15 Day Book Blogger Challenge: Day 15
15 Day Book Blogger Challenge: Day 15
The awesome people over at Good Books and Good Wine came up with the fabulous 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge!
Today’s Challenge is: Who are your book blogging mentors?
I’m going to keep this one short and sweet because if you go to my post for Day 3 on blogging BFFs it will be identical.
I learned my main reviewing style from the always amazing Annabelle at Sparkles and Lightning. I try to give her credit every so often when I stray too far toward copying her, and while I have since made a few changes to my style it was her blog that gave me the foundation.
You know those fun Hobbit Sized Reviews I mix in every so often? Those were inspired by the nicest blogger out there, Kimberly at Caffeinated Book Reviewer who does Coffee Pot Reviews. Hers run shorter than mine as I can never seem to cut it down to less than two paragraphs, but they definitely are where my Hobbit Sized idea came from. Again, I give her full credit, she’s freaking awesome.
Once in a while I’ll break things down into The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. While that isn’t an original way of doing things by any means, I did get it from Reading and Writing Urban Fantasy though Jennifer replaces “the ugly” with The Snuggly (to talk about the romance) and I kept it as the original cliched version.
This is not to say my content is a blatant copy/paste of other blogger’s styles and I just input new words for each book. I hope think that the alterations I make set my posts apart, but those incredible bloggers deserve credit for giving me a great foundation to work with. The rest of what you see on my blog is original to my brain (as much as it can be anyway) whether it is my design, banner, button, Pro/Con or Anthology breakdowns for reviews, and especially my rating system. Those are unique to me. However, when you ask who my bloggy mentors are? Annabelle first and foremost, Kimberly for the short and sweet, and Jennifer despite me not using The Snuggly are mine, but more than that they are my bloggy friends. Thanks as always for reading.
Stacking The Shelves #4
Stacking The Shelves
A quick reminder that Stacking The Shelves is a wonderful way that we can share books we’ve won, bought, or been gifted in either printed or eBook form. It is a weekly meme created by Tynga’s Reviews that is generally posted on Saturdays.
This week I again have a plethora of books to share! Most of these are the eBook variety, but I’m pretty excited to read them all (if I ever find the time).
The Freebies (eBooks)
Attic Clowns: Volume One by Jeremy C. Shipp
Attic Clowns: Volume Four by Jeremy C. Shipp
Always Remember to Tip Your Ninja by Jeremy C. Shipp
Aberrations: Horror Stories by Jeremy C. Shipp
The Sun Never Rises in the Big City by Jeremy C. Shipp
Here Be Monsters – An Anthology of Monster Tales by Multiple Authors
H10N1 by M. R. Cornelius
Zombified by Lyra McKen
Sweet Venom by Tera Lynn Childs
Whispers In Autumn by Trisha Leigh
SteamDrunks: 101 Steampunk Cocktails and Mixed Drinks by Chris-Rachael Oseland
Innocent Little Crimes by C.S. Lakin
Her Sweetest Downfall by Rebecca Hamilton
Forbidden Mind by Kimberly Kinrade
Fearless by Tawdra T. Randle
Dying To Forget (The Station) by Trisha Marie Dawson
Cadman’s Gambit (Shader) by D.P. Prior
Bought (print)
Dark Light of Day by Jill Archer
Won in Giveaway (eBooks)
Laiden’s Daughter (The Clan MacDougall Series) by Suzan Tisdale
Janus by John Park
The Selkie Spell (Seal Island Trilogy Book 1) by Sophie Moss
Pretty When She Dies: A Vampire Novel by Rhiannon Frater
Pretty When She Kills (Pretty When She Dies #2) by Rhiannon Frater
The Last Degree by Dina Rae
Won in Giveaways (print)
The Red Serpent Trilogy by Rishabh Jain
In Exchange For Review (eBooks)
The Reanimation of Edward Schuett by Derek J. Goodman
Yet again it has been a very good week for my book haul. ^.^ A big part of the freebie section was obviously Jeremy C. Shipp’s books so a big shout out and thank you go out to him for putting them for free the last week. Even though I did technically buy Dark Light of Day by Jill Archer it was done so with a 10$ Amazon gift card so it was basically free which is always awesome and it arrived yesterday just in time to add it to this post!
Now to break down all of the giveaway wins, oh boy. Laiden’s Daughter was from the Highlander Giveaway Hop and though that isn’t my usual genre by any means I thought it would be a good opportunity to expand my book tastes so I’ll give it a shot soonish. I won Janus courtesy of Suzanne Johnson over at Preternatura, she does a crazy number of giveaways each week and I finally won one from there, I can’t wait to dive into it! The Selkie Spell was from The (Mis)Adventures of a Twenty-Something Year Old Girl blog and I’m looking forward to trying that one out too. Both books by Rhiannon Frater were won thanks to a giveaway by Book Loving Mom and I’ll be reading those in the next few days thanks to being part of Fraterfest, those had scary good timing. o.o The Last Degree was won from a giveaway on Full Moon Bites Book Blog, I’ll be expanding my reading horizons with this one too. Finally, The Red Serpent Trilogy was won from one of my favorite blogs, Reading and Writing Urban Fantasy and I’ll be doing a review of that one either this week or the next.
I also got an ARC eBook of The Reanimation of Edward Schuett thanks to Derek J. Goodman in exchange for an honest review which I’ll be doing this coming week sometime. That was possible thanks to twitter, if you follow enough awesome bookish people stuff like that will just fall in your lap! ^.^
As you can see I’ve got a ton of books to read from this week, and a few of those which I’ll be reviewing. The horror ones I either have or will be reading almost all of during the next few days while I participate in Fraterfest so that will be pretty fun combing through that part of my TBR pile. That’s all from me for now, look for my Sunday Post tomorrow with next week’s schedule and a recap of what I did this week, and if you would like to please check out my other posts including my last review and the challenges I am participating in this weekend for Fraterfest! You can also follow me via the usual methods if you like what you see so you don’t miss any cool posts. As always thanks for reading and let me know what you got in the comments, I read every one! Enjoy your weekend! 🙂
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