Liebster Blog Award

Liebster Blog Award

I was nominated for Liebster Blog Awards by Busy Moms Book Reviews, thank you! So, what is Liebster Award?

This is an award for up and coming blogs with 200 or less followers. Liebster is the German word for favorite so this is an award from one blogger to another to say "You're my favorite." In other words, the Liebster Blog Award is one great big blogger hug!

I only heard about these a few days ago, when a blogger friend nominated me - but I am way too new to blogging world, so it is not very surprising for me to not to hear about it, any time sooner. Anyways... I made a little research on this award and here is what I found!

It looks like it goes back to sometime in 2010 and had a few rule changes in time. It was less than 3000 followers in the beginning, and you were supposed to suggest 3-5 blogs.

So let's see what rules we have now:

1. Give 11 facts about yourself.
2. Answer 11 questins from the blogger who nominated you.
3. Create 11 questions for those who will be nominated by you.
4. Get in contact with those 11 bloggers in order to inform them that you nominated them.

So here is my 11 facts:

1. My favorite color is blue.
2. I over do, reading sometimes, but it is not my fault. I just love it and can't stop myself!
3. I almost never watch tv.
4. I like watching movies.
5. I am a huge tennis fan.
6. I have a four year-old daugther.
7. I was and I am never a dress-up woman.
8. I am still dreaming to become a writer someday.
9. Have I told you that I love reading?
10. My mother is one of my best friends.
11. I have no skills for music. ;)

And my answers for Busy Moms Book Reviews' questions:

1. How did you come up with the name of your blog? - I have a Turkish blog called Tugce'nin Kitaplığı which means Tugce's bookshelves, so going from here Ts Bookshelves was very easy to come up with :) but not very creative I suppose ;)
2. How long does it generally take you to read a book? - it depends on my work load, review load and blog posts but usually a day or two, or if it is a very difficult book, or a chunskter then it might be up to 4 days.
3. Do you do reviews for every book you read? - Nope, I have a part in my blog - at least in my Turkish one - where I write the books I am not reviewing and the reason for not doing so.
4. What is your favorite author? - I do not have really a favorite athor that I follow around and read every book or something. But I have a few I enjoy reading, Charlaine Harris for Sookie Stackhouse Series, JR Ward for BDB series, Colleen Hoover, David Nicholls, Charlotte Bronte and Jane Austen
5. What book are you looking forward to reading the most? - Oh, I don't know, I have a huge list for that actually.
6. What is the worst book you have ever read? - I usually don't say out loud that a book is bad or awful, but I didn't enjoy reading Backstage Pass and Irresistible forces, on bit!
7. What is the best book you have ever read? - Jane Eyre without hesitation.
8. How much time do you spend blogging? - too much!
9. What book do you think should be made into a movie? - Legend
10. What book do you wish they hadn't made into a movie? - Breakfast at Tiffany's - this is the only movie I like more than the book itself and I hate this fact!
11. What advice do you have for other bloggers? - less time spend blogging, more time to read ;)

Here are my questions for my nominees:

1. Do you prefer e-books to paperbacks?
2. How many books do you read in a year?
3. Which three books you would take with you to anywhere?
4. What is your favorite genre?
5. Where is your favorite book nook?
6. What do you like to do most, when you are not reading or blogging?
7. What are you reading these days?
8. Which one will be your next book?
9. What genre you hate to read?
10. Do you have a DNF list?
11. Which is you favorite series?

And here are my 11 up and coming blogs: