TGIF: Social Networking

TGIF is hosted by Ginger at GReads! Each week she proposes a question to her readers.

This week's question:  

Social Networking: Do you use Twitter or Facebook to promote your blog?  How has it benefited your book blogging experience? If not, how do you promote your blog? Share your twitter handle and/or Facebook link!

I use Twitter to help promote my blog. I use it to share my reviews and giveaways and tell people what books I am currently reading. I also use it to "talk" to other bloggers. As a result of following some tweets and tweeting about the book signing for Incarnate by Jodi Meadows, I was able to meet some bloggers who where there too. Tweeting each other and becoming familiar through that medium helped eliminate some of my shyness when meeting new people.

By tweeting about my giveaways, it helps bring readers to my blog, but sometimes tweeting about them can seem like spam to my followers resulting in losing them as a follower. I try to limit those tweets and I ask for a retweet if possible.

I've found some bloggers and authors to write guest posts for my Love My Indie feature through Twitter. Sometimes it drums up some interest. Not so much lately.

I don't have a Facebook account for my blog and right now I don't plan to create one. I'm already on Goodreads, Random Buzzers, and Twitter - and that is all the social media I can handle right now.

If you want to follow me on Twitter, you can @ActinUpwb - that's Actin' Up with Books, not Actin' Up with Boys as @VTGrad2X likes to think!

TGIF

TGIF is hosted by Ginger at GReads! Each week she proposes a question to her followers. 

This week's question:  

To-Be-Read's: How big is your pile? Which book keeps getting pushed down the stack, but you keep meaning to read it?

My TBR pile has too many books on it that I can even begin to think how many books are waiting to be read. I am a compulsive book buyer and purchase way too many books - I feel like I justify it because I don't buy much else (except for the necessities). I love the idea of have my own home library and over the past 15 years it has grown exponentially - which means my TBR pile has too. 

Some books that keep moving down, sown, down to the bottom of my pile are Harry Potter books 1-4. I'm almost finished with books one - I may have about 40 pages left, but I just can;t manage to finish it. I worked at bookstore in 2003 and that is when I acquired them, but now 8 years later I still haven't read them. This is probably what I am most embarrassed about because I know that so many people love them, I mean hello, they are a world-wide phenomenon. Still I've almost resigned to the fact that it is just not going to happen. Until then they remain on my TBR pile (status always changing).

Here's just a small portion of my TBR pile. Any suggestions on which I should read next?

 

TGIF: Author Love

TGIF is hosted by Ginger over at GReads! Head on over and link up!

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This Friday's Question:

Author Love:

In 2011 which new/old authors have your discovered and loved?

 

In looking over my books read so far this year, I realized, with the exception of David Levithan, the authors are all new to me. I may have heard of them before and may even own a few of their books, but it is the first time I've read any if there books. For some reason, I am amazed by this. I have enjoyed all of them but the one that I am most impressed by and eager to read more of is Hannah Moskowitz. I loved her novel Invincible Summer. If you interested, you can read my review here. I was amazed by the complexity of her characters and the depth that she took them to. I was mesmerized by the story and thought about it for days after reading it. I know I'll read it again before the summer is over.

 Even though she is new to me, I'm excited to know that Invincible Summer is her second novel and I have her first novel Break to hunt down and read. Plus she has more books in the future! Gone, Gone, Gone is already on my wish list! I think she's an author to know about AND she's fun to follow on twitter @hannahmosk