Category: Blog Awards
The Liebster Award (Again)
The Sweet Review nominated me for the Liebster Award, which means that this is the second time I’ve been nominated. Normally I’m not too keen on awards posts but it’s been a while since I’ve done a Q&A so I figured I’d just do it for the heck of it.
Technically only blogs with less than either 200 or 500 (I can’t pin down an exact number) are supposed to be nominated which means I’m over the top on both counts but I’ll participate anyway.
Rules
1. Thank the blogger who nominated you.
2. Answer the 11 questions given to you.
3. Nominate 11 other blogs with less than 500 followers.
4. Post 11 questions for your nominees to answer.
5. Tag your nominees & post a comment on their blog to let them know you nominated them.
So thank you to The Sweet Review for nominating me. Here are the questions and my responses:
1. Why did you start your blog?
I honestly couldn’t pin down an exact reason for you. One day I just woke up and felt like blogging. I developed the idea of doing a book blog since I’m a big reader and then I realized a blog would also have other benefits like connecting with other readers and getting free books. So I guess you could say the idea for my blog was totally random but I’ve stuck with it for nearly 2 1/2 years.
2. If you were asked to pick an event from your life for an episode of a t.v series, what would you pick?
Hmm…that’s definitely a hard one as I’ve had some very interesting experiences. An event I’d pick for a TV episode would be my scuba diving lessons. I had a sinus infection so equalizing was excruciating and I must have terrified every little old lady at that resort in Mexico because I’d come out of the water with my face covered in blood. That’s probably what I’m most proud of: the fact that I persevered through the pain and finally got certified after a week of lessons. Did I mention I was only 13 at the time?
3. If you could go on a time-machine and live for a year in another time, where and what decade would you go to?
My health is not all that great so I’m not your best candidate for time travel, but if I had to pick a time and place (and language was not an issue) it would be in the court of the pharaoh Hatshepsut during Egypt’s 18th Dynasty. Hatshepsut sounds like an amazing woman so it would be interesting to meet a woman who broke gender norms so long ago.
4. What Divergent faction do you want to be in?
None. The factions in Divergent are ridiculously unrealistic so I would actually end up being Divergent. If I absolutely had to I’d pick Erudite.
5. Savoury or Sweet?
In general I’d have to say savoury.
6. What is your favourite WordPress blog? Why?
I follow well over 15 blogs through WordPress so I couldn’t really tell you. I have many favourites.
7. What is your favourite hobby?
Other than reading? It would have to be listening to/watching operas.
8. Did you do anything for Sport Relief? If so, what did you do?
Until five minutes ago I actually had no idea what Sport Relief was or that it even existed so I didn’t do anything for it.
9. Would you change anything about your life/personality/looks if you could?
I’m generally happy with my appearance but if I were able to change my looks I’d definitely like my thighs just a bit thinner. If I had to pick just one thing to change it would be my chronic pain; no one wants to live in constant pain, believe me.
10. What do like most to do on Sunday?
Read, sleep in, watch Game of Thrones or Walking Dead depending on the date.
11. Do you believe in the Afterlife? If so, why? If not, why?
I don’t believe in discussing my religious beliefs on my blog.
Here are my questions:
1. What is your favourite thing about blogging?
2. What is your dream job? Why?
3. What is one book you’ve always meant to read but still haven’t quite got around to?
4. If you could swap lives with any person in the world in any time period who would you be and why?
5. What is the strangest thing you’ve ever done?
6. What would you say is your worst pet peeve?
7. Other than English, what other languages are you fluent in, if any? If not, what language(s) would you like to be fluent in?
8. If you had a super power, what would it be?
9. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?
10. Why did you start blogging?
11. What motivates you to keep blogging?
Here are the nominees, all under 200 followers in keeping with the Liebster tradition:
The Beautiful Blogger Award
Thanks so much to Megan of Thoughts of a Future Author for nominating me!
Okay, so the rules for this award are as follows:
1. Display the award on your blog. (I’m counting this post as ‘displaying’ since I don’t have an awards page.)
2. Announce your win in a post and link back to the blogger who nominated you with it.
3. Present 15 other bloggers with the award.
4. Drop a comment on their blog to let them know they’ve been nominated.
5. Post 7 interesting facts about yourself.
Seven Possibly Interesting Facts About Me
1. I am going to run out of interesting facts about myself if you people keep being generous and nominating me for awards!
2. My skin is so fair that I sunburn even through SPF 50 sunscreen.
3. According to family legend, I am a descendent of Æthelred the Unready on my mother’s side.
4. No one ever pronounces my last name right on the first try.
5. When I was invited to teach two classes on ancient Egypt at the local school, the best part of it was the expressions on the kids’ faces when I described the mummification process. That made all the hard work I put into the presentation worth it.
6. Ever since I picked it out of a bargain bin, I’ve been addicted to the PC version of Luxor.
7. One of the best Christmas presents I’ve had in a while is the little notebook I got from a friend in which I keep track of the books I read for my reading challenge.
My Nominees
1. Manno of Dilettante Artiste
2. Angela of For The Love of Books
3. Marissa, Allison and Mallory of bibliophilesisters
4. Savindi of The Streetlight Reader
5. Kelley of Another Novel Read
6. Melissa of Swamp of Boredom
7. Anna of MissJersey
8. Lillian of Lillian Wheeler
9. Daire of Doing it the Open Way
10. Paul (I’m assuming) of Paul’s 2013 Catch Up Reading Challenge
12. Valerie of Valerie R. Lawson
13. Tammy of TR’s Writing Nook
14. Rebecca of Apocalypse Reads
15. Devina of Hot Chocolate and Books
The Liebster Award
Thanks to Kelley from Another Novel Read for nominating me!
Okay, so apparently the rules for the Liebster Award are as follows:
1. I have to say 11 things about myself.
2. I have to answer the 11 questions posed to me.
3. I have to make up 11 more questions.
4. Finally, I have to nominate 11 other bloggers who will answer my 11 questions. (And let them know, obviously.)
Apparently the Liebster Award is for up and coming bloggers with a following of less than 200. At 251 followers at the time of writing this post, I’m over-qualified, but I’ll do the award anyway to highlight some of the great bloggers out there with less than 200 followers.
11 Facts About Me
1. I really dislike my first name (Carrie), but wouldn’t really consider changing it.
2. I once considered doing a spin-off blog called The Mad Photographer to showcase my photography. Continue reading