Year: 2014

December Wrap-up and Best of the Bunch

December Wrap-up and Best of the Bunch

My Goings On in December: I started freelance editing for Booktrope. I’m really excited to work with them and to try out this new publishing model. I started working on two new editing projects. Christmas, of course!! We had a wonderful holiday and got to spend lots of time with friends and family! Most Popular Posts: 2015 Book Blog Discussion Challenge Sign-up Let’s Discuss – I’m a Disorganized Blogger! Let’s Discuss – Why Culling My […]

Posted December 31, 2014 in Best of the Bunch, Monthly Recap / 9 Comments
Top Six Resolutions for 2015

Top Six Resolutions for 2015

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is about our New Year’s Resolutions. I don’t really make resolutions because I know I don’t stick to them. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a disorganized blogger (and a disorganized person) and plans and lists don’t really work for me. Still, there are some things that I definitely want to do this year, so I’m going to go ahead and list them out. We shall see! These are a mix of […]

Posted December 30, 2014 in Top Ten Tuesday / 42 Comments
Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore – 12/28/14

Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore – 12/28/14

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on my blog and share news about what’s coming up in the week ahead. Last week on FYFA (and in my life): I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas (or other holidays, if you don’t celebrate Christmas). This week for me was full of family and fun! […]

Posted December 28, 2014 in Sunday Post / 10 Comments
Review – Unhinged by A.G. Howard

Review – Unhinged by A.G. Howard

This second book in the Splintered Trilogy once again proved how incredibly imaginative Howard is. I just love her twisted take on Wonderland and the creatures in it! What I enjoyed: Wonderland creatures. As in Splintered, the best things about this book are all the nods to Wonderland. While Alyssa never actually makes it to Wonderland in this book (see my negatives below), Wonderland does come to her. Of course, you can tell from the cover that Morpheus […]

Posted December 27, 2014 in Reviews / 25 Comments
Let’s Discuss – What Bookish Things Did Santa Bring? (Plus the Oh Christmas Tag)

Let’s Discuss – What Bookish Things Did Santa Bring? (Plus the Oh Christmas Tag)

I was thrilled this year to get a beautiful bookcase for Christmas!! The bookcases in our house are all completely full – overflowing, really – and so I was super excited to get a new bookcase to put in our bedroom. My new bookcase is oh, so pretty and perfect in every way except one – it still doesn’t hold all of my books!! (The picture above doesn’t show all of my random books that were sitting […]

Posted December 26, 2014 in Let's Discuss, Reviews / 40 Comments
Waiting on Wednesday (& Mini-Review of First Three Chapters of Ensnared by A.G. Howard)

Waiting on Wednesday (& Mini-Review of First Three Chapters of Ensnared by A.G. Howard)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights the upcoming releases that we’re most looking forward to. This week, I chose to spotlight Ensnared by A.G. Howard, which is being released soon! I just recently finished reading Unhinged, which ended with a bang, so I’m excited to read the final installment in this trilogy! I got a preview of the book from NetGalley (the first three chapters – I actually […]

Posted December 24, 2014 in Waiting on Wednesday / 15 Comments
Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore – 12/21/14

Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore – 12/21/14

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on my blog and share news about what’s coming up in the week ahead. Last week on FYFA (and in my life): Spent the week doing last minute Christmas shopping (I still haven’t wrapped anything!) and getting our Christmas letters written and sent out. Here on the […]

Posted December 21, 2014 in Sunday Post / 4 Comments
Let’s Discuss – Why Culling My TBR List is an Impossible Task!

Let’s Discuss – Why Culling My TBR List is an Impossible Task!

I tried. I really did. But in the end, I epically failed. I have determined that there is absolutely no way to get my TBR list down to a reasonable number of books. No way. I know you all think I’m being dramatic (and I am, of course), but this is a real problem that plagues me. I MUST get my TBR under control!! Right now (after my failed attempt at culling the list), I have over […]

Posted December 19, 2014 in Let's Discuss / 53 Comments
5 Star Review & Giveaway – This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

5 Star Review & Giveaway – This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

This Shattered World is an amazing follow-up to These Broken Stars!!  In fact, I think I may have liked this second installment in the series better than the first.  I absolutely could not put this book down! One thing that I’m loving about this series is that each book really is a standalone novel.  We get the full story arc all in one book with no cliffhangers, yet we’re still left wanting more.  This Shattered […]

Posted December 18, 2014 in Giveaways (Ended), Reviews / 26 Comments
2015 Book Blog Discussion Challenge Sign-Up!

2015 Book Blog Discussion Challenge Sign-Up!

Welcome to the 2015 Book Blog Discussion Challenge hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight! This time of year, there are tons of reading challenges starting up (which we LOVE!). But we wanted to challenge our fellow book bloggers to not only read more, but talk more too. That’s where the idea for this challenge was born! So often book bloggers mean to post more discussions on our blogs, but […]