I love your blog and hope to see more great reviews and discussions.

I do know what you mean about the “in crowd” but really like others mention it’s like high school. I’ve had to pull back myself and not pay attention because really why stress out over it? I have my own life and interests and don’t want to get sucked into any drama. I also think there are a group of people, the organizers, you mention that just have a natural tendency to want to plan things or formulate new ideas and they tend to gravitate towards one another. I don’t think they mean to exclude others but really if you are not able to participate on the same level it’s hard to really fit in with them.

Book blogging for me was 1-for fun and 2-for trying to keep track of what I read. The friendships I’ve made are a big bonus but I didn’t start my blog to try and be “popular” or one of those blogs that everyone knows.

Sorry for the long babble but yes I’ve definitely cut back on the amount of time I spend on Twitter and other social networks. I get on when I can but I’m trying to focus more on my blogging and reading and commenting on other blogs of interest to me.

I can understand wanting to pull back a bit from blogging or refocus more on certain things. I think I’ve been doing a bit of that this last month, too–social networking can take over your life if you let it. Or at least that’s the way it feels like sometimes. :)

In the end I think all any of us can do is to hopefully be inclusive, maintain the friendships we’ve created and blog the way we feel most comfortable blogging. If you feel like how you’ve been interacting here and in social media outlets works for you don’t let anyone tell you differently.

Seriously, though, I know what you mean about the whole “in-crowd” in blogging and am with you that that is just too High School for me. I doubt, or at least hope, that those “in-crowders” don’t think that of themselves, either.

I love what you do, and think you add another dimension to the blogging world. I’m enjoying the POC Reading Challenge :-)

I have no idea what the latest twitter scandal is. I’m normally only on twitter in the morning and since I live in the UK most of the US is in bed. This means that I miss out on much of the gossip. Everything is very civilised in the morning!

I’m sorry to hear that you’ve had some nasty comments, but pleased that you are rising above it. I have always found you approachable and your blog is great. Keep up the good work and ignore all that bad feeling.

There is not an ‘in crowd’ in the sense of meanness but there are people who SEEM to feel like they are better than others and I just don’t want others to think that of me. I can make a big list of all the cool crap I do for charity but that is just lame, or a list of all the times I have reached out to help a fellow blogger, again lame.

I am glad to have met on and some offline everyone of you that have commented here. I really didn’t expect any comments ;) I think its burn out time. I need to do something else. Write reviews, read books. I also want to do more than just YA on the blog. I read a lot more than that… I almost took a Pub job and I am speaking all over in the industry. It’s time for me just to be a blogger again for a while…