Category: Features

If you're not aware of Reddit or just think it's a place for nerds to talk about World of Warcraft then you're really missing out. Recently I found the incredible subreddit /r/suggestmeabook, and quite frankly, it's my new favourite place to get book recommendations. Pin me to Pinterest! /r/suggestmeabook is a feed on Reddit where anybody can put in a request for a book recommendation along any line. If you've just read a great series and want something similar, this is a great place to pose that question; if you want to get into a certain author but don't know where to start, you can get a suggestion; or if you just have a hankering for a very specific storyline, you can ask away in this subreddit also. One of…

I was recently invited to a Twitter Community for lovers of Books. Currently, there are about 1,000 of us in this community. Twitter states that "Twitter Communities were created to give people a dedicated place to connect, share, and get closer to the discussions they care about most." But is being in a Book Community as good as it sounds? Pin me to Pinterest! Everybody reading this likely has some sort of affection towards reading or books themselves (I don't know, maybe you just like to sniff them.) Therefore, the idea that Twitter has created these areas on their social media channel which are dedicated to talking solely about books is really exciting, right? Well, yes mostly. Except for a few major flaws. And here they are: Flaws You Don't…

Reading is great fun - you can escape to a different world, fantasise about other characters or just end up crying at people that don't even exist. However, there are definitely ways you can make reading more fun - with gadgets! I'm somebody who has recently become obsessed with those Tik Tok products or Facebook products that pop up for some odd gadget that's usually around £5-£50 and solves two problems at once. After looking across the web for some of the best things book readers should definitely pick up that may maybe hadn't thought of before. Below are just some of the great things I've found that I will definitely be picking up!! Please note that this article contains affiliate links. Affiliate links mean that if you choose to…

Twitter is a fantastic place to engage your audience with questions that ask them to give their opinion. It's a place where you can gain knowledge, get some book ideas or, in this case at least, get some great content to create a really useful blog post for others. Recently I created a post that showed some of the responses I received when I asked my Twitter followers which books they thought had the best twist in them. It was a tweet that received so many responses that I wanted to share as part of an article to not only give you all some options of books to read to guarantee a good twist but also provide my audience with some genuinely great content. That article turned out to be…

I love Twitter for this blog. It's a fantastic platform that, out of all of the social media channels, offers up the most real and genuine interaction between me and my followers. Twitter offers up a much broader audience than my Instagram and offers me any sort of audience over my Facebook page! On Twitter, I often put out a question to my near 2,000 followers on different bookish things to keep them engaged and to genuinely find out more about the reading community. Some examples of questions I've asked over the past few months that have resulted in some good engagement are: Do you read the epilogues of books? pic.twitter.com/L7bN18oTyc— Luke's blog 📚 Book reviewer and blogger (@Lukesblog1) January 30, 2022 and What's the one fantasy series you'd recommend…