Book Blogger Hop & Follow Friday

This blogger hop was created by Jennifer at Crazy for Books.

Here are the rules:

1. Enter your book blog link in the Linky List below (be sure to include how long you've been blogging and what genres you review!). If you post about the Hop on your blog, please link directly to your Hop post (don't forget to answer this week's question - see below!).

2. Visit other blogs in the Linky List! Make new friends! Follow new book bloggers! Talk about books! Rave about authors! (Please do not leave your link and not visit other blogs - it's just not cool and not in the spirit of the Hop!)

3. Post about the Hop on your blog! Spread the word about the book party! The more the merrier!

4. In your blog post, answer the following question (new question each week!):

"Why do you read the genre that you do? What draws you to it?"

I read mostly urban fantasy and I guess what draws me to it, first is the paranormal bits. Like last week when I said I adored Demon in My View by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, it was that book that just really grabbed me into the vampire world and then of course I discovered the wonderful books that contain the other creatures of the night.

What I like is the "urban" and "fantasy" parts, that here we have realistic settings, most of the time, with normal people and then there's the supernaturals who come in and usually spice up the story. I like the strong female characters as well. I like that they can be strong and yet there still some sort of weakness about them that they have to try to overcome and this may take several books--which is fine by me!

This is a weekly blog meme created by Parajunkee's View.

Thought I would give Follow Friday a go around this week and I might continue doing so as well for my blogging time.

Here are the general rules to Follow Friday:

1. Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Host { Parajunkee.com } and any one else you want to follow on the list

2. Follow our Featured Bloggers - http://annettesbookspot.blogspot.com/

3. Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing.

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

5. Follow Follow Follow as many as you can

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 want to show the link list, just follow the link below the entries and copy and paste it within your post!

8. If your new to the follow friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!

This week's question: What makes up your non-human family?

In our house we have 2 dogs, big pain in the you know whats! My mom is the dog lover in the house and I guess I'm a dog liker. I like dogs and everything, but ours are a huge pain. One has an attitude problem thinking he's all that! Seriously! The other is a drama queen. During the day he will just all of sudden give out this loud whining howl and it's so darn dramatic!