Follow Friday

If you are new to the #FF fun, Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort between bloggers. Feature & Follow Friday is now hosted by TWO hosts, Rachel of Parajunkee and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it'll allow us to show off more new blogs!   Q. Do you have a favorite series that you read over and over again? Tell us a bit about it and why you keep on revisiting it? I do have a couple of series that I go to at different times. If I am feeling down...I tend to reread the Twilight Saga. I initially read them when I was going through a difficult time and they made me feel a little better...so that is why I still read them when I'm down.  I have just finished the Sweet Series by Maya Banks (NOT YA) and I can already tell you that it is a series I will reread over and over again. I fell in love with the characters and would love to have everyone of them as my friends. They are wild, crazy, funny, but most of all...they love each other.You can find my review for Sweet Possession HERE!

Breaking Dawn Trailer

I can't wait to see this!!! The trailer looks like there might be more action than there was in the book! Yippee!!!

Day 2 of the 30 Day Book Meme

The 30 Day Book MeMe is being hosted by At Chimneys and Magic! I thought this was a really great idea! I can’t wait to play along!




Day 1 - Favorite Book You Read Last Year

Today’s Question
Day 2 – A Book You Have Read At least 3 Times

Well, I have a lot of these books. When I find a book I love…I find it difficult to leave it on the shelf. 

However, there is a series that has a special place in my heart and I have read each book in it at least 5 times.
I’m sure many of you could guess the series; however, as I have stated many times on my about me page, my review page, and numerous other pages…do unto others as you would have them do unto you. 

The Twilight Saga has helped and continues to help me through some of the toughest times in my life. I was dealing with some very powerful stuff when a friend recommended The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer to me. I bought Twilight and found a way to escape from the pain and trauma I was living. And, to this very day…if something has me down or depressed, I pull out Twilight, Eclipse, or Breaking Dawn (I don’t really care for New Moon all that much.)


This stunning set, complete with five editions of Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, and The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella, makes the perfect gift for fans of the bestselling vampire love story. 
 
Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, The Twilight Saga capture the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. (Barnes and Noble)

Day 3 - Your Favorite Series...no, it's not The Twilight Saga...you will have to check back tomorrow to get that answer. 

Follow Friday #3 and Book Blogger Hop #1

Q. Talk about the book that most changed or influenced your life (was it a book that turned you from an average to avid reader, did it help you deal with a particularly difficult situation, does it bring you comfort every time you read it?). 

I love this question. When I was in high school, I read a lot of John Grisham. I loved his mysteries; however, as time went by and I was no longer living with mom and dad, and started paying my own bills, going to college...well, you get it, the things adults do...I didn't have time to read anymore. Then I had kids...and well, most of you know how that goes. 

I have seen this answer on a couple of other blogs, but I am answering the question honestly so...while at work, some ladies were talking about Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. At first I thought - no, vampires have never really been my thing. But the more I heard about the books, the more I thought...ok, I am going to read the first book at least. And then, I couldn't put them down. I was thankful that I was late into the series, so I didn't have to wait for the next one to come out. I read them in a week. Couldn't put them down. And then my oldest daughter read them and it gave us something fun to talk about. She would get so mad at me because I refused to tell her anything about the books...I just kept saying "Just read it." And as Amber at Me,My Shelf, and I said I don't want to hear that the books were poorly written or that there's no such thing as sparkly vampires because unless you have irrefutable evidence to the contrary...all vampires are fictional. 

And I haven't stopped reading since.

Even now, when I am depressed, upset or sad, I will reread The Twilight Saga because they bring me comfort and take me to a place other than the - all to many times - crazy place I live.

 So...how about you?

Q: What ARC would you like to get your hands on right now?

The first book in Richelle Mead's brand-new teen fiction series - set in the same world as Vampire Academy.

When alchemist Sydney is ordered into hiding to protect the life of Moroi princess Jill Dragomir, the last place she expects to be sent is a human private school in Palm Springs, California. But at their new school, the drama is only just beginning.

Populated with new faces as well as familiar ones, Bloodlines explores all the friendship, romance, battles and betrayals that made the #1 New York Times bestselling Vampire Academy series so addictive - this time in a part-vampire, part-human setting where the stakes are even higher and everyone's out for blood.

To be released August 23, 2011, so I suppose I will just have to wait. LOL!