I love this post, and congratz on 15 years! I hope to make it one day :)

Wow! 15 years! That's incredible. Congratulations. I enjoyed your reflections very much too

Happy Blogiversary, Susan! 15 years is amazing. (I'm only coming up on nine this year.) I agree with you that book blogging people are the best. It's been so fun chatting books with you these past few years. Here's hoping you blog for many years to come. :D

Congratulations on 15 years of blogging! I started in 2009 so am a few years behind you. I love your list of 10 things you've learned and agree with all of it.

Congratulations on 15 years of blogging! Such a huge achievement and a testament to your love of books.

Congratulations on 15 years! That is amazing! Seriously, I have been blogging nearly 10 years, and it seems harder every year, but I love still love blogging. (Of course I am a good bit older than you.)

I liked all your points but especially 4 and 5. I am glad to hear that someone else neglects cleanliness of their home for the fun of blogging. Of course I never was neat at all. And you have to do what you want in your blog, otherwise it won't be fun or fulfilling, and then what's the point?

I have learned many things from blogging but especially that I cannot read every book I get interested at the blogs I read, and that it is absolutely wonderful to be able to communicate with other people who love reading and books as much as I do (no matter what kinds of books). And I have expanded the kinds of books I read because of reading book blogs.

Congratulations on your anniversary. I finally did the survey. I wrote no but I did do it now
Marilyn.

Happy blogoversary! I filled in the survey. Sorry I cursed but I'm in my feels. You rock!

I love this post and all your thoughts about blogging! Thanks for sharing! Congrats on 15 years! You're my hero! (I just celebrated 4) I love your honest reviews and I'm sorry you've received some unkind mail. I've received a couple of unkind Goodreads comments.

I have been blogging almost 6 years (in September). I agree with your comments, although I have never received hate mail. I tend to be gentle in my reviews and if I really disliked a book, I don't review unless there was something wrong with the book rather than just my personal opinion.

Happy Blogiversary Susan!

Happy Blogiversary! 15 years is impressive. I agree that book bloggers are the absolute best people!

I had already filled in the survey when you first posted it. Now, I also filled in the rest. I've been following you almost everywhere so far. LOL

Now onto the next 15 years!

ooooe Wow! 15 years! Happy blogiversary to you!! You are such an inspiration to the rather newbies on the blogosphere (like me! Only a year of blogging).

Here's to many more great reads and tips and advice to all of us!

Elza Reads

Congratulations!! As I read this post, I thought, "What a great idea! I'm going to celebrate my 15th blogging anniversary, which should be coming up soon. Then I checked and saw that I published my first review in February 2006! Ooops, missed it :)

This is my first visit to your blog, but it looks great! Congrats on 15 fun years!

Sue

Book By Book

I’m not sure how long I have followed you but have always enjoyed your reviews. Some of the books you read I would never read but I have found some real jewels through your blog. Thank you !

Congrats, Susan, on 15 years! Can't believe it has been that long. Not sure I started following that far back, but I've been blogging off and on for almost that long. In any case, I'm so delighted that we've gotten to know each other through blogging. One day we'll meet face to face I hope!

I wish I could better remember how I first discovered your blog. But I really enjoy it and it is the only book blog I still follow after making my feed a lot smaller. Congrats on 15!

Congratulations on 15 years! What an anniversary!! I nodded through your list, BTW, especially about not reading for pleasure anymore. I genuinely have to remind myself to do so these days.

Your blog is like a quick book club meeting (without the wine, of course!) I found your blog through a link from someone else's blog. It's a bit like following a trail of bread crumbs and you never know what you will find.

I'm a few months behind you when it comes to longevity, but my reading and blogging have evolved much the same as yours over the years. (I kind of miss those big boxes of books showing up every couple of weeks even if my wife is happy that they no longer are coming to the house._

I love what you do...and I totally understand what you say about it becoming what seems like a full-time job sometimes. I can't imagine not doing this anymore even though it's caused me to reallocate the way I spend my time and it's on my mind every day. Of course, like you, now I set my own schedule and don't get tied down to "tours" and the like, but sometimes I'm a pretty tough boss. LOL

Congrats on a job (full-time or not) well done!

Congrats on 15 years, that's quite the anniversary! Loved your list, agreed with all of it and especially yes, book blogging people are the best people :)

Congratulations on 15 years! I'm technically not far behind you (I started reviewing on GR in 2007 and started my blog in 2009) but I took about 4 years off in there. Hats off to your dedication!

I agree that reviewing books does change the way you read. I used to take notes as I read and those reviews are some of my best. I'm struggling to get back into that habit. I just can't make it work with my Kindle for some reason. (I've tried highlighting on my Kindle and that helps but isn't the same). I guess my brain is either digital or analog, not both!

I worked pretty hard to grow my blog the first time around and that took a lot of joy out of the process for me (and time away from friends and family). I do try to be at least a little consistent with one or two posts a week now but I'm doing my best not to get caught up in all that extra pressure.

Keep up the awesome work!

Congratulations on 15 years, I do think that is a great accomplishment! I have only been book blogging for a few months, I was only doing a few reviews here and there on my family blog since the fall of last year, so I am growing and learning. I have been reviewing religiously (hate to use that word, but can't think of another) on Goodreads for a few years. Before that I just wasn't aware of how helpful reviews were to authors and so now I do review every book I read, even if it is just a short blurb and it doesn't matter where I got the book, if I read it, I review it.

Happy Blogiversary! 15 years... wow! That's great. :-) I agree, book bloggers are really wonderful people. :-) Keep up the good work!

It's kind of sad that you're not reading just for the pleasure of it. It's why I've always admired book bloggers since it takes a lot of effort to even write one review.

These days, it's easier to connect/know the author but I also find it a bit sad. I'm used to reading their bio in the back of books and I'm fine with that but now I know just a little too much about them, in fact, I prefer authors just step back and allow their books to speak instead of them.

It's terrible to hear about you getting hate mail/comments because of reviews. Reviews are opinions but some readers don't get that. I keep hearing people apologizing for not liking a book which I also sometime do so people won't attack me for not liking a book. I think sometimes we are too sensitive about books.

I'm not a book blogger but I sometimes blog about books. I've learned it's better not to review a book unless you're certain about your opinion but also, I can edit a review if I wanted to or remove it off my blog.

Fifteen years is long time to stay in one blog which I could never do but I'm glad you did. Congratulation!

Have a lovely day.