A Treat for My Followers

Boy, do I have some news for you!
 Firstly, I've been interviewed by Dahlia at Dahlia's Eclectic Mind. It was approximately a ton and half of fun. Go check it out and enter your answers in Q&A Friday to be interviewed!
 Second on the agenda, I've won a contest! Reading Rocks had a contest for a paper back of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and a collector's edition gold pin, and I won! Me so happy! ^_^
 And thirdly... shoot, what was the third thing? Oh, yeah! I won the Heartfelt Award from Taschima of Bloody Bookaholic and the Kreativ Blogger Award (again) from Steph Bowe of Hey, Teenager of the Year! Thanks, y'all! To see these and other awards, click the Accolades button up there ^. To see who won the Heartfelt Award from me, keep reading.

Do you reach for a cup of cocoa or tea when your relaxing, seeking comfort, or sharing a plate of cookies with family and friends? You know the feeling you get when you drink a yummy cup of cocoa, tea, or a hot toddy? That is what the Heartfelt Award is all about, feeling warm inside.


Rules:
Put the logo on your blog/post.
Nominate up to 9 blogs all the people who make you feel comfy or warm inside.
Be sure to link your nominees within your post.
Let them know that they have been nominated by commenting on their blog.
Remember to link to the person from whom you received your award.

 I love getting awards, but I truly, truly hate picking nominies. Truly. So! For this award, I'm gonna cheat. I'm giving this award to all my followers! Also, I'm making it a meme! Yay, cheating!
New Rules:
Put the logo on your blog/post.
Nominate up to 9 blogs all the people who make you feel comfy or warm inside.
Remember to link to the person from whom you received your award.
New! Answer this question: What makes you feel all warm and cozy inside?

 My answer: Happy endings. Nothing makes me happier than closing a book when everything ended well for the characters. The story could have had the most atrocious villains, the most horrible circumstances and cataclysmic events1, but so long as the protagonist comes out happy and safe2 in The End, I'll be left smiling like a fool.

Tootles,
Zombie Girrrl

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1 Infact, it's highly recommend that a story have all these things.
2 ...and possibly wiser...

More Awards!

Eli from Tainted Poet, and Taschima from Bloody Bookaholic have given me the Lemonade Award! It's so cute, don't ya think? Taschima has also given me the Proximade Award, the Kreativ Blogger Award, and the Humane Award! Thanks guys! Y'all rock!

#1: The Lemonade Award
Rules:

Link back to the person who gave you the award.

Nominate up to 10 bloggers who are deserving of the award.

Display the award on you blog.

#2: The Proximade Award
This blog invests and believes in the Proximity - nearness in space, time and relationships. These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement! Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this clever-written text into the body of their award.

#3: The Humane Award

About the Humane Award, which was created by Eleni.

This award is to honor certain bloggers that are kindhearted individuals. They regularly take part in my blog and always leave the sweetest comments. If it wasn't for them, my site would just be an ordinary book review blog. Their blogs are also amazing and are tastefully done on a daily basis. I thank them and look forward to our growing friendship trhough the blog world.
Rules:
-Nominate 10 bloggers you feel deserve the Humane Award

#4: The Kreativ Blogger Award

This is also a meme, so here are the rules: If you accept it, you are supposed to list seven of your favorite things and nominate seven blogs that deserve this award.

7. Eating.
6. Running.
5. Colors.
4. Creating things.
3. My ipod, everything sounds better through ear buds.
2. Reading.
1. Books that leave a textured memory. Sounds crazy, but that's how I pick my top three! (World War Z, Beka Cooper: Terrier, and Hunger Games.)

This is a lot of awards, which means a lot of nominations! I'll do it this way; beside the nominies names will be a number or numbers, those will corrispond to different awards. Easy peasy! Now I just gotta pick some people!
The winners are:
1. Taschima of Bloody Bookaholic, I'm gonna try and avoid excessive repeats and give you #3 and #5. ;)
2. Eli of Tainted Poet, your blog is gorgeous! #4 and #5 for you!
3. Dahlia of Dahlia's Eclectic Mind, for being so very generous with your books I give you #2 and #3.
4. Orchid of Haunted Orchid, another generous personal librarian! #2 and #3 for you as well!
5. Jessica of Shut Up, I'm Reading!, a new book blogger! #1 for you!
6. Ayllsa of The Shady Glade, a most generous blogger, she has a wonderful thing goin' on called Contest Monday! #3 and #2 for you!
7. Pirate Penguin, nice reviewer and friendly blogger with excellent taste, I grant to thee #3 and #5.
8. Jane of Life After Jane, you've also been quoted! #3!
9. The girls of Reading Rocks, I love y'alls blog, #5!
10. Steph Bowe of Hey! Teenager of the Year, a very funny girl and friendly blogger, you get #3 and #4!

As for the ellusive #5 that I'm sure y'all have already seen by scrolling down to see if I had made a mistake while typing this up, it's an award of my own making that, yes, I have already given out before, but it's my award so I think it's fair that I can pull it out and pass it out whenever I want! And I want.

May I present to you, lucky few, The Your Blog ROCKS Award!

Rules: There aren't any! Give it to whoever you want, display it, link it, whatever! Just be sure to spread the love and ignore the link on the right hand side as I rarely even think of that blog anymore.

I apologize for the lack of postage this week, I've been swamped! I hope showering y'all with goodies will make it all better!

Hopefully I'll be able to post my thoughts on the books I've read this week sometime soon, because they are some awesome reads! I'll give y'all a hint. Demigods. More demigods. A totalitarian regime. And televised battles between children. Oh yeah, it's been a good week.

Tootles!

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Good Gravy, Another Award!

I have recieved another two awards! Briana from The Book Pixie has given me The One Lovely Blog Award as I'm sure you've noticed on my side bar, and Dahlia from Dahlia's Eclectic Mind has given me The Literary Blogger Award! I'm so happy that she thinks I energize readers! I've already handed out the Lovely Award, so I'll just skip on to the Literary Award.

The Literary Blogger Award acknowledges bloggers who energize & inspire reading by going the extra mile. These amazing bloggers make reading fun & enhance the delight of reading!
The Rules:
1) Put the logo on your blog/post.
2) Nominate up to 9 blogs which make you feel comfy or warm inside.
3) Be sure to link to your nominees within your post.
4) Let them know that they have been nominated by commenting on their blog.
5) Remember to link to the person from whom you received your award.

I've been putting off writing this post for like a week now because I hate picking people, it's so hard! Love awards, hate choosing people. But no more procrastinating! Here goes. The winners are *drum roll*:
The Tainted Poet, because she reviews books that I envy and grey and orange is one of my fave color combos.
Reading Rocks, because that blog is just awesome looking and has a very helpful ratings system.
Look At That Book, because she appreciates a good cover as much as I do. They are art, after all.
Wondrous Reads, because she managed to snag an interview with an author whose book I really want to read.
Rebbeca's Book Blog, because she has the same taste in books as me!

Okay, folks, come and claim your just rewards! Did that sound creepy?

An Award? For Moi?

Holy moly! My second post, and I already got an award! Maggie from Bean Bag Books has graciously given me the One Lovely Blog award. Thanks, Maggie!
So I guess I gotta pass it on. This is the part I dread, I always have the hardest time choosing blogs because *sniffle* I love you all so much!
Da rules:
1) Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and his or her blog link
2) Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered.
3) Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

Geez, 15! Does anyone else feel like that's a lot of blogs? Like, a lot, a lot? So let's see, I choose... wait, do they have to be new? Uhhh... Gimme a minute, okay? *surfs web madly*
Okey-dokey! Da winners!
Bloody Bookaholic
The Tainted Poet
Wondrous Reads

Okay, so I only picked three, but I picked them with care after much searching and browsing and now I have three new blogs to check up on! Yay! I guess that's like the whole point of these things, to help you find new blogs and stuff. Y'all should totally check these blogs out, they all have very good reviews and excellent rating systems. Plus, they're downright lovely.
Tootles,
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