Feature & Follow Friday
is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort
between bloggers. First you leave your name here, then you create a
post on your own blog that links back here 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!
Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. The
Feature bloggers are chosen randomly from participants in the Follow
Friday or through twitter and blog introductions. If you are
interested in becoming a Feature let me know! It is also required to
follow the host blog (parajunkee.com) and the Feature blog to participate in the #FF.
Feature & Follow Friday
is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort
between bloggers. First you leave your name here, then you create a
post on your own blog that links back here 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!
Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. The
Feature bloggers are chosen randomly from participants in the Follow
Friday or through twitter and blog introductions. If you are
interested in becoming a Feature let me know! It is also required to
follow the host blog (parajunkee.com) and the Feature blog to participate in the #FF.
Q: What is the longest book you’ve read? What are your favorite 600+ page reads?
Eragon by Paolini. It's a compilation of Eragon and Eldest, leading to more than 1000 pages. Brisigr is 1000 pages plus and I'm still reading it. Everyone should read the Inheritance series, it's one of the best. Any self respecting YA paranormal fanatic would say last book of Vampire Academy, Last Sacrifice(my review here), and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series is highly recommended.
Feature & Follow Friday
is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort
between bloggers. First you leave your name here, then you create a
post on your own blog that links back here 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!
Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. The
Feature bloggers are chosen randomly from participants in the Follow
Friday or through twitter and blog introductions. If you are
interested in becoming a Feature let me know! It is also required to
follow the host blog (parajunkee.com) and the Feature blog to participate in the #FF.
Feature & Follow Friday
is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort
between bloggers. First you leave your name here, then you create a
post on your own blog that links back here 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!
Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. The
Feature bloggers are chosen randomly from participants in the Follow
Friday or through twitter and blog introductions. If you are
interested in becoming a Feature let me know! It is also required to
follow the host blog (parajunkee.com) and the Feature blog to participate in the #FF.
Q: What book would you love to see made into a movie or television
show and do you have actors/actresses in mind to play the main
characters?
Since The Hunger Games was made into a movie, The House of Night series is too long, I would like to recommend a recently new found gem to be made into a movie.
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater. The special effects would be awesome. And I googled some casts:
Below are the casts for Sean Kendrick and Kate "Puck" Connolly.
Cameron Bright: his hair's dark enough
Alexander Ludwig: He's cute, and all he has to do is dye his hair.
Dakota Fanning : near perfect
Emma Roberts: a little old, I know, but she's great talent.
Josh Hutcherson: Cute and aloof. Enough for ya'll?
Molly C.Quinn: I love her acting in Castle and she is a redhead already.
Deborah Ann Woll: she's beautiful, though a little old.
Gaspard Ulliel: dark, tall, handsome, piercing eyes. Need I say more?
Feature & Follow Friday
is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort
between bloggers. First you leave your name here, then you create a
post on your own blog that links back here 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!
Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. The
Feature bloggers are chosen randomly from participants in the Follow
Friday or through twitter and blog introductions. If you are
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Q: Activity!!! Take a picture or describe where you love to read the most...
Anywhere, I guess? I could spend hours reading on my bed, in the couch, at my dining table, and even on my toilet sit(seriously, I'm not kidding) or on the bathroom floor. I just read whenever the mood strikes and will continue to read when the story engages me. The result is my mother's screams at me when I stay in the bathroom for more than an hour. Hehe.
Feature & Follow Friday
is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort
between bloggers. First you leave your name here, then you create a
post on your own blog that links back here 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!
Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. The
Feature bloggers are chosen randomly from participants in the Follow
Friday or through twitter and blog introductions. If you are
interested in becoming a Feature let me know! It is also required to
follow the host blog (parajunkee.com) and the Feature blog to participate in the #FF.
Q: I like unique names for characters and am looking forward to
coming up with some when I start writing. What's the most unique
character name you've come across?
Lenobia and Llona(it's pronounced as Eo-na). And of course almost every name in the Inheritance cycle by Christopher Paolini(Eragon, Saphira, Arya...). Renesmee and Carlie. And my friend's name, Joelle.
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Feature & Follow Friday
is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort
between bloggers. First you leave your name here, then you create a
post on your own blog that links back here 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!
Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. The
Feature bloggers are chosen randomly from participants in the Follow
Friday or through twitter and blog introductions. If you are
interested in becoming a Feature let me know! It is also required to
follow the host blog (parajunkee.com) and the Feature blog to participate in the #FF.
Q: What would your prefer: reading your favorite book over and over
again until you got sick of it OR reading 100s of mediocre books? And
why?
Read my favorite book until I get tired of it. If it's your favorite, you should not get tired of it easily. And why read a lot of books you don't like if you can't read your favorite? Life is too short for that.
We have a new button, so update your blogs if you are used to doing this meme!
Feature & Follow Friday
is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort
between bloggers. First you leave your name here, then you create a
post on your own blog that links back here 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!
Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. The
Feature bloggers are chosen randomly from participants in the Follow
Friday or through twitter and blog introductions. If you are
interested in becoming a Feature let me know! It is also required to
follow the host blog (parajunkee.com) and the Feature blog to participate in the #FF.
Q: Define what characteristics your favorite books share. Do they
all have a kickass heroine or is the hot love interest the Alpha Male?
Kickass heroines? Not quite, since Carmen is not so much a kickass heroine as Rose . Neither is Lena or Mara. Hot love interests? Dimitri, Jeremy King, Patch, Four and Gale are hot, but not the one in A Blue So Dark and Incarceron. Story or plot? Perhaps. The novels I love such as The Hunger Games and Vampire Academy has amazing story and relatable characters. Notice that even since it's more than few years since The Hunger Games and Vampire Academy were published, people are still talking about them, and fans still get hyper at any mention of the series. These are the titles I hope to read and love.
Grace has been watching the wolf with yellow eyes in her backyard in the winter for years. She knows that he was protecting her, watching her. One chilling winter night, an injured boy, Sam, appears naked on her back porch, bleeding his life out. She helps him inside the house and called the police. Coincidentally, Sam has the same peculiar yellow eyes as her wolf. Instantly, Grace knows that Sam is the wolf that has been watching her all these years, and she knows that her fate is a future with him, even when it meant losing him to the cold every winter.
Long story short, Shiver is a beautiful novel with lovable characters and hypnotizing plot. You'll be swept away by Stiefvater's story almost immediately.
Of course, the characters are to love. Grace, a serious, independent and logical girl is paired with romantic, musically-talented Sam. Their relationship is surprisingly realistic and both of them are highly contrasted. And, I think Sam is just so sweet, he might be my newest book boyfriend(he's the sweetest I'd ever chanced upon!).
Last year I'd read a novel-series actually- with alternating point of view(read my review of The Dark by Marianne Curley here) I felt confused when the point of view was changed. Okay, the narrator was stated at the beginning of the chapter, but I just couldn't feel the voice. With Shiver, I just know when Grace or Sam is talking. No confusion at all.
And the story, oh the story! It was so enchanting and real.
Stiefvater created a new world of werewolves and the weather at Mercy
Falls just suited the novel perfectly. It was completely different from
the regular novels about werewolves, in a good way.
Despite my love of the voice and the plot, I didn't love Stiefvater's writing. It wasn't that her writing was bad, it's just that it wasn't beautiful enough for me. Yes, her writing bordered on lyrical but it just wasn't enough.
Shiver is a mesmerizing novel of werewolves and forbidden love, lithe and clean, impossible to resist.
Feature & Follow Friday
is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort
between bloggers. First you leave your name here, then you create a
post on your own blog that links back here 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!
Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. The
Feature bloggers are chosen randomly from participants in the Follow
Friday or through twitter and blog introductions. If you are
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Today's feature : Bad Ass Review
Q: Many readers/bloggers are also big music fans. Tell us about a few
of your favorite bands/singers that we should listen to in 2012.
Er, if I have to put some names...
Bon Iver
Fleet Foxes
Lana Del Ray
The Band Perry
Jeremy Messersmith
Jon Schmidt (Try hearing his Love Song meet Viva la Vida)
Christina Perri
Bruno Mars
Adele
Aqualung & Lucy Schwartz (Cold is amazing! And my fave!)
Skylar Grey
Lady Antebellum
Taylor Swift (of course she's my favorite country singer!)
Feature & Follow Friday
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between bloggers. First you leave your name here, then you create a
post on your own blog that links back here and then you visit as
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post that has the #FF image). You follow them, they follow you.
Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you!
Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. The
Feature bloggers are chosen randomly from participants in the Follow
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Feature & Follow Friday
is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort
between bloggers. First you leave your name here, then you create a
post on your own blog that links back here 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!
Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. The
Feature bloggers are chosen randomly from participants in the Follow
Friday or through twitter and blog introductions. If you are
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follow the host blog (parajunkee.com) and the Feature blog to participate in the #FF.
Feature & Follow Friday
is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort
between bloggers. First you leave your name here, then you create a
post on your own blog that links back here 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!
Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. The
Feature bloggers are chosen randomly from participants in the Follow
Friday or through twitter and blog introductions. If you are
interested in becoming a Feature let me know! It is also required to
follow the host blog (parajunkee.com) and the Feature blog to participate in the #FF.
Q: If you could have dinner with your favorite book character, who would you eat with and what would you serve?
A list of characters scramble in my head, but I could only pick one. Weep. Oh, it's killing me!
And the winner is : Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games(my review here). Too many boys crying for my attention, so a settle for a female instead. And I would serve my momma's spaghetti bolognese. Bet she's never had that before. What? It's delicious, I love it, plus I can't cook. Katniss, could you teach me how to strung an arrow or kiss, I dunno, Gale?
Feature & Follow Friday
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between bloggers. First you leave your name here, then you create a
post on your own blog that links back here and then you visit as
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Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you!
Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. The
Feature bloggers are chosen randomly from participants in the Follow
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Q: If you could Weicharacters from a book meet and form an epic
storyline with characters from a TV series, which characters would you
choose and why?
I'm having hallucinations of Rosemary Hathaway of Vampire Academy (my review here) meeting with the Bones gang, especially Dr Temperance "Bones" Brennen. Vampire meets a very practical normal human being, I could just imagine the laughs I will get.
** Check out my interview with debut author Rhiannon Paille on 14 Oct!
Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort between bloggers. First you leave your name here, then you create a post on your own blog that links back here 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!
Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. The Feature bloggers are chosen randomly from participants in the Follow Friday or through twitter and blog introductions. If you are interested in becoming a Feature let me know! It is also required to follow the host blog (parajunkee.com) and the Feature blog to participate in the #FF.
Question : Let's step away from books for a second and get personal. What T-Shirt slogan best describes you?
Err... None? My tees are mostly plains and the ones that has slogan doesn't describe me very well. Unless you count in "Love the Earth". Or find one that says "Lunatic Bookworm" or "Nuts".
Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort between bloggers. First you leave your name here, then you create a post on your own blog that links back here 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!
Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. The Feature bloggers are chosen randomly from participants in the Follow Friday or through twitter and blog introductions. If you are interested in becoming a Feature let me know! It is also required to follow the host blog (parajunkee.com) and the Feature blog to participate in the #FF.
Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort between bloggers. First you leave your name here, then you create a post on your own blog that links back here 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!
Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. The Feature bloggers are chosen randomly from participants in the Follow Friday or through twitter and blog introductions. If you are interested in becoming a Feature let me know! It is also required to follow the host blog (parajunkee.com) and the Feature blog to participate in the #FF.
Q. Let's step away from besties...What is the worst book that you've ever read and actually finished?
Not that I actually read any book that was so unbearable, but the book I dislike (dislike, not hate) most has to be a shortened version of Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope. Not that the story itself wasn't interesting, but it is the language that's annoying. Old style English gone replaced by everyday language, plus the actions are minimum. We're 15 years old and we have to read a seventy pages plus novel (extremely simple English)! My seven year old cousin should be the one reading it. Still, I have to finish the novel for Lit. Sigh.
P.S. Do you think I should buy Wither (Lauren DeStefano) or Divergent (Veronica Roth) or Red Glove (Holly Black)? Pick one 'cause my budget's limited.
Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort between bloggers. First you leave your name here, then you create a post on your own blog that links back here 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!
Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. The Feature bloggers are chosen randomly from participants in the Follow Friday or through twitter and blog introductions. If you are interested in becoming a Feature let me know! It is also required to follow the host blog (parajunkee.com) and the Feature blog to participate in the #FF.
Question : ACK! Your favorite book/movie character (example Hermione Granger played by the Emma chick) just walked into the room! Who is it and what would be your first reaction? You get extra points if you include visual stimulation.
Robert Pattinson, a.k.a. Edward Cullen waltzes into the room I'm in... I see him coming through the door, walking to where I'm sitting. Just in a flash, he's in front of me. "Hi!" he says.
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...
...
Yup. Shocked into total silence. And then a long stream of stammer. "Oh Rob, you...you're...the...the mos...most...".
Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort between bloggers. First you leave your name here, then you create a post on your own blog that links back here 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!
Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. The Feature bloggers are chosen randomly from participants in the Follow Friday or through twitter and blog introductions. If you are interested in becoming a Feature let me know! It is also required to follow the host blog (parajunkee.com) and the Feature blog to participate in the #FF.
Genre Wars! What's your favorite genre and which book in that genre made it your favorite?
My favorite genre... Has to be YA! My first English (300 pages plus) novel is YA and I had fallen in love ever since. Fave book(s) - The Night World series by L. J Smith. First book(series) I came into contact too. And I'm starting to like dystopian, a result of reading The Hunger Games.
Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort between bloggers. First you leave your name here, then you create a post on your own blog that links back here 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!
Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. The Feature bloggers are chosen randomly from participants in the Follow Friday or through twitter and blog introductions. If you are interested in becoming a Feature let me know! It is also required to follow the host blog (parajunkee.com) and the Feature blog to participate in the #FF.
The magic book fairy pops out of your cereal box and says "you and your favorite character (from a book of course) can switch places!" Who are you going to switch with?
Rose Hathaway from Vampire Academy! What's not to love : gorgeous, smokin' hot, witty, adventurous and badass Guardian. She also has her soulmate, Dimitri and best friend, Lissa at her side. Plus, her parents rocks!
