BBAW – Day One: COMMUNITY

Published on by Sheila (Book Journey)

 

Today’s Topic
Community
While the awards are a fun part of BBAW, they can never accurately represent the depth and breadth of diversity in the book blogging community. Today you are encouraged to highlight a couple of bloggers that have made book blogging a unique experience for you. They can be your mentors, a blogger that encouraged you to try a different kind of book, opened your eyes to a new issue, made you laugh when you needed it, or left the first comment you ever got on your blog. Stay positive and give back to the people who make the community work for you!

 

This is a hard post for me to write as there are so many book bloggers out there I love to read, have picked up more than a book or two from their passionate reviews, or just hover around their blog because they are witty and fun to read.

I tried to narrow it down to a few bloggers who really have meant something to me over the last year and I came up with this:

A post on book bloggers who I appreciate would not be complete without me mentioning that crazy spirited teacher friend of mine, Reagan from Miss Remmers Reviews.  If it wasn’t for Reagan, I probably would not have gone to BEA.  If I had not gone to BEA, I would have missed a huge part of what I love most about book blogging – the community.  Mental *high five* to you my friend!  (The short version of this story is I wanted to go to BEA in 2010 but was nervous about not knowing anyone.  I knew Reagan from her blog only but she was also from Minnesota and we started chatting about the possibilities… now she has been my BEA roommate the past two years).

 

Amanda from Ramblings (previously from The Zen Leaf).  I think I first found Amanda over her love for all things Harry Potter.  It was so nice to find someone who was as big a Potter geek as myself!  😛  When I started reading Amanda’s blog I really appreciated and enjoyed her reviews.  Amanda made some changes this year and now has a new blog, it is not necessarily a book bog – but she talks books and that makes her a book blogger to me.  😀 

 

Alison from Alison’s Book Marks was someone I connected with at BEA in 2010. I enjoyed talking to her and really started following her blog when I returned home.  Amanda writes some incredible review and reads some pretty awesome books that have come to me through her recommendation. 

 

And this post would not be complete without adding Alyce from At Home With Books.   Alyce is just a sweet down to earth blogger who writes not only about books, but life, and happenings, and I just love that.  When you read Alyce’s blog you feel like you have just been invited into her home for a cup of coffee and a little conversation.

That’s my list for this year – there are so many wonderful hard-working book bloggers out there and I adore you all.  My sidebar list of blogs I follow (which needs a few more added to it) – that group I pretty much visit every time they write a post. 

 

Happy BBAW everyone!  Be sure to watch tomorrow morning for my first exciting giveaway!!!!

40 thoughts on “BBAW – Day One: COMMUNITY”

  2. You are so sweet and thoughtful to include me! You definitely made my day brighter.

    You are on my list too, but it’s taken forever for me to get my post done. I’m actually working on it right now, I’ve just been distracted by fun posts like this one, and a large piece of chocolate birthday cake leftover from yesterday. 🙂

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  4. I guess I’ll have to go over to the site and see what the topics are this week.

    I’ve enjoyed At Home With Books, too….I had been a Sunday Salon visitor at The Zen Leaf, but hadn’t seen it lately. I guess the reason is a different blog, called Ramblings.

    Thanks for sharing….

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  5. Enjoy the week Sheila, you have an abundance of energy that is magical, keep up the great work.

    I don’t recognise Regan’s blog, will go over.

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  9. Hi Sheila,

    great list there. You are an inspiration to me, with your energy. I get tired just reading your weekly postings. 🙂

    Looking forward to the rest of the BBAW week.

    carol

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  10. Great choices of blogs to highlight! It’s so very, very difficult to narrow the list down to something manageable for a post because there are so many great book bloggers out there.

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  17. Aw, thank you. 🙂 I can’t remember how we met either and I’m thinking it must have been on Twitter somehow? But I adore your blog, especially how you mix the personal and the bookish. And you’ve inspired me to be so much more active and find things to branch out in my activity. 🙂

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