Announcing the First Book Blogger Buzz Tour!

We know that blog tours work. Why let authors have all the fun?

What is a Book Blogger Buzz Tour?

A Book Blogger buzz tour is a virtual tour, where book bloggers are the main topic. Think Blog Tour, but with book bloggers featured instead of books. It is a way to promote your book blog on other book bloggers and author’s sites. Book bloggers will be  promoted in conjunction with other book blogs, with a large giveaway as the draw.

Questions? Email me or tweet me.

Go to parajunkee.com to fill out the form.

Book Blogger Buzz Tour Details

• The tour will run the month of July
• Each blogger will be required to write one post that will be posted on another blog
• Each blogger will be required to post one post from another blogger on their site for cross-promotion
• Each blogger will get one tour stop for their giveaway and guest post on their blog and then their guest post on another site for promotion
• Each blogger will get their site’s url posted on the tour line-up and cross-promotion on all tour sites, including tour advertising posts on social networks
• The main giveaway will be a KINDLE FIRE HD TABLET or equal paypal $$
• The buy in will be $10 (payable by paypal or amazon giftcard)
• Details, Guest Post topics will be discussed via Facebook group & email
• Bloggers will be about to choose their topics, but the point is to attract attention with content and giveaway so topics must be approved. The point is originality.

Why Join the Book Blogger Buzz Tour:

• Increase pageviews
• Increase followers
• Name recognition
• Cheap advertising

Rose Hathaway's life will never be the same.

The recent attack on St. Vladimir's Academy devastated the entire Moroi world. Many are dead. And, for the few victims carried off by Strigoi, their fates are even worse. A rare tattoo now adorns Rose's neck, a mark that says she's killed far too many Strigoi to count. But only one victim matters ... Dimitri Belikov. Rose must now choose one of two very different paths: honoring her life's vow to protect Lissa—her best friend and the last surviving Dragomir princess—or, dropping out of the Academy to strike out on her own and hunt down the man she loves. She'll have to go to the ends of the earth to find Dimitri and keep the promise he begged her to make. But the question is, when the time comes, will he want to be saved?

Now, with everything at stake—and worlds away from St. Vladimir's and her unguarded, vulnerable, and newly rebellious best friend—can Rose find the strength to destroy Dimitri? Or, will she sacrifice herself for a chance at eternal love?

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Yes that is what it is.

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Are you disinterested yet?

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If you are really upset, sometimes a quick trip to Russia can fix that.

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But, don't choke on the balsalmic glazed pork medallion.

Today we have something special for all those who would like to make their blogs even prettier than they are now. BookLikes welcomes new designer :-) Welcome, Parajunkee!

Some of you already know Parajunkee as a blogger and book reviewer and now you can get to know her awesome works :-) Boy, she’s talented! See for yourself. Her new templates are available on BookLikes Theme Store.

To view and purchase new design themes, please go to customization tab (entrance in Settings/Blog), then click Themes in the upper left corner and voila. Choose what you like: you can use one of BookLikes’ free themes or new ones made by Parajunkee.

You can choose from seven premium themes: Book Love,  Clouds, On My Shelf, Open The Book, Ribbon Bliss (each $9), and Flower Power, Sketch (each $19).

One you click yellow star, you'll see designer information and link to his/her webpage on BookLikes. To purchase one of new templates click Buy, view payment option and follow PayPal instructions (PayPal account is required). Once the payment is confirmed the new template will be unlocked and ready to use from Themes Page. Then just select the template, click Done on the top and enjoy your blog’s new look. 

If you have any questions about new templates or something gone wrong after uploading new design themes, please PM a designer. Terms of Services for Themes are available here and documentation for BookLikes Template Code in the footnote, click Themes. 

Are you a designer or know one? Let us know, we'd love to work with you! Drop us a line at contact@booklikes.com.

Updates:

- Table view of your Shelf received new sorting option: review date. Date of the review is visible for Reviewed books next to link to review.

Strange...

Winter is coming and it’s getting colder and colder outside. The best thing to do is to find a cozy spot by the fireplace with a book in your hands. How about some winter books to feel little warmer? Just have a look at these freezing quotes to feel much better and warmer. 

Shatter Me in your reviews: 

Highly recommend if you love dystopian, young adult, love triangles, or just a series that will suck you in! click to continue

I've read a lot of dystopian YA over the last few years but if it's done well and is original, like Shatter Me, then I'm not likely to get sick of it.  click to continue

The prose in Shatter Me is completely different from anything I have ever read before! The readers see this strange and scary world through Juliette’s eyes, and the writing is almost in a diary-style, or free-flow thinking. click to continue

Game of Thrones in your reviews:

It's hard to find a book where you can almost love all of its characters, villains included, and this series is brimming with colourful characters which you can love or (try to) hate. click to continue

If you'd asked me earlier this year about my thoughts on A Game of Thrones, I would have told you it's boring; however, my thoughts, opinions, and feelings are entirely different now since I pushed myself to finish this. Worth it. click to continue

This is probably one of the best High Fantasy books I've read this year, or ever. I'd been meaning to read this book for a long time and I'm so glad I finally gave it a chance. click to continue

The Golden Compass in your reviews:

The Golden Compass is such a magnificent book in every way. It was so beautifully written, intelligent and so intensely creative. click to continue

Years later, a few days ago, and with my attention span now slightly improved, I dove again into this world everyone says is so wonderful. What's different this time is I didn't come back up for air till "END OF BOOK ONE" appeared on the next page. click to continue

It took me a little while to see where Pullman was going, but once I got there, I totally believed in the world he creates. click to continue

Let it Snow in your reviews: 

Let It Snow is a fantastically fluffy Christmas read, of three intertwining stories by three different popular YA authors. It is funny, sweet and surprisingly well executed. click to continue

I don’t usually read love/romance stories, but I loved this book! It was so cute and funny and a perfect Christmas read. click to continue

It has romance by the truck-load, fun witty dialogue, and a great cast of characters! This book was so great that I flew through it with no problems! click to continue

The Ice Princess in your reviews:

If you like complex, multi-layered suspense novels, then I definitely recommend this dark and moody book. I can't comment on the original as I don't read Swedish, but the translation is certainly engaging. click to continue

The mystery and characters in this book grabbed me enough for me to want to read at least the second book in the series. click to continue

The Girl with Glass Feet in your reviews:

This is Shaw's first novel, and if he continues in this style then I am sure we will hear much more about him.If I sum it up, it is like a strange fairy tale  the girl with glass feet, and the awkward prince she meets. click to continue

I can almost guarantee that you won't have read anything quite like the Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw, a young novelist who deserves more attention. click to continue

And at times, it felt like it was written just for me. It fit so neatly into things I love, writing styles I enjoy, and tales that have personal resonance. Oh yes, and tears. There were tears. click to continue

The Call of the Wild in your reviews: 

One of those classics that's definitely no chore, and one assessable even when I read it as a child. I'm not about to forget Buck, a dog who hears the call of the wild. click to continue

This is a timeless classic that should be a must read for everyone. click to continue

Warm Bodies in your reviews:

To my utter shock and bewilderment, I absolutely adored this book! Warm Bodies was everything I thought it will be and more. Much more. It's filled with depth and emotions; fear, love, confusion, hate, hope. Beautiful words and writing, together with characters that will blow your mind away. click to continue

Reading this was a delightful revelation. This is the book for people who think they don't like zombie stories. I can't wait to see what else Marion does. click to continue

Warm Bodies is a largely undisguised retelling of that old favourite, Romeo & Juliet so I knew from the off that I was treading a well worn path when it came to the plot. The main difference being that R is in fact a zombie, which I'm pretty sure is an element Shakespeare left out of the original play. click to continue 

Terror in your reviews: 

I was fine. Everything was fine. I wasn't hearing strange noises. I wasn't staring at darkened doorways thinking that a phantom was going to appear there at any minute. My heart wasn't racing. Until I was asked, "Whatcha reading?" click to continue

Simmons takes what is known of this expedition and uses it for the basis of a novel very aptly named The Terror, because up there, trapped in the sea-ice, the sailors find themselves stalked by something nameless and even more deadly than the ice-bears, ursus maritimus. click to continue

The desolate landscape, frigid Arctic temperatures, perpetual darkness, lightning storms, blizzards, dwindling coal supplies, tainted food rations, scurvy, imminent starvation, thoughts of cannibalism, threats of mutiny...that's the stuff real nightmares are made of. I found myself completely engrossed during these parts of the novel click to continue

The Snow Child in your reviews: 

This is one of those novels that succeed in large part because of the atmosphere and the care that goes into crafting characters. Mabel and Jack is a childless older couple who move to Alaska to find a new life. click to continue

This incredibly beautiful story was inspired by and tenderly envelopes an Old Russian folktale. One evening an elderly, childless couple build a girl out of snow. Come morning it is missing, leaving faint footprints, from where the snow child once stood. click to continue

Lets take a moment to appreciate the great, rich, slowly brewing and absolutely gorgeous writing. Eowyn Ivey has taken those two stereotypical characters, even put them in the solitude in a cabin, In Alaska, and still managed to make Jack and Mabel surprise us and then some. click to continue

You can also find more cool reads in Kinga's post: Snow, Ice and Cold Books. 

As a Polish ex-pat living in London where snow is rare as a free seat on the tube, I find myself missing real winters terribly. If I can't have snow and ice in real life (and I can't until I move to Canada, which is definitely going to happen next year) I need to surround myself with winter books. click to continue

Today we have something for all those of you who love tags. Some time ago we've added a spoilers tag and now it's time for a blockquote tag.

See how it works:

and your published text will look like this:

You can also add other formatting to text with blockquote tags, such as bold, italics, underline...

Updates:

Synchronization option is on again. You can connect your GR account with your BookLikes profile in Settings/Import. Sync option allows to mirror your BookLikes activity on your GR profile (read more here: BookLikes -> Goodreads Synchronization). Sync includes adding books, posting and editing reviews, adding/changing rating stars and creating new shelves. Read more on our FAQ site or mail us with any concerns and questions.

Tips:

- You can add additional pages and links to your BookLikes webpage in Settings/Pages. All new pages will be visible in your blog menu next to Blog, Shelf and Timeline (e.g. Bio, About Me, or redirected link). 

- If you wish to add additional page with a link to tagged texts, use the link from your public Blog view instead of Dashboard - then the link will be available and visible for non BookLikes members.

For example, if you would like to add link to texts with ‘tutorials’ tag, use the link: http://booklikes.com/tag/tutorials (click ‘tutorials’ tag on post page in public blog view, not on Dashboard) instead of this link http://booklikes.com/dashboard?tag=tutorials (this tag is clicked on Dashboard, visible only for people who are signed in at the moment).