Awhile ago I got nominated by Casual Book Reviews for the Liebster Award. I had only just begun blogging so I wanted to wait before replying via a blog because 1. I didn't feel like I deserved it and 2. I wanted to have a more substantial backing. The Liebster Award is about highlighting small blogs that you think deserve more support with less than 200 followers. I am most definitely a small blogger and I was very pleased when I got the nomination by Kelly. I had only just started and I was unsure if anyone other than friends were reading my posts or if I was just shouting into the void. So thank you Kelly, you helped me keep motivated with this blogging thing.
The rules for Liebster Award are simple:
1. Thank the person who nominated you
2. Answer the questions given by the nominator
3. Nominate another 11 bloggers (with 200 or less followers) and link them
4. Create 11 new questions for the nominees to answer
5. Notify all nominees by social media/blogs
Questions from Casual Book Reviews:
1. Why did you start blogging?
I've been wanting to blog for quite awhile but I never felt motivated to it or I didn't feel like I had time because of University or school. I think my self-confidence was also a reason I left it for awhile because I didn't think my writing was good enough. I decided to start this year because I had chosen to do the 2015 Reading Challenge as a fun resolution and I figured doing a blog would be a good way of illustrating my literature journey I was taking.
2. Indoors or outdoors?
I think I'm a mixture but I do tend to spend more time inside. I like being on my computer, reading books and watching movies/tv shows. The main sport I've played in the past was underwater hockey and that was in a pool inside so even my main exercise was inside... But I do enjoy going to the beach and going for walks. I've recently found a love of scenery and natural beauty, and have started to enjoy photography. Although I am very much an amateur, it is quite exciting when you take a really good picture.
3. The last song you listened to?
Shatter Me by Lindsay Stirling feat. Lzzy Hale (the Halestorm lead singer)
4. A place you like to go to think?
Probably the place I have gone the most in the past to think is the Botanical Gardens in Dunedin as I used to live by there. To be honest, I mainly just need to go outside and go for a walk if I want to think. It's preferable if it is somewhere beautiful and serene. I also like long road trips in the car when I can just put in my headphones and daydream.
5. Favourite thing to bake/cook?
I am not much of a baker or cook. It's more of a means to an ends for me. However, I do like making pikelets, I make them more frequently than anything else. Pikelets are my "I'm craving something sweet but we have nothing and it's two o'clock in morning" kinda thing. Cooking wise I would say my Grandma's chicken pie. It tastes so good.
6. Favourite day of the week?
I'm going to say Sunday or Monday as they are my weekend days. They switch around and sometimes one is better than the others.
7. A story that always makes you smile when looking back on it?
When I was three or four years old, I had a moon bouncer.
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| My moon bouncer looks something like this but I think it was green. |
I loved my moon bouncer and one day my sister, Beth offered to help me. My sister is four, nearly five years older than me. She asked me if I wanted to make the moon bouncer more bouncy, so bouncy that I could jump as high as the roof (or something like that, my memory is kinda hazy). I, of course; agreed and asked how I could do that. She then told me that if I put a pin in my moon bouncer it would make it more bouncy. So of course, I obliged, I found a drawing pin and pushed the tip into the rubber of the moon bouncer. My moon bouncer obviously began to deflate and never bounced again. I was very upset and my mother refused to by me a new one despite it being my sisters fault. This memory has scarred me but at the same time I find it hilarious, at least now anyway. I think it's funny remembering how tricky my sister was. I also have never let her forget that she did this to me...
8. Chocolate or Vanilla
Chocolate, except in Upn'Gos (A morning cereal-esque milkshake), the vanilla is the best.
9. A book you never finished and why?
Boy, I have plenty of these. Atonement, I started reading this at school but got bored so stopped reading it. I might go back to it but at the time it bored me listening about a girl who had no problems kinda complaining about having no problems/secrets.
P.S. Sorry if this is completely wrong but that's what I remember thinking at the time. I was only 16, that was 6 years ago...
10. A book you will love forever?
The Harry Potter series, it needs no explanation.
11. Something people may not know about you?
I'm actually quite introverted. That probably isn't that surprising amongst the blogging world. I'm very social and I get along with new people fairly easily but I do love my alone time a lot. Sometimes, I like it more than being around people. I think I'm very much a mixture between extroverted and introverted.
My Nominations:
Aimee - An Author's Inspiration
Spencer - Science to a Student
Siobhan - The Only Blonde in Osaka
Carmen - Carmen Huter
Kalliope - Frick Frackin Feminist
Kristelle - Forever Dreaming
Sam - Life of Sam
Amber - Fawntales
Dallas - Sister Blog 2
Dulce - Chamber of Creation
P.S. It took me ages to find these blogs, I wanted to make sure they were good and they all are!
P.P.S I have assumed all these bloggers have less than 200 followers but sometimes it is hard to tell so bear with me...
P.P.S I have assumed all these bloggers have less than 200 followers but sometimes it is hard to tell so bear with me...
My Questions for Nominees:
1. Favourite memory?
2. What is the top location in the world you would like to visit?
3. Why did you start blogging?
4. Favourite book at the moment?
5. If you could only eat one food for the rest of you life, what would it be?
6. Favourite song at the moment?
7. A place you go to get away from everything?
8. What is a weird dream you've had recently?
9. Who inspires you?
10. Who is your favourite blogger?
11. What is quote to you find inspiring?
Thank you Casual Book Review once again for nominating me.
Jenny
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