Category: Book Blogger Hop

Book Blogger Hop: Favorite Authors

BonnieReadsAndWrites15 Comments

Book Blogger Hop is hosted by Billy @CoffeeAddictedWriter. There is a different bookish question each week. This week’s question is below

DO YOU SEEK OUT NEW AUTHORS TO READ, OR DO YOU TEND TO STICK WITH THE SAME ONES?

ANSWER: Before I became a blogger, I had my favorite authors and didn’t necessarily seek out new ones.. Now as a blogger, and especially as a supporter of Indie authors, I read new authors all the time, and I love it! I still have my favorites, but my world has expanded for sure.

HOW ABOUT YOU? WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER TO TODAY’S QUESTION?

Book Blogger Hop: Why Did I Buy This Book?

BonnieReadsAndWrites9 Comments

Thank you to Billy at Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer for hosting Book Blogger Hop. There is a different bookish question every week. This week’s question is below:

Answer: So many times! I have often asked “Why did I buy this book or why did I agree to read this book?” The one that comes to mind right now is John Grisham’s sequel to The Firm called The Exchange. It was quite disappointing and you can see my review here.

How about you? Have you ever wondered why you bought a certain book, or had buyers remorse about a book?

Book Blogger Hop: Christmas or Holiday Themed Novels

BonnieReadsAndWrites12 Comments

Thank you to Billy@CoffeeAddictedWriter for sponsoring Book Blogger Hop.

Definitely. I already mentioned The Substitute Guest in a previous post. I also like to read A Christmas Carol. My favorite author, Jodi Taylor, always releases a short story on Christmas Day, and I always spend Christmas morning (after present-opening) reading her newest release. Christmas Pie, released last year, has been my favorite. Her next short story, Lights, Camera, Mayhem! comes out Christmas Day. I can’t wait!

Since I already asked you for your favorite Christmas books in a previous post, my question of the day is: Is there an author whose new releases you highly anticipate and never miss? Jodi Taylor is that author for me.

Book Blogger Hop: Christmas Nostalgia

BonnieReadsAndWrites17 Comments

Thank you to The Coffee Addicted Writer for sponsoring Book Blogger Hop.

There is one Christmas book I always go to, and it’s an oldie. Grace Livingston Hill wrote Christian romances from the early 1900s until she died in 1947. Her book The Substitute Guest is a favorite of mine. It’s about a lawyer who is supposed to go to a house party at Christmas, but instead finds himself bringing medicine to a very sick woman way out in the country as a favor to a friend. His car stalls out in front of the Devereaux home, and he eventually ends up replacing a guest who had just canceled. As a result of this, he gains more than he could have ever imagined. Grace’s books are definitely old fashioned, but her love of God shines through, and I just adore this book. It is a visit to a different era. The Substitute Guest was originally published in 1936 and has been reprinted many times.

Question of the Day: What book or books do you like to read during the holidays?

Book Blogger Hop: Creepy Novels

BonnieReadsAndWrites6 Comments

Thank you to Billy @coffeeaddictedwriter for hosting Book Blogger Hop.

I stay away from horror as it affects my dreams, so I may be more sensitive to this than other bloggers, but Nora Roberts’ The Mirror, the second book in The Lost Bride Trilogy, is a bit too creepy for me. It is billed as Romantic Suspense and Paranormal Romance, but there are too many elements of horror, at least for me. I will be reviewing it soon.

How about you? Any books turn out more “creepy” than you expected?

Book Blogger Hop: Fireworks or Reading?

BonnieReadsAndWrites12 Comments

Thank you to Billy at The Caffeinated Book Reviewer for hosting Book Blogger Hop. There is a different bookish question every week.

Answer: It’s not that I don’t like fireworks. I’ve enjoyed them in the past, but only the beautiful ones. I’ve never understood making noise for the sake of making noise without the beautiful light show. But these days I don’t like fireworks much because they absolutely terrify my dogs, especially Harold, our wire-haired dachshund. They make him shake, cry, and tremble for hours, so I’m not a fan. I always love reading, so the choice is obvious.

Some dogs who are outside will bolt and run away from their owners when they hear firecrackers. So it’s not a good situation. If the fireworks are done by a professional at an organized event, then I’m okay with it. Setting them off in your yard at home: No.

Doug with the dogs. Herman (chocolate and cream) and Harold (black and white). Holly was still alive then and is laying down behind Hermann. She was a red and white piebald.

Book Blogger Hop: Bloggers or Professional Book Critics?

BonnieReadsAndWrites7 Comments

I can only speak for myself as a reader. Of course, I’m also a blogger, so maybe that makes me a bit biased. I think power is too strong a word. Influence would be better. I can’t say either bloggers or professional critics have more influence on me either way. I have chosen books that are popular with other bloggers or with critics, but I do not always feel the same way myself. I also often find myself loving books that might not be as popular with others. So, I would say the only thing that influences me is the book itself.

Book Blogger Hop: Favorite Authors

BonnieReadsAndWrites11 Comments

Book Blogger Hop is run by Billy@coffeeaddictedwriter. There is a different bookish question every week.

The full question is:  Do you keep an active list of favorite authors—that you would spend your milk money on—to have it when they publish a book? (submitted by Laura @ Laura’s Book Binge)

Answer: I don’t keep an actual list. There are some series I will buy or request if a new one comes out. As far as authors, I will buy anything Jodi Taylor writes.

What about you? Do you have any “auto-buy” authors?

Book Blogger Hop: Devouring A Book

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Book Blogger Hop is run by Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer. There is a different bookish question every week. This week’s question asks about the last time you read a book in one sitting.

Answer: I pretty much read all of Jodi Taylor’s books in one sitting as soon as they are released. She writes the St. Mary’s Chronicles and The Time Police series. The most recent book I read in one sitting was Kinfolk by Sean Dietrich. See my review of this wonderful book here.

How about you? What is the last book you read in one sitting?

Book Blogger Hop: How Long Have You Gone Without Reading?

BonnieReadsAndWrites22 Comments

Book Blogger Hop is run by Billy@CoffeeAddictedWriter. There is a different bookish question each week. This week’s question is a tough one because it brings up a lot of memories.

That’s an easy but difficult answer at the same time. Three months. After my Mom died in March 2020, I couldn’t focus enough to read anything for three months. I was not blogging then, but I was reviewing on Netgalley and Booksirens, and I had to DNF everything because I just couldn’t focus enough to read. 

Three months later I started back in with audiobooks, which are easier for me to focus on, and then in October 2020, I started blogging on this site. I’d had the blog before that time, but I wasn’t using it. I’ve been seriously blogging/reviewing ever since. My Mom was an avid reader who read a book a day, so I always feel that she inspired my blogging, and still does.