The Book Cove

The Fault In Our Stars by John Green - I put this book on the back burner of my TBR list for a while. Mostly because of all of the hype. I'll admit, I can be a bit of a main stream snob. If I keep hearing (overly) raving reviews about something, I tend to put it to the side until some of the frenzy dies down. It's not because I don't get into those books or because I have something against the popular. It's because I'd rather enjoy them on my own time and not be sick of them through months of indirect hear-say and spoilers. People can spoil a popular book for me all they want; by the time I actually get around to reading it I've forgotten most of the talk ;-) But because I really wanted to see the movie I decided to read the book first. I finally got around to reading it a few weeks ago and I'm still not quite sure what I think about it. It was a good book. Actually, it was great! From the first page I was hooked. The cynical, realistic, witty, charming, ...

There were quite a few entries for our Blog Takeover and one of the deciding factors was who could tell me in 50 words or less why I should hand my blog over to them (specifically, an author). I had some great responses ranging from serious to comical and from three to fifty words! By the looks of it, I might just have to choose a few people to take The Book Cove over for a few days so that you all can experience these crafty people yourselves ;-) So stay tuned for just a bit longer, and when I have an official acceptance from the winner(s), I will be sure to let everyone know what kind of awesomeness to expect!

We've officially made it! Thanks to all of my trusty readers for making this past year so great! To show my appreciation I'm having a few giveaways. So without further ado, the following winners are (you've been emailed): Jenna C. Dave A. C.P. K. In a few short days we will announce the winner of our 1 week blog takeover. Day 1: 5 Blogging Facts  (June 1st) Day 2: The Book Cove's Top Posts (June 2nd) Day 3: The Book Cove's Top Contributors (June 3rd) Day 4: The Book Cove's Top Followers (June 4th) Day 5: A bit of a biography (June 5th) Day 6: 2nd Year Goals (June 6th) Day 7: Our Favorite Blogs (June 7th) Day 8: Thoughts of a naive blogger (June 8th) Day 9:  Most recent book purchases (June 9th) Day 10: Giveaway! (June 10th)

Our 1 Year Blogiversary is quickly approaching (June 10th)! How time flies! To celebrate, we are having a 10 day series of special blogiversary and blog appreciation posts! (Enough exclamation points?) Day 9: Most recent purchases Here is a run down of my most recent purchases (all on Kindle since I've been working and traveling a lot). It's a bit of a genre mix that I'm pretty excited to read/peruse! The Fault In Our Stars by John Green Breath (Sea Breeze) by Abbi Glines The Extraordinary Book of Useless Information: The Most Fascinating Facts That Don't Really Matter by Don Vorhees Day 1: 5 Blogging Facts  (June 1st) Day 2: The Book Cove's Top Posts (June 2nd) Day 3: The Book Cove's Top Contributors (June 3rd) Day 4: The Book Cove's Top Followers (June 4th) Day 5: A bit of a biography (June 5th) Day 6: 2nd Year Goals (June 6th) Day 7: Our Favorite Blogs (June 7th) Day 8: Thoughts of a naive blogger (June 8th) Day 9:  Most ...

Our 1 Year Blogiversary is quickly approaching (June 10th)! How time flies! To celebrate, we are having a 10 day series of special blogiversary and blog appreciation posts! (Enough exclamation points?) Day 8: Thoughts of a naive blogger It all starts with "I'll just write out my ideas so that they're there for whomever wants them and then call it a day." It ends with...well...it never ends. One day I got fed up with too many purposeless reviews and decided that I wanted to start writing my thoughts on a book. I was already familiar with Google tech so to keep it simple I joined Blogger. Within an hour I had my first post published. Then I waited a couple of minutes. Any takers? 1...2...3...that's it 3 people and no comments? I can do better than that!  *Waits a couple of days* 20 people? That's it?! No way! But my reviews are so good! (I'm really not that full of myself, but let's be honest, we've all been here.) Maybe it's my l...

Our 1 Year Blogiversary is quickly approaching (June 10th)! How time flies! To celebrate, we are having a 10 day series of special blogiversary and blog appreciation posts! (Enough exclamation points?) Day 7: Favorite Blogs There are so many blogs that I frequent that it's hard to not list a 100 of them here! Here's the blogs that I peruse weekly to find my next read: Ramblings on Reading - you can find any type of review from YA to NA books as well as new movie/TV releases! A Novel Idea - Chrissy has very similar tastes in books as me so pretty much anything she says she loves I take her word for. She Reads New Adult - This is a blog that will have your TBR list never ending. I have a serious addiction for NA and there is a never ending daily supply of awesomeness coming from this place. Above Average Below Special - I love this book review blog because it has very thurough reviews. There's always a what I liked/didn't like and character breakdown se...

Our 1 Year Blogiversary is quickly approaching (June 10th)! How time flies! To celebrate, we are having a 10 day series of special blogiversary and blog appreciation posts! (Enough exclamation points?) 2nd Year Goals It has been a very successful first year as far as hobby blogs go. We've revamped the site and acquired a domain name (amazing what a little HTML knowledge can do for a site) We've gained thousands of followers on various social media sites We've been acknowledged by a favorite author, Rachel Van Dyken (I was pretty dang excited about this!) We've been received blogger awards (which I'll admit, I'm not a big blog award fan because I don't quite understand them but it's the thought that counts!) And most importantly, we gained some awesome blogger friends! (see Day's 2 & 3 posts) What more could we possible want in the upcoming year?? Well for starters, I would love to expand the blog to include a permanent ...