Monday, May 23, 2011

Welcome to Armchair BEA...and My Blog!




Hi and welcome to my blog! I'm Amy (aka Aimala & Amestir).

**I've been blogging for close to two years. When I started, I planned to blog about a variety of stuff with books and cats at the top of the list. About a year ago, my blog became only about books and cats with books leading the way and the cats adding a touch of fun and personality, not to mention adorable pictures! I enjoy discovering and reading other blogs, getting to know fellow bloggers and discussing books. I'm not an ideal blogger: I'm slow to advertise my blog and, although I have a Facebook page and a Twitter account, I keep forgetting to link them to my blog! What I like best is reading and discussing books, reading what other bloggers think about what I've read and learning about other books from bloggers. I also enjoy authors’ blogs although I admit to some intimidation when it comes to commenting on their posts!

**I graduated from college with a BA in English, but my love of reading began long before then. My mother was an avid reader and my dad liked reading when he had some rare free time. Books were very important to me when I was little because I had quite a bit of time on my hands. Books helped me pass the hours. I was born with a rare bone and endocrine disease, so frequent surgeries and hospitalizations left me plenty of time to read! To this day I don't go anywhere without a book!



You will also notice that there are no pictures of me without a cat! This is me with Bob and at the bottom of the post you'll see me and Mr. Magoo!

**I love classic literature, having read a lot of it in college. I mean to re-read many of the books I enjoyed during those four years but I keep picking up others. One of these days I’ll focus more on the classics, especially many I haven’t read. I also enjoy contemporary, general, historical and even some YA fiction, mystery & suspense, memoirs and other non-fiction. I haven’t read many biographies but the few I have I liked and I want to read more. I have a long list of authors I love and this community has introduced me to a few wonderful authors of which I was previously unaware!

**I don’t care for paranormal, urban fantasy, horror, graphic thrillers or romance but I’m usually willing to try anything once. I haven’t read a lot of science fiction and several years ago would have said I didn’t like it. Then a friend lent me the Orson Scott Card book, Ender’s Game, and it was great! Now I’m hoping to read some of Connie Willis’ books soon.

**Tell me a little bit about you and share a favorite book or author if you’d like, I’m always happy too get recommendations!

23 comments:

  1. Thanks for visiting my blog...I'm not a fan of paranormal or horror, either.

    I do love a good contemporary fiction book, mysteries, and memoirs.

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  2. Thanks for stopping by! I love the furry kids. Happy ArmChair BEA! I'm trying to get back into commenting on blogs, but its tough with the little one around...:) I don't mind though.

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  3. I've been so bad about keeping up with blogging and visiting blogs, lately, but I always love to stop by and see what you're reading and what's new with your adorable cats!

    Stop by, I'm having a giveaway you might like. We should catch up by email soon, too! We always seem to have fun chats.

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  4. Hi Nice to meet you! Thanks for stopping by my blog. I love cats too. The ones in the pictures are so cute! I look forward to your posts

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  5. Hi Amy! I always love the pictures of your kitties. I, myself, am a cat lover with three of my own...all rescues. All of my past kitties have been rescues, all with their own stories.
    I grew up with books too. Mom was an avid reader, and read to me nightly before bed. I don't read any paranormal or fantasy, very few romances, and maybe an occasional historical fiction. My faves are memoirs, southern fiction, horror and YA. :)

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  6. Hi Amy, thanks for stopping by my blog.

    Nice meeting you. I love seeing pictures of fellow bloggers (and their cats!).

    I read only one book by Connie Willis, the book about the Black Plague (can't remember the title) - I loved it and I want to read more by her too.

    Have a great ArmchairBEA!

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  7. I've been reading your blog for quite awhile now but it is nice to have a "formal" introduction!

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  8. Great post Amy! It's nice to learn a little more about the people whose blogs I read. Love the pics of you and the kitties.

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  9. Great to put a face with the blog and kittys! I love your stack of books over your shoulder! I don't go anywhere without a book either.

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  10. Awww, your kitties are adorable. Mr. Magoo looks like my Winston!

    I'm not a big fan of horror either. I hate being scared!

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  11. Hi Amy! Great to see you!! Right now I'm reading 'candy' -- taken some time off from the heavy stuff. In the past 3 days I've read two Kristin Hannah books and I'm currently reading a third one: THE THINGS YOU DO FOR LOVE.I just finished ON MYSTIC LAKE and another one -- can't think of the name. Very rarely am I ever without a book!!

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  12. Amy, thanks for visiting my blog. It's nice to meet you :-) One of my favorite books this year is The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen - her debut novel.

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  13. I think your kitties are adorable! I have no pets, but I love to see and hear about everyone else's. I'm glad reading has been there for you when you need it! I'm also tickled that I introduced you to Neil Gaiman. That made the whole month worthwhile to me. :)

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  14. Hi Amy! Glad you visited today. How is Sadie doing? I bet she's glad to be back home. You know your's is one of my favorite blogs because of the cats, right? LOL! JK, I do read your other stuff too! We have a lot of reading interest in common, but I do like horror. I will definitely stop by and visit again this week. =O)

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  15. It sounds like you like quite a variety of books! That's fantastic! Thanks for participating in Armchair BEA and I hope you have a wonderful week!

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  16. hello Amy. seems like we have the same distaste for the same kind of books. the cat pics are a nice touch. i especially like Bob checking out the nightlife. happy reading and hooray for the BEA events.

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  17. It was nice getting to know you a bit more! We have some things in common...I have a BA in English and our least favorite genres are very similar. It's great to give different genres a try, though. I have found some pleasant surprises that way. :)

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  18. Amy, hello what sweet photos of you with the babies. Funny how we have similar tastes in our reading styles.

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  19. Amy, it was nice to get to know you a bit better with the posts and photos. I envy English Lit majors; I was a business major, because my employer kind of called the shots at the time (they paid) LOL

    I don't like paranormal, romance, westerns or SF.

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  20. Your cats are such cuties! I don't know how you keep them straight, but they're lucky to have found their ways to you, I think.

    I'm really bad about advertising my blog, too. I try here and there, but it feels so against why I blog that I keep it to a minimum.

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  21. Amy I read your comment on the internation interview. I am always surprised by what a blogger will do for you. I truly appreciate it. Ah what cute cats. Bob looks like a party cat :)

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  22. I enjoyed learning more about you Amy, and love the pictures with Bob and Mr. Magoo :)

    I don't read paranormal either; I don't read westerns, pure romance fiction, horror or overly graphic mystery/thriller stories. I read very little science fiction, although I will say that what I've read lately, I have liked.

    Last year's big surprise for me was how much i loved Frankenstein and the audio version of Atlas Shrugged.

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  23. Love these pics of you! It's so nice to put a face to the post/comment :)

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