Thursday, July 26, 2012

Follow Friday Hop 7/27 I'M Featured!! SO Exciting!

I am this weeks Feature blog on Alison Can Reads' Blog! Books are My Reality is also Featured!
Below this is the answers to the fun blog questions for me.



To Join the Fun and Make New Book Blogger Friends, Just Follow these Simple Rules:
  1. (required) Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Hosts {Parajunkee & Alison Can Read)
  2. (required) Follow our Featured Bloggers The Feature Blogs this week for Parajunkie and for Alison can read (my blog is featured on Alison Can Read) visit both their site for the features.
  3. Go to both host site to read their feature this week.
  4. Put you Blog name and URL in the linky thing. You can also grab the code if you would like to insert it into your post.
  5. 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 that your now following you.
  6. If you are using WordPress or another CMS that doesn’t have GFC (Goofle Frieds Connect) state in your posts how you would like to be followed
  7. Follow, Follow, Follow as many as you can, as many as you wan, or just follow a few. The whole point is to make new friends and find new blogs. Also, don’t just follow,  make sure to comment and say hi, Another blogger may not know you are a new follower if you don’t say “Hi”
  8. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the love…and the followers
  9. If your new to the Friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can come and see your blog.
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! 


When did you start Blogging?
I started about 3 months ago actually.
What is your favorite part of blogging?
I love being able to discuss books with other book lovers like me. No one in my home life likes to read like I do. Except my daughter, but now she reads less since she got older and has a boyfriend. (she is 19, so too cool to talk books with mom now) also the new discoveries I have found from my fellow bloggers.
What is your favorite book(s)?
That list would be very long, so I will just mention my top ones, lol.
All Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments Books, and Infernal Devices.
Jeannie Frost’s Night Huntress Series
And a few new books I really love are: Jennifer L. Armentrout’s Covenant series, and her Lux series.
The list could go on, but by looking around my blog you can see what I like for sure.
What has been the best thing that has happened to you because of book blogging?
Mainly some of the new friends I have met, and really appreciate the books I get to review, as my money situation in not good, so buying books was hard for me, I had to save what little I would get to buy books, and trade off what I did have, for new ones. I love that I can get a book for a review, granted many are ones I may not ever have discovered if I was not asked to review, but have found some books I really liked and enjoyed, and am eager for the sequels, so I think that overall is one thing I really like, is the new discoveries.



Q. Summer Reading. What was your favorite book that you were REQUIRED to read when you were in school?
well, this is a hard one, as I can't seem to remember any at all that I liked, seriously, I don't. Sorry to disappoint, but I did NOT like any Shakespeare and old stuff like that, I really do not like any old books, can't seem to understand their way of talking, and hate poems. So, I do not have an answer on this one. UPDATE: I seen someone post Where the Red Fern Grows, and remember, it was also a required book, and I LOVED it, and it made me cry.

How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, (using the linky tools -- keep scrolling!) 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 at host post 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! 
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69 comments:

  1. Congrats on the feature! I'm the other one :0)

    Sorry to hear that you don't like Shakespear or anything like that. Understandable! I didn't read his works in school otherwise, I probably wouldn't have liked it if it was required.

    New follower! My FF.

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  2. Congratulations on being one of the features this week!

    Happy Friday!

    My FF

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  3. Congrats on the feature!! Old follower.. Ahh, I can sorta get where you're coming from. I think I actually had to force myself to sit there and read Shakespeare to understand it but I did love when we left that and went more into Mythology.. now that.. I LOVE!

    My FF

    Ana♥ Beach Bum Reads

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    1. yes, mythology is cool, i actually really enjoy some of the paranormal books I have read that are based on some Greek mythology, which is fascinating to me me. On my way to your post too. Love reading them all.

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  4. Congrats on being featured! Where the Red Fern Grows is a good one! And I didn't love Shakespeare either--still don't love him, but I don't hate him either. ;) Have a great weekend! (New Follower--Hopefully--GFC seems to be really wonky for me right now.)

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    1. thanks, I went to your blog, and also am following too. :) Its exciting being featured. :)

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  5. Hello. Congrats for being featured!
    I believe I'm already a follower of yours before this.
    Here's mine:
    Michelle Shouts Random: Feature & Follow
    Follow back? :)

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  6. I'm seeing Where the Red Fern Grows a lot :)

    Here's my Follow Friday post.

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  7. Congrats on being a Feature :) I'm an old follower!
    Alexia - Here is Our FF Post

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  8. I'm new to the Blogging world, and this feature was recommended to me so I thought I'd check it out! Congrat's on the feature by the way! So I signed up as a GFC follower. I wasn't much of a reader at school, I really took up reading only 2 years ago.

    Here is my blog, and I'll try and figure all the Meme stuff out soon!

    Naomi
    http://nomisparanormalpalace.blogspot.com.au/

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  9. Congratulations on being featured.
    I know what you mean about the old books, I keep trying now I'm older but still find them hard to understand and get into.
    My FF
    New follower by the way.

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  10. Congrats on the feature :) I'm an old follower, also had some trouble finding a book that was required but that I loved anyway...

    Here's my FF post

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  11. Totally bawled after reading Where the Red Fern Grows..

    Congrats on the feature! *New Follower*

    Here's my FF

    Happy Reading :)

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  12. I'm very lucky to be a dutch girl we didn't have required reading! Stopping by from the Follow Friday hop. I'm a new follower have a great weekend and hop by my blog if you have the time.

    My FF

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  13. Hopping through :)

    I'm a new GFC follower! :)

    Haven't read Where the Red Fern grows but it sounds like an amazing book! :)

    Here is my FF post: http://blogofabookaholic.blogspot.com/2012/07/feature-and-follow-friday-2.html

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  14. you know in France I never read Shakespeare, but well a lot of french authors I didn't like either. There are some nice I'm sure but I don't really remerber as well. well I picked one but nobody will know what it is lol.

    new follower

    here is mine

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  15. LOL, I am so happy I could help with you remembering Where the Red Fern Grows. Such a great book.

    Congrats on the feature.

    Old follower.

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  16. Happy Friday! New GFC follower here and looking forward to reading your blog! The design is pretty rad also. :)

    My FF

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  17. Congratulations on the feature! Yay!
    I have to check out this book now! Stopping through with My FF!
    Happy Friday! =D

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  18. Congrats on be featured! I haven't read Where the Red Fern grows but everyone seems to have enjoyed it!

    New follower :D
    P.S love the layout!

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  19. Congrats on being a feature this week! I remember reading Where the Red Fern Grows and a lot of girls cried in class, but I don't remember if I liked it or not. It's just that book I remember making people cry in 5th grade. lol. Old follower. Here's my FF: http://meganm922.blogspot.com/2012/07/feature-and-follow-fridayrequired.html

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  20. Congrats on being followed!! Old follower.

    Check out My FF!

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  21. Congrats on being featured! I haven't read Where The Red Fern grows, but I know what you mean about not having a taste for the older books. Old follower! :)

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  22. Congrats! Lovely blog. New follower...

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  23. I loved The Red Fern Grows. I read it when I was in fifth grade, and I remember how the ending teared me up.

    Old follower!

    Sophie @ The Dreaming Reader

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  24. Congrats! on being featured.

    http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2012/07/feature.html

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  25. Congrats on the feature! :D

    Stopping by from the hop. Please follow back at http://nettesbookshelf.blogspot.com

    Thanks!

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  26. Reading the classics may be more difficult than reading books in modern day lingo, but it makes you think and stretches your brain! Don't pass up on the oldies just because they are more difficult, some of them are SO worth it!

    Congrats on your feature! New follower via GFC.

    Reading With My Eyes Shut

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  27. Congrats on being featured! :)

    My FF :)

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  28. Congrats on being featured! Thanks for sharing.

    Following! Feel free to visit my blog.
    SeeitORreadit


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  29. I haven't read that one yet! I've heard it's a tear-jerker but a must read. :)
    Congrats on being featured! New follower.
    My Follow Friday Post!

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  30. Always helps to read others comments they are great for jogging the memory..lol. New follower.

    http://writesthoughts.blogspot.com/2012/07/featurefollow-friday_27.html

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  31. Congrats on being a feature! I haven't read Where the Red Fern Grows, but I have seen the movie a long, long time ago.

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  32. Congratulations on being one of this week's features!!! I liked Where the Red Fern Grows, too.

    Old follower. :)
    My FF

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  33. I know what you mean! I hate that I have to concentrate on Shakespeare so much - it spoils some of the fun! Then again, I only read Much Ado About Nothing and really liked it (once I understood the story)
    My FF:
    http://booksmartie.blogspot.de/2012/07/feature-follow-friday_27.html

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  34. Congrats on being featured..your blog design is gorgeous btw!

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  35. Congrats on your feature! New follower.

    There was a lot of required reading that I didn't like either. I almost failed a couple of my English classes because I couldn't read them. It took me a while to think of one that I did like.

    My FF: http://bibliophilesthoughtsonbooks.blogspot.com/2012/07/follow-friday-18.html

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  36. Congrats on being this weeks feature :D

    Happy reading and thanks for stopping by my Follow Friday! Have an awesome weekend :)

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  37. Congrats on being featured! I think I was abnormally lucky in the required reading department, because I enjoyed almost everything we were assigned. Never read your favorite, though!

    New follower. My F&F post :)

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  38. Congrats on being featured! Great interview. I'm a new follower and I send you a request on GoodReads.

    - Alex
    MINE

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  39. New follower via GFC!!

    Congrats on being featured!!

    My F&F http://wellpinaroseonyournose.blogspot.com/2012/07/feature-3.html

    -dee
    wellpinaroseonyournose.blogspot.com

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  40. Hi there! New follower! Congratulations on being featured!

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    1. Thanks, I also am following your blog in my reader, I didn't see any other ways, but that one is good, as I do go to it alot, about the same as I go down the GFC list of post.
      :)

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  41. Hi new follower from the hop! Where the Red Fern Grows was so depressing to me.

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  42. Congrats on being featured!! Yea, I didn't care for too many mandatory reads, because I am just not into the classics. lol

    Thanks for stopping by mine already. I went to leave a comment thursday night, but your post wasn't up yet (tehe)

    Old Follower,
    Becky @ Book Bite Reviews

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    1. For some reason my sceduled post didn't go up, I was so mad at blogger, I had it scheduled for 7pm pacific, which should have been good.(thats my time zone) and at 9pm or so, my time I seen it was not up yet, and checked it, and it still showed the time i put, but didn't go up, I do not know why it did that. :( Sorry about that to anyone who came Thur night (well, thur for me) and it was not up yet. I sure wont rely on scheduled post again.

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  43. Hi there - congrats on your feature! Where the Red Fern Grows was required reading for me, too. :)

    Old GFC follower!
    Renee @ Succotash Reviews

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  44. Contagions on being fetured and I would loved now where your GCF so I could follow you for I be a new follower Where the Red Fern Grows I read but I like to re read it anyway

    http://nrcbooks.blogspot.com/2012/07/follow-me-friday-11.html

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    1. My GFC box is in right side bar, near top, only about 4 things down, I thought I had it visible enough, I will see about moving it up even more. sorry.

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  45. Where the Red Fern grows is such a lovely and sad book. I'm a dog person so it broke my heart.

    My follow friday! Please visit! New follower.

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  46. Great picks. I loved reading even at school.
    New Follower. Follow back?
    My FF

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  47. Hi Michelle! New follower from the hop! Congrats on the feature! You have a beautiful blog!

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  48. Hello Michelle!
    Thank-you so much for stopping by and following my blog! I'm a new follower :)

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  49. Congrats on being featured!! And thanks for stopping by, following my blog, and entering the giveaway (good luck)! I'm a new linky follower :)

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  50. Hi,
    I found you on Follow Fridays Hosted By
    {Parajunkee & Alison Can Read}. I am a New Follower, Please
    Follow me back.
    Thanks,
    http://dawnandwinniebookreviews.blogspot.com

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  51. Congrats on the feature, and thanks for visiting my blog. Just followed you back!

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  53. Hi there! Thanks for following. I'm going to poke around and read your reviews now :)

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