blogaversary

  ‘ve always been an opinionated person, usually a black or white kind of person with very little shades of grey.. (See what I did there? Haha) so reviewing books were just so easy to do. I do this because I love books. I do this to help people with their decision whether to buy [...]

f there weren’t any readers, the book industry wouldn’t even exist. Readers and the people who keep the book industry running need to work together to survive. If one part of the book industry machine conks out, there wouldn’t be any books sitting in my bookcase. Can I thank Johannes Gutenberg for creating the printing press? (Bless [...]

started Book Nerd after my employment ended sadly at the magazine (gotta love the economy!), but that didn’t stop me from pursuing it. Writing reviews wasn’t part of my job description but being able to read books were so much fun, it didn’t feel like work! I only actively started to approach other publishers when I [...]

hat can I say about authors? Hmm *thinks* They’re my type of celebrity. People follow the big movie stars, and find out what they wear, and watch all their videos, and probably even stand in line to buy TIFF tickets. But not for this book blogger. I follow the authors. I read their books. If [...]

Check out my one year blogaversary! You can enter to win my giveaways as well! [...]

here would Book Nerd be without its readers? I remember starting my blog and having no one comment. I would comment on other blogs and visit, but I was still so new that no one knew who I was. And that’s where I steamrolled right into Twitter. Twitter, the micro-blogging service that was supposed to [...]

ook Nerd was started with the mission to help other people decide if a book was for them. I remember getting a sense of satisfaction when someone thought my review was helpful on the Chapters/Indigo community portal. I helped someone, and that’s the main goal I sought to achieve. I can’t believe Book Nerd has [...]