If you are new to the FF fun,
Feature and Follow Friday
is a blog
hop that expands your blog following by a
joint effort between
bloggers. Feature & Follow Friday
is now hosted by TWO hosts,
myself of course and Alison of
Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it'll allow us to show off more new blogs!
How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, then
you create a
post on your own blog that links back
to this post (easiest way
is to just grab the code under the
#FF picture and put it in
your post) and then you visit as
many blogs as you can and tell
them "hi" in their comments (on
the post that has the #FF
image). You follow them, they
follow you.
Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you!
Now to make this FF interesting we do a
FEATURE blogger. If you are interested in becoming a Feature click on the drop down link above
FEATURES and Features and Follow Friday and get on the waiting list! It is also
required, that if you participate you must follow the hosts (
Parajunkee and
Alison Can Read) and the two Feature blogs.
This Meme is hosted by Rachel from
Parajunkee's View and Alison from
Alison Can Read on Fridays.
To join the fun and make now book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:
1. Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Host
{Parajunkee.com} {
Alisoncanread.com}and any one else you want to follow on the list.
2. Follow our Featured Bloggers -
Cassi @ Galavanting Girl Books and
Lost in Thought.
3. Put your Blog name and URL in the Linky thing.
4. Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your comments
5. Follow Follow Follow as many as you can
6. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love ... and the followers
7. If your new to the Follow Friday Hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!
The Friday Follow Feature are ...
When did you start blogging?
Well I started my blog in 2007. I was going to Switzerland for 3 months,
volunteering at a Girl Scout world center, and I thought “hey why not
blog.” Well that didn’t work out very well. Switzerland was amazing
–fun, beautiful, experience of a lifetime, etc. Between the shared
computer and all the fun I never actually posted a blog. I revived the
blog for a brief period in 2009 (one post) then really started actually
blogging midday through 2010.
What is your favorite part of book blogging?
New books and new friends. Since discovering goodreads & starting
to blog the quality of my reading material has gone up and up (except
for some galleys, but that can’t be helped right?). Outside of blogging
circles people recommend me books just because they are YA, inside the
blogging world friends understand why I read what I read and help me
find books that I will truly love.
What is your favorite book(s)?
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta (and all the rest of her books)
Ruby Oliver series by E. Lockhart
Leviathan trilogy by Scott Westerfeld
(Ask me tomorrow & my answer might be different)
What has been the best thing that has happened to you because of book blogging?
The friends that I’ve met. I’ve gotten surprise packages with books and
lots of encouragement. My goodreads group did a “Melina Marchetta
around the world” book tour. It all started with a Melina Marchetta
middle grade novel that was only available in Australia, then it
traveled the world accumulating postcards and notes.
http://www.galavantinggirl.com/2011/09/melina-marchetta-around-world.html
1. When did you start blogging?
I started blogging almost a year ago. Actually, my one year blogoversary
will be happening on the 12th of this month! Time has really flown by. I
started after finding out about reading challenges (and realising they
were easier to do with a blog) and happened to stumble across a few
blogs and then I thought of making one myself. I like to think I’ve come
a long way in a year and learned a lot about blogging, reviewing,
publishers etc. I love blogging and I’m quite proud of myself for
sticking to it for a full year even though I’m quite busy in my personal
life. I love the book blogging community and love books and reading in
general so it’s always fun and never ever a chore.
2. What is your favorite part of book blogging?
Writing posts and having lovely comments off other bloggers especially
when it comes to reviews. After spending ages writing reviews (and it
takes me so long!) and worrying about its quality I love reading
comments off others saying that they enjoyed reading it, or that they
added the particular book to their wishlist. I also love my readers and
followers. After creating my blog I can remember doing a dance of pure
joy when I had my first follower haha. You could swear I had won a
million pounds or something, but it was a great feeling! I've also met
so many lovely book bloggers whom I consider friends, it's been great.
3. What is your favorite book(s)?
The Lord of the Rings. Just pure amazing stuff. You should all read it
and get lost in Middle Earth with all its adventures. I also love George
R. R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. It has been an obsession
of mine since reading it. I just love epic fantasy. But also since
blogging I've read some great YA books and my favourite reads of 2012
were definitely Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas, Cinder by Marissa
Meyer and The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa.
4. What has been the best thing that has happened to you because of book blogging?
Receiving books of publishers is up there with the best. I love
Netgalley but when I had my first paperback book from a publisher in the
mail I felt like I had made it haha! I squealed in delight when it came
through the letterbox! I've loved having the chance to work with
authors and publishers; it's been awesome. I’ve had the chance to read
and review some amazing books so it is definitely one of the best things
to happen!
Q: What New Years Blogging or Writing resolution have you placed on yourself?
I want to comment more (I've been really bad about this), add a drop down link list to my page list, set a blogging schedule and stick with it (I'm pretty good about this but sometimes things come up and reviews aren't put up), interact with the blogging community more and redesign my blog.
