July 2026 Blogger Posts Round Up

Featured Blog Posts from the Blogging Community

A collection of blog posts from bloggers across books, lifestyle, travel, and more

Welcome to the July 2026 Blogger Posts Round Up! Each month, I bring together a variety of blog posts from bloggers across a wide range of topics, making it easy to discover new voices and fresh content.

This month, you’ll find posts covering books, health and fitness, home and garden, lifestyle, hair and beauty, and travel, so there’s something for every reader.

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About This Feature

This monthly round up is a way to highlight bloggers creating excellent content across multiple niches. It’s also designed to help readers find new blogs to follow while bringing together a diverse mix of posts in one place.

In this round up, you can expect to see:

Book reviews, reading challenges, and literary discussions
Health and fitness posts focused on well-being and self-care
Home and garden inspiration and seasonal ideas
Lifestyle and personal growth content
Hair and beauty reviews and tips
Travel guides, tips, and experiences

Why I Do This Round Up

Social media can be overwhelming when you’re trying to discover quality content, so this round up collects the best blog posts published this month.

It’s designed to:

Highlight bloggers across multiple niches
Help readers find new blogs to enjoy
Share inspiring and useful content
Celebrate creativity and expertise across the blogging community

How It Works

Every month, I post a submission thread on Twitter/X, inviting bloggers to share posts published during that month.

Posts submitted should cover topics such as:

Books
Health and fitness
Lifestyle
Hair and beauty
Travel
Home and garden

All featured posts are published during the relevant month.

Want to be included in future round ups?

Follow me on Twitter/X and keep an eye out for the monthly submission post.

Discover This Month’s Featured Blog Posts

Book Blogging

This section highlights blog posts from book bloggers sharing reviews, reading challenges, book tags, and literary discussions.

@lucyturnspages shared a feature on Skeleton Bride (Tales of the Grim Reaper Book 1) by Joharra Harper.

👉 Read the full post here.

@BooksCozy shared her review of Falling Into Oblivion by Aaron M. Payne. "Falling Into Oblivion is Aaron M. Payne’s debut novel and it offers a solid start to anyone wanting to get into the cyberpunk genre. High tech, low life sets the scene with lots of gritty noir for extra flavor."

👉 Read the full post here.

@DanSamEnd shared a review as part of the book tour for The Kill Switch by Robert Peston. "It’s a chilling start to the story plunging the reader into a corrupt and dangerous world where no one can be trusted and privacy is a thing of the past. The brilliant writing pulls back the curtain on the rich inner workings of the political sphere, the power dynamics, political manoeuvrings, ruthless ambition and greed in play."

👉 Read the full post here.

@WordsofMystery shared Someone to Cook For by Maiko Seo. "I’d actually love to see more of Maiko Seo’s books translated into English and brought over to North America because I enjoy her storytelling. She writes about interesting characters and situations without making everything feel overly bleak or weird."

👉 Read the full post here.

@ReadingLadiesBC shared her review of The Burning Side by Sarah Damoff. "The Burning Side checks all my boxes for a five-star read: well-written family drama, likeable people, family love and loyalty, multiple points of view, thoughtful themes, and realistic problems."

👉 Read the full post here.

Woman rolling up yoga mat with weights and water bottle nearby

Health & Fitness

Here you’ll find health and fitness blog posts focused on well-being, sustainable habits, and realistic self-care.

In the future you'll find more posts here. If you blog about health and fitness make sure you check out the thread for next month so you can add one of your posts.

Home & Garden

This section features home and garden blog posts covering interior inspiration, organisation, and seasonal ideas.

In the future you'll find more posts here. If you blog about home and garden make sure you check out the thread for next month so you can add one of your posts.

Lifestyle

These lifestyle blog posts explore everyday living, personal growth, routines, and blogging life.

@danaethinksthat shared a post with 32 Mid-Year Journal Prompts. "Journaling is a very effective tool not only for reflection but also for planning and understanding yourself more. The mid-year journal prompts you’ll discover in this article will make this process easier because they’ll guide you to matters and thoughts that it’d be good to explore."

👉 Read the full post here.

Hair & Beauty

This section includes hair and beauty blog posts featuring product reviews, skincare routines, and beauty tips.

In the future you'll find more posts here. If you blog about hair and beauty make sure you check out the thread for next month so you can add one of your posts.

Globe with toy aeroplane and passport with tickets

Travel

Here you’ll find travel blog posts sharing destination guides, travel experiences, and practical tips.

In the future you'll find more posts here. If you blog about travel make sure you check out the thread for next month so you can add one of your posts.

In Case You Missed It

If you’re looking for even more blog content, don’t forget to check out previous round ups, including the May 2026 Blogger Posts Round Up, for a wide variety of posts from talented bloggers.

Final Thoughts

I hope you enjoy this month’s collection of posts and discover some new blogs and voices along the way. The Blogger Posts Round Up will continue each month, featuring content from a variety of niches and celebrating the creativity and knowledge of bloggers everywhere.

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Blogging on Low Battery: Rebuilding Productivity (Without Overdoing It)

I’ve been quiet around here lately, and if I’m honest, it’s because my body forced me to take a massive pause. Following a recent stay in hospital to manage my multiple chronic conditions, I found myself slammed right into a creative brick wall.

Between recovering from the stay itself, adjusting to multiple medications, and enduring the absolute furnace of this Rome summer, my daily reality has looked less like "hustling blogger" and much more like "lying completely motionless in front of a fan, praying for a breeze."

When you have multiple chronic illnesses, a creative rut isn't just a mental block; it's a physical boundary. Your brain wants to write, reply to comments, and design graphics, but the physical energy simply isn’t there.

So, how do we get back to being productive when our battery is permanently sitting at 10%?

The "Slow-Mo" Re-entry Plan

The temptation when you start feeling even 5% better is to try and make up for lost time. You open twenty tabs, plan a month of content, and immediately trigger a flare-up that lands you right back where you started. Yes, I'm talking from experience.

To avoid that vicious cycle, I am using a much gentler, step-by-step approach to rebuild my blogging routine.

Step 1: Lower the bar to floor-level

Forget about writing massive, 2,000-word guides right now. Your first goal is just to show up in the easiest way possible. If all you can manage is a quick 15-minute "Book Tag" post or updating an old image, celebrate that as a massive win.

Whilst I really want to get back to posting daily again I'm just not in a condition to that right now. I will try to post at least once or twice a week and slowly build up frequency again as my health improves.

Step 2: Work in micro-bursts

Forget the standard 25-minute Pomodoro technique if that feels too long. Try working in 5 or 10-minute bursts from your phone whilst lying down. If the laptop feels too heavy or makes you too hot, use your phone's voice-to-text feature to dictate thoughts whilst resting.

I definitely can't deal with being on my computer for long periods of time at the moment. I am trying to keep up with emails and socials via the apps on my phone and logging on to my laptop for short amounts of time to work on drafts and graphics.

Step 3: Categorise tasks by energy level

On high-brain-fog days, do "mindless" tasks like deleting spam comments or organising your Pinterest boards. Save writing or editing for the rare pockets of day when your medication has kicked in and the heat has dipped slightly.

I'm definitely counting scrolling Pinterest as productive blog related work. It's given me a lot of ideas for new posts to do once I'm up for it.

Step 4: Set a hard stop

Even if you feel a sudden burst of creative inspiration, force yourself to stop before you feel tired. Leaving a post half-finished gives you an easy starting point for tomorrow and preserves your precious physical reserves.

This is probably the hardest thing for me to do. I'm not good at stopping. I have the tendency to push myself when it would probably have been best to stop sooner. I am trying to work on that aspect though as I learn to deal with my health.

Surviving the Heat & the Healing Process

If you are also struggling with a chronic illness, a flare-up, or just the exhausting weight of summer, please remember that rest is productive. Your body is doing heavy internal work to heal you, and that requires energy.

I’m taking things one tiny, fan-cooled step at a time. The blog will still be here, the draft posts can wait, and our health must always come first. I promise I'll be back with loads of new content for you soon.

Have you ever had to rebuild your routine after a health setback? How do you keep your creative spark alive when your body demands rest? Let me know in the comments below!

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Product Review: Schwarzkopf Gliss 4 in 1 Bond-Building Hair Mask

As I mentioned in my post Bleaching Hair from Dark Brown to Blonde Part 2, I was recently successful in my mission to discover a good bond-building product at a budget price. So let's dive into why the Schwarzkopf Gliss 4 in 1 Bond-Building Hair Mask is quite possibly one of the best hair products I've come across.

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Product details

How to use:

Apply gently on wet hair after washing and leave-in for 2–3 minutes. Rinse thoroughly! Use 2–3 times per week. Leave-in: Apply a small amount into towel-dried or dry hair tips after washing your hair.

Ingredients:

Aqua (Water, Eau), Cetearyl Alcohol, Glycerin, Behentrimonium Chloride, Distearoylethyl Hydroxyethylmonium Methosulfate, Isopropyl Myristate, Behenamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Hydroxypropylgluconamide, Hydroxypropylammonium Gluconate, Hydrolyzed Keratin, Parfum (Fragrance), Amodimethicone, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Lactic Acid, Isopropyl Alcohol, Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Kernel Oil, Sodium Benzoate, Ceteareth-20, Trideceth-10, Linalool, Phenoxyethanol, Limonene, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Geraniol, Potassium Sorbate, Benzyl Alcohol

My hand holding tub of Schwarzkopf Gliss 4 in 1 Bond-Building Hair Mask

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Review

This stuff is amazing! Started using it whilst bleaching my hair and it has left my hair so soft. Considering I started using it during a period when I was doing things to my hair that can cause major damage, it actually left my hair feeling in better condition to before I bleached it.

The tub is 400ml and, as you only need a small amount, it lasts quite a while. Even when I've been using large amounts of it during my bleaching process, both when washing my hair and as a leave-in, the tub has still lasted a couple of months. Excellent value for money.

If you're looking for a budget friendly bond building hair mask this is it! A real must have! I seriously can't say enough good things about this product.

Schwarzkopf Gliss 4 in 1 Bond-Building Hair Mask on palm of hand

Do you know of other budget friendly bond building hair masks I should try? Let me know in the comments.

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Books: First Lines Fridays 10th July 2026

Ready for another First Lines Friday? It's that time of the week when we judge a book not by it's cover or even by it's blurb. Instead we will be judging it's ability to hook us from the opening lines. Let's see if this week's pick will have you adding it to your TBR list or not.

I'm participating in First Lines Fridays as I think it's a great way to highlight more of the books that are on my bookshelves.

What is First Lines Fridays?

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
Finally… reveal the book!

My Pick For This Week

The first lines of the book:

She sat, cross-legged on a worn oriental rug. Eyes closed. Palms up, a hand resting on each knee. Deep breath in. Long slow exhale. And another. And again. Nam myo ho ren ge kyo. Chanting these words until each melted into the next. Nam myo horen gekyo. Namyo-horengekyo. Concentrating, beginning to get in the rhythm of it, to recede into a darkness at the back of her mind when the sound of the buzzer broke through. “Shit,” she said, opening her eyes. “Shit.”

Do you know which book this is from? Scroll down to find out!

And the book is...

The Art Collector by Susan Bacon book cover

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DCGJ5D5S
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Porter Street Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 15, 2024
Print length ‏ : ‎ 356 pages

Book synopsis for The Art Collector by Susan Bacon

A Warhol protégé, a Manhattan murder and a long-hidden truth

It is February 1987. Seal Larsen is a photographer, denizen of New York’s downtown scene and the subject of one of Andy Warhol’s short films. When she dies in a suspicious fall from the 15th floor of her Manhattan apartment building, her friend and neighbor, Emma Quinn, is determined to find out what happened.

A history professor at Columbia University with connections to the intelligence community, Emma soon realizes how little she really knows about her friend. Exploring Seal’s life, her work, her past, Emma makes her way down to Memphis and to rural Tennessee, putting herself at risk. It’s there, on an isolated 2,000-acre farm, that she begins to grasp the tragedy that defined Seal’s life and the truth about her death.

A sequel to The History Teacher, Susan Bacon's award-winning political mystery, The Art Collector is an intrigue, a puzzle, a plot-twister. It is also an exploration of the value of art and the people who make it and of the culture that fueled Manhattan's art boom in the second half of the twentieth century.