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Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Favourite Book Bloggers

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Here are a few of my favourite book bloggers.

I have not always done a very good job of visiting some of their blogs these past couple of years due to some tough personal stuff I’ve been dealing with, but they’re still all great people to follow.

If such things were possible, I’d love to get all of these folks together for a big group dinner as I think some new friendships could possibly spark from that evening.

A green stack of paper is lying on a white table next to a fountain pen. In front of the pen and paper are four white cubes that have the word blog spelled on them with one letter on each cube. Berthold Gambrel.

He reviews a ton of indie authors and sometimes filmmakers from a variety of genres. He’s also a genuinely kind and friendly guy who I originally met on Twitter back before it imploded!

Mock Ramblings

Another old Internet friend of mine. We met in the comment section of Bruce Gerencser’s blog, and I’ve learned so much about D&D and various books from his posts over the years. Sometimes he’ll share funny stories about his family, too.

Nerdy Reader Girl 

A bookish friend I’ve known for years. She has the best sense of humour ever, and I live vicariously through the funny stories she sometimes shares about her cats.

Leah’s Books

Leah is someone I originally met through Top Ten Tuesday. She’s been a little quiet online lately, so I’m hoping all is well with her. I love the fact that she jumps around to various genres just like I do and that she’s normally so chatty if you strike up a conversation with her!

Dini Panda Reads

Dini is another wonderful person I met through TTT. Her blog has such an interesting assortment of books on it that I always check out what she’s reading if I don’t know what to read next. I also appreciate her sweet and gentle personality. She’s lovely.

Lark at The Bookwyrm’s Hoard 

Her Sunday posts are always so interesting! Lark’s willingness to stick up for others (e.g. immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community) is also something I admire about her.

Nicole at Bookwyrm Knits

This is the part where I admit that I thought Lark and Nicole were the same person for an embarrassingly long time due to how similar their blog titles are. They are both free to tease me endlessly about that if or when they read this post.

Nicole shares so many interesting knitting projects on her blog when she isn’t talking about books. One of these days I will try knitting myself, and it will be thanks to her. 🙂 She’s so talented.

Sometimes Leelynn Reads 

Leelynn hasn’t posted in a while, but back when she did I loved being exposed to books on her blog I probably wouldn’t have otherwise known about. (She likes romance more than I do, after all!) Her friendly personality was another thing that drew her to me as well. She gets along well with everyone from what I’ve observed which is quite admirable.

 

Apologies if I missed anyone I regularly interact with! It was not done intentionally. There are so many incredible bloggers out there that I love getting to know.

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Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Favourite Blogs

Hosted by Long and Short Reviews.

Click here to read everyone else’s replies to this week’s question and to read everyone else’s replies to this week’s question and here to see the full list of topics for the year.

The last time we had this prompt, I recommended some well-known sites that I enjoy. This time around, I’m going to try to stick to bloggers who sites I enjoy and who I believe should have much bigger audiences.

The word blog is spelled out in Scrabble tiles. Ruined Chapel. My friend Berthold Gambrel reviews films, books, and occasionally other types of media from many different genres on this blog. I’ve discovered some great indie and older stuff through him, so go say hello if you’re in the market for stories that are a little off the beaten path. He’s a friendly person who loves meeting new folks.

Black Outdoors. I don’t know Jacqueline personally, but I love reading her posts about all sorts of outdoor activities that she’s tried. She writes such descriptive posts about what she enjoyed (or, occasionally, didn’t enjoy so much) about them.

Voices for Vaccines. This site share stories about people who caught vaccine-preventable diseases. With measles cases currently surging in North America, I think it’s critical to remember why vaccination is important and what happens when a community loses herd immunity.

Dr. Grumpy. Yes, I’ve recommended him before, but he’s a perennial favourite. While Voices for Vaccines is often tragic, Dr. Grumpy is the place to go for funny medical stories about things his patients have said and done.

Mock Ramblings. Michael and I met in the comment section of someone else’s blog many years ago, and I’ve been following his blog ever since. He talks about writing, Dungeons & Dragons, science fiction, music, and more. My favorite posts of his are about the funny things his kids have said over the years.

Bookwyrm Knits. Nicole is someone I met through Top Ten Tuesday several years ago. She talks about knitting, reading, and random bookish things.  One of these days I’m going to learn to knit so I can emulate her and share my creations, too, because she is a good influence on me. 🙂

Dini Panda Reads. Dini is another kindred spirit I met through Top Ten Tuesday who talks about the most interesting books. Every once in a while, she shares cool stories about life in Indonesia which I also enjoy reading. The climate she lives in is so different from cold and snowy Canada at this time of year!

Leah’s Books. She is Top Ten Tuesday kindred spirit #3 on this list.  We have such similar taste in books that what she reads often sounds really good to me. Her friendly personality is delightful, too. Even though we’ve never met, I kind of feel like we have because of how easy she is to talk to.

Deb@Readerbuzz. And here is Top Ten Tuesday friend #4. Her Sunday Salon posts make the blogosphere a friendlier place.

Sabeeha Harehman. We first met on Twitter probably about 10 years ago. While I don’t talk her as much since leaving that site in 2022, seeing a new post from her in my RSS feed still makes me smile. She is an intelligent and thoughtful person whose blog posts are well worth reading.

 

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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Want to Read Because of Top Ten Tuesday


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Photo of a young woman with straight black hair and olive skin standing in a bookstore. Her ethnicity isn’t perfectly clear, but she could be Asian or Middle Eastern. She’s reading a hardback novel while standing in front of a display of books that has been arranged in a large circle formation that perfectly frames her chest, shoulders, and head. It gives the effect of looking through a mirror or a portal and seeing her on the other side. It’s very cool.

Originally, I was planning to give credit to the people who introduced me to these books in previous Top Ten Tuesday posts.

The problem with that plan is that a) I usually can’t remember who talked about them first, and b) most of these books have been mentioned by multiple Top Ten Tuesday bloggers before, during, and after their release dates.

Therefore, I’m giving credit to everyone has who blogged about these books.

Thank you for bringing these titles to the attention of the rest of us. You’ve enriched my TBR list and no doubt the reading lists of lots of other folks, too.

Here are some of the many books that came to my attention thanks to you.

1. Starter Villain by John Scalzi

2. Babel by R.F. Kuang

3. Camp by Lev A.C. Rosen

4. Anna, A Child of the Poorhouse by Pat Mattaini Mestern

5. Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

6. Godkiller (Godkiller, #1) by Hannah Kaner

7.  Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg

 

 

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