Last week on FYFA (and in my life):
Well, my kids started a couple of their co-op classes this past week. The nice thing is that we get to ease our way into the school year because some of their classes have started but not all of them. I managed (after jumping through some hoops) to get my 14-year-old signed up for a Japanese I class at our local community college, which he’s very excited about. He starts that class next week. I’m trying to get my curriculum all worked out for my co-op classes that start in September as well. And I take my final exam for my first copyediting class this coming week too. Lots going on!
Here’s what you may have missed on the blog:
- Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi – A Whimsical Review
- Bite-Sized Reviews – Treason, Just a Girl, and Me Before You
- How Reading Can Help Us “See” Hidden Disabilities. Let’s Discuss! – I wrote this discussion to go along with the Shattering Stigmas event, an event dedicated to mental health that’s being hosted by Shannon over at It Starts at Midnight (and is also being featured on a few other blogs).
Next week on FYFA:
- Been Here All Along by Sandy Hall – Review & Giveaway
- Some other reviews. See my fantastic planning? I know, you’re in awe.
- Let’s Discuss – something bookish!
Book Blogger Birthdays and Blogoversaries:
A few blogoversaries and birthdays this week! I hope you’ll visit these bloggers and congratulate them on their special days! Also, check out the calendar to see what you might have just missed or what’s coming up. (If you want to be added to the calendar, you can always fill out the birthday/blogoversary form!)
- August 25th – Book Haven‘s Blogoversary
- August 25th – Lola @ Lola’s Reviews‘ Birthday
- August 26th – Lisa @ Reading, Writing, and Random Musings‘ Birthday
For Review:
I’m really looking forward to reading this sequel to The Heir and the Spare! Thanks Merit Press and Emily Albright!
Great Discussions/Goings On Around the Blogosphere:
Here are some of my favorite posts I read this week:
- Check out all of the posts for the Shattering Stigmas event, which sheds light on mental health issues.
- Kristen over at Metaphors and Moonlight asks Are Abandoned Series Still Worth It? and How Different Would Humans Be if We were Immortal Like Paranormal Creatures?
- AJ over at Read All the Things shares what she’s learned after three years of blogging.
- Chat Between Chapters (on Chapter Break) talks about Social Media Posting
Other Current Giveaways on FYFA:
(Besides the ones listed above)
- July Wrap-Up Round-Up Giveaway! – Still time to enter to win! (You didn’t have to participate in the wrap-up round-up to enter the giveaway.)
- August Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway
- The Memory Book by Lara Avery – My Black Sheep Review (& Giveaway) – Last chance to enter to win my ARC of the book!
- Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things and Dark Dreams and Dead Things by Martina McAtee – Last chance to enter to win a $25 gift card!
Pre-Order Deals:
- Pre-order LABYRINTH LOST by Zoraida Cordova and the first 100 pre-orders will get a full color poster of the book’s map!
- Pre-order THE READER by Traci Chee and receive a free limited edition art print.
- Pre-order LITTLE BOT AND SPARROW by Jake Parker and enter to receive a signed print (while supplies last) by Jake Parker. All entrants are also automatically entered for a chance to win one of five custom prints by Jake!
- Pre-order FURTHERMORE to get a fox pin & the chance to win Tahereh Mafi’s favorite things!
- Pre-order CROOKED KINGDOM by Leigh Bardugo or the SIX OF CROWS DUOLOGY Boxed Set and you’ll get a fancy dice set in a branded pouch and a signed bookplate.
- Pre-order METALTOWN by Kristen Simmons and you can enter to win one of four fabulous prize packs!
- Pre-order A TORCH AGAINST THE NIGHT by Sabaa Tahir to receive an Ember in the Ashes tote!
- Pre-order FALLING FREE by Shannan Martin and get some fun (and unique!) freebies!
- Pre-order AS I DESCENDED by Robin Talley to receive bookmarks and stickers featuring the book’s beautiful cover, plus a signed bookplate!
- Pre-order STEALING SNOW by Danielle Paige to receive a compact mirror!
- Pre-order Sarah J. Maas’s EMPIRE OF STORMS to receive a ToG notebook and/or preorder THE THRONE OF GLASS COLORING BOOK and get a ToG coloring pencils set!!
Even More Awesome Giveaways on Other Sites:
Again, lots of giveaways going on around the blogosphere this week!!!
- Head over to It Starts at Midnight for the Shattering Stigmas giveaway!
- Head over to Lost in Literature for a chance to win a Copy of Furthermore, a Set of 3 Rifle Paper Co. Journals + a “Break the Rules” Letter Opener
- It’s Reading Diva’s 5th Blogoversary and she’s celebrating with a few different giveaways! Enter to win a Paperback of It Ends with Us: A Novel by Colleen Hoover and more!
- Head over to A.G. Howard’s blog to enter to win Signed Paperbacks, Posters, & Swag from both Howard and Wendy Higgins!
- Scholastic is sponsoring a Back-to-School Giveaway with lots of prizes!
- Head over to Owl Always Be Reading for a chance to win a signed copy of IT ENDS WITH US + Souvenir Magnet
- Star-Crossed Book blog has six giveaways going for their blogoversary: – a chance to win The Distance Between Us by Kasie West, The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa, The Iron King by Julie Kagawa, Angelfall by Susan Ee, The Unearthly Trilogy by Cynthia Hand and The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
- Ali over at Arctic books is celebrating her blogoversary with a giveaway!
- Joy over at JOYOUSREADS is giving away a $100 Gift Card for her five year bogoversary!!
- ANOTHER blogoversary!! (There are so many right now!) – Lisa @ Lisa Loves Literature is celebrating her 7th blogoversary with a giveaway!!
- Clean Teen Publishing is doing a back-to-school giveaway!
- Head over to Read Write Love28 for a chance to win a Swag Pack including LIMITED postcards, buttons, and stickers for Girl in Pieces
Lots of good stuff! Have any giveaways or great discussions happening on your site right now? Feel free to share them in the comments!
Good luck with your final exam! I know you’ll do great. 🙂
Thanks! I’m relatively confident and I’ve been doing really well in the class, but it’s still hard to get past those little nerves!!
Oh wow sounds like everyone is busy!!! Good luck with your exam. Enjoy all your new books and have a great week!
I feel like busy is par for the course around here lately – at least it’s never boring!
OOh nice haul! Those are new to me ones! Hope you enjoy them!
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YAY for Japanese I, Nicole! I’m so happy you managed to get your 14-yo signed up for that class 🙂
I’ll send you good vibes for your exam, I’m sure you’ll do well.
Have a wonderful week and happy reading.
Thanks! It’s always a little tricky getting someone so young signed up for a college class, and they didn’t make the process simple (different people would tell me different things about how we needed to go about getting him enrolled). It was a bit stressful, but he’s over the moon to be doing the class, so it’s worth it!
Ack hard to believe school is starting already. This summer flew by! I guess they all do. 🙂 Good luck with your exam and w/ the curriculum. I’m loving the Shattering stigmas posts- so much amazingness going on there, seeing everyone share. Very nice, Have a wonderful week.
You’re right that there have been so many fantastic posts for the Shattering Stigmas event! I’ve read all of the one’s on Shannon’s blog, but I still need to go check out the others.
Good luck with your final! That’s awesome that you could get your son signed up for that Japanese class! Good luck with the new school year!
I picked up the free eBook of Abducted. It looks really cute. I’ll be watching for your review.
It does look cute! I got the audiobook to review from Audiobook Blast. By the way, thanks so much for the recommendation for Audiobook Jukebox – I requested a book from them and was approved, so I’m excited to listen!
I’ve got Every Day Magic and can’t wait to read it either! So, tell me more about a copyediting class. Sounds interesting! You mentioned that you didn’t know I wrote, well I don’t know that I talk about it a ton. I just am a dabbler in it I guess. Hope you have a great week coming up!
I’ve been a freelance editor for a few years now, but I thought it would help my craft (and credibility!) if I got a certificate in copyediting. I’m working on the certificate program through UC San Diego because it’s relatively well-known and trusted – it’s an online program. So far, I’ve only taken one class – Grammar Lab – which hasn’t been too tough because it’s mostly rules I’ve already learned (though naming those parts of speech can still be painful!). I’m enjoying it, and I’m eager to see what the Copyediting I class has in store for me!
I think if you’ve completed an entire book and put it up on Swoon Reads, you deserve more than the title of “dabbler.” I’ve tried to write some, but never completed a manuscript – I’m definitely dabbling! 🙂
I’m excited for your son’s Japanese class! Ganbatte!!
He just got done with his first class and it seems like he did great. The professor even came by after class to ask if he’d been to Japan because he had said goodbye in such an authentically Japanese way. I think you could probably see the beaming from his smile all the way from there! 🙂
I was looking at your FB feed yesterday, by the way – love all the pictures! Hope the typhoon is over with and you can get out and enjoy your trip!
That’s great you were able to get your son in the Japanese class. I really hope he loves it! Good luck on your upcoming exam.
That’s great that your kids are able to ease back into the year like that. The first week or two of classes was always the worst, in both grade school and college, because it was so hard having to suddenly figure out how to deal with so many new classes and new teachers and new requirements and new schedules all at once. And that’s also great that you got your son in the Japanese class! But it does sound like you’ve still got some busy weeks coming up.
Good luck on your exam! I’m off to read your post about disabilities 🙂
Nice way to ease into the school year! And good luck on your own exam! So many giveaways this week – wow! Hope you have a wonderful week, Nicole!
Good luck on your exam. Japanese, I bet, is a hard language to speak. French is hard for me. I’m reading Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me. It’s very close to a story I wrote.
Japanese is difficult because it’s SO different – even the characters are different. I’m amazed at how well my son is doing with it!
You’re welcome. I haven’t gotten my Audiobook Blast/Boom email for the past several weeks. I need to look into that.
That’s great you managed to get your 14 year old in that Japanese class. My boyfriends knows a bit of Japanese and nowadays uses a site to train his Japanese more. Good luck with your exam!
Thanks for mentioning my birthday :).
Wow I never realized how many pre-order deals there were. I actually got a pre-order deal earlier this year for a book I had pre-ordered and then everyone who had pre-ordered the book could get an e-copy with short stories in that series. Thanks for listing all those giveaways, will go and check a few of them out now. I hope you’re having a great week!
I hope your final exam in your copyediting class went fabulously! Fingers crossed! And I love that you wrote about your fantastic planning lol. That’s been me lately with my traveling schedule. August has been such a crazy busy month, I can’t wait for list to slow down a little. 🙂 Hope you had a great week!