This Friday’s Feature & Follow question (hosted by Parajunkee’s View and Alison Can Read) is:
Q: What would you do over if you were to start your blog again from scratch?
I think honestly I’d give it a different name – I came into it thinking book blogging would only be a small part of my posting and that student-life posts would take up the majority of my time…in reality it’s more like the other way around. I’d also network a lot more, I’m still pretty poor at it! I don’t think I’d really want to change anything drastic though, I’m kind of loving the learning curve!
TGIF is a weekly feature hosted at Greads.
The question this week:
Unexpected Books: Which books did you have reservations about reading, but ended up loving once you did?
This is a really hard question, because 9/10, if a book doesn’t reach out and grab me from the blurb, I probably just won’t read it! The exceptions of course are a) books somebody has bought me and b) library books.
Wolf of the Plains
Before this book I knew nothing about Genghis Khan, and had no interest in him. I’d tried a few historical fiction novels and not really loved them – this book changed all of that!
My reservations about A Game of Thrones
Sometimes I wish I gave my blog a different name, but all the names I wanted were already out there. Even if it’s not too book related, I love your name Student Spyglass. It sounds really awesome!
Thank you very much 🙂 I quite like it, it’s just that I’ve let book blogging take over everything else a bit and so it doesn’t really fit. Maybe instead of a new name I just need to find a way to make my posting more balanced!
Wow what a question, I need to think about that !! Love your name thought, wouldnt change it !! Thanks for popping over to our weekly book blog hop xx
I’m with you on giving it a different name, although I’m pretty happy with it now. I had my doubts after picking it. New Linky follower.
Helene @ Helene’s World of Books
I might pick a different blog name, too, but as someone above mentioned, a lot of good names are taken!
I had the opposite problem with A Game of Thrones. I was excited before I started, then got bored while reading.
The game of thrones was definitely long but since I already read rrally long books (Eragon seties) i wasn’t deterred. Lol my sster made me finish the series because she wanted to watch the tv series together.
Hi! Your answer was great!(: I’m a new blogger! Mind checking out my blog?(: And maybe possibly follow?(x
New follower!
simple-books.blogspot.com
If I had to do it again, I may think of a different name. I like my name but its not super catchy or memorable 🙁
As for me, I think I’d probably learn a bit more about blogger and HTML coding before starting. Love blogging but the actual blogging part wasn’t easy to learn!
Have a lovely week 🙂
The Brunette Librarian’s FF & a special giveaway 🙂
My blog name has nothing to do with books, but I figured it would be easier to remember since it sticks out. People will know its my blog since my name is my blog name :0) I like yours too!
As for the question you asked on my blog: It’s easy to switch from blogger to WP. I just don’t want to invest in self-hosting yet and I’d lose the GFC app which most of my followers are following me from. Those are the two top reasons I don’t want to switch yet. But I love the professional features and ease of posting on WP.
Thanks for stopping by my FF! New follower via Linky :0)
I have issues with my name as well, it is a little to long. New follower via Linky : )
Here is my FF
I really enjoyed your thoughts on the Game of Thrones. Last year I purchased the book, but have not got myself to read it. It is good to hear the effort will be worth it. I’m glad I dropped by from TGFI. I am your newest follower.
Cheers,
Shanae
My Blog
But your blog title is really unique – in any case, it got me to click through from the link list 😉
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