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First Ten Books I Reviewed On the Blog!
I started my blog in 2007, but it was mostly focused on music that first year, so the first review on here is the only one from 2007. The other nine are my first reviews of 2008, at least on the blog. I believe I had other book reviews on our Myspace page (Ah, Myspace…)
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- Wake by Lisa McMann
- The Comeback Season by Jennifer E. Smith
- A Really Nice Prom Mess by Brian Sloan
- My Life: The Musical by Maryrose Wood
- Secrets of My Suburban Life by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
- My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel Without a Cure by Shawn Decker
- The Boy With Black Eyes by Brian Lucas
- Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch
- Becoming Chloe by Catherine Ryan Hyde
I’ve only been blogging sine 2014, but I did remember the first couple I reviewed! It’s so fun looking back and seeing what we used to review and what has hanged vs. what hasn’t.
I have totally been slacking on my YA reading lately here. I am right now reading a romance novel and hoping to get to one of Reese’s Book Club picks that I have had on my list after this one. But still going to have to check out your past recommendations above now and thanks as I can never have enough books on my list to indeed read 🙂
This is such a fun topic this week and I seriously would have to go back and check to see which books I reviewed. It’s been so many years LOL!
I’ve had my current blog for a couple of years but before that had others which I never reviewed books on (don’t know why).
Such a nice idea to do a post on previous reviews vs present.
So fun to look back on your first book reviews on the blog!
Oh wow NO idea what the first reviews I posted were. I’m coming up on my fifth year of blogging.
I love LGBTQ+ fiction, too. There’s so much more of it these days than there used to be!
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Wowza since 2007! That is a BIG accomplishment! Congrats 🙂 Now I am going to check these books out!
Wow 2007? That’s amazing. I’ve only been blogging since 2014, so five years & my first reviews were a weird and eclectic mix, a lot of YA dystopia which I don’t read much of anymore, honestly I’m not sure there’s much of it out there anymore.
Ah MySpace!! That takes me back for sure lol. Those are books I haven’t read actually. I have to check out the Jennifer E. Smith book though.
2007 is VERY impressive! How wonderful that you’ve been blogging for so long.
I never read Wake, but seeing it on your blog right now just hit me with a wave of nostalgia.
I’ts been 10 years for me this December. The difference is that I LOVED everything I read back then but pressure, burnout hit lol And being introduced to new authors and genres has changed how I read dramatically.
Karen @ For What It’s Worth
This is awesome! Such a fun way to look back! I remember the first book I blogged about was a murder mystery that took place in a mall, ha!
Whoa, you’ve been reviewing awhile now! I saw the book Wake and knew you had to have been at it for a bit now because I remember that being on shelves awhile back lol
I’m not familiar with any of these, but that’s a often a good thing. One of the great things about books is that there are so many out there, that anyone can find one to suit his/her tastes!
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I didn’t realize you’d been blogging since 2007-ish! How cool! And I never read YA contemps before I started blogging- I’m so glad I discovered them! 🙂
Wow, and I’ve actually not read any of these.
It’s always fun (and sometimes funny) to go back and look at what you were doing years ago, I do that too sometimes. Although sometimes I cringe at the outfits I posted, since that’s what I mostly shared about when I first started blogging.
Oh gosh, My Space! I thought they were supposed to have been reinventing that after someone bought it out, I think it might have been Justin Timberlake. My first review was back in 2013 and it was Across The Universe. I had to look it up as I had no idea. My reviews have changed a little since then, thanks to brilliant bloggers such as your lovely self Lauren who inspire creativity!
Okay, you have some intriguing titles on there! I was surprised at how little thriller and crime was in my early reviews — or maybe I shouldn’t have been? Tastes do change
What a great topic, it must have been such fun to go back to these early posts. I know I rarely if ever go back and visit mine but am feeling quite inspired to do so.
Congrats on reviewing for so long! I started reviewing at Long and Short Reviews in March of 2009. Here is my Top Ten Tuesday.
I love this topic! I wanted to try to do it yesterday, but just ran out of time, maybe I’ll do this on my own some time. I think Wake is the only one of your ten that I’ve read.
that’s an interesting way to see how your tastes changed or stayed the same through the years
Sadly, I haven’t read any of those. I need to go back and look at my first ten!
Hahaha @ Myspace! Those were the days! XD
Ahh you’ve been blogging for so long, that’s amazing. It’s so great to see how the kind of book you’ve reviewed have changed over time 🙂 I think I always reviewed YA contemporary, but now that I’ve been getting more and more into other genres, my reviews are hopefully a tiny little more diversified ahha 🙂
Lovely post! 🙂
I like how you added in a section with what’s the same and what’s changed. Fun to look back!!
I haven’t read any of these, haha! I do remember when Lisa McMann’s books were really popular. I was working in a book store at the time, and people would often come in requesting them. Has she written anything recently?
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Ah I don’t know any of these! At the time I wasn’t very much reading and even more so I had no idea what was being released.
I’m not sure when I wrote my first review, but I cringe to read them, lol! I did read Wake back in the day and loved it. I didn’t love the sequels. 🙂
I started writing some reviews on my personal blog, but eventually I had so many, and I wanted to have a more professional/dedicated/organized book review blog.
What a fun look back!!
That’s two years longer than me! I haven’t been following your blog all these years (but quite a few!) and I love how far you’ve come and it’s been so fun to follow through the years ❤️ Hope you are having a great weekend!
I also don’t read as much YA contemporary as I used to. That seems to be a genre I get burnt out with quickly.