2016 Love-A-Thon: A Dedication

The 2016 Love-a-Thon is hosted by Alexa from Alexa Loves Books, Cee from The Novel Hermit, Hazel from Stay Bookish, and Mel from The Daily Prophecy.

This annual event is all about spreading love and positivity in the book community. There have been special blog posts, Twitter chats, and challenges. 

One mini-challenge - Book Bingo - included a square about dedicating a post to some of your favorite blogs, authors, Bookstagrammers, or BookTubers. Today, I'm writing three letters to three of my favorite bloggers and friends.

2016 Love-A-Thon: An Invitation to Tea

The 2016 Love-a-Thon is hosted by Alexa from Alexa Loves Books, Cee from The Novel Hermit, Hazel from Stay Bookish, and Mel from The Daily Prophecy. 

During the past two days, book bloggers from all over the world have been participating in the event. There have been Twitter chats, challenges, and commenting sprees to spread love and positivity in our little corner of the Internet.

2016 Love-A-Thon: Spine Poetry

The 2016 Love-a-Thon is hosted by Alexa from Alexa Loves Books, Cee from The Novel Hermit, Hazel from Stay Bookish, and Mel from The Daily Prophecy.

This weekend has been all about spreading love and positivity in the book blogging community, and the event isn't over yet! Yesterday, we introduced ourselves and shared a mix and match post (among other mini-events), and today, we're sharing book spine poetry.

2016 Love-A-Thon: Book Bingo

The 2016 Love-a-Thon is hosted by Alexa from Alexa Loves Books, Cee from The Novel Hermit, Hazel from Stay Bookish, and Mel from The Daily Prophecy. 

During the weekend, book bloggers from all over are participating in the event that spreads love and positivity. There are challenges, Twitter chats, and commenting sprees to get people interacting. And an added bonus, participants are meeting so many new bloggers!

2016 Love-A-Thon: Mix and Match

The 2016 Love-a-Thon is hosted by Alexa from Alexa Loves Books, Cee from The Novel Hermit, Hazel from Stay Bookish, and Mel from The Daily Prophecy. 

Over the next two days, book bloggers from all over the world will be participating in the event. There will be Twitter chats, challenges, and commenting sprees to spread love and positivity in our little corner of the Internet.

2016 Love-A-Thon: Introduction Post

Hey, everyone! Welcome to my first post for the 2016 Love-a-Thon! 

The 2016 Love-a-Thon is hosted by Alexa from Alexa Loves Books, Cee from The Novel Hermit, Hazel from Stay Bookish, and Mel from The Daily Prophecy. Over the next two days, book bloggers from all over the world will be participating in the event. There will be Twitter chats, challenges, and commenting sprees to spread love and positivity in our little corner of the Internet.

2015 Book Blogger Love-A-Thon: High Five

The 2015 Book Blogger Love-A-Thon is hosted by Alexa from Alexa Loves Books, and it's all about spreading positivity in the book blogging world. There are also a few challenges involved in the challenge. This challenge, the "High Five" challenge is all about my current high fives - five things that are making me happy.

Book:

Even though I'm not reading it now, I'm very much looking forward to reading Fairest by Marissa Meyer. I still have a few early March ARCs to read before I get to it, but knowing that it's there and waiting for me is pretty awesome.

Genre:

I'm pretty sure you all know this by now, but I'm very content with reading contemporary right now. The cute reads warm my heart during this frozen winter.

Author:

Sarah Ockler is an author that makes me happy right now. I have an ARC of The Summer of Chasing Mermaids that I'll be starting soon, and I also just bought #scandal. I can't wait to read both of them because it's been a while since I read one of her books, and let's be honest... I adore Sarah.

Blogger:

Oh man! I have so many favorite bloggers. Just know that if I reach out to you through comments, Twitter, Goodreads, or Facebook, you're among them!

Bookish Merchandise:

I have a few trinkets that relate to some of my favorite books that make me happy. My charm bracelet has a Deathly Hallows symbol, and I also have an old wizard on it who reminds me of Dumbledore. I also have a mockingjay pin that I keep with my Hunger Games books.

2015 Book Blogger Love-A-Thon: Valentine's Cards

Even though Valentine's Day was last weekend, Book Blogger Love-A-Thon participants are celebrating today by making and sharing book themed Valentines. I hope you like the bookish one that I created for you. I know I love staring at it!

2015 Book Blogger Love-A-Thon: Book Spine Poetry

The first mini-challenge in this year's Book Blogger Love-A-Thon is all about creating book spine poetry. I would have loved to arrange some of my books into poetry and showed you the pictures, but I'm much better with words. Oh, and I literally have no idea where my camera is right now, so that's kind of a problem. I did decide to take a few titles from my library and create a poem for all of you to read.

I haven't written a poem in a few years, but I used to write them all the time. It was just something I did in my spare time, whether it was a poem or lyrics to a song. I'm not as creative these days, but I kind of liked how this one turned out, and maybe I'll start writing more original poetry in the future.

My Life Next Door started with
My Last Kiss.
All at once, I thought
this was it.
In Just One Year, I learned
that The Kiss of Deception is something learned.
I don't regret
the time that was well spent
but I cry a lot, pretty much all the time.
But if what they say turns out to be true,
I'd rather be a Wallflower than be with you.
And now I stand here
ready to go
because Staying Strongjust helps me know.

So there you have it - my first ever poem created with titles of books. I'm definitely not the greatest poet on the planet, but hey... that's what practice is for. Who knows... maybe one day, after I keep writing, I'll have a book of poetry published. (Well... maybe after I get a novel published.)

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you're enjoying all the Love-A-Thon posts!

2015 Book Blogger Love-A-Thon: Introduction Post

Hey, everyone! So since this is my first year book blogging, this is the first time I'll be participating in the annual Book Blogger Love-A-Thon. In case you don't know, the Love-A-Thon is hosted by Alexa from Alexa Loves Books, and it's all about spreading positivity in the book blogging world.

That's me!

1.    Q: What’s your name?
A: Erin
2.    Q: Where in the world are you blogging from?

A: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It's usually a pretty cool place, but Elsa has set off an eternal winter here, complete with bone-chilling temperatures, three frozen rivers, and more and more snow by the day.

3.    Q: How did you get into blogging in the first place?
A: I used to have an education blog, and I missed being able to express my thoughts. I thought about the amount of reviews that I was posting on Goodreads, so The Hardcover Lover was born.

4.    Q: How did you come up with your blog name?
A: Pretty much every book in my personal library is a hardcover. It started when my grandma suggested that I start buying all my favorite books in hardcover instead of paperback, and then I kind of bought every book that way.

5.    Q: What genre do you read and review the most on your blog?
A: I review a lot of contemporary.

6.    Q: What other types of posts do you do on your blog, apart from reviews?
A: I participate in some blog tours, especially if I get to write a review for them. I also participate in a few memes, including my own, Soundtrack Saturday.

7.    Q: Best blogging experience so far?
A: I've met a lot of awesome new people, and I love being able to discuss books with them without feeling like people think I'm weird or something. Another great experience was getting an email that let me know that I was getting a physical ARC of a book that I was really, really wanting.

8.    Q: Favorite thing about the blogging community?
A: Some of the people are literally the nicest people ever.

9.    Q: Name the 5 books you’re most excited for this 2015!
A: The Heir, P.S. I Still Love You, The Start of Me and You, The Summer of Chasing Mermaids, and the sequel to Zodiac.

10. Q: What’s an underrated book or series that you think everyone should read?
A: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews. Seriously... go read it before it becomes a huge thing. (The movie was shot in Pittsburgh not too long ago, and it will be out soon.)

11. Q: Which book boy or girl would be your book BFF?
A: Oh man... I feel like Hermione Granger would be my BFF. We're pretty similar, but have enough differences to be pretty good friends.

12. Q: Apart from reading, what are your other hobbies or interests?
A: I can sew, but my sewing machine is put away until I move. I'm also a teacher, and I'm looking into possibly becoming a librarian. I can also play the clarinet, but it's been a pretty long time since I last took it out to play something other than scales.

13. Q: Apart from book shopping, what else do you like shopping for?
A: Teacher clothes - I have a thing for dresses with bell skirts. Ballet flats are another thing that I can't resist. I just love them. I also love shopping for cute storage containers even though I have nowhere to store them.

14. Q: At a party, the DJ suddenly changes the song – and it’s your song. What song would be playing?
A: There are just so many to choose from! It would definitely be a Taylor Swift song though. I freaking love Taylor Swift.

15. Q: Pick out either a book you want turned into a film/TV show, or a film/TV show you want turned into a book.
A: I really think it would be awesome to see The Selection series by Kiera Cass as a TV show. Can you imagine all of those gowns? So pretty!