Hosting Two Blogs: Is it Really That Difficult?

As you all are reading this post, I am sitting in a stench-filled classroom writing a provincial required literacy test. Yuck. We tenth graders in Ontario need to write (and pass) the test in order to graduate high school. All of the juniors and seniors are saying that we shouldn't study or even try hard on the test... but I'm an overachiever. Anyways. 

I HAVE NEWS. I am proud to announce that I have opened a new blog! Readers of my one and beloved Thousand Lives Lived, I have to say goodbye. BYE SO LONG! 

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I'm kidding. April Fools is tomorrow so I'm kind of in the mood to scare you all! *peeks around* Not like I have any readers anyways. *sad face* I KNOW YOU ALL ARE OUT THERE SOMEWHERE. A Thousand Lives Lived is here to stay, at least for a little while!

Key to Book City is my new blog, on Wordpress' platform, and it's a project that I have been committed to for the longest time. It's just... I never had the time to make it happen. I thought about the idea of opening the glorious thing one hot sunny summer afternoon where I realized how I wanted my blog (one day) to compare to that of Nose Graze or Paper Fury, for example.

Why?

• I would like publicity
• I would like to go/feel professional with my own domain, plugins, coding experience...
• I prefer Wordpress' formatting experience
• I feel experienced. I want to save money to go Premium!

There's a thousand reasons why I wanted this to happen. After months of preparations of reviews, themes, ideas and hopes, I opened the blog on Monday. I hope to have it really going by BEA on May 11! For now, the experience is magical.

I co-blogged for some time on a fabulous site, but things got out of hand for me when I couldn't commit to it. I had begun high school, and everything seemed very overwhelming. Now, because of the IB program that I'm in, time management is key and I have gotten it. It will take some work, but it's manageable. It honestly just depends on how much time you have. I know some bloggers who blog on three sites, one including their own. It's amazing!

As for A Thousand Lives Lived, you might be wondering what kinds of posts and things happening you should expect:

• Comments on your blogs (YES, I'm going to be social!)
• Monthly recap posts coming back again
• Cool discussion posts
• A guest post from a friend of mine? (I haven't asked anyone yet.)
• Stacking the Shelves
• Twitter interactions with y'all
• Chicago (BEA) prep

How do you manage your blog(s)? If you are on more than one blog, is it difficult at times?

My Letter to Books: Favourite Edition

Recently, I’ve been finding myself unable to read often because of schoolwork. It’s extremely difficult balancing a good, healthy and normal lifestyle with schoolwork and continuing to do the things you love. I have given up some hobbies that I used to conduct everyday, like playing the guitar or writing short stories because of the program that I am in, and in some ways, I don’t regret it because it’s all worth it. Though, books are my life and so is blogging… so here is a letter to my favourite books, because I know that I had not forgotten about them at all.

Dear Favourites,

Like a teacher never wants to pick their favourite students out of the class (at least, they don’t admit that they have favourites somewhere deep inside of them), they do have some, and they show it. I have a couple favourites, and if you are receiving this special letter, I am proud to admit that you are one of them. Yes, you: Throne of Glass, The Selection, The Fault In Our Stars, Looking for Alaska, The Outsiders, Divergent, Falling Kingdoms, Catching Jordan, The Host, Eleanor and Park, Delirium, Before I Fall, The Hunger Games, Tiger’s Curse, Everything, Everything, Nightfall, Liars, Inc., All the Bright Things, Second Chance Summer and The Summer I Turned Pretty. You guys are the special ones. And I’m pretty sure that even though I have 326 so-called “favourites” on my Goodreads shelf at the moment, you are the special ones. 

I am a liar, okay? I pretend that some of your other friends are my favourites and then I just forgot about them. I actually remembered you guys from the top of my head and you are my true friends.

So because it is American Thanksgiving right now, and most of your authors are American, let me tell you why I am thankful and grateful for you all. You books are special—have made me feel different, extremely happy and joyful, more than ever before. With some of you, I have cried, bawled and my eyes nearly fell out of their sockets. (Sorry to put that in your head). Your words are lyrical, clever and have a meaning to them that is just so difficult to comprehend and write them out. I spend my nights thinking about you all when I need a break from life and just want to desire more, more sequels of course. Tell your authors that they need to give me more, ASAP. 

I keep saying the word “I,” because I (hey, I did it again) just need more. Yes, with you guys, I could be selfish because the luscious hardcovers that are in my bookshelf  and you’re all mine. *raises eyebrows* 

I love you, and I'm sorry that I've never re-read one of you before, except for THG. Thank you, my loves and your wonderful authors. Schoolwork is getting me to suffer, but it's okay, I'll make time for you. 

Happy Thanksgiving, viewers! I wish that I could have some turkey... sadly my turn was in October. 

Word on the Street 2015 Recap

I recently headed over to a wonderful, free book festival downtown Toronto in the harbourfront called Word on the Street! This is my second time attending, and I was more excited than ever for a new year of cheap books, interesting excerpts from authors I've never heard about and of course... the stunning view of Lake Ontario! (Seriously, you missed a lot if you attended but didn't go out to see the view. Poor you.)

I only spent a few hours there, less than last time, but it was quick, much more organized than last year and a complete blast! I found a lot of books on bargain for good prices, and yes, I will be discussing my haul below! 

Back when this event happened, the weather was gorgeous. UGH.

The team who made everything possible were awesome, though I wish that they had a broader selection of Canadian YA authors visiting! MORGAN RHODES, WHERE WERE YOU? *cries* I didn't really head to any autographing or events like that, but I definitely would have if there was more time, and less chaos.

The. Most. Beautiful. BOOK HAUL EVER, RIGHT?

Well seriously, let's make this haul happen every single day. Here's a list on Goodreads where I actually added all of these books: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/92938.Beautiful_Covers_That_I_Just_Can_t_Wait_to_Fall_In_Love_With YOU ALL NEED THEM AND I CAN'T WAIT TO START READING THEM. 

I wish I could've gotten the chance to take more photos and feel more calm at this event, but it was stressful—SO MANY PEOPLE. Thank you, WOTS for a fantastic event and I'm already prepping myself for next year! (Harlequin, thank you for that amazing deal: 3 books for $5!)

Have you read any of the books I got? Do you have any free book events in your community?

School: We Need a Better Reading Curriculum!

In case you didn't know... 

I'm a high school sophomore. And I guess I'm proud? I'm kidding, duh. In elementary school, English used to be my strongest (and favourite) subject, but last year that kind of went downhill and I ended up getting a bad teacher. But I'm obviously not here to complain about that, it's more about your opinion on something we students call curriculum. So we have hundreds of favourite novels that mean so much and go through subjects that can be so intense and interesting that our lives are completely changed forever after we flip the last page. Don't you want everyone to read your favourite book as well, give the author praise, and fangirl with you as well? 

Well, if most people you know in your school don't read, then we kind of have an issue here. People, especially teenagers who I personally know, always say that schools choose the most boring books to read that make no sense and go through complicated subjects and where every phrase or sentence has this huge deep meaning. Honestly, every freaking word has a deeper meaning.

From what I can remember, I'll list you all of the books we ever had to read in school, counting high school (from last year) and from Grades 4-8. Trust me, there's not too many. There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, The Outsiders, The Hunger Games, Lord of the Flies, Shattered, Romeo and Juliet, The Diary of Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary. You see the last five books? I read those all last year.

So what's my point here?

We need to read more and better books. Books that are modern, that aren't too 'difficult' and boring for individuals. I'm a total book lover, but I can admit that there are boring books out there. Before I get ahead of myself, I want to ask you wonderful people......

What books have you read in school, and what do you wish you read in school?

Next time, we'll look at results and I'll go way deep into this!

What Are the Steps to Take After Writing a Review?

Not to make this sound like I'm writing an essay of some sort but let's start off with a quote. A simple quote, in fact. One that will make you question your review writing. Well mostly, it's about editing in general:

"Editing is like killing your story and then very slowly bringing it back to life." -jeanoram.com

In my case, or generally in a reviewer/blogger's case, editing is a must. If you simply just press the "Publish" button the moment after you finish writing your review, I'm wishing you good luck. But there's no need to frown, because I used to do this as well. In this post, I'll be giving my best advice and thoughts to how to successfully finish writing a review and make it awesome!

Post your reviews on other social media websites!

I typically use Goodreads, Twitter and Tumblr to promote my reviews, and I suggest using Goodreads and other platforms that you have an account on. The more, the merrier! You will gain publicity, likes and feel confident! Goodreads actually has different lists that they update every Tuesday (I'm sure of) and best reviewers, top readers and top reviewers are some of the lists that they add people on. You seriously feel spoiled!

Edit, edit, edit!

As I mentioned above, editing is a must, though I haven't always done it. And I believe that it's something that someone must do all of the time. It doesn't matter if you're writing a grocery list or a discussion post like this! (Okay, now I'm seriously turning into a grammar nerd!) If it's something really important to me, I even use some free online editors to just try my best and see if the grammar and word choices are good, easy to read and understand. Different posts have different kinds of writing used.

• Reviews need to be easy for readers to read, and not used with the most complex vocabulary and thesaurus out there. 
• Discussions should go straight to the point and not overboard. You have something that you're talking about, no? A topic seems the best to focus on, and although it's difficult to think of them, try making a list to organize your thoughts so you won't forget.
• Online editors rule, or even if you prefer having someone look it over for you totally works!
• Make sure you have everything that you'd like to include in a review/post: gifs, quotes, different images, the cover, whatever you usually prefer adding to make a reader's experience of your post better.

This is definitely the most important step to me, and a review wouldn't be as good without editing. Not everything is perfect anyways, but it's good to have that professional feel with a clean base to your writing. Many people will be reading it, after all!

Make sure your post is readable!

It has to be readable and intriguing, right? I used to have such horrible, ugly posts (there, I've said it) with no photos and ugly fonts and all of that. Thanks to some awesome bloggers out there who gave out tips on how to have a gorgeous, fresh blog (Ashley at Nose Graze definitely pitched in a ton), I love playing around with fonts, photoshop and different apps to make the viewing experience nicer! Free fonts rule too, of course!

And for that extra step... look around the blogosphere!

I'm such a blog stalker, I know! Get some ideas from other bloggers on how they write their reviews or they way they format them! Just make sure you don't completely copy their idea, because that's just unprofessional. It's like choosing a blog title: you look around, getting some inspiration, but never choosing the exact same name as someone's blog. Find some nice ideas here and there, and you'll be all set! Make your reviews and posts say you, you know? 

You're all set!

You're now at the step where you can finally relax, take a deep breath, schedule your post and add labels, and finally, FINALLY press that "Publish" button. Sure, it takes a lot of work to write a review, but setting it up and making it scream 'you' is even more work. There are thousands of bloggers in the bookish blogosphere, and the best thing is to enjoy and find your place!

BEA Maze: Part I

Part I: Hardcore Preparation

BAM BAM BAM! *sets the hardcore music on* So on this date, I will:

• leave for BEA in 4 days 
• be throwing hundreds of ARCs into my hands in a week from today
• be entering Harlequin Teen's annual BEA breakfast in a week from today
• have hopefully met some favourite authors in a week from today
• have hopefully met some awesome bloggers in a week from today
• hopefully have my spreadsheet and schedule organized VERY soon

YES. So BEA starts in 5 days, and I'm literally going mad because:

And:

NOPE. JUST KIDDING. I CAN'T WAIT ANY LONGER. I've been obsessing over BEA 2015 since July 2014 and I've waited almost a year for this amazing event to swing by me. AND NOW THERE'S ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT. Sorry if you feel like I'm bragging, I get you. People who attended last year made me want to cry and bawl and lie in my bed for days. But thankfully, I didn't. I AM A GROWN WOMAN. *not really*

So at the moment, as I frantically continue to check Twitter and scroll through the endless amount of #BEA15 tweets trying to scurry and gather up more information, I'm busy planning. I have my NYC National Geographic guide ready with me (as soon as I find it), my spreadsheet needs some looking over and double-checks, and I'll have to begin packing this weekend. The sooner, the better, right? (Frowns since that's not true.) But hey, uhh... at least I know what I'm doing, hah.

What I'm Packing:

I haven't gone through my clothes yet, but I've heard tips from people that I should go through a mix between professional and casual. I have some ideas in my head, and that'll go pretty well. But I'll sort through that all on Friday. *nods head* That's better.

Now, you're probably wondering what books I will bring with me on this spectacular journey. So my family and I are driving to the city from Toronto, which will take about 8 hours. That's honestly not a bad drive since the one to Florida takes 22 hours in total. Not that I mind, anyways, since I adore road trips. Here's what I'm bringing with me to read:

YES. I can imagine what some of you are bringing, but since I do know that I'll be coming home with SO MANY BOOKS, why waste luggage space now? Besides, Lux is a huge book, and since I'm meeting JLA at the Harlequin Author Breakfast on Thursday, I'll bring it for her to sign! And my Kindle has hundreds of reads, so I obviously won't run out with any from there. I'll be able to go through some eARCs, too!

My Spreadsheet/Organization:

So I've heard that different people use different methods to get their schedule together. Some use the BEA Agenda on the app (which I do have, but not everything's on there), while some just write everything down in a notebook (too messy if something gets changed around), while others like myself prefer to use the spreadsheet method. I know some people who've done it in the past and said that it's the most helpful, so I organized my own spreadsheet using Numbers on the Mac. Here's a snippet of it:

It's simple, but I love it! I'll probably be printing out maps of the floor as well so I can highlight where everything is without running around the Javits like a total maniac. *imagines self*

So What Else Is There To It?

I'm obviously a total amateur and noob of what it's like, but I guess staying organized, having fun and meeting others is SUPER important! I really don't want to tire myself out too much since I'm also going to see the city, right? NYC has always been my #1 must-see place in the world since I've never gone before. I'M SO EXCITED!

Stay tuned for next week where I'll be posting live coverage of what it's actually like to be there and photos of authors, my hauls and other bloggers and the center, of course!

Until next time,

The Creative Blogger Award

The Creative Blogger Award

Greetings, fellow creative individuals! Let me start off with a HUGE thank you to Kaitlin @ Next Page Please! for tagging me to do this interesting post! This is all about bloggers' imaginativeness, expressing our quirky selves, letting everyone know some facts about yourselves, and just having fun with the post itself! I know that this is my kind of thing, haha. So, let's get started!

1. Tag some people!

I tag...

• Michelle @ Michelle's Minions
• Aimee @ Deadly Darlings
• Larissa, Melanie and Celine @ YA Midnight Reads
• Eileen @ BookCatPin

2. State five facts about yourself!

• I'm a crazy academic-study nut freak. I adore school—schoolwork, tests, studying, you name it. I absolutely hate public speaking, but actually having to write an essay or do some science homework is what I am born for, hah. Reading my school's handbook is SO much fun as well! *non-sarcastic voice*
• I feel intimidated by MANY bloggers. I know that I'm not the BEST blogger around—it's so difficult to be, and there's a ton of commitment needed to be truly involved. I try to set goals for myself to work things out and meet deadlines and such, but there's so many things that I can strive to achieve to do better. This summer, I'm planning on redoing everything (not my formatting, though) by commenting and gaining a larger audience. Not to mention names, but you know who you are, you wonderful people. *spies on all of you*
• I have some book ideas, and I plan on getting started. I LOVEEEEEE WRITING SO MUCH. Without my pleasure, I'd be nowhere in life, I tell you. One of the goals on my mental bucket list is to write and publish a novel, and I REALLY want to achieve my goal and follow my dream (CHEESY, MUCH?) and just DO IT. Be creative, since that's all that this post is about, right?
• I play the guitar and clarinet. I began playing the guitar when I was... eleven? I'm pretty sure it was somewhere around that time, and anyways, it's one of my most favourite hobbies. I could honestly pick it up more and practice more after I stopped going to lessons, but that's another thing that the summer is for. Ask me to play a song that you've just heard on the radio and you'll hear from me in a few hours with some knowledge of how to do it. *winks* I just learned how to play the clarinet this year in my music class! 
• Other than reading, TRAVELING is my most favourite thing to do. Whenever I close my eyes for just a second, I picture myself in the most stellar places in the world. I want to wander all over the place with my giant case of wanderlust, and my next stop is gorgeous New York City in less than 2 weeks for BEA! I've never been, and it's probably at the top of my list! My favourite place in the whole world? St. Barth's, although I was only there for a day. *tears up* I miss it, so, so much.

That was fun! If you'd like to do the tag and I haven't tagged you above, then feel free to go for it! 

Me on Posting Daily

Me on Posting Daily

So I'd like to call myself someone who is classified as a frequent blogger. I strongly love bragging about this since I usually schedule a post a day in advance, and love to see something new posted on the blog each day. I really don't care if there aren't any views or comments on it, but I just like the organization and feeling of it all. 

As you can tell, I pretty much have myself organized on what kinds of post I will be posting each day. Here's a layout of what I do:

Sunday: Stacking the Shelves Post (Book Haul time!)

Monday: Review 

Tuesday: Top Ten Tuesday post (I'll be posting my last one soon, and then switching to another meme because of boredom!)

Wednesday: Review

Thursday: Discussion Thursday—like this!

Friday: Review

Saturday: 2 reviews

I've changed the way I do things over the time period and every few months I usually get bored with something so I just do it all over again and try to get creative with things. But for now, this is how I do, hah.

For practically the biggest part of my blogging career, I have been posting daily. I mean, of course there are the few odd days out, but I've been pretty good with keeping my stuff clean and such. So what are my thoughts on posting daily and what are the benefits? 

• Publishers LOVE active bloggers.
• It gives everyone a good reputation since it truly shows that you love what you're doing and you seem like you plan everything out
• Scheduling seems to be a MUST and actively used thing when blogging
• You like to feature a variety of different posts to mix it up and show some awesomeness for your readers.
• You're more likely to be placed on a blogger ARC list if you post frequently! This makes it look like you frequently read and review books as well.

These are just some of the points, but I'm telling you—if I could make my own club or group of active bloggers, I'd look for people who actively blog. It's just one of the first steps onto having and maintaining your rep, and it helps in the future as well. This is like the opposite of how I keep my Instagram account going, I usually post every other day! 

After a while, it becomes a routine, so I believe that everyone gets used to it eventually and seems like nature to actually go up and try to write your posts ASAP. It gets stressful sometimes, BUT IT'S WORTH IT, I TELL YOU.

What are your thoughts on posting daily? Do you do it, or leave a break day?

~Books That Iron Themselves Into our Hearts~

Books That Iron Themselves Into our Hearts

Okay, so this is a post that I've been meaning to write for a while... and I can't simply get the thought of it out of my head. I'm sitting in class in the middle of the day, and the thought of my all-time favourite books come into my head. What does this tell us? I'm a crazy, weirdo reader. And hey, I'm proud as anyone will ever be.

So what does this absurd, deep title: "Books That Iron Themselves Into our Hearts" really mean? No, we're not actually using an iron to stick books onto myself, hah.

Haha, we're going deeper than that. Think of your Goodreads shelf of books that make you smile and freak out and panic and fangirl because you know that you'll never read a book like that ever again and you'll remember it for ages. Those are books of iron, of gorgeousness. Well I guess that you get the picture, because you hadn't headed onto my blog to watch me fangirl. And these are the books that I'm talking about:

This is a snippet of some of my shelves on Goodreads—which category do you see the most books in? YEAH, THE FAVOURITES. *ROLLS EYES QUICKLY* I'm a crazy freak, and this discussion will feature books that I adored so much and those that I feel are all favourites for me. 

So, what does a favourite really mean for me?

Well for the first thing, I'll tell you that I get an abnormal feeling when reading the book. My mind goes wicked and I find myself going mental. But you know the feeling too, since you all have favourites as well. I find as my maturity gets stronger and larger, I realize what a favourite really is to me. It just can't be a book that's great for me. As I log onto Goodreads and look at some members' profiles, I see that they have read like 1000 books and only have 20 favourites. I'm sitting here with almost 300. What does this tell us about me? I was a crazy kid, but there's also so many books out there for me and that were actually made for me.

What is my all-time favourite book?

I just can't answer this. If you're truly a bookworm, I believe that you CANNOT ever answer this question. Two of my favourite ones that I've read lately are: A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray and All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven. I just can't tell you what books are the best, because I normally don't reread them since I already have tons more to go through. But hey, everyone's different, but I do have my favourite author: John Green. *pets his books*

Book says to me in an annoying voice.

And last but not least, a favourite is something completely different than a regular read. It stays with me and I'm unable to put it down, and of course there's always imperfections, but the imperfections always stay as perfections. AND THEN I'LL BABBLE ABOUT THEM ON TWITTER AND TAG THE AUTHORS AND THANK THEM FOR THEIR MASTERPIECES. That's how my process usually goes.

What are your thoughts on favourites? What is your all-time favourite, if you have one?!

How I Review Books

How I Review Books

Reviews... THE THINGS THAT TAKE OVER MY LIFE EACH AND EVERY SINGLE DAY. Okay, yes, it's absolutely 100% true, but am I truly complaining? 

They're the best things to write, as I get to: rave, rant and repeat. LUUUL! It's the truth, and I think 90% of my posts on this blog are actual reviews. So here's to the evolution of my reviews and how I started off writing them to now.

In March 2013, I opened this blog and my first actual review turned out to be: City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare. Man, THAT'S MY FAVOURITE SERIES! So here's a screenshot of my review, and let me tell you that it was horrible and bland and... I can tell you that I was a lazy twelve year old.

A Goodreads summary longer than my review? No information about the book? A dumb ending to my post? Ugly colours? Random thoughts of the authors other books? WTF IS THIS DISGUSTING GARBAGE?!!! *RANTS* I seriously would want to delete all of my garbage reviews, but then I have no time to re-write them, and it'd just look weird if I didn't have anything in my 2013 archive. So please, please do not go on to my 2013 garbage and read it and try to make fun of me. You suck, if you do. *laughs* This was horrible, seriously.

And going into 2014, I guess I can say that I wrote so many posts, and I'd just add them into my blog WITHOUT SCHEDULING. And then of course, people would only comment on my recent post. *laughs* My, wasn't I an idiotic thirteen year old? Here, take a look at the number of posts that I added:

And here's a photo of one of the garbage reviews that I wrote in January of 2014:

BULLET POINTS? 2 OF THEM? WHAT THE HELL? I'm sorry people, but this was horrible. The formatting wasn't that bad for a 13 year old, but the review was nonsense. I can't believe that I added this stuff onto Goodreads.

And here's a photo of a pretty nice review I wrote in December of 2014: (WHAT A COMPARISON)

Or at least, the beginning of the review since I then had a better mind and grew on my reviews, used gifs and had blockquotes and everything. And now, things are even better.

So what does this evolution tell me? My thoughts, organization and writing skills have improved like hell. It's not a joke, looking back at my younger years and feel embarrassed of all of the things I used to post on this out of utter forcing, and the way I see things now. I'm 100x more organized now, I schedule posts, and I read amazing books that others haven't yet because of ARCs.

So how do I review these wonderful pieces of literature? Here's the breakdown, where I can use bullet points since it seems right:

• With ARCs, I usually review the book as soon as I read it unless the publisher states otherwise. I find that this is a question many bloggers get, and I just do it ASAP.
• There have been times where I had 20 books to review, and the stress literally captured me and threw me into a dungeon of books. I wanted to read, but I had to review. Know what I mean?
• I usually catch some quotes when I read a book, so once I'm done the book, I set it by my computer so I can grab the quotes while I review. Seems right.
• I usually start my reviews with the format that I normally use (cover, Goodreads link, title, author, genre, publication date, page #, format, source and rating with Goodreads summary) and then go on to beginning my thoughts
• Then, I go with a bolded statement with a quick recap of my thoughts at the start, like a thesis.
• I just then go with the flow. I make sure that I talk about the plot, the writing style, concept/meaning/themes, characters, romance (if any), ending and the emotions that I feel.
• I find that it really depends on the book, so if there's a specific genre, I take the review in a whole other direction
• I make sure to use at least 2 gifs, and if it's an ARC, I use a statement that I received the book from the publisher for a honest review, or whatsoever.
• I end off with a question for the readers, and my 'Love, Michelle' ending

How do you review your books? Have your reviews gone through

an evolution, like mine have?

What Would We Do Without YA?

What Would We Do Without YA?

Hey, so this is one of my old discussions that I once wrote, and it makes me laugh every time! :)

*YA to us readers* 

Not that I mind YA bossing us bookworms around… *snickers*

Close your eyes. Okay, you can’t literally close your eyes since you’ve got to read this, but you get the “soothing Zen” idea I’m thinking of here. Imagine that you’re in a world where YA doesn’t exist. All that’s left are those cheesy adult eroticas with those men with too much abs, long hair blowing in the wind. They can be pirates, too.

But then, jump back to reality—NOW. How did you feel? Did you go through all of that grief and craziness? Okay, I don’t expect you to. Haha, that was barely even a description. But really, imagine yourself going to your favourite bookstore, into the YA section. Think about all of the beautiful books waiting to be picked up!

Now that we’ve gotten to the point of this discussion, this is where the real blabbing begins. Hey, I am a chatterbox when it comes to blogging, and books all together! *winks*

I, for a fact, wouldn’t be able to survive. YA is life, and one of the things that keeps me sane. As you know, it’s full of subjects, theories, feels, romance, and hot guys that keeps all of us intrigued, captivated and wanting more.

Gosh, I’d have nothing to do in my life. No YA equals no blogging, no social media friends, no stability and improvement in my writing skills, NOTHING TO DO. My world would look like a dystopian setting, where there is no time for anything because you’re too busy worrying about other things.

Hmmph. xD

So what other hobbies would I possibly take in? Who seriously knows? I’d probably be watching movies and TV shows that are so similar to the settings of books that I read daily. Eat, sleep, watch movies, repeat. That’s not that horrible, but I’d feel like I’m stuck in a bubble, waiting to be released.

And that’s where YOU come in, my friend.

What would you do without YA?