When I started this blog, I had told myself that I’ll only keep the blog if I manage to keep myself consistent. For the first few months, I did just that: kept myself consistent and managed to churn out a number of reviews. But being a book blogger is a lot easier when you don’t have work draining you.
At the end of 2021, I wrote a post basically attempting to explain myself and my plans. 2022 started great, but writing is hard and so is reading, apparently. In 2022, I only managed to read 30 books – still a lot, but considering the fact that in previous years, I read 50+? Yeah, it was a change. I found it challenging to pick up books, let alone write reviews for them.
In 2023, I was able to read 51 books. Even had a few reviews drafted. But writing is hard. No matter what I did? I found myself doing something else. Blogging was the last thing on my mind.
But writing is a lot like being a cat. Sometimes, it wants nothing to do with you. Other times, it was all your attention.
I’m sitting here typing on my NEO2 and quite frankly? This is the most I’ve written for this blog in ages.
But what does this mean?
For those who may not be aware, blogging costs money. To keep this domain? I pay real dollars. I’ve come to a crossroad where yes, I can afford this. But I ask myself, why when I can save the money? Yet, it’s hard to let this place go.
I can obviously do what others have done and switch to alternative platforms. Saving the reviews is easy: they’ll go on Goodreads and StoryGraph with the raw versions saved on Google Drive. Most people seem to be olusing TikTok and Instagram for their book recommendations, anyway.
Yet, I can’t seem to bring myself to shut down Moon & Coffee.
So I won’t.
Moon & Coffee will remain up. Reviews will go up, albeit slow, but they’ll go up. I’ll keep the review requests closed until further notice. One day, I’ll reopen them. But for now, I’ll focus on talking about the books and series I enjoyed.
I’ll probably start with something most recent because I don’t think it’s fair for me to review something I read back in 2022-2023. But we’ll see where the writing muse takes us, right?
