My tell-tale sign is that I start gesticulating… particularly taking two fingers at my temple, and then pointing them at whoever I’m talking to… like I am taking my thought out of my brain and shooting it at them. That probably doesn’t come across over the internet, though, so ha! I can post drunk with impunity! 🙂

It’s nice to hear that the community’s welcoming to newcomers as well as everything else! I didn’t have a big newcomer experience because I was so, so reluctant for ages and ages to comment on other people’s blogs. In retrospect I don’t know what I was worried about!

There hasn’t been a lot of screamy drama, but I have seen several posts lately where bloggers have mentioned burn-out and said the book blogging community isn’t as nice, or as fun, as it used to be. For me, though, it just gets better and better. 🙂

Glad you missed it! It’s never any fun when a bunch of nice people are mad at each other. :/

Journaling online! Yes! Exactly what I thought was going to happen! Then the more I got involved in the community, the more communityish it proved to be.

I know what you mean, but I’ve also found people are very welcoming with their different reading projects. Like, even when it maybe feels a bit clique-ish if you’re not doing it, it’s never a closed club, and it doesn’t last forever. There are also (I’m afraid this is going to sound heartless) so many book bloggers now that you’re not losing something irreplaceable by taking a blog off your blogroll. If you don’t enjoy one person’s posts, you can unsubscribe and find blogs that you’ll enjoy more.

It was at least needed by me – I have a tendency towards pessimism and wanted to remind myself why I do this. (It’s cause everyone is lovely.)

Thank you! 🙂

My tags are made out of all the digressions I wanted to have in the post itself but then I thought about it and decided the post would be better without them. *sneaky*