Feature and Follow Friday #153

Welcome to the Feature & Follow

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Gain new followers and make new friends with the Book Blogger Feature & Follow! If this is your first time here, welcome! You are about to make some new friends and gain new followers -- but you have to know -- the point of this hop is to follow other bloggers also. I follow you, you follow me.

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee's View 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!

How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, (using the linky tools -- keep scrolling!) 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!

What sets this Hop apart from others, is our Feature. Each week we will showcase a Featured Blogger, from all different genres and areas. Who is our Feature today? Find out below. Just remember it is required, if you participate, to follow our Features and you must follow the hosts (Parajunkee & Alison Can Read) as a courtesy. How do you follow someone? Well, if you have a preference, state it in your #FF post. A lot of blogs are transitioning to Wordpress in which they do not have the luxury of GFC, so an RSS subscription is appreciated or if you choose an email subscription. If you don't have GFC please state in your post how you would like to be followed.

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How To Become a Featured Blog?

We pick our featured blogs randomly each week from the blogs who participated the week before.

Please be sure to feature your e-mail address clearly on your blog. Either on the main blog, on a Contact page, or on an About Me page. If I can't find your email easily, I will choose a different blog to feature.

Our Feature - The Book Stop

1. When did you start blogging?

I started my blog, The Book Stop, not too long ago actually. April 16th this year was the day I decided to just go ahead and start my blog.

2. What is your favorite part of book blogging?

Wow, there are so many great things about book blogging! I think my favourite would be the amazing community of bloggers. I have made so many friends since I started blogging. From Goodreads to Twitter, the book blogging community is everywhere! I get so excited when I see that someone has commented on one of my posts, and it really makes me feel great that there is someone that actually enjoyed reading a post of mine! I also love how connected you are with authors. I've had so many great conversations with some of my favourite authors! There are lots of perks of being a book blogger, I love it so much!

3. What type of books do you mainly blog about?

I read a lot of different genres, but most of my reviews are of YA books. I still love adult books though! My favourite genres are contemporary, dystopia, mystery and humour. I try to review every book I read, and I like to go into detail about what I liked and disliked about the book. I just have a wide interest of books!

4. What is your favorite book(s)?

Oh, wow. This is always a hard question, because there are so many books that I've read and loved! Okay, well recently I read a brilliantly written book by Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown. It had such a unique story line, and I really admire Vikki Wakefield's writing style. So that's definitely one of my favourite books! But I also love the Divergent series, Gone series, Monument 14 and The Cold Eye of Heaven.

5. What has been the best thing that has happened to you because of book blogging?

So many great things have come out of blogging! Well this didn't really happen because of book blogging, but I got to personally meet Michael Grant, author of one of my favourite series 'Gone', when he came to Dublin earlier this year! I had such a great time and got to ask him lots of questions over a glass of coke. I was also so happy when two of my favourite authors, Vikki Wakefield and Emmy Laybourne sent me some book swag just because I spread my love of their books on Twitter! Authors are awesome! But I have experienced so much since I started book blogging!

Q: Activity: Spine Poetry. Create a line of poetry with your book spines (take a picture). Not feeling creative? Tell us about your favorite poem.

Here's a few of the books I got at BEA (still haven't done my post-BEA posts). A poem...let's see...I hate writing poetry, but oh well:

Heartbeat

You Look Different

Invisibility

Just Like Fate

Easy

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Now for the Follow Fun!

With GFC going the way of the dodo bird for many bloggers, there is no better time to start following blogs via RSS feed. If you use a reader, it would be great if you followed my RSS directly.

We have a new button, so update your blogs if you are used to doing this meme!

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
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. If you are using WordPress or another CMS that doesn't have GFC (Google Friends Connect) state in your posts how you would like to be followed
6. 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"
7. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followers
8. If you're new to the follow friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!

Next Week's Question:

Share your favorite literary quote!

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