Feature & Follow Friday #55

Welcome to Feature & Follow Friday (err Thursday) on Parajunkee.com

If you are new to the #FF fun, Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort between bloggers. Feature & Follow Friday is now hosted by TWO hosts, Rachel of Parajunkee 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!

*Thanks so much to Rachel for allowing me to be part of the Follow Friday fun. Parajunkee is one of the best blogs out there and FF is a highlight of the blogging community. The FF has been one of my favorite parts of my week for over a year and I'm so excited to help my fellow book bloggers get to know each other better.

How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, 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! Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. If you are interested in becoming a Feature click on the drop down link above FEATURES > Feature & Follow Friday and get on the waiting list! It is also required, that if you participate you must follow the hosts (Parajunkee & Alison Can Read) and the two Feature blogs.

Our Feature - The Bloggers of: A Novella's Tale

Lauren is my name :) I started blogging because I needed a way to somehow drain all my book wormish-ness. Probably my first 'serious' read was, like many others, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. When I was the toddler though, I'd see bits and pieces of Potter merchandise everywhere and be like: "Ew! No way will I EVER like Harry Potter!" I certainly proved myself wrong, though. Why I hated H.P. is still a mystery yet to be solved...

These days though, I do explore other universes apart from the wonderful world of Harry Potter. I naturally find it difficult to pick and choose favourites, but if I had to decide on my three favourite books, they would be 'Before I Fall', 'The Hunger Games' and 'Wintergirls'. I mostly read young-adult fiction, but what I really love about this genre is the wide variety of themes that fall into it. For example, my three favourite books of all time are about time travel, a dystopian world and anorexia, respectively.

On my currently reading shelf is 'Divergent'. I do understand that I'm considerably late to reading it, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. Here's a bit of trivia: if I belonged to a faction in the Divergent-world, I think I would be in Amity. Anyway, I hope they make a movie adaption of it!

Finally, I'm really looking forward to life later on (and I've still got ages to go, I can tell you that!) and not only future book releases, but EVERYTHING in general. There's so much to look forward to in one day, that you almost forget that there are many, many other ones there for you to spend later on.

Happy reading, and happy Friday!

Q. Name 3 authors that you would love to sit down and spend an hour or a meal with just talking about either their books or get advice on writing from?

Two of my answers are going to be boring: Stephenie Meyer and JK Rowling. I desperately want to meet both of them. They've inspired me so much as a reader and a writer. I'd want to get a few writing tips from them. But mostly I'd just want to know secrets. I'd probably spend the entire meal grilling Stephenie about all the nitty gritty details about the Cullens. As great as the Twilight Guide is, most of my questions were left unanswered...Grrr... I also have lots of little questions about the wizarding world that I desperately want to know. My meal, no matter how tasty looking, would definitely go untouched.

I'm going to try to be somewhat unique for my third author and answer Jennifer Donnelly. Revolution was one of the best books I've read so far in 2011. I'm a huge fan of historical fiction. I loved how Jennifer combined contemporary and historical fiction into her book. Plus, her writing is both beautiful and readable - a perfect combination. I'd love to learn how she researches her stories and get some writing tips.

Now for the Follow Fun!

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RULES To join the fun and make new book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:

1. (Required) Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Hosts {Parajunkee & Alison Can Read}
2. (Required) Follow our Featured Bloggers - We Fancy Books & Unrequited Desire
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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"
6. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followers
7. 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! Follow it up with your twitter address if you want to get that one out!

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