Recently, I’ve been feeling a little bit meh about the blog. I don’t know what it is; there’s just something I’m not happy about. And today I realised I’m an idiot. Instead of sitting around, scrolling through my blog and feeling sorry for myself, I need to FIX THE PROBLEM.
So here’s what I propose: a blog tour buddy read. If you don’t know what a buddy read is, feel free to ask for more detail. Basically, it’s where you read a book with someone else, and discuss it as you go. A blog tour read would be discussing it with our followers as we go. Here’s an example:
We start the book on Monday, and aim to have it finished by Friday. On Monday, I give a summary of the book, and what I hope we’ll see. You all reblog this. On Tuesday, Susan posts her thoughts on the first part of the book. We all reblog this. On Wednesday, Bob does the same. By Friday, we’ve gone through the entire book and talked about our thoughts on it. Then person #5, John, writes a ‘review’ summarising all our thoughts. And on Saturday, we all do our own reviews with our personal thoughts (even John). And we’ll be reading the same book all over the world!
This might be a completely terrible idea. Maybe none of you are interested. But if you ARE interested, let me know! And recommend a book you think we’d like to read. If there are more people interested then there are days, we can always have two people on a day. If you’re reading this and thinking I’m a moron, also let me know. Nicely, please! Maybe I should do what Ed says… If you want to, tell me why you don’t like the idea. Or, better yet, recommend something else we could do!
This idea is really great 🙂 I’ll participate! And maybe we could read a YA book—Belzhar? The Selection?
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Thanks! 🙂 I’ll add the suggestions to the poll I’ll be doing
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That will be awesome 🙂
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This is a really cool idea! I really like it, I would be up for it 🙂
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Yay! 🙂
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I love this idea…I think it’s great *thumbs up*
Count me in 😀 How about Rebel Belle, or Since You’ve Been Gone?
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Thanks! 🙂 Good suggestions, I’ll add it to the poll I’ll be doing
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I feel a bit meh about blogging right now too, coz I’m so tired from university.
I can’t really join in right now because of the aforementioned uni, but I think it sounds like a great idea! Can’t wait to see what you come up with =)
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Oh no 😦 Stupid learning! Thanks anyway 🙂
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I love this idea. I’d love to participate please 🙂 I recommend reading Shadow and Bone.
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Thanks! 🙂
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You don’t know how much I would like to participate in this. But my finals are pretty soon and although I’m reading, but only barely at night. Maybe next time. 😦
Can’t wait to see what you come up with. All the very best!
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If we pick a book you’ve already read, feel free to join in anyway 🙂 Thank you!
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I would, gladly. 🙂
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