The Rantings of a Frustrated Blogger

Mam: "What did you do all day? Did you even step outside the house?"

Me: "I was reading. I have a book to review"

Mam: "So that's a no then"

Me: -_-

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Dad: "I have a job for ya seeing as ya aren't doing anything"

Me: "Actually I'm reading."

Dad: "Right, so ya can do a job for me"

Who hasn't been in this situation? Living at home with the parents can be a stressful thing for bloggers. Especially when they see reading as something not that important (like my parents). It's hard to explain to them that people are counting on me to have a book read and reviewed by a certain date. Just because I'm not getting paid for it doesn't mean it's not important. It's important to me! 

Take my situation:

My parents own a snooker club and I work there about 4 days a week. I have been working there pretty much most of my life. I have no problem with this at all. I get paid. But on my days off I like to catch up on my reading and write up reviews and such. Do my parents think this is a good way to spend my time? Eh, no. They like to find a million and one other things for me to do. Their reasoning? "I don't want you to get bored"

I'm 22 years old. Just because I'm finished college and don't have any proper jobs lined up doesn't mean I'm bored. I have plenty of things to keep me amused. Don't everyone get me wrong or anything. I'm not some ungrateful bitch. I appreciate everything my parents have done for me over the years. But that doesn't mean the can still boss me around like a child. If I could move out and get my own place I would. Unfortunately I'm broke :/ And to get money I need to find a proper job. But there are no other jobs in my town. So for the minute I am stuck at home. 

So what's a girl to do? Well for the minute the only thing I can do is just grin and bare it. I wish I had understanding parents but I don't :/

I hate letting people down. I really do. So when I end up not having time to read a book for a blog tour? I feel awful :(  I feel like it's not a good enough excuse. So to all the authors and blog tour organizers that I email saying I didn't read the book I apologies a million times over. It doesn't happen that often but when it does I feel like a failure of a blogger :(

I am sure there are some of you who are in the same boat. Whether it be parents, friends, bf/gf, husband/wife, etc. It's hard to be a good blogger when the people around you aren't that supportive or understanding. 

*heavy sigh*

Book Covers - Do they really need to be changed?

Ok so I am really getting annoyed at publishers and how they keep changing the covers for books. I don't mind that there are different covers for US and UK and all that. But when they bring out a whole new set of covers in the middle of a series, this really bugs me! I buy the first 1 or 2 books in a series and then they go and change the covers. So now my first ones don't match the rest!


Case in point, the new covers for the Across the Universe series. 

I don't even like them. They seem a bit old looking or something. I like my books to match and I don't want to have to go out and re-buy the first books with the new covers so they'll all match :/ 
Is it just a money making con as publishers know that book lovers will buy the books with the new covers so that they match? Or do they just feel that a change is in order? Whatever the reason I really wish they would just stick with the original set of covers and not change them!


What is everyone else's thoughts on this? Do you feel the same? Or do you not mind that they change the covers?


Yvonne

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Goodreads Summary:

Vee Bell is certain of one irrefutable truth—her sister’s friend Sophie didn’t kill herself. She was murdered. 

Vee knows this because she was there. Everyone believes Vee is narcoleptic, but she doesn’t actually fall asleep during these episodes: When she passes out, she slides into somebody else’s mind and experiences the world through that person’s eyes. She’s slid into her sister as she cheated on a math test, into a teacher sneaking a drink before class. She learned the worst about a supposed “friend” when she slid into her during a school dance. But nothing could have prepared Vee for what happens one October night when she slides into the mind of someone holding a bloody knife, standing over Sophie’s slashed body. 

Vee desperately wishes she could share her secret, but who would believe her? It sounds so crazy that she can’t bring herself to tell her best friend, Rollins, let alone the police. Even if she could confide in Rollins, he has been acting off lately, more distant, especially now that she’s been spending more time with Zane. 

Enmeshed in a terrifying web of secrets, lies, and danger and with no one to turn to, Vee must find a way to unmask the killer before he or she strikes again.


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