#LoveAThon Mini Challenge 3: Book Spine Poetry

For this challenge we were asked to create some book spine poems, which are poems created by mixing and matching book titles from our shelves.

This was my favourite challenge last year so I was looking forward to having another go. It was harder this time as I didn't want to use many of the same titles and my stash of physical books hasn't grown much over the past year.

But I did manage one short poem:

#LoveAThon Mini Challenge 2: Book Bingo

The second mini-challenge of the 2016 Love-a-Thon is Book Bingo. The idea is to see how many bingo squares we can cross off on the official Love-a-Thon bingo card. It's such a fun challenge!

Rules:
-Make a post to sign-up for this challenge.
-Showcase the bingo card and keep track of your progress.
-Add your link to the Linky to enter the giveaway.
-Cross AT LEAST 3 squares off to have a shot at the giveaway. (And yes, we will check) It is up to you how many you aim for in the end.
Don't forget to head to The Daily Prophecy if you want to enter the giveaway!

#LoveAThon Mini Challenge 1: Mix and Match

It's time for the first mini-challenge of the 2016 Love-a-Thon hosted by Alexa Loves Books, The Novel Hermit, Stay Bookish and The Daily Prophecy.

For this challenge, we were asked to mash-up a non-bookish hobby, passion, talent or fandom with our bookish life. We could do this through photos, art, videos and so on.

2016 #LoveAThon Questionnaire

Today is the start of the 2016 Love-a-Thon hosted by Alexa Loves Books, The Novel Hermit, Stay Bookish and The Daily Prophecy.

The Love-a-Thon is an event dedicated to spreading positivity and love. It’s time dedicated to visiting other bloggers, leaving a comment or two, making new friends and fostering positivity among the members of our amazing community.

The event includes mini challenges, Twitter chats and giveaways galore! It takes place from February 20, 12:00AM EST to February 22, 12:00AM EST.

Today we are all sharing our answers to a questionnaire so that our readers and fellow bloggers can get to know us a little better.

Fall #Bloggiesta 2015

Today kicks of the 2015 fall Bloggiesta! For those that haven't heard of it, here is the blurb from the site:

In short, Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon revolving around ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing. Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two! It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta!

The Great and Powerful A-Z Theme Reveal #AtoZChallenge

It's finally time for the Great and Powerful A-Z Theme Reveal Blogfest, in which bloggers share their themes for the upcoming A-Z Blogging Challenge and give their readers a hint of what to expect from it.

Keep reading to find out more about the A-Z Challenge and discover what my theme for this year will be!

#Tackle TBR 5 Favourites Challenge

Today is Day 9 of the Tackle Your TBR Read-a-thon hosted by Wishful Endings. The idea is to challenge yourself to catch up with finishing as many books on your reading list as possible over the two weeks from 8th-20th September.

There will be a giveaway for all read-a-thon participants. If you'd like to join in, you can sign up here and follow the hashtag #TackleTBR on Twitter for updates.

Bloggiesta To-Do List Sept 2014

I took part in the Bloggiesta back in January and really enjoyed it. Now it's nearly time for the Bloggiesta again, it's coming up on Thursday 18th September.

 For those that haven't heard of it, here is the blurb from the site:

In short, Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon revolving around ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing. Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two! It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta!

You can sign up here with the linky all this week and write your own sign-up post with your to-do list.

Most bloggers use the Bloggiesta as a chance to catch up with little jobs they've been putting off like fixing their layout or organising their labels. There are sample to-do lists available as well as mini challenges. Here are the past mini challenges, but the new list will go live on Wednesday 17th September.

#Tackle TBR Day 7 Update & Book Cover Opposites Challenge

Today is Day 7 of the Tackle Your TBR Read-a-thon hosted by Wishful Endings. The idea is to challenge yourself to catch up with finishing as many books on your reading list as possible over the two weeks from 8th-20th September.

There will be a giveaway for all read-a-thon participants. If you'd like to join in, you can sign up here and follow the hashtag #TackleTBR on Twitter for updates.

Feature and Follow Friday (3) Before Book Blogging

It's time for Feature and Follow Friday again, a meme hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The idea is to make friends and gain new followers, as well as discovering some awesome new blogs to follow yourself.

To take part, all you have to do is sign up on the linky below then create a blog post linking back to the host's post. Then visit as many other blogs on the linky as you can to introduce yourself and follow them, remembering to follow back anyone that follows you!

Feature and Follow Friday (2) Which Book Character Would You Trade Places With?

It's time for Feature and Follow Friday again, a meme hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The idea is to make friends and gain new followers, as well as discovering some awesome new blogs to follow yourself.

To take part, all you have to do is sign up on the linky below then create a blog post linking back to the host's post. Then visit as many other blogs on the linky as you can to introduce yourself and follow them, remembering to follow back anyone that follows you!

#Tackle TBR Read-a-thon Sign-Up Post

Today I decided to sign up to the Tackle Your TBR Read-a-thon hosted by Wishful Endings. The idea is to challenge yourself to catch up with finishing as many books on your reading list as possible over the two weeks from 8th-20th September. I always have a huge TBR pile made up of books I've been sent to review, won in giveaways, received as gifts or treated myself to. So this is a great chance for me to catch up with my reading.

There will be a giveaway for all read-a-thon participants. If you'd like to join in, you can sign up here and follow the hashtag #TackleTBR on Twitter for updates.

Feature and Follow Friday (1) TV show or Movie?

This is my first time participating in Feature and Follow Friday, a meme hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The idea is to make friends and gain new followers, as well as discovering some awesome new blogs to follow yourself.

To take part, all you have to do is sign up on the linky below then create a blog post linking back to the host's post. Then visit as many other blogs on the linky as you can to introduce yourself and follow them, remembering to follow back anyone that follows you!

Book Blogger Love-a-Thon Mini Challenge 5: Letter to Myself

The fifth mini challenge of the 2014 Book Blogger Love-a-Thon is to write a letter to yourself. You can either write to your younger blogging/writing self or to your future blogging/writing self.

I've decided to go for the second option.

Book Blogger Love-a-Thon Mini Challenge 4: Mash-Up

The fourth mini challenge of the 2014 Book Blogger Love-a-Thon is a Mash-Up. For this challenge participants are asked to mash-up their bookish life with a non-bookish hobby, passion or talent that they have in real life.

I'm passionate about animals, so I've decided to list my favourite animal characters from books.

Book Blogger Love-a-Thon Mini Challenge 1: Book Spine Poetry

The first mini challenge for the 2014 Book Blogger Love-a-Thon is to make up a poem using only the spines of books. I'm late posting due to time differences so I'm not eligible to enter the competition, but I wanted to have a go anyway.

I've done book spine poetry once before, back in November 2010. I find  it's quite hard to work with the books I have as many of them are one-word titles, mostly nouns.

Here's what I came up with:

2014 Book Blogger Love-a-Thon Interview Questions

Today is the start of the 2014 Book Blogger Love-a-Thon hosted by Alexa from Alexa Loves Books and Katelyn from Tales of Books and Bands. It's an event dedicated to spreading the love around the blogging community by commenting on blogs, following new blogs, tweeting about blogs, thanking blogging inspirations and spreading the words about awesome blogs you follow. The event also includes an interview, mini challenges, Twitter chats (#LoveAThon) and a giveaway. For more info please check out the sign-up post. 

Today we're kicking things off by taking part in an interview to get to know each other. So, here goes.

The B Word: Branding {Bloggiesta Mini Challenge}

This weekend I'm taking part in Bloggiesta! The first mini-challenge that I've decided to complete is The B-Word: Branding hosted by On a Book Bender.

Amanda explains that branding is all about the reputation and personality of your blog. For the challenge, she poses a series of questions to help you reflect on your brand. If you'd like to join in and answer the questions, please post your link to Amanda's post and comment here if you would like me to visit your blog too. Once you've completed the challenge you can enter Amanda's giveaway to win a copy of her ebook Blog Events.

Right, here goes..

Mini Bloggiesta To Do List

I'm really excited for the weekend as earlier this week I discovered Bloggiesta, and found out that a mini Blogiesta is taking place this weekend! For those that haven't heard of it, here is the blurb from the site:

In short, Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon revolving around ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing. Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two! It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta!

Level Up! Blogfest

Today I'm joining in with the Level Up! Blogfest, hosted by Mithril Wisdom and Geek Banter. The idea is to talk about one of our favourite games, explain how it works and share our love for it (whether it's a card game, dice game, board game or video game).