Welcome to the Book Boulevard, traveler. Have a seat, kick up your feet. Can I offer you some tea, coffee, or water? I’d love for you to be comfortable while you’re here.
My name is Blaise.
It’s lovely to make your acquaintance. I do hope you’ll glance around a bit–maybe read a post or two, leave a comment? I really enjoy having conversations with you, traveler. You have such a fascinating perspective.
I’m the blogger, writer, and reader here at the Book Boulevard. I post about writing and reading, hoping to further the three values of this blog: creativity, compassion, and critical thinking. I am here to encourage, to advise, to share my own troubles in the hopes that they may comfort you.
In May 2017, I hope to finish my stint at university with degrees in Communication and German. Currently, I’m working at a tutoring center, assisting students at my university in developing the skills they need to succeed in their courses. In my free time, I write speculative fiction, wander about on social media (you can check me out on Twitter at @BlaiseHaddow, follow or friend me on Goodreads, and/or follow me on Tumblr, for example), play and DM tabletop games, color, and read far too little.
I hope to use my experience and my passion for stories to make this blog a resource for you, traveler. Although you’ll find book reviews in the archives, I’ve chosen to focus on case studies instead for future posts. You are welcome to ask questions, request topics, or just stop to chat (in fact, I love it when you do). I hope to make this a safe space for people to express themselves and their opinions. My goal is to respect everyone, to encourage diversity in all forms, and to acknowledge unique perspectives wherever possible.
Thank you for stopping by, traveler. I hope to chat with you soon!
I love your blog! And I’ve nominated you for the Liebster Award: https://musingsofareadingmind.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/liebster-award/
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Oh, wow. Thank you!
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Thank you for following! I love your blog. 🙂
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Thanks so much and ditto ~
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I’ve tagged you in an ultimate book tag (i’m not sure who deemed it the ultimate, but that is the title). Feel free to ignore or participate as you like. 🙂
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I just recently did this, but thank you for the tag~ I think I’ll come back to it in a few months or maybe even a year to see how or if my answers have changed 😀
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Hey there, I’ve nominated you for the Liebster Award. (Feel free to ignore it if you’ve done it before or you can do it again once more for fun!)
For more details-> https://crazyinsomniacbibliophile.wordpress.com/2015/04/07/liebster-award
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Thank you so much!
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Hey! I nominated you for the Liebster Award! I see that you have already participated so feel free to ignore this, but if you’re interested here’s my post: https://thewrittenopinion.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/the-liebster-award/
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Thank you so much for the nomination~
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Hi Blaise. I’ve nominated you for the Liebster Award for this year. For full details, click here: https://discorf.wordpress.com/2015/05/10/liebster-award/
You don’t have to do it, but I’d really appreciate it if you did 🙂
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Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!
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I nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award: https://tattooedpages.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/versatile-blogger-award/
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Thank you so much!
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Hi there! Just wanted to let you know that I’ve nominated you for the Liebster Award for this year! You can read more about it here: http://bookreviewsandhaikus.com/2015/05/22/liebster-award/
If you don’t want to do it, that’s ok too – looks like you’ve been nominated previously. 🙂
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Thank you so much– I really appreciate it!
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Hi! I nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award! 🙂 Here’s the link if you wanna know more: https://ahundredthousandstories.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/versatile-blogger-award/
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Thank you very much!
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Hello! I’ve nominated you for the Liebster Award! Check out the link and don’t hesitate to participate! Looks like I’m a little late and everyone already loves you, but here’s the link anyway haha https://getabookmark.wordpress.com/2015/06/07/the-liebster-award/
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Thank you so much~ I really appreciate it!
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Hey Blaise!
You’ve already done this a lot of times so you don’t really have to answer this anymore but I’m nominating you for a Liebster Award anyway because I love your blog!
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Thank you so much. I really appreciate it ❤
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That’s so cool that you’re a writing tutor, it must be fun! Oh and if you’re looking for fantasy recommendations Game of Thrones is a good place to start 😉
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It is. I’m honestly lucky to say that I really do love my job.
I’ve read the first one actually, and I’m not a huge fan, but thank you.
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Hey Blaise! Thank you for the follow! To show my thanks, I just tagged you in a book-related would-you-rather! https://fifteenthousandpages.wordpress.com/2015/07/01/a-bookish-would-you-rather/
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Thank you so much! I look forward to doing the tag ^^
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Hi!! I’ve nominated you for the Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award! You can check out my post here if you want to: https://bookishbarrister.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/sisterhood-of-the-world-bloggers-award/ 🙂
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Thank you so much! I really appreciate it~
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You’re welcome! Don’t feel obligated to post answers to the questions if you don’t feel like it but I wanted you to know how much I like your blog 🙂
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Aww, you’re so sweet! I do intend to post answers, though it may take me a little while because I’m kind of swamped right now.
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Hi, I’m back again to nominate you for the Liebster Award 🙂 I seen you’ve already been nominated so don’t feel obligated to do it again since it’s such a long award :p but here’s my post if you want to check it out: https://bookishbarrister.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/liebster-award/
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Hey ! I nominated you for the Liebster Award too !! Check it out here https://bookpoisoning.wordpress.com/2015/07/22/liebster-award/#more-951
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Hey I have nominated you for the Blogger Recognition Award! Congratulations! 😀
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Hi Blaise! I have tagged you to do the Summertime Madness tag! Details here 🙂 https://thebookiemonsters.wordpress.com/2015/08/17/summertime-madness-book-tag/
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Hi there 🙂
I allowed myself to nominate you for Beautiful blogger award!
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Thank you so much!
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Hi Blaise, I’ve tagged you for the Emoji book tag, please feel free to do it or otherwise, thank you! 😀
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Thank you so much for tagging me~
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You’re welcome 😉
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Hey! It’s me, Victoria from the Blog Squad 🙂 I’ve tagged you for the My Life In Books Tag: https://victoriajaynesbooks.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/my-life-in-books/
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Thank you so much ^^ This looks like a fun one~
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Hi. I’m Rachel from Book Reviews & Stuff.
I just wanted to let you know I’ve nominated you in the Liebster Award. I know you’ve already done this before, so you don’t have to do it, but if you want here’s the link to my post: https://discorf.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/another-liebster-award/
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Thanks for the nomination~ I appreciate it ^^
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Hi Blaise! I’d love to chat about books with you 🙂 In terms of recommendations – I’m currently reading my way through Terry Goodkind’s books (fantasy) and can recommend all of them, prequels included 🙂
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Why do you enjoy them? :3
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Ooo, German is very cool. Good to meet you!
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Hi. I just wanted to let you know I’ve nominated you for The Versatile Blogger Award. I know you’ve already been nominated, so you don’t have to do it, but if you want here’s the link to my post: https://discorf.wordpress.com/2016/04/02/the-versatile-blogger-award/
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Thank you so much ❤
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I love your blog! I tagged you for The Fireworks Book Tag, if you have the time please participate!
Lots of love!
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Thank you muchly. I’ll take a look at it when I’ve got a bit of free time.
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Thank you! Whenever you get the time
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