About ImLovingBooks.com:
I’m Loving ♥ Books was opened on May 1, 2011. My reviews go back farther than that because I transferred them over from my Goodreads account, which I’ve been reviewing on since 2009. All my older reviews (more than a year ago) aren’t necessarily anything to brag about, but to be thorough I decided to transfer them over anyways.
I decided to create this blog because I truly love to read and write reviews. But, not only that, I love to talk about books! I wanted to create a place to share any and everything about the books I love. But what really makes a blog like this possible is the people. Please don’t hesitate to leave a comment or drop me a line. It’s the community that makes this fun!
As of now, I am the one and only reviewer for I’m Loving ♥ Books. Right now I’d like to keep it that way because it makes things more personal I think. In general I read and review about a book every other day. There are times when my reviews are more like four days apart, but not all the time. In between though, I will be posting book related features, giveaways, interviews and more! So be sure to bookmark us or add our site to your RSS feed in order to keep up with what’s going on.
About Sarah:
Hi there! I’m Sarah and I’m the brains behind this operation. I’m a web designer by trade and I’m lucky enough to work from home where I can have time for all the other endeavors I love to get myself wrapped up in. I’m married to the love of my life and we live on a small four acre farm. Sure, it’s small (for a farm), but we manage to have a huge vegetable garden and about eight chickens. It’s fun, but can also be a lot of work. So it’s nice that my hubby does most of the gardening/chickening.
I’m more of an indoor girl myself. I love to read (duh), but when I’m not reading I love to decorate our house and try out new diy projects to make our house a home, or “nesting” as my hubby so lovingly puts it. 
We are childless as of now, but in the future we do plan on having kids. For now, we’re happy with our little yorkie-poo who is both rambunctious and cuddly. I like to call him my practice child, although I swear I will never “kennel” my child at night! lol
Website Credits:
Below is a list of credits for resources I’ve used in graphics on I’m Loving Books. While I use stock photos and such, all designs are made by me, unless stated otherwise and are copyright I’m Loving Network, Inc. Please do not use the graphics on my site as your own. If you would like to use something (for example, my WoW or Teaser Tuesday graphics), then please use the contact form to ask permission. If I allow it, I will expect a link back to this site as credit.
Posts/Sitewide:
- Bittbox (brushes, textures, etc.)
- Stock.Xchng (free stock photos)
Current Layout (v1):
- Tawni @ The Book Worms (for the latest book reviews slider idea)
- FamFamFam Silk Icons
- Fugue Icons
- Grace Icon Set (meme/feature banners and thumbnail)
- Pixels & Ice Cream (damask pattern)
- Symbolize Icon Set (404 page bullet icons)
Directories Listed In:
- Book Blog Directory (find me under “I”)
- Book Blogger Directory (listed under Paranormal Romance & Urban Fantasy)
Book Communities/Forums:
Hi Sarah, Just ran across your post and thought I would say Hello. I really like your blog and would love it if you would come over to visit mine when you get the chance. I am a new follower through GFC as countrysunset40.
http://tracystreasureofbooks.blogspot.com/
Hope you are having a great evening!!
Tracy
seeing you blog makes me wish I went for web design instead of print design…ARRGHHH. Wanna learn web design so bad right now =DDDDDDDD
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Thank you! I actually learned most of the stuff I know on my own, just google-ing html/css tutorials and trial and error. I did go to school for it, but I honestly learned more on my own than I did in classes. So go for it!
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haha. I had like two classes of web design and you tend to forget all that coding when times goes by…..I hope to look into more. Are there any useful sites about css/html you would recommend? =DDDDDDD
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Hmm…well at the time I really got into learning it, I was into the whole amateur web designers blog community. Kind of like the book blog community, I ended up finding hundreds of blogs with lots of mini tutorials for various things. That's probably where I learned the most. But here are some good starting point tutorial sites:
http://www.lissaexplains.com – I know this one says "for kids", but that doesn't matter. Everything is just explained really well for beginners.
http://www.w3schools.com – Very good step by step stuff for html and css.
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com
http://www.pixel2life.com – Great for not only html tutorials, but Photoshop and other good stuff.
That's all I can think of for now, but those would get you going really well. I suggest opening up a test blog where you can test all the stuff you're trying to learn. Have fun!
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I just have to ask how you did the latest reviews thing? is there a code to get it. I would love to try it and see if I like it. Looks so cool on your blog =DDDD
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I got the idea from Tawni (http://thebookworms.org) cause she had one on her blog. But, I have a self-hosted WordPress, so I custom coded it into the template to fetch my recent posts in my reviews category and then loop them through a javascript slider. The javascript slider is a free script (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/featur…), so maybe you could do something with it for blogger. I'm not sure though, haven't done much with blogger. :-
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Hi Sarah, LOVE your blog its so CUTE! im a new follower:)
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A farm? Too cool! Does your hubs work from home too?
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No, he works in refrigeration/heating & cooling. So he can't do that from home. I think he would love to be a full-time farmer. But, that's not really an easy thing to do and actually make enough money from to live on. So for now he doesn't work from home too.
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Hi Sarah! It's so nice to meet a fellow web designer as well as book blogger. I'm definitely going to come back and say "HI!"
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Hi Sarah! You've got such a nice blog. I'm taking up Multimedia Arts right now and so I would learn Web designing. I hope to learn a lot and have a blog as cool as yours! I used some of you Mini Banners and Sticker. Do you mind? Sorry for not asking permission earlier.
Definitely. That's what they're there for is you guys to use (as long as you link back to me).
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I love that you're also a web designer. I am too..Your blog is so pretty! I'm still new at WordPress and book blogging but I'm learning lol I'm definitely going to be back soon!
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Glad to meet you too Giselle, and thank you! You'll get the hang of it real quick. WordPress is just awesomesauce. So, so flexible.
I hope you enjoy book blogging as well! It's a great community to be apart of. The only problem is that it can get very addicting! lol
I've had on my blog a different pages that listed my reviews based on different things (Author, rating, and book title. I recently got into updating my blog with a lot of plugins and ways to make it easier on myself. I just came across you're blog and I saw how you had the page of Authors and you have it so it's all separated by what the first letter of the term is, then lists all the posts. I have mine similar except I want to be able to do the anchors like you have for yours so it's easier for people search. I was wondering if you used a plugin for it or did you manually add them each time you added a review or what? Thanks so much!
I didn't use a plugin or do it manually (well, I used to do it manually but not anymore). I created something custom cause I couldn't find a plugin to do it. But basically I went through the wordpress loop and adjusted it to print out like that. If you're familiar with php and wordpress it's pretty easy (although time consuming lol) to come up with. If you're not then I would suggest looking up tutorials on how to manipulate the loop to do what you want. Good luck!
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I've been using php for mine and had a custom template for each page and had it grab the taxonomy, then list all the terms that had posts, then listing the post in each, I've just been at a loss as to how to have sections for each letter so then I could make the anchors. Did you figure it out on your own or did you find a tutorial?
I can't remember exactly. I think it was a little bit of both to customize what I needed. But just remember that Google can be your best friend. Probably just searching for "php group query alphabetically" or something like that would help you to find what you're looking for.
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Hi Sarah! I got your message about the finished mini banners (Sirantha Jax, Annabelle Lee), but they aren't on your page???
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Emailed you!
Hey Sarah,
I've gotta say I ADORE all your little changes to your blog! Very lovely!
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Thanks Mariya!
I still really like my layout but I just wanted to change it up a little bit. 
Hi Sarah, Im a new blogger and I have to say I love your website. I hope you don't mind if I use your banners and such, I also put your blog button onto my blog so everyone (like 1 follower) will see it…haha its sad but I just started a month ago so I'm hoping for the best. I didn't go to school for design but I messed with photoshop on the side for fun and learned by myself from google
You should check out my blog sometime and give me some feedback, I would be very thankful..
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Oh my god!! I just found your site and I love your TEAM Stickers- they are awesome and I love your site!! I'll be coming back, promise!!
Have a nice weekend, greetings from Austria,
Tina
Wow, what a gorgeous blog!!! I love it, and I also love that BDB is at the top of your favorite banners
Great site, can't wait to check everything out!
Ninja Girl
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Oh my gosh. Your blog is ah-mazing!
Leigh – LittleBookStar
Hey
I honestly love this blog i've been on it inspecting it all day being a total creeper!
I'm a fellow book reviewe myself and I just started up a few weeks ago. Just wanted to say I love the blog.
-lily
twitter: @lilysbookblog
website: http://www.lilysbookblog.com
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Thanks Lily. Good luck with your book blog. It\’s fun. I\’ve been busy lately and haven\’t had as much time for my blog, but will hopefully be back on more frequently very soon.
hi i was wondering if you could check out my review site if you have time?
and of course everyone who's a fan of this website too
the link is http://www.hufflepuffpercabeth.weebly.com
thanks
I came across your site when I was reading a review of 'The Selection' by Kiera Cass. I really love your team buttons! A follower of your website from now on.
x
Hey loved you blog!! and your mini banners and team banner is awesome!!
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