Welcome to the Feature & Follow
Increase Blog Followers, gain Book Blog 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!
I’m Featured This Week! Whoot Whoot! So excited! So welcome to my blog, I hope you enjoy it. I am actually going to be changing my blog name and getting a new design coming up pretty soon.
I hope you all keep in touch! I love talking books!
When did you start blogging?
I started blogging a long time ago, maybe 2 or 3 years ago. I started blogging to give me something to do at work when I was bored. I absolutely NEVER expected that I would stick with it. I am a typical Aries, I get bored quick and move on but blogging has managed to stick!
What is your favorite part of book blogging?
My favorite part of book blogging is the community and find new great reads from visiting other peoples blog. I don’t know that I would have picked up more than half of the books that I have if it hadn't been for the book blogging community. And lets face it the free books is pretty cool too! LOL
What is your favorite book(s)?
My favorite series is the Immortals After Dark series by Kresley Cole! I LOVE it! Kresley Cole can do no wrong in my eyes. I even liked her young adult title Poison Princess. If you are curious about the Immortals After Dark series I am giving away the first full length title of the series “A Hunger Like No Other” and it’s SIGNED! You can sign up below. =)
What has been the best thing that has happened to you because of book blogging?
Meeting so many great peeps has been the best part of book blogging for me!
This Weeks Question: Do you mind books with similar ideas to other books? Similar concepts, backgrounds, retellings or pulled-to-publish fanfic?
I don’t mind similar ideas so much. When you read a lot of romance, paranormal especially you will see repeated themes a lot. I mean how many times can you reinvent a vampire novel? And then there is whatever the current fad is like zombies or BDSM. So to a degree it doesn’t phase me but when it is an obvious rip off of some details, then I start to have a problem. When you have the nagging feeling of “Haven’t I read this book already?” then maybe an author took it too far.
Enter the Kresley Cole Giveaway!
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Congrats on being featured this week! Repeated themes don't bother me either, but when I start getting déjà vu while reading a book, that bothers me.
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Congrats on being featured. I agree. I don't mind similar ideas so much as blatant copycating.
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Congrats on the feature! I don't mind somewhat similar ideas, but anything too recycled I'll probably put down. :D Old follower via GFC. My FFs are at Musings on Fantasia and LKHill. Happy Friday! :D
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the feature. I followed via GFC because that will come up in my feed reader. I am Just Another Rabid Reader. Nice to meet you!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on being featured. That's true, paranormal romance themes does get repeated a lot, but if the authors find their own creativity, maybe they can make something more new and special for their readers. ;)
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Cindy @ http://bookaholicfaggots.blogspot.com
I'm ok with retellings and spin-offs, buit I'm not a fan of fan-fic or copycats.
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Julie~ New Adult Addiction
I agree, I don't mind them too much.
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Congrats on the feature.
Mine: http://readingandwritingurbanfantasy.blogspot.com/2012/11/follow-friday-47.html
HI congrats on the feature. Old follower but here's my link PageGirlsPageofBookReviews
ReplyDeleteFav author, that is a tough one. Jessi Kirby, Veronica Roth, Jandy Nelson...
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ReplyDeleteYeah, I had a simialr answer. If you read books of the same genre, you have to expect overlap.
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Marilyn @ Marilyn's Mystery Blog
Definitely agreed with your answer. I think these days, overlaps are pretty inevitable. It just depends on how well the author writes them. Congrats on being featured! New follower. :)
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Congrats on the feature! I agree...all stories have been told before, in one form or another. The authors just need to be creative, that's all.
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Hopping through. Congrats on being the feature! I definitely think that a good author will make you forget that the book is similar to anything else you've read. If you realize the similarities while reading too much, that's a problem.
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Whoo hoo!! You're featured!! Yay!! I agree with you about this weeks Q too.
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Naomi @ Nomi’s Paranormal Palace
old Follower :)
Congrats on the feature! Good answer, when you read a lot in a genre you're definitely going to see repeated themes!
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Congrattzz on being featured! And I agree with you there, I don't mind similar themes, but when it sounds exactly like another book I've read I get annoyed. New GFC follower!
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Congrats on being the featured blogger this week :) I'm your newest follower just hopping on through :)
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Congrats on being featured! I agree with your answer. I'm an old follower, and here's my
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Have a fantastic Friday!
Congrats on being featured! I agree that it becomes too much when you start to see things being repeated almost scenario by scenario.
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I agree! Thankfully, only Stephenie Meyer has sparkling vampires, lol!
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- Kazhy @ My Library in the Making
Congrats on being a feature!
ReplyDeleteI agree. I dislike those obvious rip offs as well.
New follower via Linky! :)
Congrats on being featured today!
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New follower here!
Sarika @ The Readdicts
Congrats on being featured.
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Sabina @ Delirious About Books
Congrats on being featured! I agree with you, if you read a lot of books in one genre you will find the same kind of stories. I'm a new follower, have a great weekend.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you. Don't mind similarities as long as they don't go too far. Congrats on being a feature. New follower. Here's mine: My FF
ReplyDeletehi! I haven't read the Immortals after dark series but I'm told it's a must read and it def sounds like something I would love! Great giveaway! And congrats on getting featured!
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My F&F:http://nightmareonbookstreet.blogspot.com/2012/11/feature-and-follow-2.html
Hi Amanda,
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Kind regards,
Adele.
Congrats on the feature! That is what I love about blogging best as well! Old follower via GFC!
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Awesome, congrats on being on the feature! I'm new to the hop. And thanks for the giveaway! I haven't read any Kresely Cole books, I don't think, though it's possible I have.
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Here's my FF: http://thatgirlreads.blogspot.com/2012/11/to-join-fun-and-make-new-book-blogger.html
(yeah I forgot to add my post title before hitting submit, that's why it seems strange :} )
Congrats on the feature! I totally agree with your answer. I'm an old Linky follower.
ReplyDeleteWhats your favorite Kresley Cole book? Or if your new to KC who is your favorite author? ~ I'm new to KC, but I love many paranormal romance authors, so this book should be right up my alley! :-)
~ Tamara @ Shelf Addiction
Check out my #FF post: http://www.shelfaddiction.com/1/post/2012/11/ff-feature-follow-friday-13.html
Congrats on being featured blogger....and great answer to the question. I would agree. I'm an old follower.
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Happy Reading!
Congrats on being featured this week!
ReplyDeleteGreat answer, I agree. Similar themes are fine, but when it's obvious the author is stealing an idea from somewhere, it's not.
Old follower via GFC.
I entered the giveaway, thanks for hosting that, too! I can't pick just one favorite author. Right now, I'm liking Cassandra Clare's novels.
Here's my FF: https://twitter.com/meganm922/status/266913803692830721
Congrats on being featured and I completely agree with your answer :).
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Cool giveaway. I loved Poison Princess.
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Congrats on being featured! Old follower here via GFC :)
ReplyDeleteI liked all your answers, Kresley Cole is definitely on my list of authors to check out...SOON and I so agree with you on the featured question: if I feel like I've read the book before, we have a problem! Thanks for sharing! Here's my FFF
Micheline @ Lunar Rainbows
Congratulations on being the feature!
ReplyDeleteI agree with your answer; similarities are fine as long as it doesn't feel like you're re-reading another book.
New follower!
Momo @ Where the Mome Raths Outgrabe
Congrats! on being featured, good answer.
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Congrats on being featured! :) I agree that one of the best parts of blogging is the amazing books you come across because of other bloggers! Love that!
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Judith @ Paper Riot
Oooh Yay!! Great Feature!!
ReplyDeleteIAD by Kresley Cole is one of my all time faves too!! Good taste ;)
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~Kayla
http://theramblingsofatoddlersmom.blogspot.com/2012/11/ff-3.html
That's pretty much how I felt, too. I don't mind reading a couple of books in the same sub-genre (witches, or steam punk, fairies, etc), but when the details -- the quirks of the characters, or the setting -- become to similar, then I start to get irritated.
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Woo hoo! Congrats on the feature! I have the IaD series already, but that's a great giveaway. I hope the winner enjoys the book. Already following.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the feature. I enjoyed your answer and will check out the IAD giveaway I love Kresley. New Follower via GFC http://racingtoread.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the feature! I adore Kresley Cole's books too...haven't read Poison Princess yet. I agree that I don't mind similar concepts, but may be hesitant if it is a blatant copy. Old GFC follower.
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Congrats on being featured! I totally agree that without blogging I wouldn't have read half of the books I have this year :) Great answer too. Books in the same genre will always have similar themes and concepts so you can't really escape them.
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Becca @ Lost in Thought
http://lostinthought-becca.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/feature-follow-5.html
Congrats on your feature! I agree with you 100%!
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My FF: http://bibliophilesthoughtsonbooks.blogspot.com/2012/11/follow-friday-23.html
Congrats on being Featured this week! I'm a new follower. My answer was very similar to yours.
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Congratulations on being featured this week! I'm a new follower.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, there's nothing entirely new under the sun, but when you get those deja vu feeling, it's because there's something wrong.
Kar @ Pause Time
New follower. Congrats on being this week's feature good answer by the way hopping through.
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My point too...you can only write so many new, totally never-before-seen concepts. Following. (:
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Hey, congrats on being featured!
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Have a great day!
Old follower. :)
Congrats on being featured this week! I'm an old GFC follower and wish you continued success!
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