Book Blogger Hop! 24/6/11

The Book Blogger Hop is hosted at Crazy For Books and is an event for book bloggers to connect and share the love of the written word whilst hopping around to find some awesome new blogs and say hi to old blogging friends.

 Welcome to Books Are A Girl's Best Friend if you're a first time visitor! I haven't taken part in the Hop for ages now and I miss finding new blogs so I decided to join in this week  =) 

This week's question is:

“When did you realize reading was your passion and a truly important part of your life?”

This is such a great question. The simple truth is that I don't remember when I realised reading was my passion because I've loved books ever since I can remember. My mum read to me before I could understand all of what was said so I've pretty much grown up surrounded by books. My reading really took off when I started to read independently and I had a huge obsession with Enid Blyton. I would go to the local second hand bookshop and come back with a bag full of mostly Enid Blyton books and some other classic children's stories too. Except, I've never questioned reading being part of my life and it was only when I began book blogging that I finally realised just how important books are to me. I'm looking forward to reading every one's answers.......

Feel free to take a look around the blog and leave a comment so I can come and visit you back. I'm also holding an international one year blogoversary give-away until Sunday, so if you want to find out more or enter, click here or on the button below.

Thank you for visiting and happy hopping!

1 Year Blogoversary Celebration: International Giveaway!

As a thank you to everyone who has supported me with the blog over the past year, I'm hosting an international giveaway! I've got a selection of ten books that the winner of the giveaway can choose one from and these are all books I've read that I would recommend though not all of them are favourites. A lot of them are YA historicals because that's the main genre I read but I hope you find something you would like to win amongst them :) Here's the list of 10 books that the winner gets to choose from:

The Other Countess by Eve Edwards

Flawless by Lara Chapman

Daughter Of Fire and Ice by Marie Louise Jensen

Arabella by Georgette Heyer

Princess Of The Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George

The Declaration by Gemma Malley

Montacute House by Lucy Jago

Drawing With Light by Julia Green

I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend by Cora Harrison

Anastasia's Secret by Susanne Dunlap

Guidelines and rules of the giveaway- please read before you fill in the form

• To enter you must live in a country that the Book Depository ships to
• You must be at least 13 years old to enter *
• You must be a follower of my blog to enter
• Winners will be chosen by Random.org
• The winner gets to choose one book before the above list
• The winner will have 24 hours to respond to my email notifying them before I pick a new winner
•  I will not keep your information
• The giveaway will close June 20th  EXTENDED TILL JUNE 26TH and the winner will be announced shortly after 

*If you are under 13 and would like to enter, please get your parents to email me with their consent at stephanieDOTreadsAThotmailDOTcoDOTuk

Extra entries

+1 Old followers (before 29th May 2011)

+1 spreading the word about the giveaway on Twitter/Facebook/Blogger ect. You can only gain one extra entry e.g if you tweeted and posted on your sidebar you can only get one. Of course if you wanted to do more than one out of the kindness of your heart then it would be much appreciated- thank you to anyone who spreads the word!

ENTRY FORM


NOW CLOSED!

Good luck everyone!