Feature and Follow Friday #139

Welcome to the Feature & Follow

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Gain new 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.

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How To Become a Featured Blog?

We pick our featured blogs randomly each week from the blogs who participated the week before.

Please be sure to feature your e-mail address clearly on your blog. Either on the main blog, on a Contact page, or on an About Me page. If I can't find your email easily, I will choose a different blog to feature.

Our Feature - Readiculously-Peachy

1. When did you start blogging?

I had my first post up the 3rd of April in 2012. My first review was on the City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. It wasn’t my best review (actually filled with spoilers, yikes!) but I definitely learned a lot from there on!

2. What is your favorite part of book blogging?

One of my favorite part of book blogging is actually reviewing the book and receiving the authors replies and/or feedback. Of course hearing from my followers is also a big plus and sharing each other’s thoughts, opinions and different perceptions is something I really love doing!

3. What type of books do you mainly blog about?

I mainly blog about books revolving around Young Adult books filled with romance, thriller, suspense and anything that will keep the pages turning! But I like to consider myself as an open person so when an author presents a book to me which is slightly outside of my genre preference, and it truly intrigued me, I would still really like to give that book a chance.

4. What is your favorite book(s)?

There are so many favorites that piled up throughout my blogging experience, but the ones that really left a big impression on me so far are (of course) The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins, Blood Red Road by Moira Young, Delirium by Lauren Oliver, and The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare.

5. What has been the best thing that has happened to you because of book blogging?

One of the best thing that has happened to me because of book blogging is actually finding a hobby that I love and enjoy spending time on doing. Book blogging, as any blogger know, takes an extreme amount of time out of your day, and I always say, life is short so you need to fill it up with things that you love and love doing. So I am happy that I have found that in book blogging and learned the things that I have learned and met the people that I have met!

Q: What is a book you didn't like that all your friends raved about or what book did you love that wasn't popular?

Let's see...books I didn't like that everyone else raved about ('cause that's a lot more fun to answer than the other part of the question)

Delirium by Lauren Oliver, the Hush Hush series by Becca Fitzpatrick, the Fallen series by Lauren Kate, and Everneath by Brodi Ashton.

I liked all of these but I just didn't love them in the way that most other people did (although Hush Hush and Fallen were mixed bags for a lot of readers).

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Now for the Follow Fun!

With GFC going the way of the dodo bird for many bloggers, there is no better time to start following blogs via RSS feed. If you use a reader, it would be great if you followed my RSS directly.

We have a new button, so update your blogs if you are used to doing this meme!

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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
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. 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
6. 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"
7. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followers
8. If you're new to the follow friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!

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If you have CAPTCHA word verification enabled on your blog, please take it off. It makes it much more difficult for readers to comment. Please look at my CAPTCHA Eradication Post to learn how to get rid of it.

*Update: I accidentally forgot to put the new linky up. It's fixed.