Month: December 2016

A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig: Review

This book is perfect for the MG grade and younger set (and for the young at heart)—adorable, entertaining, bittersweet and just a teensy bit irreverent. This isn’t a rehash of an old Christmas story that you’ve seen a million times before—it’s something completely new. What Fed My Addiction: Nikolas. Well, of course we have to start with the little boy himself. Nikolas is scrappy and resourceful and completely loyal to his father. When he heads off into […]

Posted December 14, 2016 in Reviews / 8 Comments

2017 Book Blog Discussion Challenge Sign-Up

Welcome to the 2017 Book Blog Discussion Challenge hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight! We came up with this challenge 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’s been SO successful these last two years that we decided to bring it back! So often, we […]

Posted December 13, 2016 in Book Blog Discussion Challenge, Challenges / 68 Comments

Bite-Sized Reviews: Hello?, Aftermath, and Die for You

I won all three of these books from Liza Wiemer in her I Hope You Forgive Me* giveaway and I couldn’t resist reading them all right away. Liza apparently wanted to rip my heart out and stomp on it in all the best ways with her book selections. LOVED them all!! Hopefully these bite-sized reviews will be enough to feed your fiction addiction! *(If you haven’t checked out the I Hope You Forgive me website, you […]

Posted December 12, 2016 in Reviews / 25 Comments

Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore – 12/11/17

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): Today I’m attending the 5th Annual Novel Cuisine Luncheon, which has been organized by Heidi of YA Bibliophile and Liza Wiemer, author of Hello? (and of WhoRuBlog). I’m […]

Posted December 11, 2016 in Sunday Post / 16 Comments

Looking for a List of 2017 Reading/Book Blogging Challenges? Look No Further!

For the last couple of years I’ve posted a comprehensive list of all the book blogging and reading challenges I’ve found. It seems like it’s been a useful resource, so I figured I’d do it again this year! This is a list of everything I’ve found so far, but I’ll be adding to it—feel free to let me know in the comments if you know of another challenge and I’ll add it to the list. […]

Posted December 10, 2016 in Challenges / 79 Comments

Blood for Blood by Ryan Graudin: Review (Plus Bonus Review of Iron to Iron)

***NOTE: This review is for the second book in the series but doesn’t contain any major spoilers for the first book. To read my review of Wolf by Wolf, click the link!*** I was so excited to read the conclusion to this unique duology since I had absolutely LOVED the first book. The WWII era fascinates me, in all its darkness, and these books offer an intriguing paranormal alternate history. What Fed My Addiction: Multiple POVs […]

Posted December 8, 2016 in Reviews / 9 Comments

Top Ten New to Me Authors I Read in 2016

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is: Top Ten New to Me Authors I Read in 2016 It’s been awhile since I’ve done a TTT post, but today’s topic was a fun one, and I just had to join! For my list, I only included authors that I’ve been seeing around the blogosphere for quite some time, but just jump in and read something this year myself. (Links for the author names go to Goodreads. Click on the book […]

Posted December 6, 2016 in Top Ten Tuesday / 36 Comments

Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore – 12/4/16

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): Well, now that NaNo is over, I SHOULD have plenty of free time to gallivant or something (’cause, you know, I love me some gallivanting), […]

Posted December 4, 2016 in Sunday Post / 14 Comments

Let’s Discuss the Book Blog Discussion Challenge!

Hey, everybody! So, 2017 is almost here (yikes!) and Shannon and I thought it might be nice to do a little check-in with everyone before we start the 2017 Book Blog Discussion Challenge. We want to know how it’s going for you guys. Personally, I love the Discussion Challenge—it’s one of my favorite parts of blogging—but there’s always room for improvement, right? (Or maybe not, but if that’s the case, we want to hear that […]

Posted December 3, 2016 in Book Blog Discussion Challenge, Challenges, Let's Discuss / 31 Comments

November Recap & Best of the Bunch

My Goings On in November: I won NaNoWriMo!!! I got really depressed over certain events toward the beginning of the month (that I won’t rehash now). But I won NaNoWriMo!! I started reading two new manga series, and I’m loving both of them. I probably did some other things, but the real news is … I won NaNoWriMo!! (And my first draft of my book is nearly done.) Most Popular Posts: This month was really weird […]

Posted December 2, 2016 in Best of the Bunch, Monthly Recap / 25 Comments