Friday's Featured Friend: Emma from Booking Through 365!

Hey Everyone,

This week for Friday's Featured Friend we have Emma from stopping by from Booking Through 365! I've known Emma for a while so I'm excited to feature her this week.

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Hi Emma, why don't you tell the readers a bit about yourself!

Alright! I am a teen girl who loves books, writing and emus. My favorite author of all time is Libba Bray and I'm writing a YA novel involving parallel universes, the apocalypse and fantasy worlds. Right now, my life revolves around the online book blogger universe!


So when did you start blogging and what prompted you to do so?

Well, I decided I wanted to challenge myself this year and read a book a day (currently I am failing at this). I had tried to blog for a while but I never stuck with it, and since I've always loved books, I decided a YA book blog would be a great idea.


If you had to sum your blog up in 5 words or less, what would you say?

Young Adult Book Obsessed Central!


What is one book you would recommend to everyone?

I am a big fangirl of Libba Bray, who wrote The Gemma Doyle Trilogy. The first book is called A Great and Terrible Beauty and for anyone who enjoys complex characters, fantastical worlds, good writing and historical fiction, it's an absolute must.


What book really surprised you after you read it because it was different than your expectations?
Can I mention two? I had high expectations for Twilight by Stephenie Meyer because my best friend really adores her series. But I absolutely hated it. My short opinion is that Twilight is a book that was written by a woman who was vicariously living through her main character who gets the author's own secret fantasies. The author got lucky and it was published.

One that I had a really great experience with was Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson. While I liked her most popular book Speak, it wasn't my favorite. Wintergirls really surprised me. The writing was amazing and it was really interesting getting inside the head of a girl who had an eating disorder and who cut herself. I loved the book so much it is now my third favorite book of all time.


What fictional character(s) are you secretly in love with?
Everyone who knows me knows I love Kartik from The Gemma Doyle Trilogy but what they don't know is that I'm even MORE in love with Weaver from A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly, which is my second favorite novel ever. He's sweet, intelligent and doesn't let things get to him.


What are some of your hobbies (other than blogging and reading)?
I've been doing this non-violent martial art called Aikido for five years. I'm very passionate about it. I also do yoga and I have a very close relationship with my yoga teacher.


What is a question you wish you were asked, and can you answer it for us?
It'd be how did I meet Genevieve. I met Genevieve on YA for Obama, a site created by the YA author Maureen Johnson to spread the word about Obama and his policies. Then Genevieve and four of my other YA for Obama friends created this youtube channel called FiveAwesomeYAFans, and I became the sekrit sister. Genevieve and I have kept in touch ever since!

Thank you so much for interviewing me, Genevieve! I adore your blog!

Thanks Emma for stopping by! If you are an author or a book blogger and would like to be interviewed for Friday's Featured Friend, just e-mail me with your info (Name and blog/website URL) to:

caprubia(at)gmail(dot)com

More later,

~Genevieve