Feature and Follow Friday: 8/21/15

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee’s View 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!

• (Required) Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Hosts {Parajunkee & Alison Can Read}
• (Required) Follow our Featured Bloggers
• Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing. You can also grab the code if you would like to insert it into your posts.
• 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 and that they are now following you.
• If you are using WordPress or another CMS that doesn’t have GFC (Google Friends Connect) state in your posts how you would like to be followed
• Follow Follow Follow as many as you can, as many as you want, or just follow a few. The whole point is to make new friends and find new blogs. Also, don’t just follow, comment and say hi. Another blogger might not know you are a new follower if you don’t say “HI”
• If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love…and the followers
• If you’re new to the follow Friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!

This Week's Question:

If you could have any animal in the world as a pet, what would you pick? Fictional ones count too!

Answer:

I think I would want a horse like Blackjack from the Percy Jackson series. I mean how awesome would it be to have a talking horse that flies??? TOTALLY AWESOME!

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Feature and Follow: 7/10/15

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee’s View 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!

• (Required) Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Hosts {Parajunkee & Alison Can Read}
• (Required) Follow our Featured Bloggers
• Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing. You can also grab the code if you would like to insert it into your posts.
• 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 and that they are now following you.
• If you are using WordPress or another CMS that doesn’t have GFC (Google Friends Connect) state in your posts how you would like to be followed
• Follow Follow Follow as many as you can, as many as you want, or just follow a few. The whole point is to make new friends and find new blogs. Also, don’t just follow, comment and say hi. Another blogger might not know you are a new follower if you don’t say “HI”
• If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love…and the followers
• If you’re new to the follow Friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!

It has been a while since I have done one of these posts but I'm back! I just needed to take a break from them for a while. Anyway, without further ado....

This Week's Question:

You can only eat one cuisine type for the rest of your life. Which would you choose? (E.g. Italian, French, Greek, Mexican, Chinese, Indian etc…)

Answer:

This question is surprisingly challenging because I ADORE FOOD. Any type of food you can think of, I will probably eat. My favorites are Mexican, African, Indian, and Chinese food but...I think I will have to go with African food. I guess this is just because I have always grown up around it and I love all the different dishes and unique flavors. I especially like West African food with dishes like pepper soup, fufu, moi moi, ugba, kpof kpof, and meat pie (OMG I am getting so hungry). Most of you have probably not heard of the majority of those dishes, so I will include pictures in the same order listed.

 

  

Feature and Follow: 8/22/14 (Featured Blogger)

Thank you so much to Alison Can Read and Parajunkee for featuring me in this week's Feature and Follow Friday

• (Required) Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Hosts {Parajunkee &Alison Can Read}
• (Required) Follow our Featured Bloggers
• Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing. You can also grab the code if you would like to insert it into your posts.
• 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 and that they are now following you.
• If you are using WordPress or another CMS that doesn’t have GFC (Google Friends Connect) state in your posts how you would like to be followed
• Follow Follow Follow as many as you can, as many as you want, or just follow a few. The whole point is to make new friends and find new blogs. Also, don’t just follow, comment and say hi. Another blogger might not know you are a new follower if you don’t say “HI”
• If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love…and the followers
• If you’re new to the follow Friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!

The Interview

When did you start blogging?

Officially, I started book blogging about two years ago on and off, but I started blogging consistently late last year in December and its been great ever since.

What is your favorite part of book blogging?

I love discussions!  Discussion posts are one of my favorite things to create and participate in. It is awesome getting to see other people's opinions and views on things. Whether your view is similar to mine or the complete opposite, I always like to hear about it in the comments.

What type of books do you mainly blog about?

I blog about general Young Adult and Middle Grade fiction mainly. I also do the occasional new adult and adult book review. My favorite genres are fantasy, contemporary, and dystopian.

What is your favorite book(s)?

This question is actually kind of hard for me. I like so many books. My favorite books of all time are the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and the Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan. I also like the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, any book by Stephanie Perkins, The Missing Series by Margaret Peterson Haddix, The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson, and When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead.

What has been the best thing that has happened to you because of book blogging?

I really like just the whole experience of interacting with other readers and authors. It is great to know you are apart of a community that shares your same interests.  The best thing is definitely getting responses from publishers and authors you love when you write about their books. It always makes me excited interacting with them.

This week's question:

What book/series do you think would make a better TV show than a movie?

My Answer:

Many of you who have already seen the first two movies that have come out for the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, probably know how badly they portrayed the original books. Now I think they should start over and turn the whole thing into a TV series. Since so many things happen in each book in the series, events can be spread over many different episodes. There will be enough time for each episode to be detailed and stay true to the actual book.

Feature and Follow: 8/15/14

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee’s View 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!

• (Required) Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Hosts {Parajunkee & Alison Can Read}
• (Required) Follow our Featured Bloggers
• Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing. You can also grab the code if you would like to insert it into your posts.
• 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 and that they are now following you.
• If you are using WordPress or another CMS that doesn’t have GFC (Google Friends Connect) state in your posts how you would like to be followed
• Follow Follow Follow as many as you can, as many as you want, or just follow a few. The whole point is to make new friends and find new blogs. Also, don’t just follow, comment and say hi. Another blogger might not know you are a new follower if you don’t say “HI”
• If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love…and the followers
• If you’re new to the follow Friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!

This week's question:

Suggest a question! We need questions of the week for future FFs. Any ideas?

Answer:

Well I am not sure what questions there have been in the past put here few:

What book character would you go out to dinner with?

If you could act as a book character in a movie, who would you act as?

How do you write your reviews?

Stacking the Shelves #3

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

Hosted by: Tynga's Reviews

eBooks for Review

Mindwar by Andrew Klavan (Netgalley)

To This Day by Shane Koyczan (Netgalley)

Something Wiki by Suzanne Sutherland (Netgalley)

Song of My Life by Carolyn Brown (Netgalley)

Queen of Someday by Sherry D. Ficklin (Netgalley)

Heart of Dread: Frozen by Melissa de la Cruz & Michael Johnston (Netgalley)

Amulet #6: Escape From Lucien by Kazu Kabuishi (Netgalley)

Scar of the Bamboo Leaf by Sieni A.M.

Purchased Books

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick

My Name is Mina by David Almond

Lost and Found by Andrew Clements

The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy (Bind up) by Jenny Han

The End of Education by Neil Postman (Nonfiction) 

*I kind of went on a classic rampage this month*

The Picture of Dorian and Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Emma by Jane Austen

Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

These are all the books I have received in the past week. Please let me know what books you have received and what books I should read next.

Also I would like to know: What are your favorite classics?

Stacking the Shelves #2

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

Hosted by: Tynga's Reviews

eBooks For Review

A Song For Ella by David Almond (Netgalley)

Darkness by Erin Eveland (Netgalley)

Mind Blind by Lari Don (Netgalley)

Paradigm by Ceri A. Lowe (Netgalley)

The Olympus Cloud by Stephen Randel 

Orenda by Ruth Silver

Dead Girl Walking by Ruth Silver

Eyes of the Enemy by Kelly Hess

Purchased Books

Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver

Requiem by Lauren Oliver

Catching Fire by Susanne Collins

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Frostbite by Richelle Mead

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Purchased eBooks

Edgar Allen Poe Complete Tales and Poems

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hopkins

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

Starydog by Kodilyn Calhoun

The Selection by Kiera Cass

The Diviners by Libba Bray

From Digital Library

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Audiobook)

These are all the titles I have accumulated in the last 2 weeks. I know this is a ridiculous amount! I really need to slow down on my book buying. Comment down below which ones I should read first and a link to your Stacking the Shelves post.

Feature and Follow #1

So I am new to this blog hop so please comment if you follow me and I will definitely follow back.

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee’s View 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!

• (Required) Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Hosts {Parajunkee & Alison Can Read}
• (Required) Follow our Featured Bloggers
• Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing. You can also grab the code if you would like to insert it into your posts.
• 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 and that they are now following you.
• If you are using WordPress or another CMS that doesn’t have GFC (Google Friends Connect) state in your posts how you would like to be followed
• Follow Follow Follow as many as you can, as many as you want, or just follow a few. The whole point is to make new friends and find new blogs. Also, don’t just follow, comment and say hi. Another blogger might not know you are a new follower if you don’t say “HI”
• If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love…and the followers
• If you’re new to the follow Friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!

This week's question:

What is your favorite TV series that you can watch over and over again on Netflix?

Answer:

It used to be Avatar: The Last Airbender until they stopped keeping it on Netflix, but no worries I own the whole DVD collection.