BBAW Day 1: Community.

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!

BBAW has started and I thought I’d make it an annual thing around here to participate in the festivities. Amy and her team do a great job with everything BBAW, so I thought I’d support but participating. Here goes nothing…=)

I don’t care what anyone says, blogging is hard work. It takes a lot of time to write up these posts, read these books, update these sidebars, etc…and sometimes it can feel pretty lonely on your blog when you don’t get very many comments. You really do need to be blogging because you love it and not because you want free stuff because sometimes it can feel like you’re blogging for yourself. Lots of bloggers love seeing comments on their blogs because they make them feel like all of their hard work is being acknowledged and it’s enough.

There are a few bloggers who comment on my blogs all of the time, whether I have time to blog hop and comment on theirs or not and I’ll forever love the heck out of them for it because they keep me going.

These special bloggers are:

Alex. Alex is one of the most constant commenters on my blog and I think she’s freaking awesome for it, she’s always got something nice to say and she’s just one of the sweetest people I’ve ever met online and offline. She makes my blogging job so much easier and if you guys aren’t reading her blog, why the heck not? Her blog is pretty awesome!

Mollie. Mollie left the very first comment on this blog and it was so simple and yet brought a smile to my face because she was excited for me and it’s always nice to have someone aside from yourself excited about something that means a great deal to you. Mollie is another one of my favorite online people and you need to read her blog because she’s always honest and she has a way of putting thoughts out there that always makes me wish I said it first, she’s awesome like that.

Isabel. One of my best friends. She’s been such a constant support to me in everything that I do (and I do a lot of things, start a lot of blogs, etc…) and really, my addiction to blogging is all her fault. She introduced me to the world of blogging and no matter what she’s got going on in her life, she’s always here and I couldn’t have asked for a better best friend.

Ames. Ames is my partner is crime. We do a lot of things together, we blog together, we watch TV shows together and we discuss everything that we’re doing, watching and lusting over every single day. My days just aren’t the same without Ames there. I met her through blogging and it’s people like her that makes me so hot dang grateful to be apart of such an amazing blogging community. There needs to be more people like Ames. =)

There are a lot of other people who make blogging fun, lots of other people who inspire me to be a better blogger but these people listed above have embraced me and this blog and they’re part of the reason why The Book Scoop is still alive and kicking so thanks for the comments, the posts and the support, you guys really rock!

..and that’s your scoop!

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