Feature and Follow Friday #2

I love to find new blogs to read. Feature and Follow is a quick way to do just that.

This is a weekly blog meme hosted by Parajunkee's View and Alison Can Read.

Simple rules:


Grab the button and make a post. Let people know how you want them to follow you.Follow Parajunkee's View and Alison Can Read plus the two Featured Bloggers each week.
Put your blog name and your Feature and Follow post url in the linky below.
Go find some new blogs to follow and share the love.

Easy peasy lemon breezy!

This week's featured bloggers are:  Book Addict Bieke and Pinkindle.

Want to keep in touch with me? There are lots of different ways. You can follow me on Twitter, add me to your RSS feed, or friend me on Goodreads.  See? I'm all over the place. Literally.

This week's question is what is your favorite outdoor reading spot?

Since I live in Florida, it is usually too hot for me to sit outside and read. If it isn't hot then everything is covered in pollen. If everything isn't covered in pollen, then it is our 3 minutes of winter time and it is too cold. But if I ever DO try to read outside, I sit on the glider on the front porch so I can watch the kids play. What about you? Do you read outside?

Feature and Follow Friday #2

I love to find new blogs to read. Feature and Follow is a quick way to do just that.

This is a weekly blog meme hosted by Parajunkee's View and Alison Can Read.

Simple rules:


Grab the button and make a post. Let people know how you want them to follow you.Follow Parajunkee's View and Alison Can Read plus the two Featured Bloggers each week.
Put your blog name and your Feature and Follow post url in the linky below.
Go find some new blogs to follow and share the love.

Easy peasy lemon breezy!

This week's featured bloggers are:  Book Addict Bieke and Pinkindle.

Want to keep in touch with me? There are lots of different ways. You can follow me on Twitter, add me to your RSS feed, or friend me on Goodreads.  See? I'm all over the place. Literally.

This week's question is what is your favorite outdoor reading spot?

Since I live in Florida, it is usually too hot for me to sit outside and read. If it isn't hot then everything is covered in pollen. If everything isn't covered in pollen, then it is our 3 minutes of winter time and it is too cold. But if I ever DO try to read outside, I sit on the glider on the front porch so I can watch the kids play. What about you? Do you read outside?

Feature and Follow Friday

Last week I started a new series called Blogger Spotlight where I featured one of my favorite bloggers. I love finding new bloggers and this was my way of sharing one of my favorites with you. Then I found Feature and Follow and am switching over. This will allow me to feature multiple blogs. So come share the blogger love with me?

This is a weekly blog meme hosted by Parajunkee's View and Alison Can Read.

Simple rules:


Grab the button and make a post. Let people know how you want them to follow you.Follow Parajunkee's View and Alison Can Read plus the two Featured Bloggers each week.
Put your blog name and your Feature and Follow post url in the linky below.
Go find some new blogs to follow and share the love.

Easy peasy lemon breezy!

This week's featured bloggers are: Gone Bookserk and Readiculously-Peachy.

Want to keep in touch with me? There are lots of different ways. You can add me to your RSS feed (like Google Reader), click the follow me button on the right hand side of my blog, friend me on Goodreads or my on new Facebook page or you can follow me on Twitter. See? I'm all over the place. Literally.

This week's question is what is a book that you didn't like at all that your friends raved about or what book did you love that wasn't popular?

Ooh both of these are hard because I don't have many friends that read. I would have to say that I was the only one of my group that hated, despised, loathed, didn't care for Wicked. Oh.my.word. Stab me in my eyeballs with a fork but don't make me read that again.

Feature and Follow Friday

Last week I started a new series called Blogger Spotlight where I featured one of my favorite bloggers. I love finding new bloggers and this was my way of sharing one of my favorites with you. Then I found Feature and Follow and am switching over. This will allow me to feature multiple blogs. So come share the blogger love with me?

This is a weekly blog meme hosted by Parajunkee's View and Alison Can Read.

Simple rules:


Grab the button and make a post. Let people know how you want them to follow you.Follow Parajunkee's View and Alison Can Read plus the two Featured Bloggers each week.
Put your blog name and your Feature and Follow post url in the linky below.
Go find some new blogs to follow and share the love.

Easy peasy lemon breezy!

This week's featured bloggers are: Gone Bookserk and Readiculously-Peachy.

Want to keep in touch with me? There are lots of different ways. You can add me to your RSS feed (like Google Reader), click the follow me button on the right hand side of my blog, friend me on Goodreads or my on new Facebook page or you can follow me on Twitter. See? I'm all over the place. Literally.

This week's question is what is a book that you didn't like at all that your friends raved about or what book did you love that wasn't popular?

Ooh both of these are hard because I don't have many friends that read. I would have to say that I was the only one of my group that hated, despised, loathed, didn't care for Wicked. Oh.my.word. Stab me in my eyeballs with a fork but don't make me read that again.

Book Blogger Love a Thon Interview Swap

I was fortunate enough to be able to interview the fun and sweet Lauren from Hughes Reviews. You can follow her on twitter by following @wordyhughes. Here are the interview questions and Lauren's fabulous answers:

1. What is your favorite part of being a blogger?

I love that I've found people who get as excited over books as I do!  I love getting recommendations from people who have my same tastes in books.  There are so many books I probably would not have discovered on my own, but heard about through the blogosphere.  I can't imagine my reading life without other bloggers now... it would be so empty.

2. Would you say that you devour books or savor them? (sip or gulp so to speak?)

I'm a big fan of fast-paced books, so that would probably make me someone who devours and gulps books.  I love when I get so lost in a book that I forget about the real world.  And usually if I'm lost in a book, it means my eyes are flying across the page and hungry for what will happen next.

3. How many books do you read at the same time?

When I was younger, I'd read more than one book at a time, but in the last five years or so, I've become a one-book-at-a-time kind of girl.  I find it keeps me from comparing books or favoring one over the other.

4. What are a few of your favorite book blogs?

The Fake Steph: I've read several books on her recommendation and really enjoyed all of them.  I also love her "Looks from Books" feature.

The Recovering Potter Addict: I fell for Aylee's blog based on its name because I'm also someone who felt a little lost after Harry Potter was over...  She has great taste in books and I've come to trust her reviews!

Small Review: Her Blogging Tips and Tricks were the most helpful thing ever when I was trying to get my blog going.  And she always seems to find great books that no one else has heard of.  And I love that she does a fairly equal amount of middle grade and YA because YA often seems to get all the love in the blogging world.

A Backwards Story: I love how Bonnie always talks about cover design in her reviews.  She often makes me appreciate aspects of the cover design that I never would have noticed on my own.  And a bonus is she's a fellow writer like myself!

Shooting Stars Mag: I love her blend of books, movies, TV shows, and even your occasional live theater musical!  I never know what I'm going to find each week when I stop by her blog, and I love it.

5. What is the biggest tip you would give to a book blogger that is starting out?

Be meaningful and genuine in both your posts and your comments.  You know the saying "Treat others the way you want to be treated" works in blogging too.  Write the kinds of posts that you would want to read.  And write the kinds of comments that you would want on your own blog posts.

Book Blogger Love a Thon Interview Swap

I was fortunate enough to be able to interview the fun and sweet Lauren from Hughes Reviews. You can follow her on twitter by following @wordyhughes. Here are the interview questions and Lauren's fabulous answers:

1. What is your favorite part of being a blogger?

I love that I've found people who get as excited over books as I do!  I love getting recommendations from people who have my same tastes in books.  There are so many books I probably would not have discovered on my own, but heard about through the blogosphere.  I can't imagine my reading life without other bloggers now... it would be so empty.

2. Would you say that you devour books or savor them? (sip or gulp so to speak?)

I'm a big fan of fast-paced books, so that would probably make me someone who devours and gulps books.  I love when I get so lost in a book that I forget about the real world.  And usually if I'm lost in a book, it means my eyes are flying across the page and hungry for what will happen next.

3. How many books do you read at the same time?

When I was younger, I'd read more than one book at a time, but in the last five years or so, I've become a one-book-at-a-time kind of girl.  I find it keeps me from comparing books or favoring one over the other.

4. What are a few of your favorite book blogs?

The Fake Steph: I've read several books on her recommendation and really enjoyed all of them.  I also love her "Looks from Books" feature.

The Recovering Potter Addict: I fell for Aylee's blog based on its name because I'm also someone who felt a little lost after Harry Potter was over...  She has great taste in books and I've come to trust her reviews!

Small Review: Her Blogging Tips and Tricks were the most helpful thing ever when I was trying to get my blog going.  And she always seems to find great books that no one else has heard of.  And I love that she does a fairly equal amount of middle grade and YA because YA often seems to get all the love in the blogging world.

A Backwards Story: I love how Bonnie always talks about cover design in her reviews.  She often makes me appreciate aspects of the cover design that I never would have noticed on my own.  And a bonus is she's a fellow writer like myself!

Shooting Stars Mag: I love her blend of books, movies, TV shows, and even your occasional live theater musical!  I never know what I'm going to find each week when I stop by her blog, and I love it.

5. What is the biggest tip you would give to a book blogger that is starting out?

Be meaningful and genuine in both your posts and your comments.  You know the saying "Treat others the way you want to be treated" works in blogging too.  Write the kinds of posts that you would want to read.  And write the kinds of comments that you would want on your own blog posts.

Heart Books

I frequently mentioned the fabulous Eva from A Striped Armchair, on my old blog. Since starting this new blog I haven't. She is truly one of my very favorite book bloggers and has such a wide variety of books that she reads that I am in awe. I want to be like her when I grow up (which is quite funny since I'm older than she is by years). Today she had a wonderful post about "heart books" - those books that change you and touch you. She asked of her readers:

In the spirit of nostalgia, I’d like to ask all of you to name a heart book, either in comments here or on your own blog (do leave a link in the comments so I can come read your post). Pass it along, chain letter style, and let’s embrace those books that resonate with our truest, deepest selves. I know they can be difficult to talk about (I actually didn’t mention the one book that has most literally changed my life; perhaps in another few years I’ll be ready), because of course claiming a book as soul-touching bares at least a bit of your most vulnerable self to the world. Yet I believe that the much of magic of book blogging lies in that combination of the literary with the personal, and that we have built a community that is supportive enough for that to take place. I look forward to hearing your stories.

 I'll talk about my newest heart book, The Tragedy Paper. It was a recent read for me and I was sucked in from the start. And I hardly wanted to start another book because it touched me so much. I reviewed it here.

The beautiful writing, wonderful characters and intriguing story within a story kept me reading but the life lessons have kept me thinking about it. It just made my heart happy. I wouldn't say it was a happy book but it certainly made me feel and made me think about life and it's meaning. It will stay with me for a long, long time. A true "heart book" for me.

Thanks, Eva, for the interesting topic to think about.

Heart Books

I frequently mentioned the fabulous Eva from A Striped Armchair, on my old blog. Since starting this new blog I haven't. She is truly one of my very favorite book bloggers and has such a wide variety of books that she reads that I am in awe. I want to be like her when I grow up (which is quite funny since I'm older than she is by years). Today she had a wonderful post about "heart books" - those books that change you and touch you. She asked of her readers:

In the spirit of nostalgia, I’d like to ask all of you to name a heart book, either in comments here or on your own blog (do leave a link in the comments so I can come read your post). Pass it along, chain letter style, and let’s embrace those books that resonate with our truest, deepest selves. I know they can be difficult to talk about (I actually didn’t mention the one book that has most literally changed my life; perhaps in another few years I’ll be ready), because of course claiming a book as soul-touching bares at least a bit of your most vulnerable self to the world. Yet I believe that the much of magic of book blogging lies in that combination of the literary with the personal, and that we have built a community that is supportive enough for that to take place. I look forward to hearing your stories.

 I'll talk about my newest heart book, The Tragedy Paper. It was a recent read for me and I was sucked in from the start. And I hardly wanted to start another book because it touched me so much. I reviewed it here.

The beautiful writing, wonderful characters and intriguing story within a story kept me reading but the life lessons have kept me thinking about it. It just made my heart happy. I wouldn't say it was a happy book but it certainly made me feel and made me think about life and it's meaning. It will stay with me for a long, long time. A true "heart book" for me.

Thanks, Eva, for the interesting topic to think about.

Book Blogger Love-a-Thon 2013

Was so excited to see Book Blogger Love-a-Thon 2013 listed on Alexa's blog. I will definitely be participating in this event. Co-hosted by Alexa and Katelyn from Kate's Tales of Books and Bands, it will be held from 12:00 am on February 23 to 12:00 am on February 24th.

Book Blogger Love-a-Thon is an event to leave comments on book blogs, find new book blogs to love, tweet and post about favorite book blogs and more.

To find complete details and to sign up visit here.

Book Blogger Love-a-Thon 2013

Was so excited to see Book Blogger Love-a-Thon 2013 listed on Alexa's blog. I will definitely be participating in this event. Co-hosted by Alexa and Katelyn from Kate's Tales of Books and Bands, it will be held from 12:00 am on February 23 to 12:00 am on February 24th.

Book Blogger Love-a-Thon is an event to leave comments on book blogs, find new book blogs to love, tweet and post about favorite book blogs and more.

To find complete details and to sign up visit here.