Blogging with anxiety; spoilers in book review??

Good morning !

It has been a while since i’ve wrote a new installment in this little blog serie; but got another idea after talking with a friend about yesterday’s book review! 

 

My other “Blogging with Anxiety” posts; Feeling we’re not enough // Content Wise // Stats // Posts Paranoïa // Have I posted this before? // Can I Say that? // Missing A Post // Tags // Not a “good enough” post

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Spoilers are something that really scares me in a way — we know how most people within the community just HATES to be getting something spoiled for them.. while a very few, me included, actually don’t really care. 

And what really consider a spoiler, anyway ? This line seems so blurry, especially to someone who don’t really care… I just tell myself that it considers any major plot points, so my general rule of thumbs is going as vague as possible. But then – what if a little « side thing » I comment on is getting considered as a spoiler by someone else ?? There’s no really “real guideline” to this.. which make everything so much harder on my brain xP

 

Now let say that I do go for the safe way: pulling out a red warning on the « introduction » part of my post (before the line with the goodread page & rating and all that)… how far in details can I go ??

Can I gush around in details like I would to someone who had read the book? Is it better to keep a little decency? 

Imean – ofcourse I won’t just go and tell the book in great details from A to B.. but I still wonder how much of my thoughts on some details I can get away with — despite knowing it’s MY review on MY blog, thus I can do what I want and it would indeed feel more genuine to me to do something like that… Is it something readers enjoy? Would it still be getting read? 

 

That’s probably why writing book reviews can be so hard/off putting for me than other posts.. you can’t just go rogue and write all that you feel like as a regular post would be. 

I don’t want to sound « mechanical » nor only say a few things.. I wanna say what I thought about it, what I liked, what I hated.. I wanna share my experience !! But then i’m slammed by that after thought of « will I make someone mad that I spoiled this book for them? », despite having the warning and everything.. because yes, there will always be some of thoses.. in everything. 

 

For so long in the start of my blog, I had wanted to sound so « professional » in my reviews.. while in the end of the day, i’m clearly not. 🤷🏽‍♀️ I’m just a simple human, raving and rambling on this book that I -usually- liked. 

I’d like to think that everything should be fine and I should stop worrying after the implacement of the warning — because at this point it’s fair game. Maybe I should even add that as a close somewhere, on my about the blogger or discloser or something, explaining how I do my reviews to include this little part. So readers can know ahead of time that *maybe* reading my review before reading a book might not be the best idea..