Hello friends, happy Sunday! I hope you all had a lovely week. Today I’m thrilled – also a bit nervous…being a book blogger is HARD, guys – to launch the official, real start of the #SFATW party, yay!
If you have absolutely no idea what I’m rambling about, I suggest you check out the master post I wrote about it all right here. Basically, what’s happening here is book bloggers connecting and sharing the love all across the world. This is happening in two parts:
- the blog-hopping party, where bloggers could subscribe to to be featured in this very post,
- the gifts sending, where bloggers can send each other BOOKS and love!
Before heading into this, a fair warning: this blog post is quite long because I am rambling a lot, but also thanks to YOU, all of the participants in the blog hopping party. I am really excited to see how this project SPOKE to you and made you want to participate.
Below you will find two parts: FIRSTLY, the blog-hopping list, filled with FANTASTIC bloggers you should all check out. Obviously if you have the time to do them all, or not. The goal here is to SHARE the love. Costs a couple of minutes of your time and can make someone’s day! Whether you’re on this list or just stopping by, I obviously encourage you to visit these blogs and overall have fun!
SECONDLY, you will find the subscription link to be able to send gifts to another blogger. As a reminder: if you want to send souvenirs to another blogger, you have to be in the blog-hopping list. WHY, you ask? As the subscriptions happen, there will be a little something added next to each bloggers’ name on this very list, and it will look like this : SENDING GIFTS. This way, coming to this list, you will see all of the bloggers you will potentially be paired with, yay! NOT all of the bloggers on this list are going to be subscribing for the gifts-sending part, because they can’t all participate and that’s OKAY – but no reason NOT to share love and comments with them.
The blog-hopping list of amazing book bloggers
Name & Blog’s Name: Holly @ Nut Free Nerd
Favorite books: My Antonia by Willa Cather, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Sartoris by William Faulkner, and Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta.
Name & Blog’s Name: Deborah @ The Reading Chick
Favorite books: Ilona Andrews -Burn for Me, Kristen Ashley- Motorcycle Man, Jill Shalvis- Lucky Harbor series
Name & Blog’s Name: Sarah @ Sarah Ames-Foley
Favorite books: A few of my favorite books are House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, The Fireman by Joe Hill, Wool by Hugh Howey, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, and Jurassic Park by Michael Chrichton.
Name & Blog’s Name: Valerie @ Valerie’s Musings
Favorite books: My all-time favorite book is « The Secret Garden ». I also love « The Collector » by Nora Roberts and the Nine Kingdoms series by Lynn Kurland.
Name & Blog’s Name: Wendy @ Whatthelog
Recent faves: The Sound of Gravel / In Order to Live
Name & Blog’s Name: Karla @ Reads and Thoughts.
Favorite books: I ’m a huge lover of YA Contemporary books especially of Morgan Matson and Kasie West. While Marissa Meyer, Leighy Bardugo & Amir Kaufman are my faves for Fantasy books!
Favorite books: the Shatter Me trilogy by Tahereh Mafi, A Court of Thorns and Roses trilogy/series by Sarah J. Maas, Grisha trilogy by Leigh Bardugo (I have yet to read Six of Crows but Kaz Brekker is my baby), the Legend trilogy by Marie Lu (wow Jackie, what’s with all the trilogies XD) and Geekerella by Ashley Poston.
Name & Blog’s Name: Summer @ xingsings
Favorite books: The Truth About Forever, Pride and Prejudice, A Little Life, East of Eden, The Infernal Devices trilogy, the Harry Potter series, Six of Crows, When Breath Becomes Air, Dengeki Daisy (manga), and Skip Beat (manga).
Name & Blog’s Name: Dani @ Perspectives of a Writer
Favorite books: The Others series by Anne Bishop, Earthgirl series by Janet Edwards, Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, Hundred Ghost Soup, the Deathlands series by James Axler and Fruits Basket manga series by Natsuki Takaya, plus tons of others.
Name & Blog’s Name: Megan @ Book Birds
Favorite Books: Two of my favourite books are Graceling and Harry Potter.
Name & Blog’s Name: Bridget @ Bridget And Books
Favorite Books: Harry Potter, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and A Song of Ice and Fire – these are my ULTIMATE favorites! Like… I would kill a man if they said something bad about one of these.
Name & Blog’s Name: Julianna @ Blots of Ink and Words
Favorite Books: The Winner’s Curse, Cinder, How To Break A Boy, The Wrath and the Dawn, All Sarah J. Maas books, Harry Potter, Shadow and Bone, Percy Jackson, Legend, Rebel of the Sands, Girl of Fire and Thorns
Name & Blog’s Name: Kezia @ Chapteriosity
Favorite Books: Percy Jackson series and Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan, The Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare, The Grisha trilogy by Leigh Bardugo, The Start of Me and You by Emery Lord, Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas, Things We Know by Heart by Jessi Kirby AND A LOT MORE
Name & Blog’s Name: Lorna @ Gin & Lemonade
Favorite Books: The Hate You Give, My Name is Lucy Barton, All The Missing Girls, The Roanoke Girls, and generally books about books and dysfunctional families
Name & Blog’s Name: Melanie @ A Taste for Books
Favorite Books: I’m a huge fantasy fan, so Harry Potter, Six of Crows, the Grisha Series, Strange the Dreamer, and the Mistborn Trilogy are a few of my favorite reads!
Subscribe to be paired with another blogger and send and receive gifts, books and love!
Welcome to the second part of the project, where you’ll be able to send gifts to another blogger – and receive them as well! Quick reminders before subscribing:
- You have to be over 18/with your parents’ consent to give out your address.
- Before you panic: you are able to choose which budget you want to put in this project, meaning how much you want to send and where -international or local shipping. For more info on the different possibilities, see the master post.
- TO SUBSCRIBE to send GIFTS to another book blogger, CLICK HERE or on the lovely image right below:
Subscriptions to the gift exchange are open until July 2nd. You will get your pairing by email the week after that, around the 9th of July.
Once again, a MASSIVE THANK YOU to everyone participating to this project. I hope you’ll have lots of fun discovering other bloggers, and if you have any thoughts or questions about this project, leave them in comments!
theorangutanlibrarian says
Hi awesome post, do you mind just quickly changing my name to just the Orangutan Librarian, thanks!!
Marie says
Thank you, and thanks again for your participation! Oh right, I’m sorry, I’m changing it right this second! <3 <3
theorangutanlibrarian says
You’re welcome!! And thank you for making this again and for including me 😀 And thanks very much!! Really appreciate it 😀 <3
The Royal Polar Bear says
I just sign up!!!
Marie says
YAY! So happy to hear it 😀
The Royal Polar Bear says
I’m so happy to join too!
theorangutanlibrarian says
Love seeing so much love for so many of my favourite books on here, like to kill a mockingbird and godfather as well!! So many awesome new bloggers to check out!!
Marie says
Oh really? That’s so great! Thank you so, so much! 😀
theorangutanlibrarian says
You’re welcome!! 😀
TeacherofYA says
So we don’t do anything now but blog hop? Just checking…
Marie says
As I said in the post, you can blog hop thanks to the list I put together, and you can also subscribe if you want to send gifts to another blogger by clicking on the SIGN UP HERE image 🙂
TeacherofYA says
Oh, crap I missed that! So that’s how we are doing it this time? No assigning a person?
Marie says
AS I wrote it on my previous post, this one and the master post recapping everything (here: ) ; this is in two parts.
1 – this is this post, the blog-hopping list, so no assigned blogger there. Just discover new bloggers and have fun.
2 – this is the actual gift sending part, where you are assigned a particular blogger and will be able to send him / her gifts. To subscribe to that part, the link is in the second part of this post, the big blue SIGN UP HERE sign. Or click here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScseQFySvxmKVlTqLDSn3ZsFb9c9vkR8Hjb1y758PbUAQSdrw/viewform 🙂
May @ Forever and Everly says
Wow, this is going to be SO AWESOME! It’s great that so many people are participating, Marie! I’ll definitely start blog-hopping after I take care of some of my priorities. 😉 <3
Marie says
It is! I’m really happy and grateful that many bloggers were into this little idea. Thank you so much, May, I hope you’ll have fun! 😀 <3
deborahkehoe says
I just checked out the entire list! There are some great bloggers on here and I’m looking forward to reading their future posts. Thanks for putting this together, fun!
Marie says
OH wow, thank you! I’m so glad you had fun and discovered new bloggers you enjoy! Thank you so much for your enthusiasm for this, Deborah! 🙂
Lauren @ Wonderless Reviews says
Ahhhh Marie you are AMAZING for putting this all together ?? When I have some more time tomorrow I’m gonna go check out a bunch of these blogs ✨
Marie says
Thank you so, so much Lauren! This means a lot, I don’t want to share how much time it took me to put this together haha. I hope you’ll discover some great blogs! 😀
Lais says
Yayy! I’ll take a while to visit everyone’s blogs and leave a comment, but thankfully, winter break is approaching, so soon I’ll have the time to do so. I don’t think I’ll be able to send gifts because of financial reasons, but I’m still excited to see what everyone shared in the monthly recap posts. Once again, thanks for continuing on with this amazing project! 😀
Marie says
Thank you so, so much Lais! Your comments always make me smile and I’m so glad to have your support for this little feature! <3
Summer @ Xingsings says
Marie, I’d love to join in this feature even though I’m a little late! 🙂
So… my blog’s URL: https://xingsings.wordpress.com
My favorite books are The Truth About Forever, Pride and Prejudice, A Little Life, East of Eden, The Infernal Devices trilogy, the Harry Potter series, Six of Crows, When Breath Becomes Air, Dengeki Daisy (manga), and Skip Beat (manga).
Thank you so much for doing this feature once more, Marie! I’m so excited to participate this time. <3
Marie says
Oh, thank you so much, Summer, I’m so glad you want to participate this time around <3 <3 I willl add you to the list, thank you so much <3 <3
Summer @ Xingsings says
Thanks so much, Marie! <3 <3
celestial.reveries says
Hello Marie. How do I subscribe for the second part of the project?
Marie says
To subscribe to send gifts to another book blogger, all you have to do is click on the big blue SIGN UP HERE image close to the end of the blog post 🙂
celestial.reveries says
When I click on that image, only that inage comes up in the screen and when I scroll, the images of other book blogs come up.?
Marie says
Oh no ; must be a bug. It works for me :/ Here’s the direct link to subscribe to send souvenirs : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScseQFySvxmKVlTqLDSn3ZsFb9c9vkR8Hjb1y758PbUAQSdrw/viewform 🙂
celestial.reveries says
Thank you, Marie.
Marie says
You’re welcome! 😀
Vrinda@abookishhuman says
This is so amazing ! I’ll definitely visit all these blogs once I’m done with a few priorities.
Vrinda@abookishhuman says
This is awesome ! It’ll take a while for me to visit all the blogs. But I’ll blog hop as soon as I have some free time.
Marie says
Thank you so, so much Vrinda! I’m so happy you like the idea and I hope you’ll discover great bloggers 🙂
Kat Impossible says
Oh yay! It’s all happening 😀 I am so glad that SFATW isn’t dead yet 😉
I wish I could participate as well, but I am so unreliable as of late and I wouldn’t want to make any commitment and then forget or not visit someone who really deserves it. I am going to check out the blogs that participate over time though!!! Just not as an official member of the squad hahaha
I hope this is a full success and that people can spread joy by visiting, commenting and gifting! <3
Marie says
OH thank you so, so much Kat – I’m really happy you still like the idea even if you can’t be part of it this time 🙂 <3
Thank you so, so much, I really hope people will have fun 🙂
Kat Impossible says
I am sure they will have fun! Just from the descriptions it already sounds awesome 😀
Marie says
You’re the best, Kat, I hope so! <3 <3
Beth (Reading Every Night) says
Yay, I am very excited to see SFATW back again Marie, and it seems like you have plenty of people interested in it as well which is great. I’m very excited to see what’s next for this feature and I will be sure to sign up myself soon too! 😀 <3
I will also take the time to visit all these blogs when I have the time, hopefully next weekend, and check them out. I've seen a few people who have similar favourite books to mine on your list! 🙂
Marie says
Oh thank you so, so much Beth! <3 I'm so happy to see you excited about this 😀 <3
Beth (Reading Every Night) says
That’s all right, I can’t wait to get started again! 😀 ❤️
christine @ the story salve says
Thank you so much for putting this together and including so many amazing bloggers! I’m looking forward to perusing people’s blogs at some point over the next couple days!
Marie says
Thank YOU for your enthusiasm about it all, I’m so happy you liked the idea and hope you’ll find fun bloggers there 🙂
ravenblake99 says
Wonderful post! I’ll definitely give a visit to all of these blogs and I’m already familiar with some of them.
Marie says
Thank you, Raven! I hope you’ll find some new bloggers you like 😀
Sarah says
Thanks for doing this! I blog hopped through the comments on the original post, but I just went through and checked out everyone who had since signed up. So fun finding new blogs to follow. 🙂
Marie says
Yay, so happy to hear it, Sarah! Thank you again <3 <3
Bridget says
Oh this is so awesome! I just signed up for the gift giving (little box of love)! Literally already coming up with ideas of trinkets I can put in the box!!! 😀
And since the blog-hopping list has been extended – do you mind adding me?
Name: Bridget @ Bridget & Books
Favorite books: Harry Potter, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and A Song of Ice and Fire – these are my ULTIMATE favorites! Like… I would kill a man if they said something bad about one of these.
Marie says
Oh thank you, Bridget, I’m so glad you signed up! And no worries – I will add you to the blog hopping list just as well right away 😀 I’m so glad you like the idea, thank you so much! <3 <3
Julianna @ Blots of Ink and Words says
HI. I’m sorry but I just discovered this thanks to May who demanded that I also sign up?? SO I KNOW I’M LATE BUT CAN I JOIN IN???
url: http://blotsofinkandwords.wordpress.com
favorite books: The Winner’s Curse, Cinder, How To Break A Boy, The Wrath and the Dawn, All Sarah J. Maas books, Harry Potter, Shadow and Bone, Percy Jackson, Legend, Rebel of the Sands, Girl of Fire and Thorns
SORRY THAT’S A LOT BUT I LOVE SO MANY BOOKS.
Marie says
HI Julianna! OF COURSE you can join, and you’re not late AT ALL, I’m so happy you’re here! 😀
(And your favorite books are AWESOME. I love Cinder, The Wrath and The Dawn, Harry Potter obviously <3 <3 )
Will add you to the list, thanks again!! <3 <3
Julianna @ Blots of Ink and Words says
YAY!! Me too XD
(THANK YOU!! I LOVE THEM TOO)
divabooknerd says
This is absolutely amazing Marie and thank you for the hard work you’ve put in to unite our communities of bloggers and book lovers. Such a beautiful sentiment and I can’t wait to visit everyone’s blog and get to know them <3
Marie says
Oh thank you so, so much <3 <3 I'm so glad you appreciate it! I hope you will find some new bloggers you will love here! 🙂
Jackie B @ Death by Tsundoku says
I’m so glad to see this back! It was a great experience for me this past holiday season, and I can’t wait to participate again in the future. There are so many bloggers listed here!! Kudos to you, Marie, for all the time and effort you’ve spent coordinating this. It is definitely appreciated!!
Marie says
Oh thank you so, so much, Jackie, that’s so sweet of you! I’m really glad you appreciate this and hope you’ll participate in the next season – if I can and if people want this to come back. Thank you so much for your sweet words <3 <3
Valerie @ Valerie's Musings says
I’m super excited about all this! 🙂 I’ve been visiting 4 or 5 blogs a day, working my way down the list. And I’m definitely looking forward to the second half. I love learning about new cultures and meeting people from new places!
Marie says
Oh thank you so much, Valerie! I hope you found some blogs you enjoyed! 😀 Thank you <3
Donna | Chocolate'n'Waffles says
Haha, I feel so alone with my creepy and crime books! But wow you’ve gathered a wonderful bunch of people!!! I’m so happy, this project deserves all the love, and so do you!
Marie says
But you’re so unique, Donna, you’re not alone, you’re just one-of-a-kind 😀 Thank you so, so much my Sweechie, I’m so happy people wanted to participate. Hope you’ll find great bloggers there 😀
keziadrl says
Hi Marie! It’s my first time visiting your blog but I’d really love to be part of your feature. I hope that I’m not too late to the party ehehe
My name is Kezia and my blog is Chapteriosity (http://chapteriosity.com)
Some of my favorite books are Percy Jackson series and Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan, The Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare, The Grisha trilogy by Leigh Bardugo, The Start of Me and You by Emery Lord, Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas, Things We Know by Heart by Jessi Kirby AND A LOT MORE
I’m sorry for spamming you with my fave books lol
Thank you for organizing this event, Marie! Best of luck for everyone ??
Marie says
Hi Kezia! So happy you decided to stop by! 😀 You’re not too late to the party, I’ll add you to the blog-hopping list today, thank you so, so much for your enthusiasm 😀
(Also, I haven’t read any Emery Lord yet but heard great things about her – so glad one of her books is in your favorites! 🙂 )
Cait @ Paper Fury says
This sounds like such an epic project!! And also an epic list of blogs that I should check out because I see tons who have favourite books the same as me.? Good luck with it all, Marie!! 😀 Sharing the book love is the best.
Marie says
Ohh thank you so, so much, Cait! I hope you’ll find new bloggers you like on there <3 <3 You're the sweetest <3
Jeann @ Happy Indulgence says
This is such a fun blog event to organise, I wish you all the luck Marie! It looks like you’ve got some great bloggers participating, many of which are new to me!
Marie says
OH thank you so, so much, Jeann <3 <3 That's so sweet. If you have time to give a couple of them a visit 🙂
Greg says
I think I remember you doing something like this last year? Such an awesome idea and a great way to discover new blogs and re- connect maybe with other ones? Best of luck with it!!
Marie says
Yes, I already did! Thank you so, so much, Greg! 🙂
morethangeekylove says
Heyy Marie!! Is it too late for me to sing up?? I would love to participate again if possible ^.^ <3
Marie says
Hii, thank you so much for your comment! I’m so sorry but as written on the blog post, the subscriptions closed in early July :/
I hope you’ll find blogs you like on the list though! 🙂 <3
morethangeekylove says
No worries!! Next time I will mark down the due date 🙂 and I totally would thank you for all the great work you do! <3
Marie says
You’re the sweetest, thank you, that means a lot to me <3 <3 <3
Shanti says
I’m annoyed that I was away and I missed the sign up. Oh well, this is a great project and has given me lots of blogs to go and visit. Thanks for all your hard work, Marie!
Marie says
Ohh well maybe next time you’ll be able to sign up if I do it again <3 Thank you so, so much for your support with this project <3 <3
Sophie Li says
Hi Marie!
Thanks for setting up SFATW 🙂 I finally got around to blog-hopping (it’s been a crazy couple of weeks!) and I am glad to have discovered lots of amazing blogs through your post here.
Unfortunately I missed the deadline for being paired up for gift-sending 🙁 Please let me know if there is another round coming up! (If not, that’s okay too)
Cheers,
Sophie
Marie says
HI Sophie! Thank YOU so, so much, I’m so glad this was a useful post and that you found many bloggers you enjoyed in this 😀
OH I’m sorry you missed it 🙁 I’ll let you know for sure if there is another round! 😀