Saturday, December 31

Poll

It's probably not so useful, but I just wanted to say it, otherwise I can't sleep ;) The poll I posted turns out to be a tie, SO I'm the one who's choosing the post I'll send.

I'm glad, but also a little sad :( I only got 6 votes .. Honestly I expected a lot more from you. But I can live with, it isn't the end of the world. I'll still post the article :)

Well, see you tomorrow ! Enjoy your holiday and I hope the next post will be more interesting for you !

Sunday, December 25

Merry Christmas !

I wish everybody a merry Christmas !

I've never read a book about Christmas, but I'm dying to. If you have an idea for me, or even a nice book not about Christmas but one that's nice to read by your fire place with a warm blanket, share it with the others too. We're very curious ;)

I hope you will keep yourself to your good intentions or at least try (that's what I'm going to do) and ofcourse read many books, so you can recommend them to me ;)

Have a nice holiday, don't forget the cookies and milk for Santa Claus, be happy with your presents, don't worry about your weigth and see you on Janary, 1st !

Wednesday, December 21

Let's do this !

Ok, finally I don't have to work for school anymore, so I can work for my blog and other ways to reach the blog. I have time now to read books and to write about them.

I also have a surprise for you! On January 1st, I will post my first opinion or a post about the writer of the first book. YOU can choose, it's all in YOUR hands. You can vote on the right with the poll I set there.

I hope I get some response, and I'm curious about what I'll post in January.

Monday, December 19

New ways to reach me

Hey guys, I don't know if you noticed, but from now on you can follow me by e-mail.

It's very simple. You just have to write your e-mailadress in the box on the right that says: 'Follow by mail'. If you've done that, you'll get an e-mail everytime I posted something new post so you're aware of everything I do.

I've also placed a Twitterbutton beneath it. If you have a Twitter-account, you just have to click that button , tweet it and my account will appear on your wall so other people can reach my Twitter. Everytime I post something new, it will also appear on your wall. So if you want, you can do that too.

AND now you can also share my link on your Facebookprofile by clicking the famous like-button ! See you later ! :D

Sunday, December 18

The use of the smiley

As all of you know, I'm aged 16, so you just can't exclude smileys. I'll try not to use as many as I do normally, but I'm from the smiley-generation. That's how I express my emotions to you how I feel about the book. I hope you'll understand it, but I don't doubt it ;)

Thursday, December 1

The beginning

Hey everybody, I would like to welcome at my blog.

I'm Marie, aka the Young Reader, a Belgian girl and 16 years old. I've been thinking about this for a long time, but eventually I just did it: I started a blog to give my opinion about books. I'll try to read a book every 2 weeks, and say it was or wasn't a good book and why. Of course, it's up to you if you want the read the book or not, this is just my opinion. Please don't shoot me if I said the book wasn't good and you said is was very good. Again, it's just my opinion.

There will be books in it that I had to read for school, but the most are on a level for adults and youth, so that won't be a problem. I'll sometimes make articles about the authors so you get some information about them.

This blog is meant for people like me, young adults, but the ones who don't like to read, to discover some books you might be interested in. Ofcourse, I don't exclude the grown-up's. If you don't like all the heavy literature, why won't you read one of the books I recommend ? :)

Also I appreciate recommendations from you, I would love to read them :) but please give me the time to find and read them. You've been younger too, or you're still. You'll know being a student isn't an easy job, won't you ? ;)

I speak and read three languages: Dutch, French and English. Also a little bit German, but it's only my second year that I get it at school, so it isn't spectacular. It's possible the book I chose isn't in yours, I apologize for that. But I'll do my best to read books from all four of them.

Ofcourse, I couldn't organise this without any help :) two friends of mine, Charlotte and Lynn help me with it. Charlotte is my photographer and Lynn is my adviser about all my articles.

I've also made a Twitterpage, so if you're more on Twitter then Blogger, you'll get a message or a tweet so you can find all the new books I read and gave my opinion of. just look for @theyoungreader, you'll find it. A Facebookpage will maybe come after that, if I have many success, because it's a heavy job to maintain.

I'll start with it in 2012, because of course, I have some work for school around this time of the year.

I hope you'll enjoy this blog as much as I do, and I'll hope I can read as much as I promised to give you some advice :)