Feature and Follow Friday #175

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 - Rainy Dayz Reviewz

1. When did you start blogging?

I'm actually really new at blogging itself. I started in September. Before that I just kept up on Goodreads for over 2 years now.

2. What is your favorite part of book blogging?

Having an outlet for my love of books. My family isn't very interested in hearing me either gush about my favorite books or rant about something I don't like in a book.

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

Mostly Paranormal Romance but I've been trying to broaden my horizons and try other genres lately.

4. What are your favorite books?

It's really hard for me to pick just one book. My all time favorite series is The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson.

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

I get a huge thrill whenever someone responds to one of my posts. It's great when they say my post made them decide to try a book.

Q: Are there any book to movie adaptations where you think the movie is better than the book?

Before I get to this week's question, I have to share one of the coolest things ever to happen to me. Last weekend, we were in Miami. I went down to the hotel gym Saturday morning to exercise. When I stepped off the elevator on the floor where the gym is located, there were security people everywhere. About 10-15 people I think. They wanded me with a portable metal/weapons detector, thanked me, and let me go through. So I went around the corner and walked into the gym. 

There were more security people just outside the gym, but in the gym itself, there were only four people. Three people were running on the treadmill. And one person was about two feet to my left. He was either putting weights away or just finishing up doing push-ups, I couldn't tell. I look over and it is...President Obama! 

Can you believe that?! Two feet away from me! Sadly, I didn't say anything to him. Since the other exercisers were ignoring him, I got this vibe that it wouldn't be appropriate to speak to him. He left a few minutes later (as I continued to stare at him open mouthed and slowly back my way over to the elliptical). He did smile at me though. That was something at least. So that's my celebrity encounter of the week!

All right, onto the question.

I love the Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea movies. Anne of Avonlea in particular I think was superior to the book (really it's a combination of Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, and Anne of Windy Poplars.

I also thought the 1993/1994 movies The Secret Garden and A Little Princess exceeded their respective books. To Kill a Mockingbird is an equally wonderful book and movie. I also think Mary Poppins is better than P.L. Travers' books. Hmm...what others? I'll have to think more.

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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.

Follow my blog with Bloglovin

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:

You Are It! We are playing #FF tag this week. Comment on as many blogs as you can, even if they aren’t participating in #FF. Just say Happy #FF! At the end of your comment. Keep a running total if you want and update your post with it. The bigger the number the more impressed we will be!

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