{"id":7032519,"date":"2026-08-07T20:29:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/im-back-bookdwarf\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:29:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:29:28","slug":"im-back-bookdwarf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7032519","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Back! | Bookdwarf"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A few weeks back, some asshole broke into the server hosting this here blog and it got deleted almost entirely. Fuck. Luckily the server had back up and I\u2019ve managed to put it mostly back together including over ten years of reading lists. In having to put the humpy dumpty back together, I realize how much fun I used to have writing about books (and sometimes food). The more I wrote the more I began to worry about sounding professional, as if I was writing for the Times Book Review or The New Yorker. Do I like those publications? Hell yeah I do but I don\u2019t need to sound or write like them.<\/p>\n

My other concern is my kind of dumb blog name. Back when AOL IM existed and I signed up, I joked with a friend about picking the nerdiest sounding name, something that included D&D and books. Bookgnome was taken. So I became Bookdwarf. Does this name still serve me well? Is it offensive in any way? It\u2019s meant to refer to LOTR and D&D so hopefully not. I\u2019m keeping it for now. I\u2019ve had it since maybe 2004? Remember the Lit Blog Coop? I was part of that too.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m writing all this to say that it\u2019s time to get back to what I do best: talking about damn books. Yes, I work for a publisher but those that know me know that I wouldn\u2019t recommend a book here that I hadn\u2019t read and loved so I\u2019m going to stop worrying about coming across like a shill for Penguin. They do publish some really fine books (read Whiskey When We\u2019re Dry<\/a> please). So time to resume especially as it might serve to distract me from our crumbling democracy. I\u2019ll try to write something once a week, okay? We\u2019ll see where this goes. Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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