Category: Book Blogger Hop

This week’s prompt: Do you set a monthly budget for books? If yes, what amount? Have you ever exceeded your limit? I don’t have a monthly budget for books specifically, but I’m trying not to spend money that doesn’t need to be spent. So I have subscriptions for audiobooks, but other than that I try READ MORE

This week’s prompt: How do you strike a balance between providing enough information to pique readers’ interest without giving away too many spoilers in your reviews? This is an interesting prompt, because it’s the perennial problem when writing reviews. Here’s the issue. Without sharing all the information about the plot, you can’t really talk about READ MORE

This week’s prompt: Have you ever wondered why a passionate book blogger might suddenly stop posting or delete their blog without notice? I have wondered this, I’ve also mourned this, repeatedly. I don’t deal well with change, and I don’t like when I get used to something existing that helps me feel  calm and safe READ MORE

This week’s prompt: A songwriter composes a song about your love for books. What would the song’s title be? I don’t have a title, but I do know that it would be a long song. All about undying devotion, gratitude, loyalty and something to do with knowing when you know. Maybe there’d be a bit READ MORE

This week’s prompt: What are some of your favorite books to re-read? I didn’t used to re-read books very often, because there are so many new ones I want to get to. But in the past couple of years I did start allowing myself the opportunity to re-visit some of my favourites, and it has READ MORE

This week’s prompt: Have you ever looked at the young adult book section in a modern bookstore and felt out of touch or old? Hmmm. Yes and no, I suppose. There are usually some books that seem really immature and silly that make me realize that actually I’m probably no longer able to appreciate them READ MORE

This week’s prompt: What’s your typical process for writing a book review, from reading the book to publishing the review on your blog? Hmmm. Well, I guess you’d call it procrastinatory. I read a whole bunch of books, then I realize I haven’t written reviews for any, so I’ll try to write a bunch at READ MORE

This week’s prompt: Do you have enough shelves for all your books? Hahahaha nope. I’m doing better than I was, but only because they’re all double stacked and I got a new one when we moved that’s quite large. I am, however, trying not to buy books in print unless they’re ones I need to READ MORE

This week’s prompt: Do you know the Night Song in the Jungle?  No. What’s that? Do tell me if you know. The Book Blogger Hop is a weekly blog link-up that gives participants a different book-related question to ponder each week, and allows them to share their thoughts, find new blogs to follow and connect READ MORE

This week’s prompt: How many days does it usually take you to finish reading a book? Well that’s me put on the spot! I’d say this varies a lot. There are some books that I read in print and only get to occasionally. Sometimes I’ll read a few pages a night, others a few pages READ MORE

This week’s prompt: Who is your favorite “hobbit” from J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth books? You know, it has literally been decades since I read any of Tolkien’s work. I remember the films, and I vaguely remember bits of the novels (mostly the bits that seemed to go on forrrrreeeeevvveeeerrrrrrrrrr), but I don’t really remember READ MORE

This week’s prompt: Do you judge an author’s works based on their political stances? This is an interesting one. First of all, I guess I don’t really know the definition of politics. For me, politics is which party you support, how you vote and what form of government you support. But I suspect that this READ MORE

This week’s prompt: Sometimes, readers get into funks and maybe stop reading or feel like reading is work. What do you do to get yourself out of a reading funk? You know, I used to really worry when this happened. I’d think, “that’s it, my reading days are over. What if I never read another READ MORE

This week’s prompt: Do you only feature reviews on your blog?  Well, I started this blog mostly as a place to write reviews of backlist titles in addition to the new release reviews I was writing for the online entertainment site I volunteered for in University. The blog began its life as Backlist Books before READ MORE

This week’s prompt: What fantasy or Sci-fi should be part of the literary canon? I have no idea what this prompt is asking me. What’s the literary cannon? Also what are people who don’t really read sci-fi or fantasy supposed to write? Okay, let’s take this one step at a time. I’m going to guess READ MORE

This week’s prompt: How much time does blogging take out of your life weekly? Hmmm, this is a difficult question for me. Partly because I have ADHD, so time is a bit slippy and hard for me to quantify. But also because this question makes quite a big assumption – that I work on my READ MORE

This week’s prompt: Do you belong to a book club? If so, how many members do you have? How long has it been going on? Unfortunately I don’t belong to any book clubs, as much as I’d like to. I tried to find some in my area, but there aren’t many, and most of the READ MORE

This week’s prompt: Have you ever read a Nicholas Sparks romance novel? If so, what is your opinion on his endings? The tricky thing about this question is what if your answer to the question is no? Then what are you supposed to write about this week? So I’m adding my own follow-up question: If READ MORE