@Jennifer1614
Jennifer,
Contrary to some of the others who replied, your experience of lack of communication from the Host would make me feel extremely uncomfortable.
Firstly, your opening comment ' usually immediately after I book a stay the host will contact me...' suggests that your preference and / or experience is limited to Instant Book listings. Indeed, only with IB is there no obligation on either party to communicate prior to booking.
As a live-in Host I've never used IB and have no intention of ever doing so for various reasons, one of the main ones is precisely this, what I consider the vital need for communication in assessing whether I wish to accommodate a particular person in my home. In the process of Inquiry a variety of questions can be addressed such as Check-In time (flexible in my case).
Non IB Hosts can also receive pre-paid Reservation Requests which simply requires Host to 'Accept' or 'Decline' within 24 hours. It's the nearest equivalent to IB, and occasionally I get an RR with minimal information or not enough to satisfy me. I then send my own queries, and if the Guest fails to respond I will 'Decline' the RR just before the 24 hours Expiry. (Letting RR expire is negative for Host ratings).
Consequently, my experience is that I've normally had quite a lot of interaction with the Guest by the time I accept a booking. It further suggests that communication will be fine when the Guest arrives and during their stay.
However, on the odd occasion, unfortunately it turns out that the Guest is reticent to communicate or worse, impersonal, in which case I regret accepting their booking, and can't wait for such person to leave my home. My Review would then reflect my feeling that 'this Guest is better suited to place with absentee Host.'
I've only once been an Airbnb Guest, many years ago, and didn't need to book as it was a personal connection, so of course no problem with communication.
However, I've made inquiries on a number of other occasions for prospective trips that did not materialize. So I have sent quite a lot of inquiries. I only continued with those Hosts who communicated to my satisfaction.
In your situation now, if the silence continued for much longer, I would wish to Cancel and find another place a.s.a.p. -- However, it's not so simple to Cancel... but that's another story.
Best Wishes.