Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is: Top Ten Books I Read In 2015 This list was harder to come up with than I thought it would be. (I literally changed the image TWICE while I was writing this post and I’m still tempted to change it again now that I’m done.) I ended up not being able to go by ratings alone, but by how much the book impacted me (a couple of five stars got left out and […]
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 feel like I’ve been so discombobulated lately, and it’s showing up in my blog. In the past two weeks I’ve been making silly mistakes […]
I’ve been trying to keep track of all the challenges I’ve been seeing around so that I can decide which ones I want to do in 2016 – and since I was doing that anyway, I thought I’d share. This is a list of all the challenges I’ve found – feel free to let me know in the comments if you know of another one and I’ll add it to the list! If you’re looking […]
Welcome to the 2016 Book Blog Discussion Challenge hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight! We came up with this challenge last year because we wanted to encourage our fellow book bloggers to not only read more (since there are already lots of challenges for that), but talk more too! Well, it was SO successful last year that we decided to bring it back! So often book bloggers mean to post more […]
Recently I’ve come to realize something. I am never bored. Ever. Certain other people in my family (who shall remain nameless) get antsy when there’s “nothing to do.” Me. Nope. Why? THERE’S ALWAYS SOMETHING TO DO! If I have five hours, I can sit down and read a book, write a post, browse other blogs … If I have five minutes, I can sit down and reply to a few comments. Waiting in that extra long line […]
This is Where It Ends is an intense reading experience. And, unfortunately, the situation portrayed in the book is all too real in today’s society. (I read an article on NBC News the other day that said there have been more mass shootings in the US than days this year – how scary is that?) The book looks at a school shooting from the perspective of four students who have a connection to the shooter in […]
Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is: Top Ten New-To-Me Authors I Read For The First Time In 2015 1. Carrie Ryan I still haven’t read Forest of Hands and Teeth (though I plan to!!), but I did read Daughter of Deep Silence and her two middle grade books this year. I see what everyone’s been talking about now! 2. Amy Engel All those fantastic reviews of The Book of Ivy won me over and I read both books in the duology this […]
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): This week was the last week of our semester for our homeschool co-op, so we spent lots of time with final projects and performances. […]
My Goings On in November: I felt like November flew by! I honestly can’t figure out how it’s already gone! Luckily, I did manage to accomplish a few things. I wrote a play for my homeschool co-op musical theater class. Yep, I did it, and I’m actually going to let people see it. (You know, probably.) We finished up the first semester of homeschool co-op and we had our end of semester performances. The kids did fantastic, […]
You all know that I have major issues with finishing series – I often find myself way behind. But even those series that I’m on top of, I’ll sometimes realize when I hop over to Goodreads or see a review that I’ve missed something – the novellas. It seems like more and more often lately, every series has novellas attached to them, but I very rarely read them. I used to – back when I […]