One of the beautiful things about blogging is that you meet awesome people who are interested in similar topics as you are. Because of my recent interest in sewing I got to know Tierney and her quilts stories. Tierney nominated me to the Liebster award - and here I am, answering her call! Answer the … Continue reading The person behind the blog (Liebster award tag)
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I would like to hear your take on this topic: do you work on updating old posts? While writing the review of "Homegoing" by Yaa Gyasi I realized that my style of writing book reviews changed a lot compared to my first year of blogging - "The Circle" by Dave Eggers was my first book … Continue reading Let’s talk about blogging: Do you update old posts?
Today I would like to share with you something I've been thinking about for quite a long time - it's about reading reviews of books I haven't heard of (and here I include also reviews of books written by authors I haven't heard of). In a nutshell, if I do not recognize the book nor … Continue reading Let’s talk about book reviews: Do you read reviews of books you haven’t heard of?
I've been tagged by Jenna from Bookmark Your Thoughts (thank you! <3) for the Unique Blogger Award. Shortly, the rules are: Share the link of the blogger who has shown love to you by nominating you Answer the questions In the spirit of sharing love and solidarity with our blogging family, nominate 8-12 people for … Continue reading The Unique Blogger Award with a touch of beautiful illustrations
When blogging meets books there's a high chance of having an ever-increasing To-Be-Read list ... and I am guilty as charged! That's why I chose to participate in today's Top Ten Tuesday and share with you 7 recent additions to my To-Read List, with a spin: I refer to books that I added on my … Continue reading The Ten Most Recent Additions to My To-Read List inspired by other bloggers (Top Ten Tuesday)
Do you know that awesome feeling when you discover a new favourite blogger, you spend tens of minutes reading all his/her posts and can't stop but commenting to all the book reviews and bookish discussions? I'm sure you know what I'm talking about 🙂 In this post I want to share with you the paths … Continue reading How to discover new bloggers to follow
Hello and welcome to a bookish tag post! I was tagged by Zuky from BookBum (thank you!) to answer her questions, so here I am, doing the Mystery Blogger Award for the second time. To spice up this post, I added some beautiful illustrations created by Bianca Martin. She is a young Romanian illustration "with a … Continue reading The Mystery Blogger Award with a touch of beautiful illustrations
Hello and welcome to another bookish discussion! Today's topic is assigning ratings to books: yay or nay? When I started blogging, I noticed that most book bloggers gave quantitative ratings to books - 3/5 stars, 5/10 coffees, you name it. Even though from the beginning I decided to not rate books (just following my instinct), … Continue reading Let’s talk about rating books: yay or nay?
Summer is coming, sun is shining, birds are singing ... and I want to spread love in the bookish blogging community! From my point of view, blogging is not only about having your own corner on the Internet, but also meeting other people and chatting with them about common interests. So here's a post to … Continue reading Spreading love in the bookish community: 5 book blogs I like A LOT
Hello and welcome to a first-of-its-kind post on my blog: answering a nomination tag from a fellow blogger (thanks, Erin!) 🙂 This award (which reminds me of the kids' game "Tag, you're it") was created by Okoto Enigma and has the following rules: Put the award logo/image on your blog √ List the rules √ Thank whoever nominated … Continue reading Mystery Blogger Award
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