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

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6. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followers

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This week's question is: What would you do over if you were to start your blog again from scratch?

MY ANSWER: Uhh...I can't think of anything really. I learned as I went over the years. So I guess nothing?

TGIF is a weekly feature created and hosted by GReads! that recaps the week's post and has a different question each week.

This week's question is: Unexpected Books: Which books did you have reservations about reading, but ended up loving once you did?

MY ANSWER: Oh wow! That's a toughie.In the beginning of the paranormal craze, you know when it was just starting and all. I had some reservations because a few paranormal books were shelved in romance. When I read one, there was way too much sex in it for my liking. At the time it just felt like to me every other chapter the heroine was engaged in activities.

But on to answering that question, I remember feeling that way about both Stray by Rachel Vincent and Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost. They were shelved in romance and I had come to associate that meaning there was going to be a lot of sex scenes. But the back of the cover descriptions were just too good to pass up, so I took the plunge and decided to read them both--these were both separate occasions!

Naturally after reading both of them, I realized how wrong my prejudice was! And I soon learned that bookstores just shelved them there for some reason, one I have yet to figure out! But yes, I am ever so glad that I read these two!

Another example was when I decided to go back to reading YA. I really wasn't going to at all, since the last YA books I read were too contemporary and filled with Teen Drama. The annoying kind. Then some online pals told me I HAD to read Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy. That I would really enjoy it and it wasn't filled with Teen Drama.

Well, since I already fell in love with Rachel Vincent's books, and these were pals from her first discussion board, The Pride, I decided to take their recommendation. I was after all at this time, needing something to read! Shocking that there was such a time!

And OMG! Did I LOVE this series! So this was yet another example of a book I didn't want to read, but because it was YA. Now I read equal YA and adult books because they are just soooo good! I was deprived in my teen years!