Blogger recognition award ✨

Ahh !! I was so not expecting to get this one, mainly because I haven’t saw it anywhere before getting tagged ..

So thank you SO very much to María @ Bookgraphy65 to have tagged me 💜please click on her name / blog name to go peak at her story aswell after reading mine xx

Rules:

– Generate a post about the award

– Thank the blogger who nominated you and provide a link to their blog

– Write a brief story about how your blog began

– Provide two pieces of advice to newbie bloggers

– Select 15 blogs to nominate

– Comment on each nominee’s blog and provide a link to the post that you created about the award.

As you probably all know by now, I actually been reading for most of my life. That part isn’t new for me. However; what is new is that in late 2014, I started developping anxiety and depression to the point where I needed to reach for help with therapy and medication. I wasn’t the same person anymore, like, at all. One of the “side effect” of thoses mental illnesses I now live with, was that my reading suffered as my concentration became harder to get and my imagination also needed more to be “working” per say, and I struggled to finish reading any books.. If my imagination wasn’t working, reading now became kind of pointless and less fun for me ..

Then, I stumbled upon Sweet things by renée carlino and my world seemed to be working again ! That book made me feel ALL the emotions and I just wanted to yell about this book to people !! I had been following bookish account on tumblr at that time, and the idea of making one just crossed my mind, I then shared this off my personal tumblr;

And this is where everything started ! promptly, the next day, April 30th 2017 (What !! a year ago !!) I started onto this platform, sporadically posting textposts and my own bookish pictures !

Then, on November 20th I had like.. a 7days off or something and I thought mmmh. Why not try this wordpress thing ?! It does seems more legit than a tumblr.. and I created this account ! 😘 I didn’t knew what I was doing, and alas I ended up falling out of it for ~a week or two; and I found a discord for new bloggers pinpoint at that time and got encouraged to keep going ! The rest is now history, i’m so glad thoses lovely people help me come back here 💜

My advices ; 

If you didn’t knew already, I have a whole post over here about that, but here’s my main two I would give ;

1. Don’t give up ! Yes, this will be hard, I know .. but it’s so worth it. I promise it’s worth it just for the love all the other bloggers give us and the support. Truly amazing community ❤ You won’t know what you’re doing, and struggle a bit as it will probably be harder than you thought it would be. But I promise you will get the hang of it and become better. Blogging will become easier for you, don’t let it go now!
2.  Give some love around. It will take a while before people get to know and aknowledge your blog. So it is really important you go and comment/follow other bookish blogs for them to know you. please DO NOT just go “oh hey im new come see my blog !” as I guarantee they won’t and you will probably be taken off to spammy comments .. not worth it. read the blogs, genuinly comment and follow if you like them.. and they will get to your blog on their own !  Don’t pressure it, also we have some twitter groups and discord chats now .. so just get out there and chat with the community ! We can give you a hand and answer your questions aswell, we don’t bite I promise! 😄

Now onto my nominations !! Of course feel free to say I tagged you if you end up reading ALL of this post and wanna do it aswell; just link me so I can see and read it 🙂

But i’d like to nominate in particular; Lauren @northernplunder, Evelinah @AvalinahsBooks, Marie @dh_books, Andreea @magicb77, Tiffany @readbytiffany, Sim @flipngthrupages, Anna @bookish_anna, Sheila @shesgoinbookcrz and Vee @BookNerd4167 💓