TMST: I'm playing topic catch-up! Book sitting the longest on my TBR pile, Blogging platforms, bookish memorabilia, and being the odd one out

Tell Me Something Tuesday is a weekly discussion post where bloggers discuss a wide range of topics from books and blogging to life in general. 

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I'm playing catch up with TMST. Life got in the way and I missed several weeks worth of questions. So here we go!

4/12 Question: What book has been sitting on your TBR pile the longest?

Answer: I believe these two - there might be a few more but I couldn't find them. They are both from the 2010  Borders bookstore closing sale lol I'm not even sure why I haven't read them yet.

4/19 Question: How did you choose your blogging platform?

Answer: I don't really remember. I had a free WP blog before this one (in 2009 I think) - about politics if you can imagine lol Not one single soul ever saw it and I had no idea how to blog anyway so I quickly abandoned it. 

Then I think I saw the Blogger platform somewhere and they made it really easy to set up and find other blogs so I gave it a shot and somehow it took off so here I am. I've often thought of switching over to WP but I co-blogged on there years ago and hated it. I do love all the customizable plug-ins but I just don't blog enough (or get enough views anymore) to make paying for a host and migrating worth it. 

4/26 Question: Do you still own any books/comics/toys/memorabilia from when you were a kid?

Answer: I do not. I wasn't really a reader back when I was a kid. The few books I was interested in were more animal books - like identification guides, dinosaur books. For awhile I was obsessed with reincarnation and had a few really weird books about that (it got me thinking - did my mother have those books and I found them? Or was I obsessed and she bought them for a very young girl?? lol) I also I found my parents copy of Helter Skelter that had pages and pages or gruesome pictures and I would hide and read it over and over and freak myself out. 

But anyway - after I got married, my father decided to clean out our attic and threw all my stuff out without telling me so whatever I may have had is long gone.

Kevin on the other hand, has lots of cool stuff still in his childhood attic. His mom has sent a few things to us over the years. 

She also gave me a very old Winnie-the-Pooh book because I LOVE him and her copy of a 1996 Better Homes & Garden cookbook. As you can see it's battered but I love looking at the old recipes. 

5/3 Question: How do you feel when everyone loves a book except for you? 

Question: Umm....this used to make me feel like something was wrong with me but over the years I realized that the bloggerverse can be pretty insular and you tend to hear how everyone is hyped about a certain book but not from the people who don't. No one wants to be THAT person shitting on the popular thing. lol

Readers tastes vary so much and we can't all love everything so it doesn't really bother me anymore. 

I also try to stay away from any book that's hyped until it dies down and I can come to it without expectations. 

I'm all caught up! Let me know what you think about any and all of the subjects above!