{"id":3231,"date":"2017-09-22T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2017-09-18T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T03:09:03","slug":"laura-i-made-an-instagram-account-to-share-what-i-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2017\/09\/22\/laura-i-made-an-instagram-account-to-share-what-i-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura: I Made an Instagram Account to Share What I Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

This summer I wanted to put my summer break to good use and find a new way to relax\u2026 without using Netflix. I know, crazy right? During the school year I find myself extremely busy with assignments, activities, and friends that I have no time to indulge in a great book. Therefore this summer I chose to read as much as possible and set a goal of reading 10 books. In 2016 I had only read 4 books for fun, so this was going to be a major adjustment and slight challenge. I ended up passing my goal. I read 15 books in just one summer. I made a plan to read every day and somehow worked my way through books of various styles and genres. Often times when I would finish a book I would post a snapchat on my story and because of this a lot of people started to notice how often I was reading.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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My friends would text me<\/span>asking:<\/p>\n

\u201cCan you recommend a book to me!?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

To which I always replied:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat kind of books do you like?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Followed by a list of 10 books I think they might like.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I was receiving these texts about th<\/span>ree times each day\u2026<\/p>\n

Due to this, I decided to start an Instagram where I could post the books I love and the books I am currently reading for my friends to look at and get recommendations.\u00a0Within one month<\/span><\/span>\u00a0of starting the account I have over 120 followers. While I am walking on Comm Ave people constantly stop me to talk about books or my Instagram account. If I never started the account, a lot of people would not have known about my love for books and wouldn’t have been able to reach out to me about it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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To my surprise I still receive many texts from my fellow students telling me about books they just read OR about their experience reading one of the books I recommended on my account. My point to this is if you’re interested in something: share it! Chances are you will inspire others to share their interest and you will also find common ground with many new people.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you’re looking for a book right now these are the top 10 books I am constantly recommending:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. From Scratch by Allen Salkin<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront\u00eb<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. A little Love Story by Roland Merullo<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Follow my Instagram account @lauras.library to see my posts throughout the year!<\/p>\n

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    This summer I wanted to put my summer break to good use and find a new way to relax\u2026 without using Netflix. I know, crazy right? During the school year I find myself extremely busy with assignments, activities, and friends that I have no time to indulge in a great book. Therefore this summer I … Continue reading Laura: I Made an Instagram Account to Share What I Love<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44436],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3236,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/3236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}