Book Blogger Hop No. 149: Book Blogger Collaborations

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This Week's Question

Do you do collaborations with

brands or other bloggers? If so,

which collaboration was your

favorite, and why?

(Submitted  by Danielle  @ 

PoetryBooksYA)

My Answer

What an interesting question! Yes, in the past, I've done a couple of collaborations with other book bloggers. The most recent one, which was a LOT of fun, was with Barb @ Booker T's Farm. 

Here's how it came about....

I was visiting Barb's blog one day, to check out her "Can't Wait Wednesday" post. (For those who don't know, this is a meme hosted by Tressa @ Wishful Endings.) Well, I saw a very interesting book that day! It was the very same book I featured in my Book Blogger Hop post last week -- Dread Nation, by Justina Ireland. This is a horror novel. Barb loves the horror genre just as much as I hate it, lol. In fact, we have a running joke about it. She usually features horror novels on this meme, and I'm always commenting that I'm a HUGE chicken, so I can't read any of her choices. Lol. Well, this book was different! When I read the synopsis, I really liked it, in spite of the inclusion of zombies (SHUDDERS!) in the plot. But, there were other elements involved that I did like, such as the strong female protagonist, and the biting satire on racism. So, I told Barb, in my comment, that I found this book very interesting. She then replied with a suggestion that we do a buddy read of it, and I agreed. 

We posted on our progress as we went along. Each of these posts included questions we posed to each other (we communicated through messages on Goodreads) the week before our posts were scheduled to be published. We answered these questions on each update post. It was SO interesting to exchange our opinions and interpretations of what was going on in this book! We did that through the posts and our accompanying comments and replies. And I repeat, it was LOADS OF FUN!! 

At the end of our buddy read, we each posted our respective reviews, and commented on them, as well. 

Barb and I are planning to do another buddy read, so stay tuned for the name of the book, as well as when we'll start! Hopefully, it will be pretty soon!

If you'd like to check out our buddy read update posts, along with our reviews of Dread Nation, you can do so HERE. My BBH post about this book (from last week) can be found HERE.

UPDATE, 11/2/18, 3:30 PM

  
I had another collaboration, which took place in 2014. This was with another blogging buddy, Brian @ Babbling Books. I don't know how I could have forgotten this! Especially since it was a read-along of my FAVORITE classic of all time, Jane Eyre!! Brian mentioned this in his comment below, so I have rushed to include it here. 

I posted the read-along announcement on 9/9/14, and we each did a series of posts on the book before posting our reviews. As in the buddy read with Barb, we posed questions to each other, and answered them. The difference here was that other bloggers were invited to participate, as well, since this was a read-along.  By the end, it was just three of us, though -- Brian, myself, and one other blogger: Jim @ The Frugal Chariot. 

Even though not that many people participated, this was a highly rewarding experience! Brian and I came up with interesting questions, and we really dug deep into the novel's symbolism, characterizations, setting, plot, the works! 

You can access our reviews, as well as the read-along links, HERE.

I would LOVE to collaborate with Brian again! We could read another great classic -- perhaps a book by Hermann Hesse, whom we both list as a favorite writer. But this time, I think we should do a buddy read instead, with no Linky widget. Lol!

          

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