Top Ten Tuesdays are hosted by The Broke and The Bookish, and feature lists related to all things bookish–characters, authors, titles, and favorites. They’re an excellent way to find new interesting books on a variety of topics, and to find bloggers that love the books you do.
Check out their blog for their top ten and lists of other bloggers who participate!
April 5: Ten Bookish People You Should Follow On Twitter/Instagram/Youtube/Snapchat/Facebook — you pick the platform of your choice to talk about all the interesting bookish people to follow! If you don’t use social media much you can pick your favorite bookish blogs or new blogs you’ve come across to follow.
I’m not so big into the many and varied social media, but here’s a few.
1. Ilona Andrews (Facebook) All sorts of early snippets, a serial series, and some funny posts from husband and wife team Ilona and Andrew.
2. Neil Gaiman (Facebook). Lots of lovely quotes, art, and writerly stuff.
3. John Green (Instagram). Selfies, inspirational stuff, book-related pictures, and the occasional very weird penalty.
4. Jim C. Hines (Goodreads). He posts mostly book-related things, and occasionally such stuff as imitating the improbable cover poses of some heroines.
5. Jenny Lawson, The Bloggess (Instagram). There’s taxidermy and a lot of cat pictures, but her books, too.
6. Seanan McGuire (Facebook). Books, book related items, and fluffy cats.
7. Haruki Murakami (Facebook). Though run by his publishers, this still has a lot of updates, quotes, and cover photos.
8. Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads). He does a bunch of thoughtful, funny book reviews. And if you have any reason to read children’s books, he does a lot of reading with his kids.
9. Rainbow Rowell (Instagram). Book covers, selfies, book art–lots of cuteness.
10. Maggie Stiefvater (Facebook). Lots of art, most of it book related.
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John Green is also phenomenal on youtube. He and his brother are so much fun to watch!
My TTT: http://brownbooksandgreentea.com/2016/04/05/must-follow-book-lovers/
Yeah, I love their back and forth on their videos! 🙂
They make me wish I had a sibling that I was closer in age to, so we could have fun banter like that!
I follow Gaiman and McGuire on Twitter. Seanan cracks me up. Gaiman just seems like a good dude. Here’s my Top Ten Tweeps.
For how weird his writing is, Gaiman is surprisingly mellow and normal in interviews. It’s always the quiet ones…
Yeah, that’s the sense I’ve gotten from him. Very quiet and down to earth. Now if I could only find a book of his that I liked. LOL.
No book is for everyone. What have you tried so far?
I can’t remember all the titles. Its only been a few. I really wanted to like The Graveyard Book but just could NOT get into it.
He does some fairly different stuff–weird, creepy, dreamy, funny–you could try again, maybe.
I also really like the book he wrote with Terry Pratchett–Good Omens. 🙂
I DID like that book. I remember liking that one. That’s why I picked up the Graveyard Book.
Yeah, Gaiman + Pratchett isn’t the same as Gaiman by himself.
Maggie Stiefvater is so much fun to follow. I love her art. She made my list, too!
The art is lovely indeed. 🙂
Love Maggie Stiefvater’s posts! Her art is gorgeous, and she posts a lot of funny and/or insightful things as well. 🙂
It’s so nice to see a little more of an author you love. 🙂
Yeah, I follow Gaiman too. And I think I follow Patrick Rothfuss on Twitter – must go and check out Goodreads.
Thanks
Lynn 😀
I’m not on twitter yet–just joined Instagram recently. Maybe someday…
The bookshelf on the picture *Drools* Wow, I’ll have to check these out!
I have bookshelf envy so often… I wish I had more shelves!
ROFL — I don’t know why but I never thought to include actual authors, even though they are who I follow the most. Would have made my decisions for who to put on my TTT even harder! 🙂
They’re bookish people, right? 😉
Jenny Lawson made my list too! I have to say my favorite posts of hers are ones that involve conversations with her husband Victor. 🙂 Those crack me up. Great list! Here’s my TTT.
It’s got to be interesting to live in that house!
I love following authors on goodreads and twitter–it’s cool to see more from them beyond their novels. Thanks for stopping by my TTT earlier 🙂
I find it reassuring how deeply weird most of them are–there’s hope for the rest of us!
Haha. Amen! 🙂
While I don’t personally follow Stiefvater on Twitter…I’m pretty much following her by proxy of everyone else RTing all of her lovely art haha.
Cheers,
Joey via. thoughts and afterthoughts.
It’s embarrassing that I have yet to read a single book from any of these individuals even though most of them are so popular! Hopefully I’ll remedy that someday!
There’s always more books than time. 🙂