One of my favorite ways to find a new blogger is through comments they make on other people’s blogs. Fadwa has commented on diversity, triggers, and marginalized voices, all subjects that are meaningful yet are sometimes spoken without thought. Word Wonders is a blog where Fadwa’s voice is true and her words are meaningful and NEVER without thought. She’s also a YA book lover and gives great recommendations! Get lost in her blog if you haven’t sampled her voice, but come back and read her answers to my ten questions!

Fadwa@ Word Wonders

• Blogging is universal and even though we inhabit the same community, we don’t always live in the same country. What country do you live in?

I live in Morocco!

• What is the view outside your front door? 

I cheated a little, this is the view outside my window, but it’s basically the same thing. I live in an apartment complex so those are the gardens that connect the different buildings.

• Most blogs have a fun story of origin. Please share the story behind your blogs name and/or why you started blogging.

I feel quite boring haha because I don’t have a fascinating or inspirational reason for starting a blog. I had been following and lovingall kinds of bookish platforms for a few years and realized that I had a lot ofopinions and nowhere to put them so I thought starting a blog could be a goodidea, I was still extremely hesitant but it was something I couldn’t get out ofmy head. The name though is something that randomly came to me while I was in the shower, and that’s when I made up my mind and started working on what’s now Word Wonders, right after I got out of that shower on a January day, three years ago.

• Describe where you write your blog. Include a picture if you’d like!

I blog in my bed, it’s a twin size but super comfy and cozy. I am currently cuddled up in it so I can’t really take a picture of it how it is now, but here’s a recent one from my Instagram feed.

• Most of us have a stack of books sitting next to our couch or bed waiting to be read. What books are in your stack?

I actually do not have one! I’m the kind of person who needs everything to be where it’s supposed to be so if I’m not actively reading a book, it’s in my bookshelf where it belongs. Plus, I’m a huge mood reader so having a stack like that would be useless because it’ll just sit there untouched *hides in shame*.

• If you have had a bad day and want to spend an hour reading a book, what is your go to genre or favorite book that will lift your mood?

Light contemporary and romance are my two go-to when I’m feeling down. There’s one book I read recently that definitely made it into my “to reread when having a bad day” is Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills, it’s so cute and fluffy and made me feel genuinely happy.

• When you aren’t blogging, how do you spend your time? Work, Play, School?

I’m a med student so the majority of my time is spentstudying. Other than that, you can find me reading (obviously), taking picturesfor my bookstagram (which you can find HERE), and I recently joined my gym again after a two years long hiatus so you can find me there working out as well.

• What is your favorite blog post you’ve ever written?

I don’t want to sound too full of myself haha but there are a lot of posts I wrote I’m quite proud of. They’re not perfect or anything but they’re important to me and I put a lot of time and energy into them. One of them, and that’s fairly recent is HowBooks Helped me Acknowledge my Trauma, it was somewhat cathartic to write.

• Have you ever met one of your favorite authors? If so, what did you say to them? Looking back, what do you wish you had said instead?

I sadly live very, very, VERY far away from anywhere authors would consider doing events at, so I haven’t met any of my favorites.

• If you could sit down with an author for a slice of cake and a question, who is the author, what kind of cake would you serve,and what is the first question you’d ask?

It would be my favourite author, Anna-Marie Mclemore, chocolate cake and I’d probably ask what sparked the idea for every one of her books. They’re so magical and brilliantly crafted and I’m always wondering how she does it.

Fadwa is from Morocco! That’s a first on my blog, and really, really neat! I will second what Fadwa says about Foolish Hearts. Emma Mills has such a sweet, original voice and I really love her stories.

Thanks Fadwa for participating in my Blogger to Blogger series!

If any of you would like to be highlighted in this series, please let me know in the comments.

Thanks for Reading!

Deb