Feature & Follow #12: Blogging BFF

Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop aimed at providing exposure for new bloggers and at expanding blog followers. The hop is hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read and is a wonderful opportunity for making new friends and sharing your love for books and reading.
This week's featured blogs are: Mystifying Paranormal Reads and Worn Down Glories

Q: Who is your blogging BFF?

Nope, no blogging BFF for me. I'm a solo blogger.

I do, however, have a real life BFF. We meet in elementary school and have been friends for 28 years. Even though our paths have often taken us away from each other, whenever we do get together its as if we were never apart for long. 
This reminds me that I need to give her a call :0)

Who is your BFF?

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Feature & Follow #11: Blogger Resolutions

Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop aimed at providing exposure for new bloggers and at expanding blog followers. The hop is hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read and is a wonderful opportunity for making new friends and sharing your love for books and reading.
This week's featured blogs are: Dandelion Wine and Little Blog of Geek

Q: Resolutions: Put together your blogger resolution list for all of us to see!

A little while ago I created a blogging bucket list for the rest of 2013. Here is my updated list for 2014:

Abstract goals: 
* Enjoy blogging and make ensure it doesn't become a chore
* Work on developing interesting content
* Find great books to read and recommend

Numbers to reach by the end of 2013: 
* 150 Bloglovin followers
* 200 Twitter followers
* 650 GFC Followers
 
Book and review related: 
* Receive and review a DRC from Edelweiss
* Review one NetGalley ARC per month

Post/Event related: 
* Complete my Goodreads Challenge and post about it
* Write a street team post  
* Write a Series Wrap up post
* Write a guest post for another blog
* Join a giveaway hop

Design: 
* Create original blog button
* Create original blog signature 

Miscellaneous: 
* Go to a book reading/blogging convention (need to start saving up)  
* Make sure to comment back on blogs that visit

And what are your resolutions?

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Feature & Follow #10: Favorite Books of 2013

Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop aimed at providing exposure for new bloggers and at expanding blog followers. The hop is hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read and is a wonderful opportunity for making new friends and sharing your love for books and reading.
This week's featured blogs are: The Book Girl and Bookish Findings

Q: What were your favorite books of 2013?

Hmm... I read some great books in 2013 but here are my absolute favorites:

The entire Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews

Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean

Die for Me by Cynthia Eden

Lethal Rider by Larissa Ione

Dream Lake by Lisa Kleypas

What were your favorites of 2013?

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Feature & Follow #8: My Reading Nook

Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop aimed at providing exposure for new bloggers and at expanding blog followers. The hop is hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read and is a wonderful opportunity for making new friends and sharing your love for books and reading.
This week's featured blogs are: Musings of a Blogder and Words and Tea Bottles.

Q: Reading Nook Tour: Give us a tour of your favorite reading spots.

Hmm... I used to be able to read anywhere and in any position - lying upside down was a real favorite - all the blood rushes to your head ;0). Things have changed as I've gotten older and now I prefer lying in bed with a cup of hot chocolate and my sweet Jack Russell (Tobie) cuddled up next to me.

Here's my nook:

Where is your favorite reading nook?

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Feature & Follow #7: Picture Books

Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop aimed at providing exposure for new bloggers and at expanding blog followers. The hop is hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read and is a wonderful opportunity for making new friends and sharing your love for books and reading.
This week's featured blogs are: SS Book Fanatics and Fantasy is More Fun.

Q: What were some of your favorite picture books as a kid?

My two absolute favorite picture books as a child were Where The Wild Things Are and The Very Hungry Caterpillar. My original copies were quickly worn out and my mother had to by me another set.

What are some of your favorites?

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Feature & Follow #6: Kickstarter Campaign

Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop aimed at providing exposure for new bloggers and at expanding blog followers. The hop is hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read and is a wonderful opportunity for making new friends and sharing your love for books and reading.
This week's featured blogs are: Fiction in Fiction in Fiction.

Q: It is up to you to do a Kickstarter campaign for your favorite book!!! Who are you casting for the main characters?

My favorite series right now is Kate Daniels by Ilona Andrews and it would be absolutely fabulous if the powers that be decided to make it into a TV show (not a movie, 2 hours could never do it justice!)

So, who would I cast?
Curran is a no-brainer - Chris Hemsworth is the only actor I could possible imagine as his Furry Majesty:

 

Kate is a little more difficult. It needs to be an actress with a kick-ass, take no prisoners attitude but also someone who has a softer side. I think that Jessica Biel would fit the bill:

Who would you cast as your favorite characters?

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Feature & Follow #5: Bookshelves Tour

 

Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop aimed at providing exposure for new bloggers and at expanding blog followers. The hop is hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read and is a wonderful opportunity for making new friends and sharing your love for books and reading. 

This week's featured blogs are: Primrose Musing and Bookworm Brandee

Q: Bookshelf Tour! Take us on a tour of your shelves!

Okie dokie! My shelves are spread out in two rooms - my bedroom:

And the others are in the computer room:

What are your shelves like?

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Feature & Follow #4

 

Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop aimed at providing exposure for new bloggers and at expanding blog followers. The hop is hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read and is a wonderful opportunity for making new friends and sharing your love for books and reading. 

This week's featured blogs are: The Whimsical Mama and I Read, Ergo I Write

Q: If you could only have ONE - one book - for the rest of your life. Don't Cheat ... What would it be?

Mirror Image by Sandra Brown

What would your one and only be?

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Feature & Follow #3

 

Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop aimed at providing exposure for new bloggers and at expanding blog followers. The hop is hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read and is a wonderful opportunity for making new friends and sharing your love for books and reading. 

This week's featured blogs are: Spare Time Book Blog and Read This Instead

Q: Book Selfie! Take a pic with your current read.

My sweet Tobie is far more photogenic than I so here he is with my latest iPad read:

Isn't he cute?

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Feature & Follow #2

 

Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop aimed at providing exposure for new bloggers and at expanding blog followers. The hop is hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read and is a wonderful opportunity for making new friends and sharing your love for books and reading. 

This week's featured blogs are: Thoughts and Pens, and No Bent Spines

Q: Share something you've learned about book blogging or just blogging in general in the last month

Hmm... well The Hottie Harem was rebooted in August so I learned quite a few new things such as how to change the blog's URL in Blogger and how to manipulate the HTML of a blogger template so that it looked the way I wanted.

I'm not 100% sure that the new look is working for me so there might still be changes down the road. I don't want to spend too much money on the blog as its a part time hobby but I think I'd be willing to hand over a few of my hard earned dollars for a nice looking design.

What did you learn this month?

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Feature & Follow #1

 

Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop aimed at providing exposure for new bloggers and at expanding blog followers. The hop is hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read and is a wonderful opportunity for making new friends and sharing your love for books and reading. 

This week's featured blogs are: Wonderland's Reader and Girl in the Woods

Q: Back to school. Create a reading list for the imaginary English Lit class you’ll be teaching this semester.

This is actually pretty easy to answer because I am an English Lit lecturer. The books I plan on teaching this semester are:

What books are in your imaginary lit class?

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