathon site, Seasons of Reading, and my reading community hub for the reading challenges I host, Gather Together and Read.

If you're new to my site, check down in the sidebar and you will see graphics linking to the moving parts of the reading community I mentioned above. (I've also linked them above.)

I have met some fantastic people and made lifelong friends through this blogging journey. I wouldn't change a thing!

To everyone who has been here since the beginning, and to those who came after, thank you for letting me share with you through the years. 💙💙💙


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Monday, August 5, 2024

15 years of True Book Addict!


15 years! I have been so lucky...starting out blogging here and gradually branching out to running a full online reading community. My reading group on Goodreads, my horror blog, Castle Macabre (celebrating 12 years on August 16th), my readathon site, Seasons of Reading, and my reading community hub for the reading challenges I host, Gather Together and Read.

If you're new to my site, check down in the sidebar and you will see graphics linking to the moving parts of the reading community I mentioned above. (I've also linked them above.)

To everyone who has been here since the beginning, and to those who came after, thank you for letting me share with you through the years. 💜


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Saturday, August 5, 2023

It's my 14 Year Blogiversary!!


14 years of writing about books...and cats! If someone would have told me back in 2009 that I would still be blogging, and basically running my own online reading community, I would not have believed it. What a blessing this blog, and community, has been for me. I hope to continue for many years to come, and I hope you will be with me. 

If you're new to my site, check down in the sidebar and you will see graphics linking to the moving parts of the reading community I mentioned above. 

To everyone who has been here since the beginning, and those who came after. thank you for letting me share with you. 


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Friday, August 5, 2022

13 Years of True Book Addict!


As of today, this blog has been active for 13 years! Wow! Though things have slowed down a bit around here, there have been 2074 posts of bookish, and cat loving, fun since its inception. The bookish community online is where I found my tribe. What I have built in the community since opening this blog 13 years ago has been so rewarding...a readathon community at Seasons of Reading hosting six (sometimes seven) readathons yearly, hosting reading challenges and read-alongs which have lead to a bookish community over at Gather Together and Read, a book group on Goodreads, True Book Talk, with weekly discussions on Slack, a year-round Christmas blog to celebrate my love of Christmas, and a horror blog, Castle Macabre, to embrace the wondrous thing that is horror in books and movies (CM will also be celebrating a blog anniversary, 11 years on August 16!). Oh, and social media groups/pages accompanying the places mentioned above.

I'm not sure what direction this blog is going, but I fully intend to stay active, and I hope to share more content on a regular basis again. Thank you to those of you who have stuck with me through the years. Book blogging truly changed my life and I will be forever grateful for that. 


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Thursday, August 5, 2021

Cat Thursday - Cats celebrating my blog birthday...12 years!


Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite lolcat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! Share the link to your post with your comment below.

That's right, folks! 12 years ago today, on August 5, 2009, I posted my very first blog post here on True Book Addict. I've slowed down a bit, and my life has changed a lot since then, but one thing that hasn't changed...my love for books AND cats. Here's to many more years!!! Thanks for being a reader of my little corner of the web. ❤❤❤








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Friday, August 17, 2018

The Actual 9 Year #Blogiversary of True Book Addict


Yes, I'm almost two weeks late AND I think part of that is because...I celebrated the wrong damn blogiversary last year. I started this blog on August 5, 2009. 2009 to 2017 is not nine years, it's eight! Oh dear.


Anyway, this is officially nine years of blogging here and though I've slowed down, I'm not tired of it. It's my own little corner of the web and it's here when I feel like sharing about books and cats and whatever else. I'm not going to have any fanfare this year. That can be next year when it will be 10 YEARS! Wow!

A big thank you to everyone who loyally reads my blog. I appreciate you so much. This blog has been instrumental in opening my world to so many like-minded people who I now consider the best of friends. What greater reward could there be?





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Saturday, August 5, 2017

Happy Nine Years, True Book Addict! #Blogiversary


Can you believe it? Nine years! Where has the time gone?

I found my tribe nine years ago and it has changed my life. A girl who already loved reading blew that love up into the stratosphere when she discovered book blogging and this wonderful bookish community. This blog started it all for me. I not only blog here, and at my sister (horror) blog, Castle Macabre, but I also host two book clubs on Goodreads, host six readathons yearly at Seasons of Reading, and I have a community reading site, Gather Together and Read, from which I host all of my reading challenges (and read-alongs of books from those challenges).


I know my blogging/reviews have slacked off a bit, but I'm still around and I'm trying to get back into more regular review writing. In the meantime, I'm participating in Roof Beam Reader's Austin in August, and I still host Cat Thursday every week.

I'd like to thank everyone who follows me and takes the time to read what I post. As many of you know, blogging is a labor of love. We don't get paid. A person must have a real passion for it to keep at it year after year. I have no intention of stopping. I love it. I love all the friends I've made, all the great authors I've met, and all of the wonderful books I've discovered.


So, in recognition of nine wondrous years, and to thank you for your friendship and loyalty, I'm hosting a little giveaway. I'm giving away a $10 gift certificate (egift) from Better World Books to one lucky winner. All you have to do is leave me a comment telling me a book you've read recently that you would recommend. Don't forget to leave your email address so I can contact the winner. (Anyone who does not leave an email address will not be entered. If you're afraid of a bot stealing it, enter it like so: truebookaddict AT gmail DOT com) This giveaway will end on September 1st at 12 midnight central time.

Good luck...and thanks again for being here!



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