I’m on fall break, which means midterms are over, I have the second half of this week off of school, and I’m in New York for a few days! Today I went to the New York Public Library and saw a really cool New Yorker exhibit they have up (pictures below), and walked around a ton with some friends, which was a lot of fun.
Anyways, it’s October 16th, which means it’s my last day of being 18, and time for my favorite pre-birthday tradition: looking at what all my favorite fictional characters were up to when they were my age. It’s crazy that I’ve been doing this for six years, and though a lot of the characters have stayed the same from list to list, I am starting to age out of the YA age-range, and I’m going to have to get a little more creative with character lists.
Well it’s getting late, and it’s almost the 17th, so without further ado, here’s what some of my favorite characters were doing when they were 18!
Hello, and happy Saturday! Today, Dini and I so excited to be announcing the March topics for Let’s Talk Bookish.
Let’s Talk Bookish is a bookish meme created by Rukky @ Eternity Books and cohosted by me and Dini @ Dinipandareads where each Friday, bloggers write posts discussing the topic of the week.
Hello, and happy Thursday! Today I have a big announcement: we have a new LTB host! Moving forward, Dini @ dinipandareads and I are going to be cohosting Let’s Talk Bookish, a bookish meme created by Rukky @ Eternity Books where each Friday, bloggers write posts discussing the topic of the week.
I discovered LTB pretty much right when I started blogging, and have hosted it for the last couple years. More recently though, I’ve struggled with giving LTB the time it deserves, with posting monthly topics on time and engaging with the community. I am so grateful to have Dini helping with running LTB, and I’m so excited to work with her to help LTB grow.
Happy New Year!!! I can’t believe that it’s already 2025, and I’m both excited and nervous for the new year. I know that 2025 is going to have a lot of changes, since I’ll be starting college and moving away from home. Those are changes that I’m excited for, however, and I know that whatever happens, I’ll be reading and writing a lot — especially since I’m most likely going to be an English major, and will definitely be continuing with blogging, journalism, and all sorts of writing in college! So, here are my reading, writing, and blogging goals for 2025!
This is my fifth year doing my bookish resolutions, just this time, they’re way later than usual. I’ve set reading, writing, and blogging goals every year since I started blogging, but I just kept putting off my 2024 resolutions. It’s the first day of December, and I figured I might as well do some resolutions for the last month of 2024, as we get closer to the new year. So, here are my bookish resolutions for the end of the year!
I am writing this on November 3rd, 2020. The United States election is today, although I won’t start to find out the results until this evening. You’re 18 now, at least you should be when you’re reading this. You’re a legal adult, a senior, and you can vote. So you’ve voted, right? Or you will.
How’s life going for you. I hope that you’re still blogging. You should be. And have you read any good books lately? The third book in The Gilded Wolves Trilogy must have come out by now, and you’ve probably read it.
And the Percy Jackson Disney plus TV show!! I’m so excited for it right now, although we probably won’t get to it for years. But at least one season should have come out, maybe even two. I hope that it was good.
And has Rick Riordan written any more books? There’s that one short story that’s supposed to come out next fall, fall of 2021.
But this letter wasn’t supposed to be about books. What’s the world like? And covid? What is going on with the pandemic? As I’m writing this, my school is completely online, over zoom and canvas.
I wonder who the presidential candidates are. I’m hoping that Kamala Harris runs in 2024.
But I’m really wondering what happens with the election, and after the election. And with the Supreme Court. Who are the justices?
Also, are you better with managing your time? And do you schedule blog posts? That’s something I’m not very good with right now.
I have to end this here, because I have to go, but first, one thing.
I really hope that Joe Biden is elected president of the United States. Although he’s definitely not my first choice, we cannot have another 4 years of Donald Trump. The election happening pretty much right now is not going to end nicely, or be run completely fair and square. But you know that, since all of what I don’t know happened years ago for you.
Maybe you won’t ever read this letter, but I hope that you do, and I hope that the world is in a better place when you’re reading this than it is right now, because right now, the world sucks, in so many ways, and we need to make things better.
Sincerely,
Your 14-year-old self
proof that this post was in fact written November 3rd, 2020
NOTE (from 18-year-old me):
I wrote and scheduled this post exactly 4 years ago, and today was the first day I read it since then. So much in my life has changed in the past 4 years, and a lot of it has been for the better – I’m a senior in high school, editor of my school newspaper, and just a few days ago, submitted my first college applications. Despite all these changes, I really do think that I’m the same person I was when I started blogging, and this letter has shown me that not much has changed. Maybe I’ll write another letter for November 2028!
It’s October 16th, which means it’s my last day of being 17! It also means that it’s time for one of my favorite annual posts, which I’ve been doing for the last five years.
I can’t believe that I’ve been doing these posts for so long, and it’s always so much fun to look at what some of my favorite fictional characters did when they were my age. There are a lot of 17-year-old characters that I’m excited to talk about for this year’s post, so here they are!
Read my posts from previous years: 13 | 14 | 15 | 16
It’s August 21st, which means that today, Book Nook Bits turns 5! I can’t believe that it’s been five whole years since I started this blog, and I can’t imagine what my life would be like without the book community.
I started this blog when I was 12, and I’ve learned so much since then. In the last five years, I’ve have been able to do so many amazing things through this blog. For this post, I thought I’d talk about some of my blogging highlights from the past few years, and what I’ve learned along the way!
It’s October 17th, and my 17th birthday! I’ve had an overwhelming last few weeks, and have barely had time to think about what this post was going to be, let alone write it.
When I started blogging, I remember seeing high school bloggers talk about how busy they were, and the struggles of balancing blogging and life. In 7th grade, that really wasn’t an issue for me, but it definitely is now. I’m sad that I’m not able to prioritize blogging like I used to, and I always want to write more posts, to be more active.
Even if I’m not able to do as much as I used to, I still love blogging, and am really excited for another year of it. For this post, I’m going to talk about some books I love, 17, to be specific!
It’s October 16th, which means it’s my last day of being 16 years old, and instead of reflecting on what I’ve done this past year, it’s the perfect time to look at the accomplishments of all my favorite characters from when they were my age.
This is my fourth year doing this post, and it’s always one of my favorites! This year especially there were so many characters to put in here–16 really is a popular age for YA protagonists! So, let’s see what some of my favorite fictional characters were doing when they were my age.
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