Do You Have to Have Tons of Books to Be a REAL Bookworm?! | Discussion

Hey guys! I know it's been the longest time since I've done a discussion post, and I've seen things about this phrase all around the book community lately, so I thought I'd just put my own two cents out there.

DO YOU HAVE TO HAVE TONS OF BOOKS TO BE A REAL BOOKWORM?

And, obviously, the simple answer is: no.

You do not need to have shelves overflowing with books to "prove" you're an actual bookworm.

For example, as much as I love buying books, I'm going to college next year and am pretty short on money at the time (I only own 23 books). I use the library for the most part, and I'm sure lots of you do too.

So yeah, I love buying books and getting to keep them forever, but that can get really expensive really quickly.

Obviously, that being said if you want to buy five books a week, that is completely fine.

This also relates to the topic of giveaways. Many people do giveaways for reaching some kind of milestone, and they give away books (in the book community). These are great for those who can afford books to give away and the shipping costs, but because so many people are doing giveaways at this point it's almost become expected that people do them and I just think that that should not be a thing because lots of people can't afford them.

I wish there were ways to go more into this discussion but really it's more just rambling on about the same thing, though I do still think this is an important thing to talk about.

Let me know your thoughts on this in the comments. Thanks for reading! Bye!

How Often Should Book Bloggers Post? + My Own Schedule

Hello everyone! This is going to be a bit of a short post, but I just wanted to quickly discuss how often book bloggers should post, and my own schedule as well.

So, how often should book bloggers post?

And my answer for that would definitely be as often as you like. If you want to post twice every day, great. If you want to post five times a month, that's great too. As long as you're happy with your blog, post all you want.

My schedule

When I first started blogging, I posted, like, five times within three days. I realized that pretty soon I won't have enough time to do that, and I'll quickly run out of ideas. So, I try to post 2-3 times a week, but if I can't do that for whatever reason(s), it's not the end of the world. Plus, now I have all my posts planned out for the next two and a half months.

And that's it for now! Like I said, this is a pretty short post and I'll definitely be posting more this week, but I personally think this is kind of an interesting topic, so I hope you enjoyed this. Bye!

Discussion | Sex in YA

Hello everyone! I know that quite a few people have already done one of these, but I really just wanted to put my opinion on this out there: sex in YA.

And, for me personally, as a demisexual person, I don't think it's a bad thing to not have sex in a YA book, because I think it's important to acknowledge that sex exists and it's not a bad thing to have it. I just feel REALLY uncomfortable when I read it, especially when it's explicit.

Again, I think that especially in a book for young adults, it's important to bring it up, because newsflash, pretty much every YA book ever: SEX EXISTS.

So, as much as I really love when a YA book brings up sex/shows sex scenes, at the same time, I feel extremely uncomfortable reading it, because like I mentioned earlier, I am demisexual. So I'm really not quite sure where I stand on the "Sex in YA? Yes or no?" thing that seems to be all over the book community.

Well, for now I'm going to say that while I do it's super important to have sex or at least mention it in a YA book, I most likely won't end up reading that, because like I mentioned earlier I feel very uncomfortable when I read sex scenes.

And that's it for now! I hope you enjoyed this discussion, even though it's kind of weird to just have a random discussion for my first blog post, so maybe tomorrow I'll post something more casual. Bye!