Showing posts with label meme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meme. Show all posts

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Feature & Follow Friday #4 - Reading Habits

Feature and Follow is a weekly blog hop hosted by Parajunkee & Alison Can Read where bloggers gain followers and make new connections.  I prefer followers through Google Friend Connect (GFC) and
Bloglovin’, but I'll take what I can get; hit me with your best shot.

Question of the Week: How have your reading habits changed in the past few years? Did you get interested in a new genre? Do you read more? Less? Why do you think your habits changed, if they did.

I've always been an avid reader.  Ever since my mother first gave me those V.C. Andrews books in second grade (and Stephen King in third -- she had taste, that woman), I was hooked.  Completely, irrevocably addicted to books.  I'm the type of person that would much rather be alone, immersed in a great novel than with pretty much anyone else... except my husband, of course, but he doesn't really count.

My tastes have changed, very recently, in fact; I used to be utterly turned off by young adult novels.  Now, I'm hooked.  I've read so many great young adult novels in the last two months alone, and I have you guys to thank for it, since many of you that I follow happen to read YA books.  So... thanks!

Since acquiring an e-reader and using it almost exclusively, I do think that I read more in recent years than I did in the past.  It's just so much more convenient -- and so much cheaper.  

Thanks in advance for stopping by -- I will return your comment and/or follow; I absolutely love reading new blogs and interacting with fellow book nerds!

Happy Friday!

Pssst... while you're here, enter my giveaway for a hardcover copy of The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski! 

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Friday, March 14, 2014

Feature & Follow Friday #3 - Favorite Outdoor Reading Spot

Feature and Follow is a weekly blog hop hosted by Parajunkee & Alison Can Read where bloggers gain followers and make new connections.  I prefer followers through Google Friend Connect (GFC) and Bloglovin’, but I'll take what I can get; hit me with your best shot.

Question of the Week: Spring is in the air! Show off your favorite outdoors reading spot. If you don’t go outside...well where else do you read that isn’t inside your house? We want pics!


From my honeymoon in Virginia Beach, 2013


My favorite reading spot is the beach.  The wind in my hair, the smell of salt in the air, sand between my toes.  Reading a great book as the sun goes down, while the tide rolls in.  There is nothing more beautiful, and more peaceful, in all the world to me. 
I work from home currently, and therefore spend the majority of my reading time in the house.  

Pssst... while you're here, enter my giveaway for a hardcover copy of The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski! 

What's your favorite outdoor reading spot?  Read more to join the blog hop or enter my giveaway!

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Feature & Follow Friday #2: Oldies but Goodies


Feature and Follow is a weekly blog hop hosted by Parajunkee & Alison Can Read where bloggers gain followers and make new connections.   I prefer followers through Google Friend Connect (GFC) and Bloglovin’, but I'll take what I can get; hit me with your best shot.

This week's topic:
Recommend some of your favorite back-list books – books that are at least a few years old (I’m thinking 5-10 years old rather than classics)



I'm not even going to bother with Harry Potter, because that's a given, mmmk?


Eragon by Christopher Paolini  -- @Goodreads
I found this novel (and ultimately, the rest of The Inheritance Cycle) when searching specifically for something to help me out with my Harry Potter withdrawal.  And this was written by a 14 year old!









Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella  -- @Goodreads
Literature masterpiece this is not, but hilarious it is.  Considerably better than the movie.








A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux -- @Goodreads
It doesn't -- it cannot -- get better than this when it comes to time travel/historical romances.  This has been a favorite of mine since I was a teenager.







The Duke (and the rest of the books in the Knight Miscellany series) -- @Goodreads
Gaelen Foley is a master of the historical romance genre.  I'd read the phone book if she wrote it.








Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen -- @Goodreads
For obvious reasons... elephant.
Never saw the movie... for obvious reasons.  








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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Top Ten Tuesday #1


Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the amazing girls over at The Broke and the Bookish

This week's topic is to list 10 popular authors that I haven't yet read.

1.  Nora Roberts 

2.  Lee Child

3.  Cassandra Clare

4.  Robyn Carr

5.  Diana Gabaldon 

6.  Maya Banks

7.  Sylvia Day

8.  Sandra Brown

9.  Danielle Steel

10.  J. R. R. Tolkien

Too many books, too little time!  I am proud that I had to go all the way through Amazon.com's Author Rank to find 10 authors I haven't yet read.  I am a little embarrassed to admit that I haven't yet read anything by J.R.R. Tolkien, though.

Friday, February 28, 2014

Feature & Follow Friday #1


This week's topic:  Change the plot. If you could, what book would you change the ending or a plot thread? Go ahead and do it…change it.

Despite absolutely loving the series as a whole, I would change the end to the Harry Potter series.  I feel the last third of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was a bit muddled, and maybe a little rushed, especially compared to the first half of the novel where almost nothing happens.  Could this just be a curse of high expectations?  Possibly.  I thought the last movie was better than the book, though.

Honorable mentions include the last books in the Twilight and Hunger Games series.  I kind of liked the end to Allegiant, though.

 This is my first Feature & Follow Friday since my blog is brand spankin' new.  Hi guys!

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