Guidlines:
- Thank the blogger who nominated you and link back to their website.
- Post the award's logo on your blog.
- Answer the ten questions you have been asked.
- Nominate 10 other bloggers and ask them 10 other questions.
Questions:
When and why did you start blogging?
I started in October of 2012 after my sister pressured me to. A whole community who loved books as much as I do? Sign me up.
What is your favorite genre and why?
This is awful. How do you pick? I guess I'd have to say fantasy. I honestly love many genres for different reasons. Contemporary comes close because it was my first love and dystopian is third because it introduced me to a whole new world of books. But I guess I'd have to pick fantasy because I have read so many great (and diverse) books in this genre that I think happy thoughts.
Recommend a book you love that you think deserves more hype.
I'll always say Gallagher Girls, but I LOVED Rites of Passage by Joy N. Hensley and didn't see a lot of feedback. Maybe I missed something, but I think it deserved a lot more hype.
Aside from reading, what are your favorite hobbies?
Of course I get asked this when I feel completely lost in a list of have-tos. I guess working out, but that's a love/hate relationship. Basketball, maybe. Does watching TV count?
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill, and Out of Sight, Out of Time by Ally Carter (although The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes comes close)
Who are your favorite authors and why?
Ally Carter, hands down, because she wrote two amazing series, which was a stepping stone for me in YA. Meg Cabot, Janette Rallison, and Jen Calonita, because their contemporaries make me happy. Marissa Meyer, because she's a genius. And so many more.
What is the best book you have read so far this month?
Well, I haven't read this much this month, but even so, The Start of Me and You by Emery Lord.
What book is responsible for the reader you are today?
I could take this question so many ways. If it's for the "more mature than juvenile" reading, then The Hawk and the Jewel by Lori Wick. If it's to show that my sister actually has good tastes (which is very important to how I am now), then it's Seven Daughters and Seven Sons by Barbara Cohen and Bahija Lovejoy. But if it's for the diverse-loving reader (who doesn't snub non-contemporary books) I am today then it's all to The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
I over-answered this question, but I didn't think it fair to ignore such important books.
Do you collect anything other than books?
You could probably count notebooks/notepads. I love notebooks and never want to throw them away. I'm such a pro-notepad kind of girl too (yellow legal pads make me happy to write on).
Tell us a weird fact about yourself that we probably didn't know.
I'm super picky in my personal music. I don't mind listening to the radio (I actually enjoy it) or to others' music. But when I'm listening to my headphones, I can only stand certain music. Usually it has to make me feel something, I can daydream to it. I love OneRepublic and all, but oldies are my jam.
My nominees:
1. Jen at Starry-Eyed Revue
2. Lisa at Lost in Lit
3. Danielle at Love at First Page
4. Kel at Booked til Tuesday
5. Emily at Forever Literary
6. Emma at Awkwordly Emma
7. Jessica at Just Another Teen Reading
8. Marley at Flyleaf Review
9. Lauren at Love is not a triangle
10. YOU!
Questions for YOU:
1. What YA book to movie adaption is your favorite?
2. Do you listen to music while you read and if so, who's your go-to artist?
3. What's the best book you read this year?
4. What's your favorite and least favorite genre to read?
5. What did you rate the last book you read and why? (DNFs count)
6. Do you like reading outside or inside better?
7. Who's your favorite OTP? (one true pairing/fictional couple)
8. Gifs or no gifs in reviews?
9. Do you read more ebooks or physical copies?
10. What's one book you wish everyone would read?
What would you answer to the questions I was asked and to the questions I'm asking you? Tell me below or make your own blog post!
These are my short answers:
ReplyDelete1. THE FAULT IN OUR STARS. (Yesss...)
2. Not really, because it is pretty distracting. If I do, usually Taylor Swift (she's my reading buddy :))
3. UM. UM. Scarlet by Marissa Meyer? Yeah, probably .So many good books.
4. Favorite is dystopian or contemporary. I don't really like steampunk, and I don't read horror.
5. Oh! I rated the book Half-Brother by Kenneth Oppel a B+ (I give grades cuz I'm nerdy that way.)
6. Definitely inside. I usually like to go inside my covers and get all wrapped up like chrysalis.
7. Kat Bishop and W. W. Hale/Finnick Odair and Annie Cresta/Jason Grace and Piper McLean (if you don't know any one of these, SHAME.)
8. Sometimes. I love putting them in, but it sometimes takes a lot of time.
9. Definitely physical copies. I just like flipping pages and such.
10. The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. Hands down.
Tags like this are always fun. I especially like the creatively themed ones - the best one I've seen is the "Seven Deadly Sins" tag with questions like "What is your most expensive book?" to represent greed. I loved reading your answers - I'm reading Rites of Passage right now, and I completely agree with you that it deserves more attention. I especially adore the setting. (I could never survive in a military school for so many reasons.)
ReplyDeleteThanks for tagging me! *tries to scrounge up spare moments in an effort to answer questions*
Thank you for nominating me! I need to remember to do this!!
ReplyDeleteI have The Start of Me and You to read this month; I'm excited. I hope I'll like the MC better than Open Road Summer, but I'm sure the writing will be just as pretty.
Thank you for nominating me, Sunny! I COMPLETELY agree about Rites of Passage. That book needs lots more hype and a sequel. It's PERFECT except for that one small thing…The Start of Me and You was soooooo good! Glad you loved it too.
ReplyDeleteYou have some great answers in there! All Our Yesterdays is one of my favorites, too. And thank you for the nomination! I will get around to that post now that the LSAT is over. :)
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