THE SUNDAY POST is a weekly wrap-up feature hosted by Kimba at the Caffinated Book Reviewer.
It is a chance to recap the previous week, share news, showcase books and/or bookish things we have received, and tell about what is coming up on our blog in the next week. You can view the guidelines, HERE.
It is a chance to recap the previous week, share news, showcase books and/or bookish things we have received, and tell about what is coming up on our blog in the next week. You can view the guidelines, HERE.
It was all about my tricks for coming up with character names for stories.
WEDNESDAY'S WEIRD WORD
I did my first Beyond the Books feature which is based on the now closed Life of a Blogger. You get a prompt for a post that is usually non-bookish. This week it was about beauty products and the funny thing is it was my top viewed post of the week. Hehe.
The last five books added to my TBR.
There was another riot on Twitter incited by a blogger confessions post that was mainly about things other bloggers do on Twitter that are super annoying. The shot of adrenaline to the situation was a group of brand new book bloggers who are mostly teens that somehow banded together to form a mob (usual twitter style), who were bashing the two bloggers about the post, and being aggressive towards anyone who didn't 100% agree with them. Because I had participated in a "newbie bloggers meet, greet, and follow" a couple of weeks ago (trying to be a supportive fellow book blogger), I had six or seven of this mob blowing up my feed with nastiness. When I said that regardless of what they thought about the post we all have the right to post what we want on our own blogs, and that because it was a blog post they should be hashing it out there and not on Twitter, or making their own rebuttal post and just posting the link, they went ballistic. They started tweeting that they were just standing up to what the "confessions bloggers" said to them on Twitter. I checked and one of the two co-bloggers was saying nothing at all, and the other was being extremely civil and tweeting that they understood. A couple veteran bloggers I know from Twitter were RTing the lies about the "confessions bloggers" and when I told them to check for themselves, they both unfollowed me instead of admitting they were wrong. I think one of them blocked me because I am not getting their tweets anymore. This adds to three of those new bloggers being rude to me on their blogs when I commented. On one blog I commented that I had seen a lot of other bloggers talking about the book she had featured, and she told me she didn't think so! I hope this isn't going to be the next new face of book blogging.
Here is the confessions post that started it all.
I agreed with some things they said, and didn't agree with others, but they still had every right to post their thoughts on their blog, and should not have been accused of being aggressive on Twitter when they were being anything but. They also did a rebuttal blog post to what was being said on Twitter...
I have not read this yet, so I have no idea what their reaction was, but going on how civil and understanding Nick was being on Twitter, I think the "Let's Talk" title is promising.
And on another note (you will get my pun in a second).
This is the choral group, Orfeón Donostiarra , from Spain that is doing the soundtracK for the movie based on the book by Patrick Ness, A MONSTER CALLS.
MONDAY -There will be a Kookies and Milk review by Shannon from REX ROBOT REVIEW'S daughter, Kaylee, up on the Children's blog of BAD KITTY GOES TO THE VET.
TELL ME TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY - Maybe a Blogger Confessions post! Heh.
THURSDAY - Beyond the Books and the LL & A Monthly Tag.
TOP FIVE FRIDAY
THE SUNDAY POST
And I promise my bloversary post will be up before the end of the month with a fab giveaway.
Have a stellar week!
