Follow Friday Blog Hop #6

This is a weekly event hosted by Parajunkee & Alison Can Read to help us bloggers venture out & find other blogs that we might not have come across. Each week there are 2 feature bloggers, you can find their information on either of the sites listed above. There is a new question up each week and this weeks question is -


Q: It’s Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. so we want to know what you are Thankful for – blogging related of course! Who has helped you out along the way? What books are you thankful for reading?

Blogging related...everyone! I love the book blog community. I just recently started book blogging (Oct 9th, 2011) and went into this with little knowledge of how things worked and all that good stuff. Yes I'm still a newbie =) I have made so many awesome people along the way. There are so many that have helped me out and I don't want to leave anyone out but the people that have been here for me since the beginning and helping me with my blog and answering the questions that I have are -

Liza from Book Crook Liza
Amanda from Stuck in YA Books
Savy from Books with Bite
Giselle from Xpresso Reads
Wendy from A Cupcake and a Latte
Anna from Literary Exploration
Justin from Justin's Book Blog

I love doing this, it brings me joy! Now for the books that I'm thankful for...well everyone knows by now that Twilight is my Saga...I will love it forever because that is the series that got me back into reading. Now some of the books that I have read this year that are super awesome and I'm grateful for are (in no particular order)-

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick
Cold Kiss by Gemma Halliday
Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Daimon: A Prequel to Half-Blood by Jennifer Armentrout
Half-Blood by Jennifer Armentrout
Obsidian by Jennifer Armentrout
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
A Beautiful Dark by Jocelyn Davies

There are soooo many others that I have read but these are the ones that come to mind when I think of the awesomeness that I have read this year.

How was your Thanksgiving (or just Thursday depending on where you are)? Mine was awesome, spent it with my family. I got to see my brother that has been overseas for what seems like forever! Never take for granted the time that you have with loved ones because we don't know how much longer they will be here. Leave me a link so I can follow/comment back =)

Don't forget to enter my 100 Follower Giveaway!

-Shellie
P.S. Due to them taking away GFC to some in March I have now set up where you can follow Creative Reads through RSS or email it's right underneath the following option so if you'd like you can follow through both that way when they take it away you'll still get the info that I'm posting.