Six for Sunday: Questions to Ask Book Bloggers

Six For Sunday is a weekly feature run by Steph of A Little But a Lot. You can read all the Six for Sunday prompts for the rest of 2018 here. This week's topic doesn't work for me, so I'm going with questions to ask book bloggers!

What advice would you give your younger blogger self?
About the community, about running your blog, about ARCs, about reading, about communicating with publicists/authors.
Don't feel you have to accept every ARC that is offered to you. Yes, it's awesome, and yes, it's a privilege, but there's no point accepting books you know you won't enjoy. Publishers won't have a problem with you declining. Also, don't follow the crowd. Work out what it is about blogging that you enjoy, and stick to it. Blogging is meant to be fun! Just because everyone else doing something doesn't mean you have to - and if it makes blogging feel like a chore, just let it go.

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Six for Sunday: Reasons I Love to Blog

Six For Sunday is a weekly feature run by Steph of A Little But a Lot. You can read all the Six for Sunday prompts for the rest of 2018 here. This week, we're talking about reasons we love to blog.

This is a really interesting topic, because I've been book blogging for nine and a half years now, and the reason I love blogging now are undoubtedly different to the reasons I blogged when I first started, and it will be the same for others. Really looking forward to everyone's reasons, but here are mine.

A Place to Share My Thoughts
I have always liked talking about books. When I was younger, I pretty much solely read my Dad's high fantasy books, and I would discuss them with him, and talk about my theories, or how surprised I was over certain aspects. When I broadened my horizons to include urban fantasy, and later YA, I no longer had anyone to talk to, because no-one else I knew read those books. So I started a blog to share what I thought. At the time, I didn't know that I was book blogging; I didn't know that was a thing. I just needed to say what I was thinking. Then of course I found the community and discovered more about book blogging, but primarily it was to write down what I thought of the books I read, and that's really still the main reason I blog. I love talking about books, and I love writing, so book blogging combines the two.

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Six for Sunday: Favourite Covers of 2018

Six For Sunday is a weekly feature run by Steph of A Little But a Lot. You can read all the Six for Sunday prompts for the rest of 2018 here.

Again, this week's topic doesn't work for me, so - as is allowed - I'm adapting an older topic: Favourite covers of 2018. Obviously there are many more than six, but I've gone with the ones that came to mind first.

The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton


This cover is just gorgeous! Look at colours, the make up, the flowers, and the orbs! And an actual Black woman on the cover! The actual physical covers shimmers under the light, and you can't see it here, but the image is also slightly blurred (but not quite as much as the UK cover is blurred, which is just too blurred).  What I love about the cover being a little blurred is that it fits with the story. It's almost like a filter; not everything here is real, beauty is manipulated - which also links to the plot of the story, where there's more going on than we originally think. Such a wonderful, beautiful cover!

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Six for Sunday: Authors Whose Books I'll Always Read

Six For Sunday is a weekly feature run by Steph of A Little But a Lot. You can read all the Six for Sunday prompts for the rest of 2018 here.

This week's topic doesn't really work for me, so, as we're allowed, I'm going to use a previous topic - authors whose books I'll always read.

Heidi Heilig

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Six for Sunday: Books that Have Been on My TBR Forever

Six For Sunday is a weekly feature run by Steph of A Little But a Lot. You can read all the Six for Sunday prompts for the rest of 2018 here. This week, we're talking about six books that have been sat on our TBR forever.

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly (published 5th April 2007)

High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imagination and soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a world that is a strange reflection of his own -- populated by heroes and monsters and ruled by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book, The Book of Lost Things.

Taking readers on a vivid journey through the loss of innocence into adulthood and beyond, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly tells a dark and compelling tale that reminds us of the enduring power of stories in our lives. From Goodreads.

Why I want to read it: Because it sounds right up my street! How intruging does the sound of fantasy and reality "melding"? I was recommended this by a colleague who thought I would enjoy it.

Why I haven't read it yet: There are a number of small reasoms. I forget I have it a lot of the time. And it's an adult book rather than MG or YA, which makes me slightly wary. And when I do remember I have it, I fancy reading other books more than reading this one. But I really need to get to it at some point.

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