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Q: Many readers/bloggers are also big music fans. Tell us about a few of your favorite bands/singers that we should listen to in 2012.

A: Ahhh! There's so many bands and singers that I could just spew out in this answer. I love music; with a HUGE passion. If I'm not reading at night then I'm more than likely doing something that has to do with music! I think though that I really do love certain Alternative music. 

My list of bands: 

• The Maine
• All Time Low
• Cobra Starship
• Cute is What We Aim For
• NeverShoutNever!
• The Frey
• Maroon 5

My List of Singers: 

• Rihanna
• Taylor Swift
• Kelly Clarkson
• Adele
• Nicki Minaj
• Michael Buble
• Damien McGinty (<3 Future Husband

Feature & Follow Friday (6)

As always, its time for another Follow Friday. This wonderful meme is hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee. Each friday two blogs are featured in an effort to expand one's blog. Go and check out both of these sites to learn more!

Q: The New Year is here -- and everyone wants to know your New Years Blogging Resolution! What are you going to try to revise, revamp and redo for 2012 on your blog?

There are actually a good amount of things that I would love to improve on for my blog. I think the first would be to actually read through the entire year. This year I only started once school picked up again, and a lot of the time during the summer I don't read enough, so I hope to change that! Another great change that I would love to see happen is to get more involved with blogs; to take more time to read through other people's reviews and posts. And last but not least, I really want to participate and make myself more aware of things. I rarely know when things are going on, so to actually be up to date with things would be a good thing for me, and then of course doing more. Doing giveaways, and interviews and all of that; it would be a marvelous thing for me to pick up on (: 

What about all of you? 

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Q: If you had to spend eternity inside the pages of a book, which book would it be? 

There really area  a handful of books that I would definitely love to live in. If I was looking for a life of romanticism, I wouldn't even think twice about jumping into Anna and the French Kiss's pages. However, if I was looking for that ultimate sense of adventure, that  touch of danger and thrill of forbiddenness, then it would be Daughter of Smoke and Bone that I would so easily jump into. 

What about all of you? 

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Q: When you've read a book, what do you do with it? (Keep it, give it away, donate it, sell it, swap it...?)

For me, there aren't a lot of opportunities to buy books. I live in a very small town that doesn't have a book store, and all the thrift stores that have small selections of books all have genres that I'm not interested in. The three hour drive to the  closest good shopping sight though does offer a better book selection; Barns and Noble, along with some smaller book stores that are scattered all across the city. When I have the money on one of the trips I usually can stock up on two to three books, which is pretty good for me. Now, when I'm down with those I usually keep them, lend them to friends if they need them. They'll sit on my shelf for a good year or so, and by that point if they aren't memorable enough or I've read them enough to give them up, I'll give them to my grandma for her annual summer garage sale for other people. 

My number one way of getting books though is through the library. No obviously I can't keep or donate or sell any of those books, but what me and a friend do do, is check out a good number of books, usually something between three to five and then we swap them. If we think the other should read the book we'll just give it to hem, and then get it back to return when they've finished (: It's always a fun thing to do. 

What do you guys do with your books? 

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Q: What is your biggest pet peeve when it comes to books? Maybe you don’t like love triangles or thin plots? Tell us about it!

1. Quick Endings: I think that the number one thing that really peeves me when it comes to books is when the ending ends very abruptly. Just like the beginning, and the middle, there needs to be strength and a good flow to the ending as well, especially with an independent novel that doesn't have a sequel. I want the ending to be strong and memorable; not quick and soggy.

2. Instant Love: I think that in a book with characters that are just beginning to date and that have no previous past of a relationship, there should be progression and structure behind the relationship. In a lot of books the two characters will meet and fall in 'love' within about a week or two in the book. Yes I do believe in love at first sight, but just because that's a situation in the doesn't mean that the characters should be saying the word so easily. I need characters to get to know one another and build strength in the relationship before the 'I love you's' come into play.

3. Overly Oblivious Characters: Okay, so this one in a way totally depends on the situation, but a lot of the time when characters who are trying to hint to somebody else that they have feelings for them, and that person doesn't notice...continuously...I'm gonna get frustrated with the book. A few times is okay, but I've read books where they seriously don't realize their feels for each ohter until like the last three chapters, and because of that the other chapters were filled with meaningless nonsense. It not only is annoying to me but frustrating as hell!

That's all I can name off the top of my head, what are your pet peeves though? (: