The Blogger Recognition Award

Thanks to the lovely Orang-Utan Librarian for nominating me!

 

Rules:

1. Select 15 other blogs you want to give the award to. Do some digging if you must! Find those blogs. You cannot nominate yourself or the person who has nominated you.
2. Write a post to show off your award! Give a brief story of how your blog got started, and give a piece or two of advice to new bloggers. Thank whoever nominated you, and provide a link to their blog. List who you’ve nominated in the post.
3. Make sure to also attach the award itself! (You can do this by right-clicking, saving, and uploading the image above).
4. Comment on each blog and let them know you’ve nominated them. Provide a link to the award post you created.
5. Provide a link to the original post on Edge of Night. That way, anyone can find the original guidelines and post if needed, and we can keep it from mutating and becoming confusing!

How my blog got started:

I received a letter through the post one day inviting me to join the world of the book bloggers. I was, at the time, still a very busy student trying to get through the last few weeks of my degree, however, so I ignored it. The letters continued to come, each more insistent than the last. I placed them with my other papers, those that reminded me of my student debt (as if I could forget) and that I would soon have to start paying council tax (why must you intrude, adult life?).

Despite my determination, the blog world would not give up its pursuit of me. After a few weeks and several thousand more letters, a strange boy sat next to me on the bus. His skin was so white it was almost translucent, and his gaze was intense and brooding. He smiled a crooked smile at me that showed a hint of his fangs. I sighed.

‘You know why I’m here,’ he said.

‘This again?’ I groaned.

‘You must book blog,’ the vampire told me.

‘But I was planning to spend this entire summer worrying about my future.’

‘You can do both,’ he assured me.

The sun came out, and he burst into flames. I moved down a few seats, rolling my eyes. When would the book blogging world get the message? I wasn’t interested.

The reason I eventually gave into book blogging was, as always, circumstances beyond my control. I was having obsessive thoughts about books. I couldn’t suppress my desires to share my opinions with uninterested friends. I became so invested in ships I almost turned to violence.

In a few short weeks it became clear: I was the chosen one.

I had to strike forth into the world of book blogging. I had to trust that I would defeat all of the challenges the world threw at me – sometimes you wouldn’t quite understand how I defeated them, or indeed why everyone thought that I was quite so brilliant – but nonetheless, defeat them I would.

So, that’s how I became a book blogger.

Advice to new bloggers:

Have fun and try not to care what other people are doing. Don’t take it too seriously.

I nominate: 

The Book Finch

Book Box By Kat 

Bookidote

The Book and The Bone

Trust in the Words

Writing and Musing

The Book Keeper’s Secrets

Adult Reads YA

Percy Reads

Stellar Scrutiny

Musings from Neville’s Naval

The Enchanted Book

Jayme the Scibbler

Big City Bookworm

The Book Satchel