Friday Fun #12

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18 & Over Book Blogger Follow is a weekly feature that begins on Fridays and runs through the weekend, hosted by Crystal from Reading Between the Wines. This is a Friday blog hop with the objective to find and visit other book blogs that share the same interest as you, namely books geared towards the 18 & over crowd, and make some new friends!

Question of the week: 
When you DNF a book or rate a book two ‘stars’ or lower, do you post a review for it on your blog? Have you ever emailed the author about it?

Answer: It depends.

If the author contacted me to review it for them or if it’s part of a blog tour I will contact them and let them know that it wasn’t “my cup of tea”. I will offer an alternate post with either sharing an excerpt or writing a guest post. Just because I didn’t like the book doesn’t mean that one of my readers wouldn’t enjoy it. So I still give them the option to share their book on my blog while not ruining their blog tour or writing a horrible review about their book when they were nice enough to offer me a free copy. But even though it isn’t on my blog doesn’t mean I didn’t review it on Goodreads.

However, if it’s a book that I own or am reading on my own and I don’t like it, then yes I will review it on the blog with a DNF or 2 stars (emotes).  I figure, I went out of my way to obtain this book, whether I bought it or borrowed it from the library.

Feature & Follow Friday is hosted by Parajunkee’s View and Alison Can Read and is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort between bloggers.

This weeks activity:
Photobomb a picture with your favorite book.

Challenge accepted:

My oldest, Snickers with Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
I laugh in the face of photobombing Mwahahaha!
*Yes I’m a total dork and I don’t mind making a complete fool of myself!
Yes, I own two copies of the same book. The one on the left is the 20th Anniversary edition and the one on the right is the library copy that I borrowed when I first read it. A year later, they wound up selling their copy and I snagged it. I’ll be making it 3 as soon as I can get my hands on a 1st edition.
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34 thoughts on “Friday Fun #12”

  4. If I complete the book I review on my blog, although the lowest rating on my blog has been a 2. If I DNF a book I do not rate or review, but do add the reasons why I stopped reading on Goodreads and place it on my DNF shelf.

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  8. I LOVE the green hair! And I don’t blame you, I have 2 copies of Scarlet (my favorite book) An ARC AND a hard copy!

    And on my blog I can’t comment back (-_-) BUT Scarlet actually does have quite a bit about Cinder and Prince Kai in it, even if it does introduce you to some new characters! You should definitely give it a try!

    Thanks for stopping by Take Me Away…

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    1. I cannot for the life of me, get into audio books. The random persons voice always throws me off. LoL Thanks, Snickers is my little old lady.

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    1. I’m extremely psyched! I’m hoping that they don’t mess it up. I loved the Twilight books but I cannot stand the movies (they make me cringe). I’m hoping they don’t do that to Outlander.

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  15. I loved Outlander! I had no idea they were making them into a TV series. I LOVE the goofy pics too! Great hair and gorgeous kitty!! Thanks for stopping by The Happy Booker.

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  18. I haven”t heard of those before. Loving on the green hair and the kitty. Thank you for stopping by and hope you have an awesome weekend. Also, love the title of your blog!

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  20. Love the pictures ! And the name of the blog that I’m discovering just now 😉
    As a reader, I like to know why people didn’t finish books, what they didn’t like so I can find out if it fits into my own criteria or not.

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  21. Haha great pictures! I have to hang my head in shame, becasue I’ve still not read Outlander…I don’t even have an excuse!

    Also, great answer for the 18 & over hop. I’ve never really known what to do if I didn’t like a book I’ve been given for review!

    Thanks for stopping by my FF! I’m an old follower 🙂

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