Happy 1st Blogoversary & *Big* Announcement!

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Hi guys! I can hardly believe it but today Zemfirka Blogs is celebrating its one year anniversary and I couldn’t be happier or proud of this milestone! I took up blogging on a whirl and fell absolutely in love with it. It’s been a truly amazing year, from meeting so many great bloggers, readers, and authors *grins* to visiting Book Expo America and having one of my reviews quoted in a book by one of my favorite authors nonetheless. I can go on and on as you probably know but I will keep it short and sweet and simply thank all of you for the support, encouragement, inspiration and love – you guys rock!

A special thanks to…

Ladies @ Armitage4Clairmont

Karina @ Nocturnal Book Reviews

Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer

Blodeuedd @ Girl of Mur-y-Castell

Mindi Havens Wells @ My Literary Obsession

& Elizabeth Hunter

Thank you!

Also, as promised I have some very exciting news to share with you. At the end of December I’ve announced a co-blogger search, wishing to find someone who would share with me the blogging responsibilities and more importantly love for reading and reviewing amazing books. So I couldn’t be happier to say that I’ve gotten an amazing offer which I couldn’t refuse. And starting this month I will be joining the ever amazing Karina over at Nocturnal Book Reviews [or NBR]. *Squee*

What does it mean for Zemfirka Blogs you ask? Well, I’ve been thinking about it for quite some time and the blog will remain for your perusal as always, I might even post an occasional review here and there [or a recipe if the fancy strikes me], but for the most part I will continue my blogging adventures at Nocturnal Book Reviews, which is a fabulous book review blog that I’ve been a fan of for some time now and am encouraging all of you to check out and follow as well. Karina, aside being an amazing blogger, is also a friend and simply a lovely person; we share many similar tastes in books so there is always exciting possibility of joint reviews to come. So come visit us at NBR and as always you can find me on Goodreads, Twitter, and Pinterest.

To new beginnings!

Victoria, xoxo

Title Reveal: The Book of Life

The Book of Life (All Souls Trilogy #3)
Deborah Harkness

Exciting news! Deb Harkness just revealed the title of the final book in the All Souls Trilogy. The highly anticipated manuscript shall be called The Book of Life! So, there you have it. I simply can’t wait to read this one. I absolutely fell in love with both A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night and have been a huge fan ever since. I might even say that Deb’s books invigorated my passion for reading and eventually led to creation of this very blog, as well as helped create many wonderful new friendships within the All Souls Trilogy fan community along the way. Big things all around!

"The Book of Life" title of @DebHarkness  book#3 - breaking news here at #bmarks13 published in 2014!!!!
— BOOKMARKS (@BookMarksNC) September 7, 2013

Around the Web #2

As another week bids us adieu, here are some news and stories spreading across the web.

Keep Calm
How the hell did I miss this? There is an actual app that lets you create those awesome “Keep Calm” posters that have been spreading around the web and everywhere else like rapid fire. How cool is that! And, I’m not even going to let you know how much time I killed playing around with this. Proceed at your own risk.

Please follow via Bloglovin (& other thoughts)

The ultimate demise of Google Reader…

As many of you know, Google Reader will be retired on July 1, 2013. And, to those of you who have kindly followed (or will follow) the blog, I ask that you consider doing so either via Bloglovin, FeedBurner, or other service of your choice other than Google Friend Connect (“GFC”) that I hear might be going away in the near future as well. I myself have found Bloglovin quite an agreeable service. It offers the ease of transition with an option to import your Google Reader content once you sign up with them. Of course, there are plenty of other platforms to choose from, so the choice is all yours!