I'm Still Here!

Dear blog,

So. It's been a while. A very long while.   I've been missing blogging and the blogosphere a lot, and now my January exams are well out of the way, this would be as good a time as any to start reviewing again.  I miss the days when I would actually post frequent reviews, when there was more than just the sound of virtual tumbleweeds rolling by. Alas.
Since I've started college I've been way busier than I thought I would be, so although I've still been reading (albeit considerably less), I just haven't had time to sit down and write proper reviews. Which is a shame, because I have been reading some seriously awesome books recently.
However, enough of my excuses.  I guess as well as that, I had inevitably reached the dreaded blogging slump, and sort of felt like with every book I was reviewing I was just repeating myself over and over again. I've sort of felt like if I wasn't going to be reviewing with as much as enthusiasm as normal, maybe I shouldn't feel so pressurised to do so until I felt more motivated again and could come back to things with a more refreshed perspective.  However, having been on something of a hiatus, hopefully I shall have more interesting things to say.  

So. Thank you, followers, for putting up with me...or, rather, a lack of me.  We'll see.  Hopefully, if nothing else, I shall try to start posting some more reviews again over the next couple of weeks.  It resumes. 

Armchair BEA: So Who Am I, Anyway?

Dear blog,*

So, like last year, for all the bloggers who can't make it to New York City for the Book Expo America and the Book Blogger Convention, Armchair BEA exists. Alas live in England, I'm entirely poor and am legally a minor, which means my chances of going to New York in the near future are as big as, uh, something very small. 

Still, that doesn't mean I can't join in the fun to be had in cyberspace. 

 The question/post theme for today is "Who are you and how do you Armchair?"   So I guess I'll tell you a bit about myself, but be warned: I find talking about myself entirely awkward.

My name's Tesni.  I live in south-west England, where I spend my days driving tractors, shouting at trespassers and talking like Samwise Gamgee. 

If that isn't a good enough explanation, if perhaps you find it too stereotyped or suspect it's possibly not true, here are ten facts about me:

1. As you might expect, I read a lot. Young Adult fiction is mostly my thing, as long as there are no vampires/werewolves/angels or anything.  But at the moment I read a lot of literary fiction, and books by people like Irène Némirovsky, Anaïs Nin, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Ayn Rand etc.
2. I play the classical guitar and double bass.  And sing.
3. I'm also a laughable attempt at a pianist.

4. I'm trying to finish a novel at the moment.  Described by someone on Inkpop as "Bookception.", id est, a story within a story O.o 

5. Я изучаю русский и также немецкий.

6. I like photography.
7. I'm so bad at maths it's not even funny.
8. I love watching films, even though I haven't seen one in English for a couple of months. Most of the films I watch are subtitled, black and white or best of all both.
9. I will love you forever if you can name all five of the Moguchaya Kuchka.
10. I have run out of interesting things to say about myself.

As for How Do You Armchair,  I'll mostly be spending Armchair BEA sat on a hard dining-table chair at a desk, alas, unless I can access wi-fi,  at which point I shall be hiding in my evil cave  bedroom. And as I blog I'll be listening to everything from Edward Elgar to Seabear to Hoven Droven.
  Let the fun begin.

*note for Armchair BEA newcomers to the blog: Yeah, I always start posts like this.  It's something I first started doing on my first ever blog a few years ago, and it's kind of stuck ever since. 

The Book Blog Begins

Well then. A book blog. Here goes.
Books and the Universe.
I thought before I launched into writing endlessly about my passion (books, obvs.), I better introduce myself. So hi *waves*. I will be your book reviewer for this blog. I hope we get on very well.
Heh.
Um...
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Well then, now that insanity and awkwardness of the first few sentences is over, I can start writing endlessly about my passion. Books!
Let the fun begin.