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It really was the perfect timing for those books, but the most important thing for me is that I heard about them from multiple, diverse sources, i.e. although I am pretty sure The Book Smugglers pinged me about them, it was my Dreamwidth reading list mentioning them multiple times, then tumblr folks churning about them that made me go "oh!" THANK YOU FANDOM. ♥ Sometimes I wish the book blogging community could agree to reviewing a book from the backlist of their favorite authors once every quarter so I could find totally new to me authors to make up for my terrible learning in SF before 2000.

I don't know what you mean, my TBR isn't out of control or anything. This wouldn't be a horrible idea at all! >.>

It may have changed since I was a YA book blogger, but back then you were maybe considered more cost effective, especially if you didn't have a huge following, if you covered mostly new releases. Your newspaper experience sounds so nice! This is the type of book discussion I love the best, where people really have a chance to dig into what something meant to them, but it's often harder to find these days when so much of the discussion of books seems focused on the Hot New Thing, and those Hot New Things are so Numerously Hot that really digging in is hard to do, because the conversation will feel like its moved on while you're still blowing on the thing to cool it off. And I LIKE Hot New Things, but I ALSO really like nostalgia. It's a hard balance, and this metaphor is...it's gone too far.

The problem with rereads for me is that most things are never rereads for me personally because I didn't have access to most genre fiction, even if the works are considered influential. So it ends up feeling like a club that I'm not a part of. Ahhh, feeling left out. /o\