Last week on FYFA (and in my life):
Well, as predicted, I lost a few followers after last week’s faith discussion, but I’m totally fine with that. The overall effect was only one Bloglovin’ follower. (Typically, every week I gain some Bloglovin’ followers. The ONLY times I’ve ever see a negative number are this week and one other week where I talked about a semi-controversial blogging topic – following back. So I can say with almost absolute certainty that the dip correlates to the discussion topic). I’m not sad that I lost a few followers, but I am sad that the mere mention of faith sends some people running for the hills!
Just to warn everyone, the rest of June and the first half of July are going to be INCREDIBLY busy for me (due to vacations and family stuff), so I probably won’t be posting as regularly. I’m not going away or anything, but I won’t be posting every day either and I probably won’t be around the blogosphere as much as I usually am. Think of it as a semi-hiatus. I promise to do my best to still be around as much as I can, though!!
Here’s what you may have missed on the blog last week:
- Damsel Distressed by Kelsey Macke (review)
- Top Ten Most Anticipated Releases of the Rest of 2015
- Hello, I Love You by Katie M. Stout (review)
- Diamonds in the Rough by Michele Madow (review)
- Let’s Discuss – Reading and Writing Diversity
Next week on FYFA:
(Probably – I reserve the right to change these if things get crazy around here!)
- The Night We Said Yes by Lauren Gibaldi (review)
- The Scorch Trials by James Dashner (review)
- Scorched by Jennifer L. Armentrout (release blitz and giveaway)
- Let’s Discuss – Something inspired by RT!
From NetGalley and Edelweiss:
For Review:
Purchased:
I decided to join in on The Gentleman Bastard read-along over at Snowflakes and Spider Silk, so I bought the first book in the series! Now I just need to catch up!
From my #OTSPSecretSister:
I am SO excited about this book!!! Plus, my awesome secret sister (who I now know is Lisa over at Reading, Writing, and Random Musings) gave my kids some fun games to play on our drive out to Colorado! THANK YOU!!
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Great Discussions/Goings On Around the Blogosphere:
As usual, there are lots of awesome discussions going on via the Book Blog Discussion Challenge. Make sure you check out the June Link-up! Here are a few of my recent favorites:
- Ardelia at The Unplumbed Sea asks how you answer the question, “Got Any Book Recommendations?”
- Tonya at Lilybloombooks and Silvara at Fantasy of the Silver Dragon both talk about their book hoarding tendencies!
Cindy over at Book Splurge is working to get her blog tour company off the ground and she’s looking for people who like to review Chick-Lit, Mysteries, Romance and Cozy Mysteries. If that describes you, check out Tout Sweet Book Tours.
Other Current Giveaways on FYFA:
(Besides the ones listed above)
- Daughter of Deep Silence by Carrie Ryan – Still time to enter to win a paperback ARC copy of the book!
- June Discussion Challenge – Still time to join us and enter to win any book that releases this summer!
- Captured by You by Amber Hart – Still time to enter to win a BUNCH of books!
- Burn by Allie Juliette Mousseau (giveaway & reviewish type thing) – Still time to enter to win a signed copy of both Dare and Burn!
Even More Awesome Giveaways on Other Sites:
Lots of great giveaways this week!!
- Enter to win two Swoon Romance ebooks of your choice over at Writer in Progress.
- Enter to win a copy of Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella over at The Book Addict’s Guide.
- Candace’s Book Blog and Pure Imagination have a weekly post called Saturday Situation, where people can link up their giveaways and reviews that need some more love. There are hundreds of posts listed there, so you should definitely check it out!
- Karen over at Kissin’ Blue Karen has started something similar called Read This Round-up. Check it out!
- Kritika over at Snowflakes and Spider Silk is doing a read-along of The Gentleman Bastard series (AKA Lies of Locke Lomora) and is giving away a pre-order of the fourth book in the series.
- Dark Faerie Tales is giving away two books featured in their Who Needs a Hero event!
- Enter to win a $50 gift card from the tour for A Taylor-Made Life over at Tome Tender!
Lots of good stuff! Have any giveaways or great discussions happening on your site right now? Feel free to share them in the comments!
Aw, that kind of sucks about the loss of a follower. I know one isn’t a big deal, but when it comes after that type of discussion it sucks. (I tend to lose followers on twitter when I rant LOL)
Thank you for the pingback and YAY for Get Dirty! I hope you love it. Have a great time on your vacations
Yeah, obviously the net loss of one follower doesn’t make much difference in the long run – it’s just the fact that I can directly correlate it to that subject that makes it a little sad. That’s okay, though – I’m not at all sad I wrote it! 🙂
Maybe it was just someone cleaning up their Bloglovin’ who broke up with you for another reason. But remember the adage: It’s not you, it’s him/her.
Thanks again for all the awesome bloggy links. Enjoy your mini-hiatus of the summer. I’m sure most of us are doing the same thing.
Yeah – I’m not at all upset or going to change anything. It’s just really interesting to me that I can correlate one of the only two times in the history of my blog that I’ve ever had a net loss of followers to that post (most weeks I have a net gain of at least five or six followers, and last week I know I did gain some, but I lost more – I’m sure there have been other times where I’ve lost one or two followers, but didn’t even realize it because it was still a net gain). Like I said, I’m not upset, though. 🙂
It’s totally their loss for unfollowing!! I hope you enjoy your little break and enjoy family time. Looks like you got some great books – What We Saw sounds really interesting – Enjoy!
Yeah, I’m excited to read What We Saw, even though it might be a tough read. Thanks for the encouragement about my followers! 🙂
You got an amazing assortment of books this week. I hope you love all your new books. They look amazing. Your secret sister is so nice.
Grace @ Books of Love
I LOVE my secret sister! Not only does she give me great things, but she’s a super nice person!
Awake looks interesting! Don’t worry about followers, remember that your blog is your place to express yourself, have fun with it!
Missie @ A Flurry of Ponderings
Yeah, I’m not worried – I just find the correlation interesting. Wouldn’t change anything, though. 🙂
I have been really interested in Awake and the forgotten mountain. I can’t wait to read them! Great week for you chica!
I hope you have a great week! Happy reading 🙂
Here’s my weekly wrap up
Michelle @ Book Briefs
I’m reading the book right before Forgotten Mountain right now and loving it. It’s such a great series!!
OOoh nice! Glad Get Dirty is almost here! I might have to disrupt the reading queue for that one! And ooh Heather Lyons! I still need to start her series! Awesome haul! Hope you enjoy all the new reads!
Here’s my STS
Have a GREAT day!
Old Follower 🙂
I actually went down 3 followers this week and I talked about what makes you want to read a book, so not sure how that happened. I also posted one 3 star review, but beside that no weird things. I think your faith post was a great post and I think you should be able to talk about those topics on your blog and if you lose followers because of that, so be it, right? Sounds like the next few weeks will be busy for you, but I hope you’ll still be around. And that’s a nice present you got from your secret sister, I hope your kids enjoy the games! Have a great week and enjoy your new books!
That’s sucky jumped the boat, but at least you now know who’s not into it. The Forgotten Mountain looks like a good book, I’ll be waiting unpatiently to see if you like it. LOL. Have a fantastic Sunday!
Losing followers is always sad to see, regardless of the reasons. Sorry you lost some.
Congrats on all the books though, I hope you like them all!
Also, I hope you have a very fun next few weeks. Summer is always such a busy time and tricky when your a blogger. 😉
Sorry about losing some followers, but hey, if something like the mention of faith will send them running, then you don’t really need them to follow anyway! I hope you enjoy your next few weeks – sometimes it’s good to just let the blog sit for a bit when you’re super busy.
-Lauren
OOOOH I think I can help with this! So- I am thinking either Bloglovin did a clean up, or something, because a friend messaged me because she randomly lost 6 followers in one day! And I looked, and I had lost one, and then someone else had lost one. So maybe it is seriously just Bloglovin weeding out spam or something? It really may not be the post after all- faith in humanity = restored 🙂
Can I also just tell you how jealous I am of your vacations? SO jealous 😉 Hope you have a wonderful time though, and please, think of me sitting in the house with two crabby kids, okay?
Well if people don’t life faith based blog posts then I will loose some also….but It doesn’t bother me at all. I am going to blog about my books and sometimes they link to my faith. I always love your posts 🙂
Eh! It’s your blog, and you should blog about everything you feel like blogging about! And you know, you win some, you lose some 😉
I like your haul this week, Nicole! I hope you’ll enjoy your new books.
Have a fantastic week, and enjoy the vacation time coming up.
What We Saw looks good as does the rest of your haul. Losing followers happens shake it off, and move forward. Hope your week is fantastic!
That is so weird that you lost followers based on your faith discussion. I am actually an atheist and I really respected your opinion and your honesty. I love your blog and your discussions of faith don’t bother me at all.
I also just got the ARC for A Million Miles Away and Awake. I am so excited about those!
I’m glad that you stay true to yourself, and don’t allow numbers to stop you from sharing your true self through your blogging – that’s what makes a blog so special (even if you don’t happen to agree with everything a person says)! Keep up all of the great work!
Have a great vacation! I’m glad I got SUMMER HAIKUS to you and you can read it while you’re away. Phew! I was worried I may not get it done in time! 🙂
Enjoy your busy hiatus! Hope it includes a ton of reading.