Hi everyone!

Yesterday, I discussed how to choose a theme and topic for your blog. Today, I’m going to be sharing with you a few tips on how to make your blog eye catching!

1. BRIGHT COLOURS!

Incorporate bright colours into your blog for people’s eyes to look at it even more closely! I liked the way that my theme had the colours under the top bar! I thought it was so cute!

2. Create a centre image!

A centre image is an image that catches the readers attention, even before that read a post on your blog! The centre images are mostly always at easy view, so on the top or very top side. My centre image is an owl!

3. Use a TON of pictures!

Throughout your posts you should have a variety of pictures! I’m still getting in to using pictures to enchance my post! I recommend using pictures that you have personally taken!

Those are my tips on how to make your blog eye catching!

Good Night Book Lions!

Hello Everyone!

Welcome to the first installment of my creating a blog series!

Today I’m going to walk you through picking a theme and topic!

**Before reading this, please be aware that I’m NO EXPERT on blogs, themes, or topics. Many of my viewers and friends have asked me several questions about creating a blog, and I wanted to make a step by step guide on how to do just that!**

Topic:

Before creating a blog, you want to think of a topic that you personally enjoy and have a passion of doing. The topics can be anything from baking to beauty, or reading to writing. ANYTHING YOU WANT!

Most people think that choosing a topic that readers want to read will get you more views and/or follows, although that may not be true. People can tell when your interested in what you are doing rather than just putting out content. Believe me, its true!

Themes:

A theme is the design base of your blog. Some people say not to judge anything by the way it looks, but most people do. You want to create something that is eye catching and that people will want to come back to. You want to make the design something that YOU enjoy and something that if YOU were the reader, YOU would come back to!

I also would recommend putting your style and personality into your blog! All of my friends personally, know that I have a HUGE obsession with owls, so I really wanted to showcase that into my blog. Sometimes people would say to me, “Oh your blog is about books and has that huge owl on top.” I’m not even kidding!

Tomorrow, we will go a little bit more in depth on eye catching blogs!

I hope you enjoyed reading my tips and tricks for, themes and topics!

Good Night Book Lions!

Hey guys!

Welcome to today’s SECOND post of the day! I normally never do these, but today’s is a rare case! I just watched a video by one of my favourite book tubers, little book owl! It was all of the readathons happening in 2015 (here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ziqIOFwIPY&index=35&list=WL), and there appears to be THREE this week!

Although, this week is my Creating a Blog Series week! So, I decided to post this as well, but this time the daily updates will be going on my facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/readingreadingreading)!

The first readathon happening is a BRAND NEW one! It’s called the Biannual Bibliothon! It’s happening for January 4-10! Yes, TOMORROW! Here’s the link to the official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8wt8je4OBA.

The second one is the Bout of Books 12.0 Readathon! It’s happening on January 5-11! Yes, MONDAY! Here’s the official blog: http://boutofbooks.blogspot.com/!

The third and (luckily) final one is the #AYearAThon, this months is Stand Alones! It’s happening on January 5-11! Yes, MONDAY! Personally, #AYearAThons are one of my favourite readathons, as they happen every month and are always a different theme!

As you can see, ALL of these readathons are happening on the same week! So that this doesn’t happen again, I will be making a blog post next week of ALL of the readathons happening in 2015!

Here’s my TBR for each and every one of them!

1. Everything Leads to You by Nina La Cour
2. Fan Art by Sarah Tregay
3. More Than This by Patrick Ness
4. The Maze Runner by James Dashner

Those are actually all of the books I want to read in January, so we’ll see how many I can get through! I definitely should be able to finish Everything Leads to You by Nina La Cour, as I’m almost half way done (and loving it)!

Are you guys participating in any of these readathons? Let me know in the comments! Good Night Book Worms!

Hi everyone! HAPPY NEW YEAR (again…)!

I’ve really been loving creating series’s that people enjoy! Since my Holiday Reading Series was a huge hit, I decided to make a new one!

Inspired by the New Year, this one will be focusing on how to maintain a successful blog! I have a book blog, therefore I will be gearing towards those types of blogs, but if you don’t have a book blog, stick around! These tips may also apply to you!

Here’s the line up:

January 4: Coming Up With a Topic/Theme

January 5: Appearance DOES Matter (How to Make Your Blog Eye Catching)!

January 6: Setting Up Social Media

January 7: Scheduling Posts

January 8: What do I post (Weekly Meme’s)?

Those are going to be all of the posts in the week of the “Creating a Blog” series! I hope you guys will appreciate this and are excited to here my tips! Although, I am in NO WAY a blogging expert, but I feel that my tips can help you guys out a little bit!

Happy Reading!

Good Night Book Lions!

It is now, January 1, 2015!

I wish everyone a happy and healthy new year! You all made my year so special, and I wish the same to everyone aswell!

This week, can look forward to my bookish resolutions, most anticipated 2015 releases and exciting news, plus much more!

Again, Happy New Year and see you Tomorrow!

Good Night Book Lions!

Hi guys & welcome back!

Today I’m going to be sharing with you my top picks for the most disappointing books that I read in 2014!

1. The School For Good and Evil by Soman Chainani

I know, I know, I still gave this book 4/5 stars. I guess I was being generous. I first heard about this book, and I really thought/expected that this would be one of my favourite books of 2014. It was, but I thought that it would have a lot more detail. I also HATED the ending! It was horrible. I still gave it 4/5 stars as I loved the charcters and the setting, plus the plot was very interesting/intriguing.

2. These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meghan Spooner

This book has the same case as the previous one. This book is also one of my favourite books of the year, but it didn’t meet all of my expectations. I love a nice sci-fi, and this really was one! Although, I thought that there could have been a little bit more action involved.

3. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

This book is very hyped about on bookish sites and booktube. I for one have heard that a lot of people disliked this book very much out of all of the series. They say “Read the others! It gets so much better!” But for me, i would enjoy the series more if the first book is better, that way it will push me to read the next ones!

What were your most disappointing books that you read in 2014? Tell me in the comments!

Good Night Book Lions!