Feature & Follow Friday #74

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 - Fic Book Reviews

I have loved reading books since I was a little kid, and still loving it until now that Im-not-that-young-age :). ok Harry Potter was the first young adult books I've read. Moving on, I decided just this month of February this year 2011 to share my views about these books I am reading and to be able to connect with those book lovers like me. Its fun right? After work, I kinda like to wanna fly home and get on with my laptop :) So now that I have this blog of mine, Im always thrilled putting reviews on my page and of course meeting new friends and having friends here on this blogging community and joining these fun memes like Parajunkee's Follow my book blog Friday.

Question: What is your biggest pet peeve when it comes to books? Maybe you don't like love triangles or thin plots? Tell us about it!

A few pet peeves:

1. Mean Girls: I don't like books that puts one girl on a pedestal as the evil queen bee. That's not the experience I remember from high school - where one girl and her friends terrorizes the other students and rules the school. Middle school is a different story, but I don't think bullying is necessarily a ubiquitous high school experience (not that it doesn't exist, of course).

2. Cardboard Villains: I think the ideal villain has some goodness in them - or at least is charismatic enough that we are interested in them. Cardboard evil characters belong in children's books. I expect more of YA.

3. Absent Parents: This is mixed one. I don't mind absent parents if there's a good reason for them not to be there - where their absence is part of the plot. But I don't like books where the characters' parents just always happen to be gone. Too convenient a literary device. I respect books with strong family elements. Even if the main character's family is absent, I like having some family presence in the side characters. It adds layers to a book.

4. Dark and Mysterious Guys: This is sort of mixed. I like my dark, handsome, mysterious guys...to a point. It's an overdone characterization. Because of that, I think books where the boy is sweet and nice is fresh and fun - like Lola and the Boy Next Door.

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 - Fic Book Reviews & Lauren Gets Literal.
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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