Swap Saturday - Weekly Meme

Weekly Meme

Book Swap For Book Bloggers!

Any Book, In New Or Good Condition, Including ARC, If The Book Has Already Been Released

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Words And Peace is excited to announce :

SWAP SATURDAY!

What is it?
A meme posted every Saturday a place to swap books exclusively for bloggers who post book reviews.

How does it work?

• Create a Swap Saturday post on your blog, with your updated list of books you are ready to swap. Feel free to use my logo. 
• Be sure to specify the condition of your book
• use the Mr. Linky widget to link your post to the weekly post on Words And Peace
• visit the other posts linked, and when a blogger has a book you like, tell him/her in a comment under his/her post, and send them the link to your post, maybe they can see there a book they want. 
• Proceed to the swapping as you wish.
• you can advertize with #swapsat
• it is ok to relink the same post every Saturday, as long as your list is updated

What kind of books can I list?

• paperback, hardcover, audiobook.
• any condition you would be ok to receive yourself: new, gently used, ARC
• NB: you can only post an ARC of a book that has already been published
• I think it could be useful to list your books by genre.
• You could include the link to your review as well!

So it could look like that:

MYSTERY
Title, by author  – paperback, ARC, brand new
Title, by author – harcover, gently used, no highlighting

HISTORICAL FICTION
Title, by author  – paperback, brand new
Title, by author – hardcover, spine gently used, otherwise great condition

This reading challenge is hosted by Words and Peace. For more information and to sign-up, please see this post.

Celebrities in Classics Meme

Each Celebrities in Classics post will profile an actor/actress and highlight any appearances they have made in classic book adaptations. The post will also include my first encounter, favourite movie/scene, great quotes, videos and any other tidbits I think are interesting.

Everyone is invited to participate and link posts below about their favourite Celebrities in Classics. Feel free to write a post using the same categories or make-up your own. Please include the title of your post and your blog name in the “Name” section of the link. For example, Hugh Grant (ebookclassics). I will keep the feature open until the end of the year depending on interest.

Note: If someone else has written about your favourite celebrity, don’t hesitate to write a profile with your own take on their filmography.

If you are tweeting about the feature, please use the hashtag #CelebClassics

This meme is hosted by eBook Classics. For more information and to sign-up, please see this post.

Follow Friday Hosted by Anniesh Imaginary Adventures

March 1 - June 1, 2013
Hosted by:
Anniesh Imaginary Adventures

As you may know, every Friday people tweet the names of Twitter users they'd like others to follow and tag it with #followfriday and/or #FF. My idea of this monthly feature originates with the aforementioned feature on Twitter.  Follow Friday should become a great way for bloggers to socialize and network their blogs, and to share upcoming events! I hope that it will help many bookworms not to miss any interesting event as well as my fellow bloggers to attract more participants or even more blog followers.

And, this is how it should work:

• On the third Friday of every month I will share with you a bookish challenge, a read-a-long, or a readathon that I've found in the blogosphere and will start soon, and the entering of which I'd recommend to every kindred spirit.
• Create your own Follow Friday post and recommend upcoming bookish events hosted by other bloggers that you find interesting. Even though I'm addicted to the classics, please feel free to recommend events from any genre that is dear to your heart! You may keep your FF post short or you may write a lengthy one; it's up to you. You can also praise the whole blog that hosts that particular event, if you like.
• It would be nice, if you would use my official graphic and please link back toAnneish Imaginary Adventures so that other people wanting to participate know where to get the information to do so!
• Once you have your Follow Friday posted, come back to Anneish Imaginary Adventures and add your link to the list.
• Visit other participants' link to find out what events they recommend and please do share with them as well as with me, if they inspired you to enter an event!
• Finally, have fun and read on!

This meme is hosted by Hotchpot Cafe. For more information and to sign-up, please see this post.

Shelf Candy Saturday

Every Saturday

This weekly meme/blog hop, hosted here, features beautiful book covers!

If you'd like to participate, just grab my button (or create your own), write your post, and link up in the Linky widget at the bottom of this post.  As a bonus, you can include information on the artist, designer, and/or photographer, but it's not required.  You can simply feature a cover and explain why you love it!

This meme is hosted by A Night's Dream of Books. For more information and to sign-up, please see this post.

Monday Musings

Every Monday

This is a weekly feature hosted at The Book Barista where each Monday I'll post a book-related topic for your thoughtful consideration. So, grab your cup of coffee and let's chat!  There is a different topic each week.

You can either leave a comment on the meme post, or if you would like to share your thoughts on this subject with your blog followers as well, simply use the linky for your blog post.

In your blog post, please be sure to link back here as well, thank you!

This meme is hosted by The Book Barista. For more information and to sign-up, please see this post.

Third Sentence Thursday Meme

Weekly Meme

I heard from Sniffly last week, and she said she won’t be continuing Third Sentence Thursday and that I could host it if I’d like. And because I really enjoy it, I have decided to take it. So, from here on out – or at least until further notice – Third Sentence Thursday is now hosted by Proud Book Nerd. I have a new button to reflect the change. As always, it’s in the sidebar (with the code). Please grab it if you’re playing along. Also, I’m planning to have a linky every week, so that should make playing along a little easier, right?

PLEASE play along. And PLEASE spread the word! This is a fun meme to do, but only if I’m not alone. The more the merrier!

Rules:

Third Sentence Thursday is a weekly meme that loves the number 3.

1. Take the book you are currently reading and post the third sentence.
2. Share your thoughts on the sentence.
3. Post a link to your blog post in the link list below. Don’t forget to link back here, too! If you don’t have a blog, just leave it in the comments here.
4. Visit one or two of the other blogs to check out their third sentence.

For more information and to sign-up, please see this post.

Time Travel Tuesday Weekly Meme

Weekly Meme

Every Tuesday please post your answers to the following questions:

• If you could time travel where and when would you go?
• What literary characters would you meet there?
• What location?
• What era?

Link back to me by grabbing the badge for your page and link back to your Time Travel Tuesday post through the Mr Linky!

For more information and to sign-up, please see this post.

Women Reading

Women Reading (weekly)

*Every Wednesday*

Founder: Sasha Soren (Random Magic)
Here's what's news!

Edition: Nov. 2, 2011

1. Grab the meme image and text info shown above.

2. Select a nice image of a woman reading. Include title, artist, and link to image source.

3. Pick a reading quote you like.

4. Share info on any cool events, memes, or giveaways you've seen recently. You can ask visitors to let you know in comments about events you've missed.

The categories each week are always the same, to keep it simple, and all of some of them can be included. You can just cut and paste the standard categories, shown below:

Art and Quotes

Discussions and Book Chats

Events and Parties

Memes and Features

(Includes reading challenges)

Videos and Vloggers

Book Adaptations and Media Marvels

(Includes movies, music, games, tech, publishing news, other)

Goodies and Giveaways

Book Nooks

Upcoming

Participate in Women Reading

Notes

Talk to Us

5a. Leave a link to your Women Reading post in the linky provided.

5b. Grab the code to generate your own linky ('Get the inLinkz code') and drop it at the bottom of your own post, and you'll have the same cute thumbnail links to display.

6. Feel free to visit any of the interesting blogs mentioned in any Women Reading posts. Feel free to show some comments love if you see something you like or appreciate.

That's it!

For more information and to sign-up, please see this post.

Thursday Three Weekly Meme

What is Thursday 3? It's a new weekly meme, hosted by me, in which we will be discussing our love/hate relationship with our current read.

Here is how Thursday 3 works:

• Take your current read, or book you previously finished, and tell me the following 3 things about it.

1. Character from the book you LOVE (This can be a character you want as your BFF or someone you want to take home to meet the parents)
2. Character from the book you HATE (This character does not have to be the villian, just someone you disliked)
3. Your overall LOVE/HATE of the book. (If you haven't decided your feelings for the book yet, or if you prefer, just provide a snippet from the book containing either the word "LOVE" or "HATE")

And if you know which state your book takes place, please include that in your post to help aid the participants in my 50 States Reading Challenge find books for those states. {Since not all books take place in real location, this is not a requirement. If it was it would no longer be three:)}

Anyone can participate!! Just link your posts in the linky! In your post, please provide a link back to my blog so that other people can find the information and participate.

For more information and to sign-up, please see this post.

Dirty Little Secret Weekly Meme

Dirty Little Secret is a weekly meme hosted by us at Under the Covers. Every Thursday we get to know other bloggers and our readers more intimately by asking them a question hoping to reveal their dirty little secrets. We hope that you will all join us!

To participate in the meme all you need to do is:

1. Be a follower of Under the Covers.

2. Create a post in your blog taking the meme image (code above) and copy instructions.

3. Answer the question we propose! This can be done in any way you like, post a video, write a post etc.

4. Then add your link below.

Non-bloggers: We want to hear from you as well!!! Let us know your answer in the comments!

We hope you join us and let us know your Dirty Little Secrets!

For more information and to sign-up, please see this post.

Book Nooks

November 11- December 31, 2011
Weekly

Book Nooks How-To:
Feel free to join in whenever you like. The hop goes up every weekend.

1. Posts each weekend - Posts every weekend - you can post anywhere from Friday through Sunday, your pick. Even a very early Monday post would be okay, would just count it as a long weekend.
2. Header image and info - Grab main image and info. You don't necessarily have to link to both author name and title, please just give due credit by including founder name at minimum. A link would be appreciated and a nice courtesy, but it's totally up to you.  You can include any tagline you want, if you don't necessarily want to use, 'Show us something pretty!' It's your post, so say whatever you like. The idea is just to give new visitors some idea what the post will be about.
3. Pick your book nook - Pick a pretty place that looks like it would be a comfy and cool place to read. It doesn't have to necessarily be a library or book shop - if you think it's a place that looks like a perfect place for a good read, then it qualifies.  You can pick photos or paintings, the image can be a living room or bedroom or just a picnic spot, it's up to you. It just has to someplace that looks like a wonderful spot to read a few books.
4. Share your thoughts on the book nook - (Commentary) Share why you think this makes a wonderful book nook - the colors, the comfortable accessories, the light, the peace and quiet, the general feeling of the place, and so on.
   

For more information and to sign-up, please see this post.

MEME: NetGalley Recommendations

Weekly Meme

I've noticed that many of my readers are themselves bloggers and/or reviewers and as I recently discovered what I'd been missing out on over at netGalley, I took the bait and decided to test out a weekly meme (that I will actually post every week!!)

It'll be called Weekly NetGalley Recommendations (very original, I know) will be posted on Sunday, and the number of recommendations per week will vary. It will have the title, cover, it's GoodReads synopsis, and the link to request it on netGalley. Beware: I do have a partiality for YA.

For more information and to sign-up, please see this post.

Cover Art Weekend Blog Hop

Weekly Meme

This is a new meme to display all those beautiful, funny, crazy and even those that make you think book covers you come across each week. I don't know about the rest of you, but I love looking at different book covers. You may not be able to judge a book by its cover, but they are sure fun to look at. So, if you'd like to join in the fun, all you have to do is...

1. Take the button at the top of this post and post it on your blog.

2. Chose a book cover of your choice and post it. (You can post as many covers as you'd like.)

3. Sign up with Mr. Linky below. Please use the url that links directly to your cover art post.

4. Visit other blogs on the list to see what covers they are featuring this week.

Instead of just one day, I thought I'd run this through the weekends - from Fridays to Mondays. That gives people more of a chance to blog hop.

Have fun!

For more information and to sign-up, please see this post.

Short Stories on Wednesdays

January – December 2012

I finally decided to start a short story meme of my own. Hence, in the beginning of July 2011, Short Stories on Wednesdays was born.
I have been having fun with this meme. I’ve been introduced to new short story writers through reviews that others have shared, and I’ve been encouraged to whittle down my collection bit by bit. So, I’ve decided to continue with this meme next year. However, I’ve decided to make just a few changes to make our Wednesdays a wee bit more interesting in 2012.

• I thought it might be a nice idea to have a theme in the last Wednesday of every month. Those who join in on the meme during that week will have to pick a story to read that revolves around the given theme. It should be interesting to note what various authors can do with just one topic, right?
• I also thought it would be interesting to have guest posts, once a month, by fellow bloggers dealing with either essay-type questions on short stories or having them post one of their own short stories.
• If there is any short story writer out their who would like to give away a few copies of their collections I’d be happy to host a giveaway here on every second Wednesday of each month. Guest posts by writers would also be welcome.

The short story form is rather under-appreciated, and it would be nice, I think, to draw more people to the genre. I know I’ve spent the last few months enjoying my short story sessions!


For more information and to sign-up, please see this post.

EVENT: Subtitle This Cover

Perpetual – Weekly Meme, Every Thursday

Subtitle This Cover is a new weekly event/meme here at Reading Romances where I ask YOU, dear reader, to subtitle a book cover! The best subtitles will be posted here next week and a poll will be created, the winner for the best subtitle will be featured on the following week’s post!If you don’t have a blog, please leave a comment with your subtitle!

 
Rules:
• Create a post with your subtitle(s), as many as you want, for this week’s book cover.
• Feel free to use the event’s badge!
• Link to this post by using the inlinz bellow (the blue frog)! Please link to the post not the blog.
• You have the full week (till next Thursday) to participate.


For more information and to sign-up, please see this post.

Short Stories on Wednesdays - EVENT

Hosted by Risa at Bread Crumb Reads

Risa at Bread Crumb Reads is hosting a weekly meme called Short Stories on Wednesdays. She writes:

The purpose of this event is to encourage people to read at least one short story a week. There are no limits, of course! If you have made a post on the short stories you've read this week, please do leave a link in the comments section. If you haven't made a post, it does not matter. I'd still love to know what you've been reading. Just put the titles down in the comments section.

To play along, visit Risa each week on Wednesday on her blog.

Tips on Thursday

Weekly on Thursdays

Girl Who Reads is hosting a weekly event, Tips on Thursday.  She writes:

Tips on Thursday is a weekly series that I started to help bloggers share tips and tricks about book blogging. I conceived the idea after having several chats with fellow bloggers and forming #bookbloghelp on Twitter. Please take the time to look at the other blogs linked here and share your own tips (doesn't have to have to be on Thursday).

To participate, go to Tips on Thursday on Thursdays.

WoW Weekly 100 Words

Ruthi Reads is hosting a weekly meme, WOW Weekly 100 Words.  She writes:

Although this is a Wednesday blog hop hosted here at Ruthi Reads!, you are welcome to hop in at any time. Just grab the button and link for you blog post where you share exactly 100 words from your current read(s) and add your post URL to the linky list provided at the end of this post. Feel free to share anything else you'd like on your post, especially book-related items. And be sure to visit and/or introduce yourself to others on the WoW list during week.

I use The Word Count Tool to count my book excerpts. I type in the box provided, then once I have 100 words, I copy and paste it right into my blog post.

To participate, go to WOW Weekly 100 Words.

Top Ten Tuesday

Tuesdays, Weekly

The Broke and the Bookish is hosting a weekly event every Tuesday, Top Ten Tuesday.  She writes:

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created here at The Broke and the Bookish. This meme was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!

Each week we will post a new Top Ten list complete with one of our bloggers answers. Everyone is welcome to join. If you can't come up with ten, don't worry about it---post as many as you can!

To join, go to Top Ten Tuesday, on a Tuesday. 

Supernatural Sundays

Every Sunday

Hale&Salvatore Supernatural Must Reads are hosting a weekly event, Supernatural Sundays.  Here's how it works:

Grab your current  'supernatural' read, and find your 2 favorite quotes of your favorite character in the novel. Secondly, look for a photo on the internet, who you think most resembles the character of your choosing.
And finally, post it!

To participate, go to Supernatural Sundays on Sundays.