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Best Moment Award

Excuse me for a moment while I flail in happiness. A couple of days ago I was nominated for this award by Nerd Enchanted.

Receiving this award is very special to me. This is because of two reasons. The first is that this description is given with the award:

“This award is given to a blog that has a literary piece defining a specific moment that is thought-provoking, creative, honest, and or inspiring.”

And two, because when I was nominated for this award, she said this:

“Emma’s blog was probably the very first blog on WordPress that I got around reading. My list of books-to-read is ever growing thanks to her reviews that are authentic and flawless.”

And I was stumped. Flawless? Authentic? Me? Say what now? But I’m just a girl who started putting thoughts unto the internet a couple of months ago. What have I done to deserve this honor?! I feel very flattered that I even come to mind when thinking of these words. Seriously.

But let’s move on.

The rules:

Display the award logo,
Link back to the person who nominated you,
State 7 things about yourself,
Nominate however many people that you feel are deserving of this award.

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7 Things About Myself

1. I’m currently listening to Last Night of the World from the musical Miss Saigon, which I saw with my family when I was about 5 years old. I still know all the lyrics to (my favourite) songs and it’s probably my favourite musical to date. Well, probably a shared first place with Aida. Also, Lea Salonga is a goddess.

2. So I’m genuinely very excited about my imminent move to the US but every once in a while I catch myself looking around my room and thinking ‘nooooooooo’

3. I’ve recently taken up knitting as a hobby. My gran taught me way back in the day so I was pretty surprised that I still remembered how to do it. I was pretty rubbish in the beginning but I’ve gotten loads better.

This was from 5 days ago, I’m much further now. (That third line is intentional.)

4. Instead of reading, I’ve been listening to Welcome to Night Vale before bed. Which has in turn caused the Pavlovian conditioning that whenever I hear Cecil’s deep, smooth voice, I start feeling tired and I fall asleep. But anyway, WTNV is absolutely amazing and hilarious. You should give it a listen. Those of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook (notice the Social Media Icons on the right.. he he. I’m so subtle) will have noticed that I retweet a lot of brilliant tweets from the official WTNV account. I really would like to meet the brilliant, yet disturbed, minds that have come up with this.

(Source)

5. Although The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a really good book, I feel like I have too little life experience (i.e. marriage) to really understand his life. More on this in the upcoming review.

6. I’m more addicted to Candy Crush and SongPop than I’d like to admit.

7. As you all know, I’ve recently graduated from my Masters and I am now officially  not a student anymore. I will never ever have to follow a class, take an exam or study if I don’t want to. And I have to say, I don’t miss it for a second. I did my time. Dobby is free.

 And the Nominees are

1. Kokkieh

Who runs a wonderful blog with many brilliantly written original short stories for his Song Title Challenge. And also many many well written, funny and informative blogs. Also notice his button on the right.

2. Whatever that’s Nice and Whatever that’s Not

One of those little gems that deserves recognition. Please check out her blog!

3. BroadBlogs

I don’t know if she takes blogging awards but I had to nominate her anyway. If you look for thought-provoking, honest and inspiring, you’ll have to check out her social psychology and psychology of women based blog.

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And now, the weather

– Some for Welcome To Night Vale’s best tweets. Just so you know what I’m talking about.

“I really see myself in you. I know you complained and screamed a lot, but I think this torso-mirror implant is working out great.”

“Can you keep a secret? How about a paper bag that’s slowly dropping blood? Can you keep that? Like in a closet or something?”

“OId musicians never die. They just decompose. But they don’t ever actually die… those poor, ever-rotting musicians.”

“Life is like a box of chocolates: heart-shaped, poorly sealed, and filled with tiny insects.”

“If you ever look at the sky, doubting the existence of other worlds, just know that somewhere a creature looks up at its sky, doubting you.”

BA’s Posting Challenge: Loving Blogs

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Share some of the other book blogs you love to follow, who have inspired you, or who have become your online besties.

I have so ultimately failed this challenge it’s not even funny. I kept it up for what, a couple of weeks? Then i guess i decided that i had enough material to write about and just forgot about it. Ahh bad Emma! Bad bad Emma. Anyway, I’m going to pick it up where I’ve left off and maybe post more than once a week so maybe I can catch up a little.

Anyway, let’s get to the point shall we?

I actually have several blogs that i adore and look up to and just enjoy reading so much. Some of these people I’ve gotten to know personally through our collaboration on the book notes project, some I’ve gotten to know just by interacting with them regularly through comments or on twitter. The fact that I’ve gotten to know so many great people through blogging and getting to know them well enough to call them my friends is one of the things i like best about blogging. I feel like it’s a real community we’ve got going on here. Love it.

Although there are a lot of blogs that I love reading, these are few that really inspire me and that I look up to. The first of these is Becky’s blog. You can find her button on the left hand side of my blog. I found Becky’s blog right when I first started blogging and i was kind of in awe. She runs book centered blog and writes so well and with such apparent ease, it made me think ‘i want that!’ Not to mention she always has tons of likes and an insane amount of comments. Colour me jealous.

Other blogs that i look up to, always enjoy reading and like talking with are:

The downside of making a list of your favourite blogs? Feeling like you could be possibly offending everyone you follow but don’t mention. I´m sorry in advance! I should spend more time reading new blogs, i know this. I feel bad about it.

Anyway, just wanted to finish this blog by saying that i appreciate each and every one of you who takes the time to read, like and comment on my blog. Every new like and every new comment and every new follower still give me the warm and fuzzies. Man, i love blogging.