15 Day Book Blogger Challenge (Day 15)

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge 

Hosted by April @ Good Books & Good Wine 

Who are your book blogging mentors

I don't really have any mentors I'm super shy. 

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge (Day 14)

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge 

Hosted by April @ Good Books & Good Wine 

Tell us your deal breakers

I can't stand love triangles they drive me nuts. I hate when the guy or girl is torn between another object of their affection. 

I won't read non-fiction. Reading is my escape. 

I think those are the two biggest ones.  

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge (Day 13)

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge 

Hosted by April @ Good Books & Good Wine 

Describe one underappreciated book EVERYONE should read

I love the Ivy Granger series she's by far one of my favorite kick-ass heroines. Her series is newer with only two books but they are awesome!!!! I don't think she get's the attention she deserves. I highly recommend her series to everyone who loves paranormal with a storyline. 

Shadow Sight Review
Ghost Light Review
by E.J. Stevens 

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge (Day 12)

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge 

Hosted by April @ Good Books & Good Wine 

How do you fight blogger Fatigue?

This one is something I've recently been struggling with. I have a huge review list and because I'm so nice I have a hard time saying no. I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. I'm trying to limit my reviews to two books a week giving me the chance to read a couple I want to but because I'm burning out it's been a struggle to finish even 3 books a week. I had such high hopes for 90 books this summer and I'll be lucky with 30. 

My goal is to stay positive and keep working on my piles. 

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge (Day 11)

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge 

Hosted by April @ Good Books & Good Wine 

Show off 5 of your best blog posts!

I'm super shy, plus I don't brag so showing off my top 5 is tough. So I will pick 5 of my favorites. 

1. Review of Marking Time by April White - My new favorite book. 

2. Do You Believe in Voodoo? Blog Tour - My first ever blog tour. 

3. Interview with Allison Pang - An interview with one of my favorite authors. 

4. Terra Tour Posts - I love to tour with Prism Books Tours her tours are unique.  

5. Lancaster House and The Middle Aisle Tour - Another awesome tour by Prism Book Tours. 

What are your top 5?

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge (Day 10)

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge 

Hosted by April @ Good Books & Good Wine 

How do you choose what book to read next?

I can spend hours picking out my next book. 

Recently I've had a never ending review pile. I just can't seem to say no, and I'm nervous it will be the death of me. I've been trying really hard to not accept review copies because I want to read some of the books I've purchased but not gotten around to. 

I've got two lists the review list I pick books from and then my wish list for when I don't have a review book. I also have this cool new jar system so I can draw a random book. I've filled up the jar just not used it yet. Soon I hope. 

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge (Day 9)

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge 

Hosted by April @ Good Books & Good Wine 

Why do you blog about books. 

I blog about books because I love them so much. I'm a bookaholic, I read while I eat, dream about books while I sleep and spend my awake time thinking about books. I have been obsessed with books since I was a teenager, it's been my passion for most of my life so when the hubby suggested I start a blog I did. It's been an adventure all it's own. Learning the ins and outs. I'm still learning but I love it. I love being able to talk about books, like my current read or just finished. In my normal day to day no one reads books like I do so it's a great outlet for me to share. 

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge (Day 8)

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge 

Hosted by April @ Good Books & Good Wine 

Talk about your blogging quirks. 

Quick Write 15 bullet points of things that appeal to you on blogs. 

1. Reviews I love reading what other people thing. 
2. Meme's love finding new ones to do as well as reading what others share.
3. Author has a great personality
4. The shares a part of who they are outside books on their blog
5. Giveaways! Who doesn't love the chance to win
6. I prefer active bloggers. 
7. Similar reading interests.
8. Easy to navigate
9. Something that makes the blog unique & interesting

It's really hard to come up with 15 I love exploring new blogs and always seem to find something unique and interesting to make me want to stalk them. 

How about you?

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge (Day 7)

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge 

Hosted by April @ Good Books & Good Wine 

Talk about your blogging quirks. 

I don't really have many just a couple. 

I prefer to blog in the morning before the kids and hubby wake up. If I don't get it done before the kids or hubby wake it can take me all day to get it done. Which drives me nuts, because I hate being a slacker. 

I expect myself to be able to read more books than I can and get frustrated when I don't read as many as planned. 

I'm a perfectionist when it comes to my blog. So when things don't look right or I don't have everything perfect it drives me nuts. 

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge (Day 6)

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge 

Hosted by April @ Good Books & Good Wine 

Describe how you shop for books. 

This is a loaded question. I'm always shopping for books.

 I always check out book's in stores seeing if they have anything I want or can't live without. 

It drives my hubby nuts, because I won't leave till I get a chance to look at books. 

I order online via amazon because it tends to be cheaper especially since I order books a lot. 

I also daily check out amazon's freebie list adding dozens of books weekly. 

I have a huge shopping list on amazon of books I'm looking to buy just haven't yet. 

I wish we had a used bookstore nearby I would be always stopping by.

I'm a little obsessed when it comes to shopping for books. 

Have a great day! 

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge (Day 5)

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge 

Hosted by April @ Good Books & Good Wine 

Recommend a tear jerker?

My choice is Always and Forever
by Karla J. Nellenbach
Be sure to check out my (Review)

It's a tough subject but the author has created a beautiful story telling Mia's experience. The last 100 pages had me crying but it's an amazing story and well worth the tears. 

What tearjerker do you suggest?

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge (Day 4)

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge 

Hosted by April @ Good Books & Good Wine 

What's the last book you flung across the room? 

I'm too careful of books to fling them across the room. I would be afraid to hurt them. I tend to give every book an honest shot. So the last one I didn't enjoy was Nightshade by Andrea Cremer. I had issues with the love triangle so it was metaphorically tossed across the room (ebook would have been a bad idea).

The other most recent book would be The Elite by Kiera Cass because I didn't have the final book The One. 

How about you?

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge (Day 3)

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge 

Hosted by April @ Good Books & Good Wine 

Who are your blogging BFFS?

I'm super shy so I don't really have any. However I have a long list of blogs I love to stalk. Since I haven't made any blogger friends yet I love to read my email, it allows me to see what other bloggers have to share, are reading and just all kinds of bookish stuff. I also love bloglovin because it allows me to check out many blogs easily. Drawback is I can spend hours reading emails and on bloglovin. Since I don't have any blogging friends yet I'd love to make some. 

Who are your blogging BFFS?

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge (Day 2)

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge 

Hosted by April @ Good Books & Good Wine 

What's your bedtime reading ritual?

I'm unable to fall asleep without reading even if it's just 5 minutes.  We recently purchased a king size bed, a memory foam with a gel top. It's really hard to stay awake because it's so comfortable. Even with my super amazing bed I can't sleep if I don't read, typically at least 30 minutes but I'll stay up till I can't keep my eyes open reading. It's not unheard of for me to find a book or kindle cuddled up with me in the middle of the night. 

What's your bedtime reading ritual? 

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge (Day 1)

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge 

Hosted by April @ Good Books & Good Wine 

15 book related confession 

1. I'm obsessed with buying books even if i doubt I will be able to read them this year I just can't help it. I have books from years ago still on my TBR shelf and you can't imagine the ebooks I've got on my kindle. 

2. I'm a dork I have 3 keyboard kindle 3's . My first till it broke purchased a new one only to find out they would replace the broken one so I had a extra and now I have my hubby's hardly used since we added a keyboard to the house. Plus I have the hd fire I use to read PDF's and at night. So in total I have 4. Why 3 keyboards? I love being able to have them read books while I'm multitasking even if it is a little computerish so I have backups. Yup I'm a dork. 

3. I never leave home without a kindle charger, my keyboard kindle, fire kindle and a book. You can never be too careful, I like to always be prepared. 

4. I'm cover obsessed, hence I love the fire and physical books. I have been making lots of backgrounds for my computer and kindle fire to look at with collages of covers. 

5. I hate to loan out books because most of the time they don't come back in the same shape. 

6. I have a hard time saying no when asked to review a book. It's gotten so bad I've hardly read anything on my non-review pile in ages unless I'm sneaking them in. I just want to help everyone promote their book. 

7. I'm a snob I don't care to read anything but fiction. 

8. I have over 4000 books on my Tbr list that I hope one day I'll be able to read. 

9. I love bookmarks to the point I hate using them because I'm afraid they will get damaged I keep them all in a ziplock like and call them "my precious". 

10. My bookshelves are so crammed that they are double and even triple stacked. I just don't have enough room to keep them all together and I'd rather have them all together they tucked all over the house. I like the little library feel. 

11. I don't rent books from the library because I like to own. It's really sad because it would save me thousands of dollars every year but I'd rather have a physical or ebook copy. 

12. I grab every kindle freebie I can because I hope to one day want to read it but I figure I might as well grab it while it's free. I've picked up enough to last a lifetime I'm sure but it doesn't stop my buying obsession. I've got over 2600 ebooks on my amazon account. 

13. I'm super shy so even though I've been blogging over a year I've not really made any close blogging buddies but I keep hoping one day. 

14. I read every email for every blog I follow even if it takes hours to read them all daily. 

15. I prefer to avoid erotica or smut heavy books recently. I've been on a clean romance kick for the last year but I do make exceptions.