TGIF! Time for the Friday Memes (click more to see all).
Q: I want to do something special with my friday posts. Do you have any ideas?
Q: I want to do something special with my friday posts. Do you have any ideas?
Showing posts with label Blog Hop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blog Hop. Show all posts
Friday, 8 October 2010
Friday, 1 October 2010
Friday Memes - 1/10
It's Friday again! And you know what that means...getting-to-know-you memes!
*Pinch, punch, first day of the month!*
Sunday, 26 September 2010
In My Mailbox #5, 6 & 7
In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren and inspired by the amazing Alea at Pop Culture Junkie.
I haven't posted my mailbox for the past three weeks, and but here it is, all in one go:
Sorry for the immensely bad quality - I had to use my webcam. I'll put up a better one once I take a photo with my camera.
Week 4:
Linger - from school library - I haven't read this yet, even though it's been sitting on my shelf for the past two weeks. Gah...I will get onto it, I promise!
Week 5:
Beat the Reaper - Won from From Me To You's contest. She is amazingly nice - she posted it to me from all the way in America. The postage alone was ~ $10 USD. Wow! Thank you!
Bookmark Days - gift from teacher - My year level coordinater gave me this. She had three in her office, she donated the other two to the school library, and I got to keep one. Thank you Ms H! (She is an awesome, kind teacher who always helps students out. She's never taught me, but she's one of my favourite teachers.)
Week 6:
Beautiful Creatures - from Penguin Aus for review on BTL as guest editor - check out my review of Beautiful Creatures here.
Vlad Tod 1 - from Penguin Aus for upcoming interview with Heather Brewer - I reviewed Vlad Tod 1on Book Couture here.
On the Jellicoe Road Audiobook - local library - (not pictured b/c I already returned it) review later this week.
And, finally...
Week 7:
MATCHED by Allie Condie - for review - I absolutely squealed with delight, danced around the room, hyperventilated a little and almost fainted from excitement.
It was the last copy at Penguin Australia and I am beyond fortunate to be given it. And this is my very first book for review on my blog. It's a monumentous occasion!
I haven't posted my mailbox for the past three weeks, and but here it is, all in one go:
Week 4:
Linger - from school library - I haven't read this yet, even though it's been sitting on my shelf for the past two weeks. Gah...I will get onto it, I promise!
Week 5:
Beat the Reaper - Won from From Me To You's contest. She is amazingly nice - she posted it to me from all the way in America. The postage alone was ~ $10 USD. Wow! Thank you!
Bookmark Days - gift from teacher - My year level coordinater gave me this. She had three in her office, she donated the other two to the school library, and I got to keep one. Thank you Ms H! (She is an awesome, kind teacher who always helps students out. She's never taught me, but she's one of my favourite teachers.)
Week 6:
Beautiful Creatures - from Penguin Aus for review on BTL as guest editor - check out my review of Beautiful Creatures here.
Vlad Tod 1 - from Penguin Aus for upcoming interview with Heather Brewer - I reviewed Vlad Tod 1on Book Couture here.
On the Jellicoe Road Audiobook - local library - (not pictured b/c I already returned it) review later this week.
And, finally...
Week 7:
MATCHED by Allie Condie - for review - I absolutely squealed with delight, danced around the room, hyperventilated a little and almost fainted from excitement.
It was the last copy at Penguin Australia and I am beyond fortunate to be given it. And this is my very first book for review on my blog. It's a monumentous occasion!
And that's about it, guys. What did you get? I'd love to know. Hyperlink to it in your comments below.
Friday, 24 September 2010
Follow Hops: "Book Couture" featured!
And this week, I'm being featured on Feature Friday. Thank you so much, Parajunkee!
Three reasons why Parajunkee is awesome:
1. She has a great site and writes fab reviews that make you want to run out there and buy the book.
2. She's multitalented - a great reviewer and a design goddess. And she has her blog "Anya's Room".
3. She's charitable and kind - she hosts Follow Friday, Feature Friday, and writes the series Blogging 101 to help other bloggers.
Question of the Week (Follow Friday): (What are some high-end book covers you like?)
This is hard - threre's so many book covers that I love. How about a little gallery?
Book Blogger Hop is a meme hosted by Jennifer at Crazy-For-Books, where book bloggers can "connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books!"
Question of the Week (Book Blogger Hop): (When you write reviews, do you write them as you are reading or wait until you have read the entire book?)
I actually write them after I've read the book - it gives me time to recover from the mesmerising effects of the book, and dwell on the book as a whole. But I will occasionally take note of some interesting aspects I wish to discuss.
Recently on Book Couture:
۩๑ Review of Beautiful Creatures on BTL
۩๑ Review of The Lonely Hearts Club on BTL
۩๑ Review of I Am Number Four on BTL
۩๑ Review of Thirteen Reasons Why
۩๑ Meet Kirsty Eagar at Penguin HQ
۩๑ How to get a Favicon
۩๑ Check out the Book Contest Directory -
a directory of contest listings across the blogosphere.
Leave a comment below so I can check out
your blog and follow, and please stop by and have a look at a couple of my reviews in the sidebar.
●▬▬▬๑۩ Happy Friday! ۩๑▬▬▬▬●
Friday, 17 September 2010
Finding Friends on Friday
Book Blogger Hop is a meme hosted by Jennifer at Crazy-For-Books, where book bloggers can "connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books!"
Question of the Week (Follow Friday): (YA or Adult reads?)
Definitely Young Adult. I'm not allowed to read any adult novels yet, so I stick with YA.
I think the magic of YA is that people of all ages are able to enjoy reading them. e.g. The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, so I'll still be reading YA when I'm an adult. Because we're all children at heart, aren't we?
Recently on Book Couture:
۩๑Guest Posting on Penguin BTL
۩๑The Book Contest Directory launch
۩๑ Blog Awards
۩๑Mockingjay Review
۩๑Hunger Games Fanart
Leave a comment below so I can check out your blog and follow, and please stop by and have a look at a couple of my reviews in the sidebar.
●▬▬▬๑۩ Happy Friday! ۩๑▬▬▬▬●
Friday, 3 September 2010
Book Blogger Hop / Follow Friday #3
Follow Friday is a meme hosted by Parajunkee, where people spread the book love by following around the blogosphere.
Book Blogger Hop is a meme hosted by Jennifer at Crazy-For-Books, where book bloggers can "connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books!"
Question of the Week (Follow Friday): What is your favorite brick and mortar bookstore?
I don't really have a favourite bookstore - but I love my school library the most. They're constantly stocked with the latest reads, and the best thing is, it's completely free to read the books you love.
The librarian is also super nice.
Question of the Week (Blog Hop): Do you ever judge a book by it's cover?
Sadly...yes! I'll give you 2 examples of where it ended badly: A rather unfortunate case with Fallen by Lauren Kate, whose cover was stunningly beautiful, but the book less so. Read my review here.
And then, I had the misjudgement not to read Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher because of the bland cover, but to my surprise, the book was absolutely engrossing.
Leave a comment below so I can check out your blog and follow, and please stop by and have a look at a couple of my reviews in the sidebar. ;)
●▬▬▬๑۩ Happy Friday, Tina ۩๑▬▬▬▬●
Friday, 27 August 2010
Book Blogger Hop / Follow Friday #2
Follow Friday is a meme hosted by Parajunkee, where people spread the book love by following around the blogosphere.
Book Blogger Hop is a meme hosted by Jennifer at Crazy-For-Books, where book bloggers can "connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books!"
Question of the Week (Follow Friday): Do you use a rating system for your reviews and if so, what is it and why?
I'll be posting it in my sidebar...but here's what it looks like:
5 hearts - AMAZING!! How have I lived without this book before? It is the oxygen to my lungs, the water to my fish, the tea to my cup!
4 hearts - This book was good. Like, really, really good. Like, read it good.
3 hearts - 'Twas a decent book - pretty okay, but no chocolate for it.
2 hearts - Hmmm...ahh...it was...okay.
1 heart - This book was meh. Just wasn't me.
DNF - not even a heart. :( I didn't finish it.
Leave a comment below so I can check out your blog and follow, and please stop by and have a look at a couple of my reviews in the sidebar.
●▬▬▬๑۩ Happy Friday, Tina ۩๑▬▬▬▬●
Friday, 20 August 2010
Book Blogger Hop / Follow Friday #1
Follow Friday is a meme hosted by Parajunkee, where people spread the book love by following around the blogosphere.
Book Blogger Hop is a meme hosted by Jennifer at Crazy-For-Books, where book bloggers can "connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books!"
Question of the Week: How many book blogs do you follow?
How do I find out this? Hmm...aah. Found it, by clicking around a couple of places. Here's a direct link to the number of blogs you're following.
Because I'm relatively new to the community, I'm only following 43 book blogs at the moment. I have followed a couple of my friends that don't have book blogs, rather personal blogs.
As for the amount of blogs I actually read, that is usually what comes up on my reading list. Occasionally, when I'm surfing, I find new blogs that I read. But what I've noticed is that some don't have a Google Friend Connect widget that I can easily find, and as a result, I don't end up following them.
So some advice from me (as if I'm in any position to give advice >< ), is to have your following widget somewhere easy to see, but not too prevalent. If followers is your thing, of course. (And when is it not? XD)
Anyway, I hope you enjoy your week, and your book hopping.
Leave a comment below so I can check out your blog and follow, and please stop by and have a look at a couple of my reviews in the sidebar.
●▬▬▬๑۩ Lots of bookie love, Tina ۩๑▬▬▬▬●
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