Q & A!

A few weeks ago, I was able to celebrate my third blog anniversary, and honestly it is so incredible that I have made it this far over three years. In order to celebrate, I decided to do a Q and A and answer all the amazing questions that you guys can come up with! I didn’t get a ton of questions, but the ones I did get were all super unique and I cannot wait to answer them. Since this is a shorter post, you’re welcome to ask more questions about me in the comments and I’ll answer them there – if I get enough, I may even do a second Q and A post! But let’s get right into what we have here.

1) Which three places are currently at the top of your travel bucket list?

Wow, I don’t really have a travel bucket list, now that I think about it! I love cities, and I love mountains, but I don’t actively seek out places to visit to find those things. I think for my top choice, I would say San Francisco, because I’ve technically been there twice, but the first time I was too young to remember, and the second time we were there for a total of 6 hours (during the nighttime) so I didn’t get to see any of the city. But it sounds like a super cool city, plus I really want to visit the ballpark they have!!

For my second choice, I would say somewhere in Europe, but I don’t actually know a ton about Europe so I’m not sure where. The only time I’ve ever been out of the United States was when I went to Toronto, which is incredibly close to the US, but I would love to visit some of the mountains in Europe, especially after Naemi @A Book Owl’s Corner’s post about them (and thank you to Naemi for this question!).

For choice three, I might go with Japan, because that is obviously a very advanced and amazing country, as well as a place with lots of beautiful sights! Not only that, but Japan has a really good baseball league, so I’d love to go see some baseball and experience what baseball culture is like in a different country.

2) If you could choose any author to write the book of your dreams, who would you pick and what would the book be about?

Oof, this one is tough. First of all, I think the book of my dreams would probably involve baseball, and an aroace female main character (sounds like self-insert, but whatever). Queer rep in sports is incredibly difficult to come by, and aroace rep regardless of the situation is needed, so it would be amazing to see aroace rep in a baseball book! As for who I want to write it, I think I would probably choose Racquel Marie, because I loved both of her first two books, especially the friend groups within them, and her second book is about sports so she can clearly write sports books too. Not sure how well she could write an aroace baseball book, but this is all hypothetical. The other choice I would love to go with would be Taylor Jenkins Reid, but I think she’d make my novel way too dramatic, and a lot of her stories are also centered on romance drama which obviously would not occur in an aroace book (or…could it???). But TJR’s writing is fantastic, so it would be an honor for her to write my book.

3) What kinds of content would you love to see more of around the blogosphere?

I’m gonna be honest – I love the content that’s in the blogosphere right now! I guess one thing it might be fun to see a little more of are book lists, because I love the number of recommendations that I can get from just one book list post, but there are already a lot of those.

4) How did you start blogging and become active in the online book community?

I turned to the online world at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, as many people did, and found a great little community of book lovers on goodreads. From there, I met some people who had started blogs and it inspired me to do the same! Books With Wings is also actually my second blog – I started a small one during the very first few days of the pandemic with two of my friends, and although that one died out pretty fast, I’m happy with the experience it gave me to start this one!

5) Which author would you choose to narrate your life story?

This one’s pretty similar to #3, but I think specifically for my life story instead of the story of my dreams, I would go with Taylor Jenkins Reid because all of her books seem so realistic, as if we are actually reading someone’s biography. I think my life is going to have to become a bit more dramatic for that to actually happen, though…

6) If you could only eat one fruit for the rest of your life, which one would you choose?

What a question!!! Definitely not something that I have revealed on here before, but I LOVE fruit. There are so many types of fruits that are so delicious. Some of my favorites are mango, nectarine, kiwi, and the classic apple, but if I had to eat only one, I would probably go with mango. You can eat mango in a ton of different ways (just today I ate a bowl of frozen mango pieces AND a mango popsicle) and I love basically all of them. Frozen mango is one of my favorite snacks, and I also love snagging a few strips of dried mango. Having fresh mango is a delicious treat, though I don’t actually get to eat it very often.

7) A genre that you’re convinced you couldn’t ever like no matter how hard you tried?

My first thought upon reading this was ‘romance’ because I have a general dislike towards romance books. But there are, surprisingly, romances that I do enjoy reading, and I realized there are genres I dislike more. Unfortunately, for this one I think I’m going to have to say science fiction. Sci fi is one of the main genres these days, so it feels weird to say this, but I’ve actually never really enjoyed these books, especially if they’re extra science-y. I don’t understand most of the science in the books, and they just get confusing and convoluted when some of the concepts don’t make sense to me.

That’s it from me for this post! I hope you enjoyed learning a little more about me, and I’m super thankful for everyone who asked questions! They were very creative and I had a lot of fun answering them.

Where would you like to travel? Is there an author you’d like to write your dream story? What are your thoughts on mangos? Let me know in the comments!

Celebrating my Third Blogiversary!

When I first began my blog, back during the height of the pandemic in 2020, I don’t think I could have imagined what it would end up like today. Me and my blog have gone through a lot during these three years, and I’m incredibly proud of what it and I have begun today. I wanted to take a moment to think back on everything that this blog has taught me, before I give you the chance to do something on this blog that I’ve never tried before – a Q and A!

I first started my blog as a place to share thoughts about books and connect with a community who loved the same things that I do, during a pandemic that locked me out from most of my social life. I was already pretty active in the goodreads community, and I had a few friends on there who began their own blogs, so I decided to follow suit in the hopes to expand my reading and find a few new friends.

I literally cannot believe what that has expanded into. I’ve found people from around the world who enjoy books as much as I do – people who I can rave or rant about books in comment sections, people who give me book recommendations, and who take recommendations from me. I’ve found a community of people who actually read what I have to say, and my love for books has grown so much because of this.

Fittingly, this post is also the 100th that I have written, so that is also a huge milestone for me! After a very long break where I wondered if I would ever return to blogging, I’m so excited that I’ve actually made it to 100 posts!!!

And so, to thank all of you for bearing with me through the terrible beginning posts, to the long hiatus, to whatever this in-between period is (I can’t promise I’ll keep posting consistently), I’ve decided to do something that I have never done before – a Q and A! Throughout blogging, I’ve kept my actual life fairly hidden, so it’s a little scary to open up and do a Q and A like this. I request that you don’t ask anything that gives away personal information, such as age, location, name, etc. but other than that, feel free to let me know of your questions in the comments and I will do my best to answer them in a later post!

Thanks again to everyone who has stuck with me and my blog through all this. I can’t wait to see what you have to ask me!