Armchair BEA: Day 3 - Networking...In Real Life?

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Armchair BEA is all about Networking today!

You can get to Armchair BEA's post with the links for Networking: here.

Here's the prompt that aBEA had on their agenda for today:

Have you ever wondered how bloggers get so involved outside the nuts and bolts community of book blogging? Well, now's your chance to learn from the experts! From partnering with their local indie bookstores to coordinating events at their local libraries, we've got tips to share with you to help you become more involved with your local bookish community. Today's suggested writing topic...we'd love for you to share a positive "real life" experience with books! Either by way of your own partnerships in your community, a book signing you went to or possibly even a get together with fellow book bloggers. Tell us all about it! Also today we'll have the following:

• Twitter Party number two!

• Guest post from top bloggers (Emily from Emily's Reading Room, Tif from Tif Talks Books and Pam from Bookalicious) about how they were able to work together with their local bookish community to benefit everyone involved.

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I've never really done any real life Networking, but I'm starting to think that I should try to. It would be so fun to get involved with local bookstores and libraries. :D I've thought about trying to do something with the elementary school I went to, but I'm not in my hometown as often as I used to be so that one would be tougher. I think I'm going to try and figure something out with them one of these days though because I'd love to share a love of reading with kids in my community...especially since I have young cousins still at that school. :)

I'm definitely going to have to check out these tips because real life networking sounds intimidating...but so fun! :D 

I do always have fun talking about books when I go to Chapters though! :D I love meeting people who love books too, and talking about them! I've also met people through my classes that love books, too, which is always fun! It's definitely one of the perks of being an English major...generally everyone loves to read! ;D haha 

What about you? 

Have you done any real life networking? 

Any tips you'd like to share? :)

And if you're like me and you haven't done any, what's holding you back?

Personally, I'm kind of intimidated by real life networking. I'm also not sure where to begin and how to start up a new real life connection. So, I can't wait to check out everyone's real life tips. I'm sure they'll be really helpful. :)

Armchair BEA: Day 2 - Giveaway!

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Well, I'm not in New York right now for BEA, but I can still get excited about all the amazing titles that are going to be available there right now! :D

Since I'm participating in Armchair BEA, I've decided to host a giveaway of my own and I'm going to be giving away a pre-order from the Book Depository of one of the books at BEA that I'm most anticipating. I picked these four books from the list of Children's Galleys to Grab: BEA 2012 on Publisher Weekly's website.You'll have the choice between one of four titles, and I'm going to pick two winners! It's International and will end on June 15th at 11:59 pm. That way you'll have a little over a week to enter. :)

Okay, and here are the titles I've picked:

Eve and Adam by Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate
Crewel by Gennifer Albin

Fathomless by Jackson Pearce

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Giveaway Details: 

- International 

- 2 Winners

- Each winner will pick 1 out of the 4 books and will receive a pre-order of it

- Ends June 15th at 11:59 pm

- Winner will be chosen using Rafflecopter and will have 48 hours to claim their prize

To enter just fill out the Rafflecopter widget: 

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Good luck to everyone who enters and thanks for entering! :D

Armchair BEA: Day 1 - Introductions!

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INTERVIEW DAY! :D

Hey everybody! :D 

Today's the first day of Armchair BEA. 

I'd love to be going to the actual BEA, but I'm not there, so instead I'm going to be doing this one from the comfort of my couch. :P haha So, as the first day of Armchair BEA, it's the day of the interview, too. We're each supposed to pick 5 out of the 10 questions provided and answer them. :) Then we can all comment on each others and get to know more about other Armchair BEA participants. :)

Without further ado, here are the five questions I've chosen to answer:

1. Please tell us a little bit about yourself: Who are you? How long have you been blogging? Why did you get into blogging?
   
   Well, I'm sure you all know my name at least, but I'm still going to say it: I'm Ambur. :) I'm a 21-year-old University student. I'm an English major with a Linguistics minor. I have about a year and a half left on my  and I'm hoping to get into publishing one day. I love books, so I'd love to be able to spend my life having a career where I get to share my love of books with others. Sharing my love for books is the main reason I blog, so I'd love to be able to help others find passion in books for a living someday. :)


2. What are you currently reading, or what is your favorite book you have read so far in 2012?
   
   Right now, I'm reading a bunch of books. I was in a bit of a slump for a while, so I've got a few books I've started and paused at for a while. So, I'm currently reading A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (Almost done this one! :D), Glitch by Heather Anastasiu, and Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke. And my favourite book for 2012 so far has been Insurgent by Veronica Roth. Loved it so much! :D I also really enjoyed City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare, Black Heart by Holly Black, and The Calling by Kelley Armstrong! :D


3. Tell us one non-book-related thing that everyone reading your blog may not know about you.
   
   Hmmm. Just one thing? :P Well you already know I like fanfiction, music, that I love dogs, and the colour orange, so I'm gonna have to tell you something really random. I love Sour Cherry Blasters. They are my absolute favourite candy, and if my tongue didn't get super raw I could just keep eating and eating them forever! haha I also love pickles. :)


4. What literary location would you most like to visit? Why?
   
   Literary location?? Well if that means a location that's literary, like a library or book-related place, then I'd say BEA itself. I really hope to get the opportunity to go one year. It would be so amazing to get to meet so many other bloggers, and then of course there are all the amazing publishers, authors, and other people from the book industry that I'd love to meet. However, if this means like a location in a book, I'd have to say Hogwarts because well...come on, who doesn't want to go to Hogwarts?! haha :D But if the Hogwarts train were full I'd want to go to Idris from Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments series. It sounds like such an amazing and beautiful place...plus I know Jace is taken, but maybe there would be a hot Shadowhunter guy for me there. ;)


5. Have your reading tastes changed since you started blogging? How?
   
   I don't know. I don't think it really has. I still love YA, but I am more willing to try other genres, at least once. I'm also a lot more careful with which books I choose to read just because I have to so many to read now, or I guess, I have more awareness that there is so much for me to read. :P Before I started blogging and looking into upcoming releases and everything I was so unaware of what was out there! I pretty much just found books by going to book stores or by checking what was new at Wal-mart. So, now I guess my reading tastes have become more specific and they're pretty voracious...I have so much I want to read, even if I know I can't possibly get to everything. :P haha

So, that's a little bit about me.

Are you taking part in Armchair BEA, too?

Or are you actually at BEA in New York??

Either way, I'd love to hear from you. :)

If you want to participate in Armchair BEA, or want to go back to their Introductions Post, you can click this link: Armchair BEA Introductions.

I also signed up for Commenting Committee, so I'm sure you'll see me around on other blogs for Armchair BEA. :)

Thanks for stopping by my blog! :D

Stacking the Shelves (3)

Stacking the Shelves is Tynga's Reviews' version of In My Mailbox (from The Story Siren and inspired by Alea at Pop Culture Junkie).

Stacking the Shelves is a way to share the books that you're adding to your physical and virtual bookshelves. It's easy to participate. You just make your own post, and link it to the main post over at Tynga's Reviews. Also, in case you're curious, Tynga's post for it goes up on Saturdays, but you can post it any day that you like. :) You can find out more about participating by reading the Stacking the Shelves Launch post.

So, here's what I got this week!

Review:

Serial Hottie by Kelly Oram

I loved Being Jamie Baker by Kelly Oram, so when a chance to sign up for her Serial Hottie Blog Tour popped up, I had to take the opportunity! :D I can't wait to get started on this one. I even reread Being Jamie Baker because I was so excited for this one! Once again, I totally loved it! :D

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From RAK:

Obsidian (Lux #1) by Jennifer L. Armentrout - from Christen at Goldilox and the Three Weres

Christen was awesome and gifted me this one for RAK last week, and I can't wait to read it. :D I've been wanting to read some of Jennifer L. Armentrout's books. They all sound so amazing! :D

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Bought:

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Looking For Alaska by John Green
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography by Andrew Morton

Chapters has an awesome deal going on right now, so I couldn't resist picking up a few books! :D Wintergirls, Little Brother, and Angelina were all amazing deals, too! I actually picked up Angelina's Unauthorized Bio for my mom, so hopefully my mom likes it. :) I'm also one step closer to owning all of John Green's books...even though I've yet to actually read one. :P haha

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So, those are the awesome books I got my hands on this week. And what did you get?

Random Acts of Kindness - June Edition!

  Last month was amazing for me when it came to RAK. I sent three and received six. They also sent me birthday wishes, which was definitely appreciated! :D I hope you all had amazing RAKs for May, too. :)
The lovely Vanessa and Isalys at Book Soulmates came up with the idea for Random Acts of Kindness.    Here are the rules for R.A.K.:

RULES RE-CAP:

• Sign up each month that you'd like to participate.

• Show off your participation by grabbing our RAK button :)

• Create a wish list (on Amazon, Goodreads, or your blog etc) and post it in the Google Doc located in each R.A.K post for the month.

• If you choose to do a R.A.K for someone, check out their wish list and contact that blogger for their address.

• At the end of the month, SHOW US YOUR R.A.K!  Make a post saying 'Thank You' to whoever granted one of your wishes and share it with us :)

OPEN TO EVERYONE!

Let's keep our International bloggers in mind and in our hearts.

Remember, there's always the Book Depository and they offer FREE shipping!

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  You can find out even more about R.A.K, and sign up for June HERE.   -----------------------   I've got two different wishlists, one for Amazon and one for the Book Depository: 
The Book Depository Wishlist:  Ambur's TBD Wishlist And my Amazon/Kindle Wishlist: Ambur's Amazon Wishlist
Right now, the top five books on my two wishlists are:  1. The One That I Want by Jennifer Echols (Book Depo) 2. The Last Echo by Kimberly Derting (Book Depo) 3. Article 5 by Kristen Simmons (Book Depo) 4. Sophie and Carter by Chelsea Fine (Amazon Store/Kindle) 5. Arson by Estevan Vega (Amazon Store/Kindle)
Go ahead and check out my wishlists even if you aren't participating in R.A.K.! You might find a book you want for yourself, especially since I have a bunch of pre-orders on there. ;)    (If you want my address to send me something for R.A.K., you can email me at ambiepie_6(at)hotmail(dot)com.)   I hope you all have an awesome month. :)