Armchair BEA Introduction

For the last three years i have been involved with Armchair BEA and although I am a couple of days behind, I am still jumping on board because it rocks, as with last year we were asked to answer five questions in our introduction posts, here are mine:

you can find the list of Questions HERE

1. Where in the world are you blogging from? Tell a random fact or something special about your current location. Feel free to share pictures.

Coopernook mountain looking towards  Taree
and forster. 

As most of my readers know, I blog from Australia, A small town pretty much smack bam in the middle of  Sydney and Brisbane called Taree. There isnt really any thing interesting about Taree, but there are so many amazing thins sourrunding it. 30 minutes away you can watch dolphins play each and every day, Ten minutes away you can climb a massive moutain and see any thing with in 50kms, its breath taking, then 20 mins away you can find Harrington and Crowdy Head, which are just amazing, I cant even put it in to words. 

2. Have you previously participated in Armchair BEA? What brought you back for another year? If you have not previously participated, what drew you to the event?

Crowdy Head

I have participated in ABEA before, and I LOVE IT!! As most people know, BEA is held in NYC and being a 25yo student from Australia, I cant just up and go to New York every June, its just not cool, ABEA gives us location-ally challenged people a chance to share in the networking that BEA does and it also helps us find a lot great friends. 

3. What are you currently reading, or what is your favorite book you have read so far in 2013?

I am Currently reading Katie Mcgarry's Dare you to, I love Katie Mcgarry, and cant get enough of this book when it's released you should all get it and read it straight away.
My favorite book in 2013 so far is Scent of Magic by Maria V Snyder. 

4. Tell us one non-book-related thing that everyone reading your blog may not know about you?

 

What some people might not know about me is two days before New Year 2012 I was admitted to hospital, I was diagnosed with Meningitis and Septicemia, I'm not telling you this to get pity or what ever, I am telling you this because as a person who appreciates networking and knows the value of online relationships I wanted you to know why i havent been around. While I was released on January 4th I wasnt cleared of the diseases until March, and on top of the study I launched in to in February I have been struggling to find the energy to sit down and blog, I know it's not that hard of a job, but it was something that got scratched off for a while, but I am hoping to be back and getting regular posts out now I have found much of my strength has returned. 

5. Name your favorite blog(s) and explain why they are your favorite(s).

Bitten By Booklust: Blair from Bitten By Booklust is one of my best friends.  We didnt actually meet through our blogs though, we met through Nanowrimo, and bonded over pretty much everything and struggle if we go a day with out talking to each other, I love this girl!!

Book'd Out:  Shelly-Rae is also an book blogger from Taree, she is always so nice to me when we run in to each other, I love the content she posts and learn a lot from her

The Rest Is Still Unwritten: I only spoke to this girl once at Harlequin Summit, she was so sweet and I love the content she posts. 

 

Introducing Jesyka James; New Temp Reviewer @TheBookMystress

Okay, my name is Jesyka James, I have a blog called 'From The Insane Asylum Of...' As of yet I haven't done any reviews on it, it's mostly a personal page. I do some reviews for GoodReads occasionally though. TheBookMystress has asked me to do a few reviews on her blog during her absence. I hope you all don't mind. I'll try to live up to her standards :) Please bear with me, and feel free to ask any questions or make any suggestions, I will not be offended.

She has also asked me to answer a few questions so that all you readers can get to know me a little. Hopefully my answers help you to understand my extreme craziness.




1. What do you love about reading? Well, I love that, if it’s a good enough book, I can become completely lost in it, and find myself in a place so beautiful that I never want the book to end.

2. Where is your favorite place to read? It used to be Gloria Jean’s in Borders, but since they closed that down, I would say probably at home, in bed.

3. What made you want to review for TBM? Well, I’ve been a friend of TheBookMystress for a while now and I knew she needed some help with it because she’s been going through a tough time, so when she asked me if I could help out I thought it would be a great opportunity to do some reviews and help out a friend.

4. Do you eat when reading? Mostly no. I hate getting food stains or crumbs on my books, so I try not to eat when I’m reading, but sometimes I give in if I can’t put the book down and have to eat.

5. Do you listen to music when reading? Almost always, usually I have an album for each book I read. And then when I listen to that album again, I can remember all my favorite parts of the book I read when I listened to it.

6. Wierdest thing you have ever used as a bookmark? Hmm… My dogs tail. Sounds weird, I know. But she was asleep next to me in bed and I needed a bookmark, so I put her tail (just the really long furry bit) in my book to hold the place until I found a bookmark.

7. Do you read cereal boxes? No, I don’t think I do. I don’t eat cereal, so I don’t come across cereal boxes often. I think I used to do the puzzles on the back of the box as a kid, but that’s it.

8. Say something about Monique. Monique, well… I’ve known her for a LONG time. Since we were 10, I think. We were best friends all through High School, we lived together for a while. I pretty much know all of her bad habits, and she knows all mine and we still manage to get by without killing each other. Hehe. I don’t think I’ve ever met a more loyal, loving person though. She loves her family, her pets, and her friends more than anything. She is a genuinely great person, and no, she is not holding a gun to my head forcing me to say these things *blinks*
She has had a passion for writing since the day I met her. In High School you never saw her without her GIANT folder full of a bunch of stories. But mostly she just wrote the one story, she still hasn’t finished it, and it goes for… Christ only knows how many pages. I think it would rival War and Peace though. Hehe.
I know she didn’t really start reading books until later in her teens/early twenties, but I know once she found a genre that she loved and some great authors she got bitten by the bug and now loves to read and do reviews so that other people can find out more about great books.

9. How many books do you read in a month? Wow, this is a hard question. Some months I can read as many as 10-15 books, but others I can slack off and only read 4-5.

10. Random Fact? Hmm, random fact… I love quotes. I’m like that weird person that walks around quoting Gandhi or Ralph Waldo Emerson all the time. I also end most of my blog’s with a quote.









This or That



Bookmark or dogear? Bookmark, I can’t stand dogearing.

Smarties or M&MS? M&M

Cats or Dogs? Hmm… I have dogs, and I love my dogs, but I am a cat person at heart.

Vampires or Werewolfs? Vampires, gotta love the fangs ;)

Mexico or Sydney? I really love Mexican food, but gotta go with the home field, Sydney.

Rain or Heat? Rain, all the way. Nothing better than a rainy day to curl up and read.

Pop or disco? Neither. I’m into indie and alternative music.

George Clooney or Johnny Depp? Johnny Depp, for sure.

Vampire Academy or Vampire Diaries? Hmm… well, I haven’t read all of VD, so I have to go VA.



So I hope you all enjoyed getting a sneak-peek into the crazy mind of me. Can’t wait to get my first review done. I hope you all enjoy my time here. Thanks again to TheBookMystress for hosting me, and lets all hope she feels better soon :)

JesykaJames@TheBookMystress