It’s been more than two years since I started posting every single day on my Instagram theguywiththebook What started as a place to record and keep a list of books I’ve read slowly started to build into a wonderful community of book lovers.
This also led to my first international award as a book blogger when I won the Bookstagrammer of the year at the London Book Fair (April 2018)
This was obviously a huge surprise and indeed a much needed push to work harder and try to further improve the content of my page.
Naturally, being human and all, I want to take this to the next level – Traditional book blogging. So I decided to finally register this domain and hopefully try and regularly (weekly) post book related content to it. I might steer around a bit from the book world too if it’s interesting enough to share with everyone here.
We’re starting with zero followers today 16th of May 2018, but if you read this, do share in the comments what you would be interested in, and I’ll try my best to see what I can do 😊
Faroukh
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I follow you and sumiya very religiously.
Keep sharing the posts on insta. They have inspired to read books and finish them whenever I couldn’t.
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Thank you so much!!
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Hey. I will be interested in everything that you would like to share. I personally feel that we readers more than our books too, so there needs to be a tinge of its presence non the less. Quite coincidentally, I started my blog last year on the same day. 16th May. I hope you prosper in this new journey of yours.
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Thank you! And yay to being blog anniversary partners! I’ll try my best to add a bit of everything 😊
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Congratulations on your new blog. I always thought you already have one. 😊
I’m in for reading all your blog posts. In sha Allah.
Wishing you more success. Kudos!
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I technically had one on WordPress, but very seldom posted, hopefully I’ll be more regular here 😊
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Hi Faroukh!
I’m excited to see what you do in this space. As well as normal bookish stuff, I’d love it if you could post a bit about Jedda. You live in one of the most mysterious places in the world because it’s closed to non Muslims. I’d love to see and hear more about it!
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I’d be more than happy to 😊And Jeddah is open to non Muslims as well, they’ve made the visa process also very easy nowadays 🙌🏼
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I follow you religiously on Ista.. I love your book posts. I’m from turkey but I grew up in Jeddah so there’s definitely a connection there.. wishing you the best of luck in your next adventure, keep posting your bookish comments and awesome photos, you’re my go to for book suggestions for my book club.
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Thank you so much for your kind comments 😊hope you get to visit Jeddah soon 😊
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Just a little bit of Gatsby.😂 JK. any book related stuff and maybe some bookstagram advice? or maybe a bit about you.😮
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Hehe yes maybe more Gatsby! I’m going to post a bookstagram tutorial soon 😊
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yey! I will look forward to that.😄
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Lota of lists and book related fun posts and a dash of life too 😉 Hoping to see more and more of your posts! Congrats on setting up the blog and the award too 🙂
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Thank you so much!
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Hi. Please write whatever you feel like writing. I’m sure we’ll find it interesting; there’s nothing like words that come from the heart! Don’t restrict yourself. Think of this blog as YOUR space, where you can write what you WANT to write! 🙂
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I’ll surely do that 😊Thank you!!
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What a great new start. I follow you on Instagram and I will as might follow here. I think everything new is interesting and I would like to read about your opinios and with what critirea you choose your books. Looking forward to read more… I wish you the best of luck!!!
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Thank you for the advice 😊
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Been following you and your sister Sumaiya oh and Gatsby for a long time now and I’m so proud of how far you guys have come. You inspire us mini bookstagrammers alot! You guys are my favorite bookstagrammer duo. You both have encouraged a lot of people to read. Plus a HUGE Congratulations on the launch of your website!! And also, WELL DONE on the Bookstagrammer of the Year award. You deserve it!!! Have a happy Ramadan 2018!!
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Thank you so much Eman! I love that you engage as much as possible! Keep going, best of luck!!
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