Week Two Favorites End of the Week Wrap Up!

Soooo......

We highlighted some awesome blogs this week! Hopefully ones many could take something from, and maybe even come back to for future discussions!

If you missed it, here's who we featured:

Week Two for OUR favorites, Day Three: Blogs and Bloggers, Next up "Elfswood*+ Ellen Oh's Prophecy/Warrior & Sarwat Chadda's The Savage Fortress/The City of Death giveaway!

So were half way through the week, and only have three blogs left XD Blast the weeks for being so short! This next Book Blogger we chose for her honest reviews, and pretty blog layout. We've been an avid follower for some time, and it'd be awesome to highlight why we chose her.

So the third favorite Book Blogger goes to...

Elfswood: Dream.Escape.Read

One of the things we've enjoyed about elfswood's blog is her no nonsense approach to book reviewing. Many book blogs will only rate and review books that they love or wouldn't give more than 4 stars to.

That's great and all, no one wants to be a bad guy when they dont like a book, but then again, how is that constructive to the person reading the review, who is on the fence about purchasing a book.

If you're like us, 3 or less stars don't turn you off of a book. For the most part, 3 stars or less tend to be more critical, or even emotional, on why a reader may not have connected with the book(except for the occasional troll, not insinuating all 1-2-3 star reviews are fair).

If people only rated the books they liked, there'd be nothing but 4 and 5 star reviews, and that seems to defeat the purpose of a book review.

 

This year on twinja Book Reviews!

We started up back in March of 2013. Our first post was sloppy and we had little direction XD(First Post). It wasnt until after we began reading books with no marginalized groups, that we really took it upon ourselves to promote diversity.

As a person of color, and female, it is very hard not to get excited about diversity. Were going on 2014 and at times, you can still feel invisible in this world if you are not white, male, cis gendered, straight, able bodied and Christian. I think we still have a very long way to go. But we can start by trying harder to read and demand more books featuring diversity.

My Little Pocketsbooks is hosting a diversity reading challenge starting in January. One can sign up here. Many other blogs try promote such things. Blogs I tend to often go back to I wanted to highlight for the end of the year: