Feature & Follow Friday #64

Welcome to Feature & Follow Friday (err Thursday) on Parajunkee.com

If you are new to the #FF fun, Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort between bloggers. Feature & Follow Friday is now hosted by TWO hosts, Rachel of Parajunkee 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!

*Thanks so much to Rachel for allowing me to be part of the Follow Friday fun. Parajunkee is one of the best blogs out there and FF is a highlight of the blogging community. The FF has been one of my favorite parts of my week for over a year and I'm so excited to help my fellow book bloggers get to know each other better.

How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, 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 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! Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger.

If you are interested in becoming a Feature click on the link here for Follow Friday Feature or go to Parajunkee and click the drop down link above FEATURES > Feature & Follow Friday and get on the waiting list!

It is also required, that if you participate you must follow the hosts (Parajunkee & Alison Can Read) and the two Feature blogs.

Our Feature - The World of the Spork Master

My name is Liz, and I blog over at The World of the Spork Master. I’m a high school Senior, and a huge nerd. I LOVE books, movies, and art. I share a little bit of everything on my blog, but it seems it all ties back to books!

I have two dogs - Blaze and Jasper - and a lot of cats. They consume a lot of my time. Other than reading, I love writing, photography, tea, Italian food, music (both playing and listening), biking, and creating adventures with friends.

I started blogging at the beginning of 2011 as part of my New Years Resolutions. I wanted to create a blog and update it consistently. I had no idea what it would turn into, I just went with it. I've never had success before, but no matter what happens, I'm determined to have a blog. Book wise, I mainly read YA books with themes of Fantasy, Paranormal, Sci-fi, and what have you. Mainly whatever I can get my hands on. I want to someday have my own library in my home, consisting of books beyond YA. I'm just absolutely crazy about books!

Q. Do you have a favorite series that you read over and over again? Tell us a bit about it and why you keep on revisiting it?

It's funny how every #FF question seems to lead to Twilight for me. I don't plan it that way. But Twilight definitely is a series I keep coming back to. If I'm having a bad day, Twilight are the books I turn to. Losing myself in that series is the only way to stop my heart from pounding and my stomach from aching. It's amazingly cathartic.

Another series I turn to again and again is also a frequent #FF answer: Harry Potter. I re-read the series every year. I will probably start them in the next few weeks. It's amazing that I discover new things each time I read these books and fall in love with them even more.

Now that we've gotten our frequent answers over with, I'll list a few others. I adore the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace. These books are set in Minnesota during the early 1900s. They are semi-autobiographical. The books tell the story of Betsy and her best friends Tacy and Tib from the age of 5 until their marriages. I didn't read them until I moved to Minnesota in my early twenties, but I absolutely adore them and can read them over and over.

Another forever love series is Anne of Green Gables. These are one of the few books where the movies are as good as the books (except for that last one...ick). I read Anne of Green Gables when I was about 8 and liked it. I didn't read the entire series until I was in college. Then I fell in love with the books. Anne of the Island is probably my favorite.



A modern series that I adore is the Caster Chronicles series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. I really enjoyed Beautiful Creatures and Beautiful Darkness when I first read them (although the second book was hard to get into). I re-read them recently and became totally obsessed. Sometimes it's easier to absorb books the second time around. I can't wait for the release of Beautiful Chaos.


Now for the Follow Fun!

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RULES 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 - We Fancy Books & The Little Book Blog
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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"
6. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followers
7. If you're new to the follow friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!

Happy Follow Friday! Follow it up with your twitter address if you want to get that one out!

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