Thursday, July 12, 2012

Follow Friday(17)

FF 2012 Feature & Follow #80

Follow Friday is a weekly event hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read.


This week's Question is:
 
Q: What drove you to start book blogging in the first place?
 
This is such an awesome question this week. There is a bunch of little things that made me want to start book blogging. First and formost was my friend. She started a book blog a few months before I started mine. I saw how awesome and amazing it was to get out all of your emotions and feelings about the books you were reading and to actually be able to tell others about them. Amy still has her blog and I aways credit her for the inspiration of my blog. =] If you want to check out my #1 inspiration the link to her blog is here. She gives amazing detailed reviews of all the books she reads. Her reviews are just awesome. =] Another thing is, I didn't even know that there was this huge community of book bloggers out there. There has to be at least a million of us. That is another reason that attracted me to this great world of book blogging. Plus all of the awesome giveaways and review books that are offered is another great perk of this blogoverse. I really can not wait to continue my journey of book blogging, have my reviews improve even more than they are now and be able to get a lot more followers to be able to talk to about awesome amazing books.
 
Happy Follow Friday.
Thanks for everyone who follows me, I will follow you back. =]
 
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Don't forget to Enter my Giveaway of Hippocampus by Tom Tancin(The First in the Atlantis Revolution Series) Here. =]
Thanks for Visiting
 
and
Happy Reading. =]
-Michael
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24 comments:

  1. JoieJuly 12, 2012 at 11:57 PM

    Great answer! I had no idea the book blogging community was so big until I really got into it! Now, I can't imagine NOT book blogging!

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  2. ChrystinaJuly 13, 2012 at 12:45 AM

    I didn't know the book blogging community was this big either, and I love it, I don't know how I ever did without it! I never had anyone to talk to about books all of these years, but I'm enjoying it now :) Thanks for stopping by, I followed you back.
    Chrystina @BookLiaison

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  3. Amber at The Musings of ALMYBNENRJuly 13, 2012 at 12:49 AM

    Same as you and Chrystina...pleasantly surprised to learn of this large community two years ago. :)

    My FF

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  4. Lisa NguyenJuly 13, 2012 at 12:52 AM

    Being able to be in the book blogging community is such an amazing experiment! :)

    My Follow Friday: http://shatterbooks.blogspot.com/2012/07/tgif-4-follow-friday-3.html

    Lisa @ Shatterbooks

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  5. UnknownJuly 13, 2012 at 1:04 AM

    thank you for the kind comment michael new follower

    candi

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  6. NingJuly 13, 2012 at 1:16 AM

    I don't have a friend like that but I know what you mean. this is such a great community (the occasional drama not withstanding) and I love discovering new books through other blogs!

    My FF

    Ning @ Reading by Kindle Fire

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    1. Michael @ The Bookshelf ReviewJuly 13, 2012 at 12:53 PM

      Thanks for your comment. For some reason I can't comment on you Disqus thing. Hope you see this. Awesome answer on your blog. I love that you stuck with it and kept going and that you just needed to share your love of books with the world. Thanks for sharing and visiting my FF.

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  7. BLHmistressJuly 13, 2012 at 1:47 AM

    That's one thing I still struggle with whether I wrote my reviews well enough but other than that I love blogging.

    Follower

    My FF

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  8. UnknownJuly 13, 2012 at 1:51 AM

    I was the same way and didn't realize how big the community was until I started. But it's awesome. I love it. :) Great answer to an awesome question this week. New follower via LinkyFollowers.

    Pixie
    http://the-bookaholic.blogspot.com

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  9. Katrina (athousand-lives)July 13, 2012 at 2:25 AM

    Thanks for the follow Michael. I don't have a friend like you do but I think the fact that I've made a few through blogging makes up for it.

    katrina
    http://bookie-wookie.blogspot.co.nz

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  10. Linda @ (un)Conventional BookwormsJuly 13, 2012 at 4:29 AM

    Hi Michael :) I'm a new GFC and Linky follower. And here's my FF post sharing why I started blogging.
    Have a great weekend!

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  11. AlexiaJuly 13, 2012 at 4:50 AM

    New GFC follower :) Happy Friday!!
    Alexia - Our FF post

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  12. UnknownJuly 13, 2012 at 5:51 AM

    You gotta love the community! And god yes to your captcha comment, please people, for the love of all things holy take it off! Thanks so much for stopping by My FF! and for the follow, following you now too! Hooray!

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  13. LyraJuly 13, 2012 at 7:03 AM

    I was surprised myself at the huge number of book bloggers around the world. I feel really at home though - everyone's just so nice! :)

    New follower here! My FF

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  14. Jessica @ a GREAT readJuly 13, 2012 at 7:27 AM

    Nice! Book bloggers have really been popping up over the last year or so! When I started in 09, there wasn't nearly as many!

    Here's my Friday Hops

    I was a featured blogger!!

    Have a GREAT weekend!

    Old Follower :)

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  15. AnonymousJuly 13, 2012 at 11:15 AM

    Hi Michael, thanks for stopping by! (haha, love your recovering Potter addict button!) Yes, definitely! I was so surprised as well! I had NO idea the massive number of book-loving bloggers there were, it was a bit overwhelming at first, to be honest.

    New GFC follower!

    Vivian @ Vivaciously, Vivian

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  16. rachelJuly 13, 2012 at 3:40 PM

    I just love the fact that you can just ramble on and on about books in this awesome book blogging community - one of my favourite aspects of blogging!
    Following back via GFC and Twitter too! Thanks for stopping by!

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  17. UnknownJuly 13, 2012 at 4:26 PM

    Why hello there!

    I am returning the love that you showed me earlier on my blog, and I gotta say that it's amazing how many of us have started book blogging because of a friend or word of mouth. Our community is getting bigger by the hour and there is just so much to extract from it. It's awesome!

    I look forward to seeing your stuff in the future.

    I am following you on GFC and Twitter (obviously. lol)

    Melissa @Spews of My Views

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  18. Kathryne (Paperback Fantasies)July 14, 2012 at 7:16 PM

    I didn't know anything about the book blog community before I started blogging. I can see why it would be a huge draw now. I'm returning the follow! Thanks for stopping by.

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  19. UnknownJuly 15, 2012 at 1:58 AM

    Hey there! I just started following you!
    Here is my FF :
    http://cheerfulreviews.blogspot.com/2012/07/feature-follow.html
    Thanks (:

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  20. Lady BluestockingJuly 15, 2012 at 1:32 PM

    Thanks for the words of support--it's always nice to meet like minded people! New Follower, too! =) Hope you had a good weekend!

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  21. Danielle DJuly 15, 2012 at 7:01 PM

    I'm still working my way into the blog-o-sphere, right now I'm working with a blog site doing reviews here and there, but it's still somewhat hard, since most of the autors know the 2 co-founders, and I'm working on getting my name out there also.
    I was surprised by the number of book bloggers when I first started looking around, I'm glad that I have gotten to know a few out you guys out there, and I'm looking foward to meeting more.
    Thanks for the answer to this, and thanks for having this blog :)

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  22. The Housework Can WaitJuly 16, 2012 at 12:53 PM

    How great to have a friend who got you into it! I think the blogging community is awesome, and it would have been great to go into it already knowing someone.

    New follower via GFC!

    Thanks for stopping by my FF!

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  23. Teri HarmanJuly 17, 2012 at 6:34 PM

    Great idea! I followed on GFC. My blog is book-matters.com
    Thanks!

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