Top Ten Tuesday ~ Thanksgiving FREEBIE!!

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Here are my top ten favorite things I am grateful for blogging and book wise this year!

1. I am grateful for all of you who follow my book blog and leave me awesome comments! Thank you for your support!!

2. I am thankful for all the author events I've attended this year. Plus, the Bay Area Book Festival I also attended for the 2nd year in a row in Berkeley, California. I had the chance to meet Sherman Alexie this year at the Bay Area Book Festival and have him sign copies of the books I have of his in my collection!! I was also thrilled to met Amy Stewart once again at an author signing event as well as author Arturo Reverte-Perez, Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), and Olympic runner Shalane Flanagan to name a few of the authors I've heard speak this year.

3. I'm thankful for all the free books I've received through Goodreads, Netgalley, and from the writers and narrators themselves. I accumulated to many new free books this year than I can recollect!

4. I am thankful and grateful the Audible membership I received as  Christmas gift from my husband! I am totally loving my Audible experience. I am most likely going to request another Audible membership for Christmas this year.

5. I've enjoyed reading over 80 books this year so far and am hoping to read a total of 100 books by the end of the year. I've discovered many new authors to me this year and have read many interesting books so far that it's going to be difficult to come up with a short list of favorites books read for the calendar year.

6. I've been a member of Bookcrossing for almost a decade now and love the sense of community with this world wide book community. I've exchange many books with other readers, learned about many interesting books from other readers, and so much more.

7. I am thankful for all of the wonderful independent bookstores in the San Francisco Bay Area and San Francisco's East Bay that are such a joy to visit. I love getting lost in a good bookstore and buying new books to add to my ever growing book collection. I also especially love bookstores with various book events to attend... And there are many of these kinds of events to attend in my local area!

8. Little Free Libraries are in abundance in my area as well and are a fun way to exchange books with other readers!

9. The annual Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley, California is an awesome literary event to attend in my neck of the woods as well.

10. I am also very happy that I have been blogging since January 1, 2012 and continue to enjoy writing frequent blog posts on a regular basis. When I first began my book blog, I wasn't even sure if I'd be able to keep posting enough interesting things to attract and keep readers. Or even be interested in keeping up a blog after the first year or two. But as my 5th year of blogging soon comes to a close, I hope that I continue to enjoy blogging on a regular basis in the years to come.