Month: October 2015

October Wrap-Up

October Wrap-Up

My Goings On in October: My youngest turned 11! Kind of scary – my kids aren’t little anymore! I attended the YA Literature Conference (and the Fandom Frenzy day) at Anderson’s Bookshop. SO much fun!! Gymnastics competition season is starting up again. My daughter had her first mock meet last weekend! I finished editing Alyssa’s Redemption by Karly Morgan and started a first edit of Defy by Allie Juliette Mousseau! I binge watched more of The Walking […]

Posted October 31, 2015 in Best of the Bunch, Monthly Recap / 9 Comments
Bite Sized Reviews: Don’t Touch and What I Thought Was True

Bite Sized Reviews: Don’t Touch and What I Thought Was True

Here are some quick reviews for books I haven’t gotten around to reviewing or that I just don’t have a ton to say about. Once again, I figure a few bite sized reviews together will be enough to feed your fiction addiction!  🙂 Don’t Touch by Rachel M. Wilson Published by HarperTeen on 9/2/14 Genres: Young Adult, Depression & Mental Illness, Contemporary Pages: 432 Source: Library My rating: A powerful story of a girl who is afraid to touch another […]

Posted October 30, 2015 in Reviews / 14 Comments
Gabriel by Nikki Kelly – Review & Giveaway

Gabriel by Nikki Kelly – Review & Giveaway

***NOTE: This review is for the second book in a series and may contain spoilers for the first book. To read my review of Lailah, click on the link.*** Gabriel is the exciting second book in the Styclar Saga, the follow-up to Lailah. As the title of this one suggests, it expands on Gabriel’s character – the angel who is the other half of Lailah’s light – her soul mate, if you will. The book is still […]

Posted October 28, 2015 in Giveaways (Ended), Reviews / 8 Comments
Return Once More by Trisha Leigh – Review & Giveaway

Return Once More by Trisha Leigh – Review & Giveaway

Return Once More is a YA time traveling sci-fi adventure book of the best kind! This book will get your heart beating faster and bring tears to your eyes. It’s the type of book that will get you thinking about all of the moral and practical implications of time travel (without making your head spin). What fed my addiction: Time travel! I’m a sucker for time travel stories when they’re done right. Sometimes they can get […]

Posted October 26, 2015 in Giveaways (Ended), Reviews / 29 Comments
Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore 10/25/15

Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore 10/25/15

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): Not too much new to report around here. We’re heading out with family this weekend to celebrate my youngest’s birthday. He’s excited and mostly wants […]

Posted October 25, 2015 in Sunday Post / 14 Comments
The Taken by Inbali Iserles – Middle Grade Spotlight Review

The Taken by Inbali Iserles – Middle Grade Spotlight Review

My daughter is a huge fan of the Warriors series, but we never realized until recently that Erin Hunter is actually six people! Of course, we wanted to find out more about these authors, and we discovered that one of them, Inbali Iserles, was going to be releasing a new series about magical foxes. My daughter was instantly sold and we picked up the book for review. It took me awhile to get her to […]

Posted October 24, 2015 in Middle Grade, Reviews / 2 Comments
Your Blogging Style – Can You Change It? Should You Even Try? Let’s Discuss

Your Blogging Style – Can You Change It? Should You Even Try? Let’s Discuss

I absolutely love witty and intelligent bloggers. I could spend all day just reading posts from Cait at Paper Fury or Shannon from It Starts at Midnight. Their blogs are fun and filled with life and energy and pizzazz (and, in the case of Cait, cake). If I could aspire to one thing when it comes to my blog, it would be to add more lightheartedness and humor to it, but whenever I sit down […]

Posted October 22, 2015 in Let's Discuss / 45 Comments
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff – Review

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff – Review

Reviewer: Mega-Blogger Extraordinaire Nicole Hewitt Date: 10/21/15 (the day after release) Timestamp: 06:30 CT This review is top-secret, CLASSIFIED (but go ahead and read it anyway). Any information in the review that should not be included in a final copy will be indicated with a strikethrough. Any inappropriate language will be blacked out. (In real life, I don’t swear, but to go along with the fun spirit of the book, I figured I’d play along. In my […]

Posted October 21, 2015 in Reviews / 20 Comments
Top Ten Wishes I’d Ask The Book Genie To Grant Me

Top Ten Wishes I’d Ask The Book Genie To Grant Me

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is: Top Ten Wishes I’d Ask The Book Genie To Grant Me 1. Unlimited time to read. Come on, book genie – it’s not hard. I just want to have extra time in my schedule to read AS MUCH AS I WANT. (And I know I want to read a lot. Sorry about that.) 2. Unlimited time to blog. While you’re at it, I need some extra hours in the day for blogging […]

Posted October 20, 2015 in Top Ten Tuesday / 35 Comments
Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore – 10/18/15

Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore – 10/18/15

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): Slow week after last weekend’s YA event at Anderson’s. I did finish up an editing job, but that’s about the only thing of note. Now […]

Posted October 18, 2015 in Sunday Post / 21 Comments