Feature Friday #5

Follow Friday meme is hosted by Parajunkie and Allison Can Read.

Tell us about the most emotional scene you've ever read in a book - and how did you react?

To be quite honest, I usually get teary eyed when I read about my favorite genre, historical romance. But, the most emotionally touching book that I think is worth mentioning is A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks.  Now, I don't usually go for this type of romance but this struck a chord in my cold, black heart.  I read the book in  one night and cried practically from start to finish which I thought was a bit odd.  I might have been at a different point of my life back then but this hasn't happened again!

 

My hubby usually looks at me all weird and laughs when I shed a few tears while reading so I tend to avoid crying - which doesn't always work out all the time.

 

Have you read any tear-jerkers lately? Share them below!

Feature Friday #4

Follow Friday meme is hosted by Parajunkie and Allison Can Read.

What is a book you didn't like that all your friends raved about or what book did you love that wasn't popular?

I have to say the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer.  Please!  I know I will get a lot of crap from the fans but I just can't stand Bella, Edward and Jacob!  I have read all three and have seen all three movies and I also can't stand Kristen! 

Twilight = POPULAR

me = NO THANKS

Anyone share my sentiments?  Leave a comment below.  And please, don't shoot me!

Follow Friday #3

Follow Friday meme is hosted by Parajunkie and Allison Can Read.

Confess your blogger sins! Is there anything as a newbie blogger that you've done, that as you gained more experience you were like -- oops?

It still amazes me how many oopsies I've made even when I've been bloggin since 2005.  I'm not a professional blogger or anything but I pretty much know how to tweak things around blogger and wordpress.

In the course of my about 5 years of blogging, I've had 4 blogs, with this one being the newest one.  I've also had a year when I stepped away from blogging and concentrated on something else.

Here are the top three sins that I have done in my blogging life.  Note that even the simplest mistakes happened even if I do not technically belong in the "newbie" category.

 

1. Messed around with my blogger hosted .com blog, changed the nameservers and lost access to my blog.  I had to ask help from a techie friend of mine to fix it.  Thing is, I asked for help after I bought another domain because I thought that domain was lost to me.
2. Scheduled a blog post even when I haven't finished writing the article I was doing.  Note that this happened a few days ago.  Totally slipped my mind that I had blog posts pending! *dooh!
3. Lost all my three blogs hosted at wordpress because I did not back up my posts in each of those blogs since 2011!  What's wrong with that, you may ask?  Well, a friend of mine offered to host my blogs for free and three years later, closed the hosting and there went all my blogs.  So lessons learned: nothing is entirely free and get your own hosting plan.

So, have you had any experiences like mine?  Share away!

Feature & Follow #2

Happy Friday everyone!  Hopefully your week has been eventful as mine wasn't.  Follow Friday is hosted by Parajunkie and Allison Can Read.

What books have you given other people lately?

My husband is not a fan of ebooks.  Like has never really wanted to read via anything electronic and usually sticks to the physical books.  A few months ago, I gave him a book that he had been wanting to read.

So, I'm not really a fan of thos espionage-y type thrillers when reading.  I mean, I just can't read past those techie stuff with all the descriptions.  That being said, I have to admit that I have read my fair share of sci-fi books with techie descriptions.  In fact, Michael Crichton is one of my favorite authors.

 

Another book I gave during a Christmas party gift exchange was a sci-fi book.  As per this person's request, she wanted anything sci-fi so I picked this book for her.  I haven't read it but I've heared good things about it.  Perhaps it can also go to my TBR list one of these days.

Have you given anyone a book lately?

Feature Friday: Waking Up in Your Favorite Book

Happy Friday everyone!  This is my first post for Follow Friday hosted by Parajunkie and Allison Can Read.  I'm hoping I'm doing this right!  It's been a while since I joined a meme.

Question:

What is the first thing you would do if you woke up to find yourself in your favorite book?

For the life of me, I cannot pick a favorite book to wake up in!  But I would think that I will be lice Alice, you know, the one in Wonderland? LOL  So much for that bit of fun but here goes my serious answer.

I love the Regency era, so yeah, no modern technology, no internet, no cellphones, you get the picture. I would however, go shopping and get me some of those awesome gowns and coutume-y period clothing.   Assuming I would me waking up as one of the ladies of the ton, a debutante to boot, I would go to all the lavish parties, go and explore the period - meet some pirates, try to be a bluestocking, check out the rookeries, solve a crime, meet the Bow Street Runners, check out those old castles - the works! If possible, try to experience what some of those romance heroines experienced.

Well, what would you do?  Leave a comment and follow, follow, follow!