Tuesday 6 August 2013

Happy Blogoversary!

Somehow exactly twelve months have swiftly flown by since I started writing reviews on here and today is officially I’m Booked!’s blogoversary! *Happy dance*





Although this year has been busier (a lot busier) than I’d anticipated and occasionally I’ve felt a little overwhelmed by all the crazy events that have popped up unexpectedly, it’s been a year to remember.
It’s funny to think that it all started after I got a book for my birthday last year which wasn’t so… great, and I decided to write about it. I went onto Goodreads to see what other people thought about it and there were a lot of different opinions flying around, so that's when I decided to write my own review. Although it wasn't my first, it was my first real review and it was also the review that lead me to the land of book reviewers.

That’s when my world changed.

At some point I discovered all these blogs, but they weren’t any ordinary blogs. They were book blogs. Clearly I’d been hiding under a rock for the past few years of my life because the book blog community was huge and many people had very well established blogs. After some thought I decided to take my single review and make a blog out of it. I hadn’t really thought it through but I thought why not! I quickly realised I’d need more than one post to keep up with the other bloggers and it would take a lot of commitment but fortunately I had the reminder from others bloggers that it was definitely worth it. I've made friends, received books from publishers and learned so much along the way. I can't wait to see what's next.

Although life’s been hectic, I’m thankful for every moment and I’m so glad to have become a member of the blogosphere and to also have been welcomed so warmly. Happy birthday I'm Booked!

Thank you all so much!

- Lettora

I loved this book. I loved the characters and I loved the way they interacted with each other, there was just so much to like about it. I felt like Hazel was a genuine, albeit pretentious, 16 year old girl was trying to live life with terminal lung cancer. However many years that might have been. Things changed when she met Augustus Waters, a cancer survivor, and despite her judgement, decides to get to know him.
Hazel knew that the process of getting emotionally involved with Augustus was an irreversible one and in the end someone would get hurt. This book is sad, but I didn’t cry. The ending was in some way expected and also surprising but I felt like from the start we were being prepared for what was to come. Hazel doesn’t take any sugar-coating from anyone and always demands honesty, not pity. She accepts her condition and wants to die, hurting as few people as possible.
This is easier said than done, of course, and Hazel realises that her efforts are futile and she must live for the day because the next isn’t guaranteed. The Fault in Our Stars wasn’t what I expected it to be. There's love, loss and so much pain but I didn’t feel it was about a girl with cancer. It was a teenage girl who fell in love, read a book and some made friends – she just happened to also have cancer.
- See more at: http://im-booked.blogspot.co.uk/2013_02_01_archive.html#sthash.KeqlV8HW.dpuf

I loved this book. I loved the characters and I loved the way they interacted with each other, there was just so much to like about it. I felt like Hazel was a genuine, albeit pretentious, 16 year old girl was trying to live life with terminal lung cancer. However many years that might have been. Things changed when she met Augustus Waters, a cancer survivor, and despite her judgement, decides to get to know him.
Hazel knew that the process of getting emotionally involved with Augustus was an irreversible one and in the end someone would get hurt. This book is sad, but I didn’t cry. The ending was in some way expected and also surprising but I felt like from the start we were being prepared for what was to come. Hazel doesn’t take any sugar-coating from anyone and always demands honesty, not pity. She accepts her condition and wants to die, hurting as few people as possible.
This is easier said than done, of course, and Hazel realises that her efforts are futile and she must live for the day because the next isn’t guaranteed. The Fault in Our Stars wasn’t what I expected it to be. There's love, loss and so much pain but I didn’t feel it was about a girl with cancer. It was a teenage girl who fell in love, read a book and some made friends – she just happened to also have cancer.
- See more at: http://im-booked.blogspot.co.uk/2013_02_01_archive.html#sthash.KeqlV8HW.dpuf

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