In case you missed the chat tonight on BlogTalk Radio, you can listen to it here:
At the RadioShow Page
An MP3 File
I giggled a lot.. I repeated myself a lot of first, because I was still very nervous! I had no clue how to answer any of the questions! They were hard! It's a 45 min. show, so in case you don't have time to listen to the whole thing, I'll do a little recap here.
- Well there was an introduction! ha!
- We talked about how books can help with things like: self esteem for example
- That I was an "invisible" person in high school, I related to The Opposite of Invisible by Liz Gallagher.
- I showed up for my first swim practice in a two piece.
- Books are an escape!
- Xander is my Rotten-weiler. Everyone loves him, especially Cat.
- I've gotten to meet other bloggers. I mentioned Chelsea of the Page Flipper and Lauren of Shooting Stars Mag. I'm amazed that you can have real friendships that develop online!
- Why I like reading YA: relate to the characters and Fantastic Writers! They are the complete package!
- Vlogs
- That I can't help buying books! Even if I already have them.
- My Favorite books from this year: well the ones I remembered to mention: Ballads of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert, Willow by Julia Hoban, and Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater.
- The YA Connection, that is in retirement at the moment.
- The genre that I wish I could read more of: fantasy! Diana Peterfreund author of Rampant asked this one!
- Cindy of Cindy's Love of Books stopped by
- Cindy asked what was the one thing about blogging that surprised me the most? That authors are accessible! You can talk to them and everything, that's just crazy!
- Cindy's favorite book she mention was Willow by Julia Hoban. Lots of Willow talk.
- We couldn't pick a favorite author!
- Also, thanks to Adele of Persnickety Snark, I remembered I loved Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols.
- Book Blogger Appreciation Week, started by My Friend Amy. And my 10 nominations!
- Vania of Reverie Book Reviews stopped by.
- V asked what's one of the hardest thing about bloggin? My reviews! I stink at writing them!
- Steph of Steph Su Reads asked what books I read and loved as a teen? I read James Patterson and Micheal Crichton, loved the Jurassic Park books. I didn't read teen books, there weren't really any. Loved Goosebumps and Babysitters Club when I was younger.
- Talked about the fact that you can read YA at any age, and the recent negative email and comments that were made on the blog.
- Diana from The Book Resort called in.
- Diana asked where do I see YA trending? We need a new "vampire" I'm predicting unicorns, zombies, faeries and angels!
- Khy from Frenetic Reader stopped by too!
- Khy asked what books have gotten overlooked? I mentioned The Dairy Queen series by Catherine Gilbert Murdock.
- Team Unicorn!
- Plus a few other things that I might have mentioned!