The Booksmith

Hi, I’m Meagan and I love books.

I want this blog to be a place where I can yell about the bookish things that interest me and perhaps end up in someone’s internet search when they’re desperately looking for someone else who read the weird little book they checked out from their library that only has four hundred ratings on Goodreads (down with Amazon) and no written reviews.

Oh, yeah, that reminds me, I’m a huge proponent of public libraries and you should be, too! It’s March 18, 2025 as I write this and the news broke yesterday that the current administration plans to gut federal funding to public libraries. As T.S. Eliot said, “The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.” Let’s not lose hope! To that end, I encourage everyone to support their local libraries and check out a weird book. Or a prize winning book. Or a picture book. Or go to one of your library’s programs. Or donate. Please donate.

I digress.

The idea for this blog came to me as I was trying to come up with book bingo ideas for 2025. I ran out of good, easy ideas around idea #8 (read a twentieth century classic) and the ninth idea that came to me was what if you made a book blog in 2025? It seems daunting. It seems like something where people might laugh at me for daring to think my thoughts need to be on the internet. But I’m going to do it anyway because I’m really excited to make book reports, which I’m pretty sure is me still chasing the high from college when my professors would write exclamation marks in the margins of my essays.

Now, a moment to make clear what this blog is not (for myself as much as any potential reader): this is not an attempt to monetize my hobbies, not a replacement for IRL engagement with my bookish community, and not a rigorous project with a schedule that feels like work.

Yours, if you’ll have me,

Meagan