Year: 2016

2016 End of Year Book Survey

2016 End of Year Book Survey

Once again, Jamie over at The Perpetual Page Turner has created her annual End of Year Book Survey and I thought I’d join in the fun! I skipped some and added some fun graphs to my stats at the beginning. Hope you enjoy! 2016 Reading Stats Number Of Books You Read: 205 As I mention all the time, the unrated books are books I edited or proofread in 2016 (since I don’t review those due […]

Posted December 31, 2016 in Monthly Recap / 58 Comments
Bite-Sized Reviews of the Rest of the Books I Read in 2016 (Including The Beauty of Darkness and Glass Sword)

Bite-Sized Reviews of the Rest of the Books I Read in 2016 (Including The Beauty of Darkness and Glass Sword)

Okay, so I might be exaggerating a little bit with that title—I’m not actually reviewing all of the rest of the books I read in 2016, but I am reviewing most of them. The only holdouts are a couple of books that I plan to review along with future books in the series and a couple that are releasing next week (which I’ll review then). Oh, and I’m still reading and the month isn’t quite over, so […]

Posted December 30, 2016 in Reviews / 12 Comments
Top Ten Books I Read in 2016

Top Ten Books I Read in 2016

(My TTT post is going up a day late since I started working on it yesterday and got distracted. Better late than never!) Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is: Top Ten Books I Read and Reviewed in 2016 From the title, you can probably tell that I didn’t limit myself to books actually published in 2016, but just books that I read (and reviewed—since I have a few books I haven’t reviewed yet) in 2016. I had a little bit […]

Posted December 28, 2016 in Top Ten Tuesday / 52 Comments
The Gilmore Girls Reboot: I Spent Hours of My Life that I Could Have Been Reading on THAT?

The Gilmore Girls Reboot: I Spent Hours of My Life that I Could Have Been Reading on THAT?

Okay, I just have to vent here for a few minutes. I know I’m behind the times, but I finally had time to sit down and watch the new Gilmore Girls revival with my mom and … I wish I could un-watch it.  I have to know: Did anyone out there like this revival? Okay, so if you haven’t seen it yet and you plan to, you should click away because the rest of this […]

Posted December 26, 2016 in Let's Discuss / 26 Comments
A Very Merry Sunday Post (& Giveaways Galore) – 12/25/16

A Very Merry Sunday Post (& Giveaways Galore) – 12/25/16

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): Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate! This is going to be a short update because I’m spending today with family and eggnog. Yum! […]

Posted December 25, 2016 in Sunday Post / 20 Comments
December & Year-End Wrap-Up Round-Up

December & Year-End Wrap-Up Round-Up

It’s time for the December/Year-End Wrap-Up Round-Up! The November giveaway is being hosted over at Paved with Books. There’s still time to enter so make sure you head over there! This is the link-up for our December and Year-End wrap-up posts. (Feel free to link up both if you do both.) If you don’t already know about the Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up, read the information below: Every month, at the end of the month, I’ll put up a monthly wrap-up link-up post […]

Posted December 23, 2016 in Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up / 2 Comments
Reflections on My Reading Year

Reflections on My Reading Year

2016 is almost over and lots of us our reflecting on the past year, taking a look at our goals and accomplishments. I thought it might be fun to look back at some of my old Top Ten Tuesday posts to see how I did with reading the books I said I was anticipating in 2015 & 2016. (Hint: It’s not pretty.) Top Ten Books I Meant to Read in 2014: This was one of […]

Posted December 22, 2016 in Let's Discuss / 30 Comments
The Secret of a Heart Note by Stacey Lee – Review

The Secret of a Heart Note by Stacey Lee – Review

This utterly unique book would best be described as magical realism: It’s a perfect blend of contemporary romance and a fantastical twist, which makes it appealing to fans of multiple genres (because it never really goes too far in either direction). The synopsis describes the book well, so I’m going to jump straight to my review! What Fed My Addiction: Everything described in smells. I thought I might get a bit tired of this, but I […]

Posted December 21, 2016 in Reviews / 16 Comments
My 2017 Reading/Blogging Challenges

My 2017 Reading/Blogging Challenges

First of all, if you’re here looking for my comprehensive list of 2017 Reading and Blogging Challenges, you’re in the wrong place. 🙂 Click the link to go there! These are the challenges I plan to participate in in 2017. Once again, I had a really hard time deciding what to choose because I don’t want to participate in a million challenges, but there are SO many good ones. Plus, I know I’m not always […]

Posted December 19, 2016 in Challenges / 31 Comments
Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore – 12/18/16

Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore – 12/18/16

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): Yesterday, we celebrated Christmas with my husband’s side of the family. We had a lot of fun AND I got an awesome mug from Cait […]

Posted December 18, 2016 in Sunday Post / 24 Comments