Yesterday, this blog turned 19. I thought its birthday was today, but I was wrong. Wow. 19 years is obviously a long time, but my mind is still boggled at the thought of all that has happened since I started this blog during a long ago Christmas holiday. The blog has been very quiet in recent years. At the beginning of 2025, I thought I would post more often. I got inspired, but then my two attempts at posting about books I’ve read didn’t work for me. Writing publicly feels so vulnerable these days. I might be hiding in plain sight because I don’t exactly have a million followers, but I don’t dare publish too many personal thoughts because that can get the wrong kind of followers, and I don’t want to deal with that. One thing I have enjoyed over on Mastodon is the posting of photos from nature.…
Leave a CommentMardahl.dk Posts
My last blog post did not have a correct title. I wrote “what I am reading”, but it was really a list of the books I had finished reading by the time of writing the blog post. Right now I am reading some really interesting books, but they must wait until next time. Now I want to share what I have read. Books have been “my friends” as long as I can remember. I love to read. My imagination can always run free in books, or I can escape into books for a breather from the real world. I also enjoy reading to learn and expand my horizons, but if my world feels too crazy or stressful, I admit that will choose escape over learning. That is fine because if reading refreshes and relaxes me mentally, then I can better cope with whatever is bugging me in the world. Some…
Comments closedI do love reading, and I decided to post about the books or articles I read here as a symbolic way to claim my own data. I was inspired to do this by Molly White in some article or podcast. I know. I am using WordPress on the site where I host my blog, but it is the best I can do for now. Anyway. The books. I now use the StoryGraph for logging all the books I read. A part of me needs and thrives on such lists. I was on Goodreads for many years, but I never used the community all that much. I was there to keep track of my books. Period. I did make some friends, but many are friends I know IRL. A friend on the other side of the globe suggested I move to StoryGraph to get away from one particular billionaire, plus I…
Comments closed