Guys, guys! My blog is ONE today! It can basically walk and babble on it's own. But I'm not going to let it do that because it will be nonsense. Unlike the REAL, QUALITY STUFF I BRING YOU. Before anything else, I want to say THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart to all my readers, followers, and friends for supporting me for this past year!
I have some fun things for your viewing pleasure today: I am going to tell you why blogging is so important to me, give you a look at my stats, say thank you to people, make you read my most popular posts, and then give you one of EIGHT prizes (in five giveaways) all sponsored by the ah-mazing publishers I work with. Make sure you are checking my twitter out so you can also enter a sneaky ninth giveaway! I'm also going to a couple events over the next two weeks so keep checking my blog for giveaways there too!

What Blogging Means To Me

As someone who is an introvert and not very social, I have always loved to read. As I kid I spent half my time curled up reading and the other half stretched out reading. But I never really had an outlet for talking about books to people because I never really had a friend who was into reading as much as I was. Sure, in passing they enjoyed to read, but they didn't analyze the story or the characters, but rather took it at face value. So I slowly started keeping my passion to myself but devouring books left and right.