Book Blogger Appreciation Week!

I'm sure most of you have heard about Book Blogger Appreciation Week put together by the lovely My Friend Amy! Well guess what, the shortlists are out and it's time to get voting! I'm really excited to share with you that I have ended up on the shortlists for two categories! I can't believe it!!!!!

I was nominated for Best YA Review Blog! Can you believe it wow! There are so so many people worthy of this so I cannot believe it! Go checkout the shortlist to see who else was nominated!

I was also nominated for Most Eclectic Taste which is also really exciting! I've always tried to keep an open mind about things and my tastes are pretty far reaching, at least I think, so it's exciting to think that other people agree!

So a big THANK YOU to everyone! So now it's time to vote, the polls are open from now until Saturday September 12 at 11:59 PM EST! So go make your opinions known and vote! And then September 14th-18th is the official Book Blogger Appreciation Week! Can't wait for the celebration to begin!

Thank You's (Really Really Late)

I've been showered with blog awards recently and I'm struggling to remember them all so please forgive me if I've forgotten one!

Your Blog is Fabulous: From Bookworm.

Sisterhood Award: From The Story Siren and Stephanie.

Let's Be Friends Award: Cindy and Sheri S. and Mishel.

The zombie chicken's are attaching again, Serena stuck them on me this time!

I got the Splash Award from Shalonda and the Book Resort!

Thanks everyone!

Zombie Chicken Award!

Thank you to the lovely Lenore for this awesome award, the Zombie Chicken Award! Here's what it's all about:

The blogger who receives this award believes in the Tao of the zombie chicken - excellence, grace and persistence in all situations, even in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. These amazing bloggers regularly produce content so remarkable that their readers would brave a raving pack of zombie chickens just to be able to read their inspiring words. As a recipient of this world-renowned award, you now have the task of passing it on to at least 5 other worthy bloggers. Do not risk the wrath of the zombie chickens by choosing unwisely or not choosing at all...

So as to not risk the wrath of the zombie chicks I will pass this award onto:

Sharon
Carol
Yan
Adele
J. Kaye
Beth F
Irisheyz77
Liv
Hope
Book Chic

Awards Overload Or Who Did I Forget!

Thank you to everyone who threw a nod my way this week, it's so overwhelmingly kind! I'm sure I've forgotten someone and I'm so so sorry if I did!


Thanks to robin_titan, Dame Orchid, Khy and Stephanie for the I heart your blog award!









Thanks to Steph Su, The Story Siren, Shalonda, Sharon, Yan and Sarah for the Proximidade award!








Thanks to Steph Su for the Premio Darios award!









Thanks to Alyce for the Butterfly award!









Thanks to Liviania for the Your Blog is Fabulous award!

Your Blog Is Fabulous! Award!

I got the Your Blog Is Fabulous Award from The Book Gobbler and Sharon and SweetMelissa818!

Update: And thanks also goes to Amy, Jordyn, Taren and Liviania!

Thank you, you guys!

5 Things I'm Addicted To:

1. Buying books when I don't have room for them!

2. Checking my email first thing in the morning.

3. Sparkling water of all kinds!

4. My new winter boots (i've been wearing them for a month straight, no joke)

5. The YA Book Swap chatroom!

You all are too fabulous so I cannot pick who to tag, I apologize!

Thank You's! (Really Late!)

So apparently I've been very very lazy lately and have been meaning to give a few shout-outs! So here they are! I have these all on post-it notes, so i hope i didn't forget anyone! I'm sorry if I did, I suck!

Thank you to Mari of Mari Reads and Avis of She Reads and Reads for nominated me for the Premio Dardos Award!













Thanks to LadyTink of Up Close & Personal with LadyTink for her super special personalized award she made! How cute is that! Thank you!





Thanks to S. Krishna of S. Krishna Books and Meghan of Medieval Bookworm for the Friends award!

Kreativ Blogger Award Part Two!

S. Krishna of S. Krishna books passed on this Kreativ Blogger Part Two award to me! Thanks! And this one has a fun meme!

7 Things I Did Before:

1. Went to college.
2. Worked in a photography lab.
3. Drank lots of regular soda.
4. Lived on Instant Messenger.
5. Watched movie trailers obsessively online.
6. Visited Lebanon for 3 weeks.
7. Created zines and comics.

7 Things I Do Now:

1. Work as a graphic designer.
2. Work out (for the time being).
3. Take the bus.
4. Live on Twitter.
5. Go to the library book store weekly.
6. Wish I had more time for my hobbies.
7. Eat string cheese :P

7 Things I Want to Do:

1. Buy a car.
2. Travel a lot more.
3. Move out.
4. Find more time to read.
5. Go to The Strand and Powells.
6. Get back to working on my zines and comics.
7. Spend more time with my friends.

7 Things That Attract Me to the Opposite Sex:

1. Nerdy glasses
2. Originality
3. Similar interests
4. Humor
5. Artistic Abilities
6. A cute smile
7. Kindness

7 Favorite Foods
I can't answer this one, it will make me sad to think about all the foods i'm not eating because I'm trying to eat healthier!

7 Things I Say Most Often

1. Oh my god.
2. My (insert body part) hurts. (I complain a lot)
3. Hahahahah!
4. Did I get any packages? (To my sister over the phone)
5. No way!
6. How are you?
7. I think that should work (at work)

I'm not going to tag anyone but let me know if you do it, I'd love to come see your answers! Mine are pretty random! :)

Thanks To You! *hugs*

I'm really feeling the love so I thought it was time for some thank yous!!!

Thanks to Holly of Writer's Block Reviews for giving me the Butterfly Award!

Thanks to the 99 people following me on blogger, subscribers, lurkers, people that send me emails, and to people I don't even know read my blog. Thank you!

Thank you to those that comment regularly or just every once in awhile!

Thanks to those who chat with me on Twitter, YA Book Swap and tons of other places!

And also a very big thank you to everyone that's been sending me Lookalikes to post and just telling me how much they enjoy seeing them and also to those that have been suggestions Hardcovers vs. Paperbacks. It's all about collaboration so I love seeing what you guys come up with and also add in the comments! So it's not just me coming up with these amazing finds, we have a lot of awesome people to thank for these crazy fun lookalikes!

Thanks to all the suggestions I've gotten, we have Lookalikes set to post through the beginning of April!

So to everyone THANK YOU! You always brighten my day!

Awards!

Over the past week I've been given several awards by a bunch of people! I'm sitting here amazed how many people thought to include me, I'm touched! Thank you! 

Butterfly Award from:

Alyce of At Home With Books

Amy of My Friend Amy

Sharon of Sharon Loves Cats
Mrs. Magoo of Mrs. Magoo Reads
Serena of Savvy Verse and Wit
Elizabeth of As usual, I need more bookshelves
Hope of Hope's Bookshelf

Stephanie of Juiciliousss Reviews
Anna of Diary of Eccentric


Kreativ Blogger Award:

Ali of Worducopia

Premios Dardo Award:

Laza of Gimme More Books
Debbie of Debbie's World
J. Kaye of J. Kaye's Book Blog

And finally, Lenore of Presenting Lenore gave me her own special award, the best book pile award!

So thank you everyone for these, I'd try and pass them out myself but there are so many I think my head might explode. So if you are reading this, please consider this award passed onto you. Thank you!

Great Buddy Award

Thanks to J. Kaye of J. Kaye Book Blogs who also nominated me for this Great Buddy Award! Right back at you J. Kaye. 

Originally I was going to try and come up with a list of people to nominate but realized it would probably take me several days and I would stress out about all the people that I had forgotten or were on the list that I had lost etc. So I'd like to share this with anyone that enjoys my blog and anyone's blog that I enjoy! You all know who you are! And any new friends too! This community is so welcoming!

Hope everyone is having a great few days before the holiday season really kicks into high gear! Anyone have any really special or exciting plans this year?

Kreativ Blogger Award!

J. Kaye of J. Kaye's Book Blog has nominated me for this award! Thanks J. Kaye! It sounds like I'm supposed to decide on six values that are important to me and six things I don't support and nominate six other bloggers!

Six values in others that are important to me:

Creativity

Originality

Humor

Inclusiveness

Modesty

Friendliness

6 things that I do not support:
Giving Up

Procrastination

Closed-mindedness

Complaining

Cocky attitude

Unkindness

I borrowed some of your answers J. Kaye!

Six fellow bloggers to I'd like to share this with:

Generous Blogger: Sharon of Sharon Loves Cats

Enthusiastic Blogger: Veens of Giving Reading a Chance 

Fellow Pop Culture Fanatic Blogger: Taren of The Chick Manifesto

Similar Reading Interests Blogger: S. Krishna of S. Krishna Books

Best for Suggestions Blogger: Lenore of Presenting Lenore

Book Buying Chats Blogger: Amee of Bookity Book Books

Sorry for these lame titles I picked for you guys! And anyone that I left out, I definitely had more but was supposed to stop at 6!

Rules:

Mention the blog that gave it to you.
Comment on her blog to let her know you have posted the award.
Share 6 values that are important to you.
Share 6 things you do not support.
Share the love with six other wonderful blogging friends.

Update: Thanks to Amee of Bookity Book Books for sharing this award with me too! 

I HEART your blog!! Take 4

Thanks to Zoealea of Zoe's Book Reviews for nominating me for the I heart your blog award! I love that inside of her name is my name! LOL! You guys don't know how much it means to me that people actually want to read what I have to say. It makes me so happy! Love you guys! Hope you are having a nice weekend!

I HEART your blog!! Take 3

Thank you to Sarah of Sarah's Random Musings for nominating me for this award! She have a fun blog and great taste in books!

I am so thankful for the book blogging community, you guys make my day, everyday! :D

I HEART your blog!! Take 2

Thanks also goes to Gabbi of All Five Stars for sharing the love! I love your blog too :D

I HEART your blog!!

The Story Siren, The Boston Bibliophile, and S. Krishna's Books were all so kind to give me this very sweet award! I love you guys! Here's me nominating you right back! 

EDIT: Thanks also goes to Planet Books who also nominated me! Thank you! *waves*

EDIT 10/4/08: Thanks also goes to The Chick Manifesto for sharing the love! Love you guys!

Rules:

1) Add the logo of the award to your blog 

2) Add a link to the person who awarded it to you 

3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs 

4) Add links to those blogs on your blog 

5) Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs! 

So let's see. I remember back in July nominating several blogs for an award so now is my chance to talk about some other great ones!

The Chick Manifesto- This is a rather new blog. Amee (previously from the Ravenous Reader) and Taren talk about all sorts of things including books, tv shows and movies. They definitely talk about things I'm interesting in! They are very friendly, lots of great chats going on in the comments.

Melissa Walker's Blog- I love Melissa and her blog! Win-It Wednesday used to be my favorite day with all the great questions, I still like it, but now Cover Stories on Mondays is my favorite!! Each Monday Melissa shares the story of one author's cover and how it came to be. Pretty much the best thing ever! Melissa is very friendly and shares lots of great things on her blog!

Shooting Stars Mag- Shooting Stars Mag posted about all sorts of things including books, movies and music. If you can't tell those are some of my favorite things!!!

YA Fresh- Kelly and Tina (both YA authors) share a variety of things on their blog. Including interviews, giveaways and fun author things. They are so nice and make you feel welcome!

The Compulsive Reader- The Compulsive Reader is another great blogger. She posts anything from reviews to book of the month to author spotlights. I've emailed with her a few times, she's a great person to talk books with!

Bookshipper- Tina posts a great variety of reviews. Most recently I've enjoyed her series of Red Dress Ink reviews!

The Book Muncher- The Book Muncher mainly reviews young adult titles. But within the genre you will find great variety. She also posts interviews, and other great things! 

Breaking Dawn Midnight Release Video and a Thank You!

Me and my sister went to the midnight release of Breaking Dawn last night. She was kind enough to get my wristband when the store opened in the morning so we were in the first group! It actually went so fast we were out of the store and home by 12:15! We live about 5 minutes from the store but still! Very quick! I'm only 100 pages into the book so far but it's pretty good! I was hoping to be further but ended up doing a bunch of errands and some er, book shopping...

Did you go to the midnight release? Or did you pick your copy up during normal business hours. While I was making the rounds today I noticed Barnes and Noble had no extra copies, Target had a healthy shelf full and when I went back to Borders, the had about 20 boxes behind the counter! They were the most prepared!

A big thank you to Ambeen at the Ravenous Reader and The Bookshipper for nominating me for a blog award!

Blog Award!

Carrie K. at Books and Movies has nominated me for this blog award! How sweet!

Here are the guidelines:

Once an award is received, the rules are as follows:

1. Put the logo on your blog.
2. Add a link to the person who awarded you.
3. Nominate at least seven other blogs.
4. Add links to those blogs on your blog.
5. Leave a message for your nominee on their blog.

Here are my nominees:

Bookroomreviews
Tracy shares my passion for not only books but tv and movies and most importantly So You Think You Can Dance!

The Page Flipper
Back from retirement, The Page Flipper is one of my favorite reviewers of YA books.

Reviewer X
Reviewer X is also another blog I turn to for YA suggestions. Very passionate reviews!

The Story Siren
I can't keep up with the Story Siren's YA reviews. She's a reading machine!

In the rules it doesn't say I can't nominate someone that already has been nominated...

J. Kaye's Book Blog
J. Kaye is also a reading machine! She's probably the most friendly blogger I have ever met!

Presenting Lenore
Lenore, like myself not only blogs about YA but other types of books as well. I love the balance!

S . Krishna's Books
S. Krishna blogs about books very similar to my taste. She's my new favorite blogger!