TGIF: Book Blogging Influences

Hello there lovelies.

It’s Friday.

I wish old school TGIF on television was still a thing. I used to get so excited on Fridays, knowing that I’d get to go home and order a pizza and watch Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Boy Meets World with my mom and sister.

Alas.

Onto this week’s question!

Book Blogger Influences: Has there been a particular book blogger who’s influenced what you read? Share with us a review/book blog that convinced you to pick up a certain book.

Oh good hoogity-boogity yes. I feel like most books I read are recommended to me by book blogger friends or via their enthusiasm for specific authors.

For example, I probably would’ve never picked up Saving June by Hannah Harrington—one of my favorite books I read last year—had a ton of bloggers I follow on Twitter not swooned over it for about two weeks straight. The same goes for Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson and Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready which were recommended to me with much aplomb by Ginger and Jen and for Anna and the French Kiss which I picked up based on a review by Jaime at Perpetual Page-Turner, who, btw, is an absolute doll.

But other bloggers whose taste I completely trust and pull from often are Farrah Penn, Tara at Fiction Folio, Lisa from Lisa Is Busy Nerding, whom I often nerd out with over The Song of Ice and Fire series, Anna at Anna Reads, and Melanie at Reclusive Bibliophile.

But it’s not just book bloggers I get book recs from. Most of my friends are bookish and I love chatting with them about what they’re reading, no matter the genre or subject matter.

So hooray books! And hooray Friday!