Welcome to Tea Time with Marce
Today is the start of BBAW, enjoy the week
This year’s theme is Cultivating a Community of Bloggers and Readers.
While the awards are a fun part of BBAW, they can never accurately represent the depth and breadth of diversity in the book blogging community. Today you are encouraged to highlight a couple of bloggers that have made book blogging a unique experience for you. They can be your mentors, a blogger that encouraged you to try a different kind of book, opened your eyes to a new issue, made you laugh when you needed it, or left the first comment you ever got on your blog. Stay positive and give back to the people who make the community work for you!
I have been blogging for 2 years and my first taste of the blogging community was when I came across the meme Booking Through Thursday. For a couple of weeks on and off I would read but not comment and one day I just said I want to network with other book lovers so I started this blog, Tea Time with Marce.
Over my 2 years I have learned a few things. How important networking and commenting on other blogs are, staying true to myself, participating on blogs during memes and challenges and the final for me is to not get overwhelmed, so posting 3 to 4 times is perfect and gives my followers from all over the world the opportunity to comment without feeling like they are late.
My Appreciation and Love.........
I respect these 2 bloggers for being amazing networking commenting leaders – thank you Kathy (Bermudaonion's Weblog) and Juju (Tales of Whimsy), you are always there.
Thank you Marie (Boston Bibliophile) for being a first commenter and you are still here today, I appreciate that.
Thank you Jennifer from Reading with Tequila, you may not know this but you taught me to stay true to myself and try to find my place in the blogosphere. I find you to be honest and always trying to think how to get bloggers involved with you and each other.
And to my Mystery, Thriller, Suspense buddies, Michelle (red headed book child) and Rae (The Best O' Books), blogging would not be the same without you guys, you have added to my Wishlist and TBR list so much it is the ultimate thrill and what makes it perfect is that you interact with me.
And to the bloggers I would love to have Tea with, Paula (Tomes Devotee), Julie (Reading without Restraint), Aths (Reading on a Rainy Day), Steph the Bookworm and Cheryl (CMash Loves to read) – you ladies are the best. You all have great blogs and content which I respect and enjoy. In many ways we have realised we have similar reading interests. Emailing away from the blogs is an additional special touch I appreciate. BTW Julie, your blog is my favourite looking blog.
And last but not least, Christa (Mental Foodie), you are my favourite blogger, you have a genuine voice, have opened my eyes to memoirs and Non Fiction but love Mystery, Thriller and Suspense also. I love reading your posts and seeing your opinion, even when we don’t agree.
Diversity means so much to me personally and that is what is amazing about the Book Blogging Community. So many have their own special touch thats adds to our book loving life.
I appreciate you.
Lovely post going into the reasons these bloggers are special to you.
ReplyDeleteMarce, I have to say, when did u get that new button? I was distracted by it. Quite blood thirsty. :)
Have a great week
carol
There are a lot of new-to-me blogs on that list, so I'm off to check them out! My list of influential bloggers, if you are interested!
ReplyDeleteI know all of them. Good ones!
ReplyDeleteI had a hard time choosing. But I opted for totally unheard of blogs. Isn't that the intention of community. To spread far and wide!!
Here is my post:
BBAW 2011: Community
Ahhhhhhhh thanks for the shout out darling :)
ReplyDeleteI'm off to check out some of the gals/blogs you mentioned.
Wow, you have a few that I haven't "met" before. Off to discover new blogs. Thanks for a great post! :-)
ReplyDeleteKathy is amazing . . . I love her blog! How cool that Marie was one of your first commenters. I love her blog as well.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your kind words! You made my day.
ReplyDeleteAw Marce, I absolutely adore you. You are one of my very best blog friends and I am so lucky to have you as a friend! :D
ReplyDeleteThank you Marce :) you're the best! Glad to have met so many wonderful bloggers through you, and even though you are quite the bloody horror queen (wearing pink and high heels!) we have so much in common. Rae
ReplyDelete"Diversity means so much to me personally and that is what is amazing about the Book Blogging Community. So many have their own special touch thats adds to our book loving life." love this comment and you've a great list here.
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting my blog, Marce. I agree that the diversity is one of the great things about the book blogging community. Most of the blogs you've mentioned are new to me so I'm off to have a look at them!
ReplyDeleteMarce, any fellow fan of mysteries and thrillers is an instant friend of mine. Have a fun BBAW!
ReplyDeleteYou have chosen some of my favorites, too...and some that I must now explore.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by my blog.
Great list and great advice. It's important not to overwhelm yourself; otherwise, blogging stops being fun. Love your blog!
ReplyDeleteAll fantastic bloggers (as are you!).
ReplyDeleteI know quite a few of these bloggers, and I have to agree-they're fabulous!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I like the bloody button!
Great post! I haven't been by in awhile, and wow your blog icon with the hand and teacup is awesome! Super intense but it fits the mystery/thriller vibe. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for commenting everyone, I appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteGlad some of you like the new button, it's a little 'scary' but I still have the cute one also :-)
I look forward to interviews tomorrow.
What a wonderful tribute you wrote here!! Well done. (And you're still freaking me out with the IT button!!!!!!)
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I love the new button! Secondly, these posts are great just because it helps me to find new blogs to check out ;) Book blogging is a wonderful thing!
ReplyDeleteI love the diversity of the book blogging community, too! It's amazing, and so wonderful to be a part of. I wish you a lovely BBAW!
ReplyDeleteWow. I'm blushing. Seriously, thank YOU.
ReplyDeleteHi Marce,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the bloggers you admire, I am glad I recently found yours!
Shelleyrae @ Book'd Out
I feel so honored to be on that list, Marce! Thanks so much! You have a fabulous blog out here and although I didn't directly participate in the Thrill Week, I loved the way you set it up and had a lot of fun reading your posts! I also love some of the blogs you mentioned here, and others are new to me, so I'm going to check them out!
ReplyDelete<3 Thanks for mentioning my blog! :-) Obviously I'm a big fan of yours too! And you have a great list of other bloggers, too :-)
ReplyDeleteAwww, thank you so much! I appreciate you too, so much. You are one of my favorites. I may not stop by every day but I always stop by and see what you are up too. Thanks for being you!
ReplyDeleteIt is a great community, every body giving opinions of importance in most of the cases with really intelligent blogs.
ReplyDeleteAmanda Stevens has an amazing talent for writing intriguing gothic mysteries set in the South-in this case Charleston. Her characters are full of quirks and eccentricities, charm and secrets. Amelia is the perpetual outsider who unravels just enough secrets to reveal a darker mystery that underlies the series. Devlin is reminiscent of the great tortured heroes of the classics-REBBECCA's Maxim de Winter, JANE EYRE's Rochester, and even the haunted Heathcliff-and, like them, the reader isn't sure if he's the hero or the villain. And neither is Amelia. I loved this book and had only one complaint-that it ended and I have to wait for the next in the series to get more!
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