Follow Friday--Would-Be Disappointments

Gain new followers and make new friends with the Book Blogger Feature & Follow! If this is your first time here, welcome! You are about to make some new friends and gain new followers -- but you have to know -- the point of this hop is to follow other bloggers also. I follow you, you follow me.

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee's View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it'll allow us to show off more new blogs! 

How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, (using the linky tools -- keep scrolling!) then you create a post on your own blog that links back to this post (easiest way is to just grab the code under the #FF picture and put it in your post) and then you visit as many blogs as you can and tell them "hi" in their comments (on the post that has the #FF image). You follow them, they follow you. Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you! 

Q: Have you ever read a book that you thought you would hate -- ? Did you end up hating it? Did you end up loving it? Or would you never do that?

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When I was clear back in grade school, (yes I still remember this but you'll understand why in a minute) I had a sick day. I think it was a Monday. When I came back to school the next day, I found that the teacher had divided the class into two reading groups. Half the class was reading one book (I can't remember what it was called) while the other half would read The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander. I wanted to read the first book because it was about American Indians and I had a copy of the book sitting on my shelf at home that I'd been wanting to read for a long time. I thought that would be a good group for me. Instead. I got put in the group reading The Black Cauldron and I was NOT happy about it.

To my great surprise, I LOVED The Black Cauldron and was so glad that was the book I got to read. I remember that because it was the first high fantasy-type book I read on my own. I'd grown up on stories of Frodo and the Ring, and the adventures of Narnia, but this was the first time I'd picked up a fantasy book and read it myself. It was the first time I realized how much I loved that genre. From then on, I started looking for fantasy books to read. :D Thank goodness for a book I didn't think I'd like! 

How about you? Anyone else have a similar experience?

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