Friday Hops

This is a weekly blog meme hosted by Parajunkee's View and Alison Can Read.

Here are the general rules to Follow Friday:

1. Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Hosts and any one else you want to follow on the list

2. Follow our Featured Bloggers

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 is: Summer Break is upon us! What would be the perfect vacation spot for you to catch up on your reading & relax?

MY ANSWER: Oh. Uh...I'm not sure really! Any place will do! As long as the weather is not unbearably hot and humid like it is in St. Louis during the summer. And as long as I have a nice comfy spot, I can pretty much read anywhere!

For the sake of choosing a location, I would say where I'm going next month, Grafton, Wisconsin! It's just outside Cedarburg and I love going there every year!

TGIF is a weekly feature created and hosted by GReads! that re-caps the week’s posts and has different question each week.

This week's question is: A Book Blogger is Born: What made you decide to start your very own book blog?

MY ANSWER: Ha. Ah, that's not a very interesting story! Really it was all because Rachel Vincent had a contest. I think it was for Prey, can't remember which book, but basically if you posted reviews in so many places you would get extra points.

And I wanted that signed book! I believe it was either an ARC or an author copy! Early is always good, no matter how early it is!

So, I looked into blogger and thought, hey, why not have my own blog! That was in 2009. I decided to keep it going, but the blogging community wasn't as big then I guess, because I didn't keep up with my blog as I should have.

But in 2010, I became a better blogger! And really as each year went by, I think I learned more and got a little better each year. My reviews were pretty wild in the beginning and sometimes still are! I can't seem to control my excitement for a book after I read it, but I want to get the review out before I forget all that I wanted to talk about.

So the short answer is because Rachel Vincent had had a contest for her book and I wanted to win it. Even though I didn't, I decided to still keep my blog running! The title even came to me, because I had thought Pride was a GREAT read!!

The review is still there too, but I don't recommend looking at it! Like I said, I learned a lot as time went by, including formatting my reviews and such! It's almost as funny as reading some of my earlier novels I wrote when I was 13!