First Rate Friday

The goal of this new weekly meme is to share the best posts you've come across this week.

Let's spread the love and support those awesome posts out there!

It's impossible to follow every book blogger so hopefully this will also help in finding amazing new blogs as well.

This Meme is officially hosted by Mel and was inspired by Jennifer at Reading with Tequila, Lisa at The Little Reader and yours truly! , so stop by to post your link!

 

 

I’d like to start this week’s first rate Friday on a positive note, there’s been a lot of drama lately in the blogging community and Alyssa at Teens Read and Write took the time to celebrate a generous gesture from a fellow blogger!

 

The Story Siren wrote this week a very interesting about about the difference between a Meme and a blog feature, have you been doing faux pas without knowing it?

 

And finally, Steph of Steph Su Reads wrote a great post about What's missing in contemporary YA lit.

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by Tynga at Friday, April 30, 2010

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First Rate Friday

The goal of this new weekly meme is to share the best posts you've come across this week.

Let's spread the love and support those awesome posts out there!

It's impossible to follow every book blogger so hopefully this will also help in finding amazing new blogs as well.

This Meme is officially hosted by Mel and was inspired by Jennifer at Reading with Tequila, Lisa at The Little Reader and yours truly! , so stop by to post your link!

 

This week was an awesome week so I have quite a few things to share with you!

First of all, The Little Reader shared with us her thoughts about The Value of Opinions, which I found very interesting. Just because your favorite blogger doesn’t like a book, doesn’t mean you should refrain from buying it, because you might like it!

Then I’d like to stop by The Bookette where the lovely Christina from Confessions of a Book Addict explained how the US education system works. Being an international blogger myself, I was totally at lost when it came to US schools, so I went to bed a little smarter after reading that post =)

Book City Chick also wrote an interesting post about Blog Promotion, and I must admit I agree with her. I think that out of respect for authors who takes time to fill my interview questions, and publishers who send me review copies, I have to do at least a bit of promotion.

Lori from Escape Between Pages wrote a post about Speed Reading and I gotta say I was not aware some people actually read like that, and I don’t think it would work for me. I am reading to enjoy a book, not get to the next asap, so I read every single words my books have to offer!

Finally, I’d like to share with you a video of Richelle Mead, available at the Open Road Integrated Media.

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by Tynga at Friday, April 23, 2010

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First Rate Friday

The goal of this new weekly meme is to share the best posts you've come across this week.

Let's spread the love and support those awesome posts out there!

It's impossible to follow every book blogger so hopefully this will also help in finding amazing new blogs as well.

This Meme is officially hosted by Mel and was inspired by Jennifer at Reading with Tequila, Lisa at The Little Reader and yours truly! , so stop by to post your link!

 

This week’s post are rather serious, but very interesting so make sure you stop by and read them!

 

 

First stop is Steph Su Reads’ post about plagiarism. It seems like some fabulous members of our community were wronged, and this post clears things out about, without pointing any fingers.

 

Also, The Story Siren posted a very nice and informative post about cover reveals. Always wondered when it’s ok to post a new cover? Well she got answers from publisher themselves!

 

 

Thanks for your participation! Don’t forget to go over at Mel’s blog and link your First Rate Friday posts =)

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by Tynga at Friday, April 16, 2010

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First Rate Friday

The goal of this new weekly meme is to share the best posts you've come across this week.

Let's spread the love and support those awesome posts out there!

It's impossible to follow every book blogger so hopefully this will also help in finding amazing new blogs as well.

This Meme is officialy hosted by Mel and was inspired by Jennifer at Reading with Tequila, Lisa at The Little Reader and yours truly! , so stop by to post your link!

I really have a nice bunch of posts to show you this week starting with a post by Lauren Kate (Author of Fallen), often people asks writing tips to authors and I think that post is definitely a good pointer. Show make sure to check out On Curiosity.

Yesterday, there was an awesome post over at Presenting Lenore about the Do's and Don'ts of author/bloggers interactions. Great advice for new bloggers!

Worried about the environment? Confessions of a bookworm posted about a very interesting initiative!

A new initiative from Germany called "Make it green!" is working to increase awareness of the environmental impact of carbon emissions, part of which is the gigantic carbon footprint left by internet use and more specifically, blogs. Part of their efforts will be focused on trying to neutralize the carbon footprint of blogs. Are you ready to help?

Write a short blog post about the program- “My blog is carbon neutral”, and place one of the buttons on your site! Send the link to your blog to CO2-neutral@kaufda.de and they'll plant a tree for you! Thus, you will have neutralized the carbon dioxide emissions of your blog!!!

Make sure to click the link above for more details!

and last but not least, Larissa from Book Lovers Inc started a discussion about The Price of Our Addiction, stop by to weight in your opinion!

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by Tynga at Friday, April 09, 2010

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First Rate Friday

The goal of this new weekly meme is to share the best posts you've come across this week.

Let's spread the love and support those awesome posts out there!

It's impossible to follow every book blogger so hopefully this will also help in finding amazing new blogs as well.

This Meme is officialy hosted by Mel and was inspired by Jennifer at Reading with Tequila, Lisa at The Little Reader and yours truly! , so stop by to post your link!

First of all, I'd let to point out to all of your The Iron King fans out there, that the galley for the second book The Iron Daughter is now available for request on Net Galley! Click here to request.

Presenting Lenore posted one funny April's fool yesterday, it's about "How to win followers and Influence  fellow book bloggers", if you haven't read it yet, make sure you do =)

Reading with Tequila posted an interesting insight on Book Piracy, I don't enterly support her opinion, but it's still a good read. Piracy, it's real. And it's all your fault.

What great post did you run into this week?

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by Tynga at Friday, April 02, 2010

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First Rate Friday + Awards

The goal of this new weekly meme is to share the best posts you've come across this week.

Let's spread the love and support those awesome posts out there!

It's impossible to follow every book blogger so hopefully this will also help in finding amazing new blogs as well.

This Meme is officialy hosted by Mel and was inspired by Jennifer at Reading with Tequila, Lisa at The Little Reader and yours truly! , so stop by to post your link!

Now here are my choice of best posts this week:

The first stop is a discussion about respect between readers and authors over at Babbling About Books, And More, the comments are very insteresting as many authors gave their input!

Second stop, a discussion about false expectations over at Bloody Bookaholic.

Last stop a post called In Defense of Hush, Hush over at The First Novels Club, it's a discussion about judgement and book-banning, very interesting!

I hope you join the fun! Happy Reading!

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Awarded to me by Myriam from Backchat Girl Reviews and Kat from Paranormal Fantasies.

The Rules are:

Thank and link to the person that gave you the award

 State 7 things about yourself

 
I won't state the obvious by saying I like to read, I think you all figured it out by now *winks*
1- My main language is french, I actually never speak english lol just read and write!
2- I'm a HUGE hockey fan! Go Habs Go!
3- My boyfriend and I celebrated our 6th anniversairy 3 month ago <3
4- I love cats! My babies name are Nikita and Mystiq
5- I am a lab tech spec in hematology, cloating and blood bank.
6- I love photography as you can prolly tell from my Beautiful Monday meme
7- I paint from time to time =)
 
 

I received this award from Wendy at Wendy's Minding Spot

I'm also suppose to tell 7 things about myself, but it was hard enough to find the previous seven so I'll refrain from doing it lol

was given to me by Melissa over at Spellbound By Books

Received from Amber at Reading Addict

Thank you to every single one of you for thinking of me when you received this award yourself, it is very appreciated!

I would like to pass em all to Katie from Sophistikatied Reviews, because I really like her blog!

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by Tynga at Friday, March 12, 2010

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First Rate Fridays

After a discussion on the affiliates phenomenon on twitter with Mel at He Followed me Home, Jennifer at Reading with Tequila and Lisa at The Little Reader, I realised that the reason why I wanted affiliates was to point posts and blogs I like to my readers.

So why limit myself to exclusive blogs only?

And that's how this meme was created!

The goal of this new weekly meme is to share the best posts you've come across this week.

Let's spread the love and support those awesome posts out there!

It's impossible to follow every book blogger so hopefully this will also help in finding amazing new blogs as well.

This Meme is officialy hosted by Mel, so stop by to post your link!

Let the fun begin!

First stop, Amber at Reading Addict, she posted the trailer of Heavenly by Jennifer Laurens. I had never heard of the book before, but it really seems awesome, so I added it to my whislist. Thank you Amber!

Next stop, Sarah's Book Reviews, she posted a review of Prey by Rachel Vincent. It's one of my favorite books! She reviewed the four first books in the series, make sure you take a look =)

And last but not least, Vanessa from Today's Adventure posted a very interesting discussion on "ugly covers". I don't about you, but I'll admit it, I judge books by their covers. Stop by to give your input!

What were your favorite posts this week?

Feel free to join in the fun and love sharing!

Make your own post, grab the button and let us discover great posts!

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by Tynga at Friday, March 05, 2010

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