Welcome to the Feature & Follow
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!
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.
All features are chosen randomly to be the feature. They are not chosen by content or name.
Our Feature Nina @ J’adore Happy Endings
When did you start blogging?
I started blogging since September 2009.
What is your favorite part of book blogging?
My favourite part of book blogging is getting to know other bloggers and authors. And also get to know readers with similar reading taste. I love that!
What is your favorite book(s)?
There are a lot of books that I consider my favourite. A couple of my favourites are Emma by Jane Austen (I love rereading this book!), From What I Remember by Stacey Kramer & Valerie Thomas (one of my favourite contemporary books this year) and Carrie Pilby by Caren Lissner (love!).
What has been the best thing that has happened to you because of book blogging?
The comments that people leave at my blog. That always puts a smile on my face! The love from other bloggers, reaching blogging goals, reading books that are recommended to me, but are out of my comfort zone and absolutely loving them.
Q: What is the BIGGEST word you’ve seen used in a book lately – that made you stop and look it up? Might as well leave the definition & book too.
I actually haven’t looked up a word in a long while now! But, let’s pretend I just read Emma by Jane Austen. A couple of the words that I had to look up were: boast (show-off), caprice (a sudden desire) & alacrity (liveliness and eagerness).
Q: What is the BIGGEST word you’ve seen used in a book lately – that made you stop and look it up? Might as well leave the definition & book too.
<a href="http://parajunkee.com/category/ff" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7053/6778552714_5a75be99b4_o.jpg" /></a>RULES
To join the fun and make new book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:
- (Required) Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Hosts {Parajunkee & Alison Can Read}
- (Required) Follow our Featured Bloggers
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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”
- If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love…and the followers
- If you’re new to the follow friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!
Happy Follow Friday!
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Don’t think I’d want to know what ANY of the slang from 50 Shades of Grey meant.
Don’t think I’d want to know what ANY of the slang from 50 Shades of Grey meant.
I know! I was trying to remember it to give the definition…it was a little odd.
I think this question is going to have some really out there responses. I apologize for any unwanted information on my site. My word was unexpected when I came upon it and really I felt a little bad for sharing. However, maybe more people are familiar with the term than I think.
Have a great weekend!
Slang is hard sometimes, being an Aussie sometimes I find some American words I have to check out! Thanx for sharing
Naomi @ Nomi’s Paranormal
Palace
50 Shades huh? I swear I’m not judging.;)
My F&F
Thanks again for co-hosting!
Really. That’s interesting! I can’t remember when I had to look a word up last!
Here’s my Follow Friday
Have a GREAT weekend!
Old Follower
Thank you for having me as your feature!
I haven’t read Fifty Shades of Grey, but ‘m sure if I ever read the book I probably end up looking words too. Happy Friday!
Hopping through! I love it when people comment as well! Nice to meet new people and chat with them about books!
http://picturemereading.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/meme-feature-and-follow-friday-complicated-word/
Happy Friday, I hope you all have a great weekend!
Here’s my FF.
Ashley
#BookNerd
Have a fantastic Friday! Hopping through sharing the FF love
Hey there! This is my second week doing this! Loving this feature so far! Have a great Friday!
Thanks for hosting this. I’ve been watching it for a while now, and this is my first week participating!
Here’s my Follow Friday post
Great post and question… hard one today!
Old follower.
Christina @ Ensconced in YA
My FF
Thanks for hosting and I’m not a fan of FSG, never read it. Stop by my F&F if you can! Thanks!My Friday Blog Hop
Michelle @ Mom With A Kindle
So lovely to meet you and all of your amazing friends…I am so happy to
discover new interesting bloggers…Kisses and congrats on the
initiative
My second week doing this too! Good question also.
MA Church
http://machurch00.blogspot.com/
Difficult question! But I love it. Unfortunately I don’t have a good answer to this one, but I love everyone else’s answers.
Here’s my F&F: http://www.justhonest.net/memes/2012/09/feature-follow-biggest-word-used-in-a-book/
I didn’t have a very good answer either.
lol, that whole book was just lame, lol,
anyway, wont get started on the 1,000 things wrong with that book, lol
Here is mine
Follow Friday Hop
Great question. I went with FSOG too…Here’s my F&F
Rose @ The Book List
Whoops! Here’s my F&F http://thebooklistreviews.blogspot.com/2012/09/feature-follow-friday-1.html
I actually would have to look that up too, Have a great weekend!
I just signed up for this but am computer illiterate and am brand new at blogging. Looks like fun to be on here though!