Why connecting and talking about books on social media is so cool

Site member JBOO1698 explains how Twitter and Tumblr (as well as the Guardian children’s books site) have opened a whole new world for a self-confessed bookaholic

Books are great. And that’s just a given. It seems really weird saying what’s always seemed so obvious to me. But that’s besides the point. Joining the Guardian children’s and teen books site is surely a pinnacle in my tale (my autobiography would be called “Confessions of a Bookaholic’, for reference), and as part of what you do for the site, you gain so much experience and you find yourself throw into a level where so many new things happen, and I’m writing today to talk about just one of these.

Those of you who happened to notice or those of you who stalk me in the site or even in real life will know that my review of Phoenix by SF Said went up recently, and it was released and announced to the world via the medium of Twitter and it was sent out like this:

Phoenix by SF Said - review http://t.co/i9iIDx1i2X 'thank you SF for writing this' @whatSFSaid @thurrockjoshua

@thurrockjoshua @LuWrites Thank you, I'm glad some of it worked for you. I hope you like the starry paperback cover: http://pic.twitter.com/GsfHann1p3

Solitaire by Alice Oseman - review http://t.co/5X5Jm4ChM3 no fan girling in this review, but make your own mind up! @AliceOseman

@thurrockjoshua @GdnChildrensBks Thanks Joshua! A fair review! I'll have to let you know about the next book..... :)

@thurrockjoshua @GdnChildrensBks Good luck with the essay! Writing a book is a bit like having an essay crisis every day, for seven years...

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