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 really excited to be going—just wish me luck since it’s supposed to snow four inches today! Ugh!
Here’s what you may have missed on the blog last week:
- Top Ten New to Me Authors I Read in 2016
- Blood for Blood by Ryan Graudin: Review (Plus Bonus Review of Iron to Iron)
- Looking for a List of 2017 Reading/Book Blogging Challenges? Look No Further! – This is a massive list, guys, and I’ll be adding to it as I find more challenges. If you’re hoping to participate some challenges this year, but you’re not sure which ones, definitely check this out!
Also, make sure you head over to the November Wrap-Up Round-Up Giveaway, which is being hosted over at Paved with Books!! (Note that you didn’t have to have posted a wrap-up post in order to enter the giveaway—everyone is welcome!)
Next week on FYFA:
- Bite-Sized Reviews of Hello?, Aftermath and Die for You
- A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig – Review
- 2017 Book Blog Discussion Challenge Sign-Up
- Let’s Discuss: Something bookish! 🙂
Book Blogger Birthdays and Blogoversaries:
Hope you’ll go wish these people well on their special days!! 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!)
This week’s events:
- December 12th – The Bookkeeper’s Secrets‘ Blogoversary
- December 13th – Second Run Reviews‘ Blogoversary
- December 15th – Alexandra @ Milky Way of Books‘ Birthday
- December 16th – Jessica @ a GREAT read‘s Birthday
For Review:
I read the first two books in this series, so I was eager to get these next two when Jill Archer contacted me:
From Edelweiss:
I’ve had so many BEA books that I’ve avoided Edelweiss for awhile. But this week I decided to take a look and I grabbed a few upcoming releases.
Great Discussions/Goings On Around the Blogosphere:
Here are some posts I especially loved this week:
- Toady @ B.B. Toady talks about What She Discovered By Culling Her GR Friends
- Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight gives us this fun Book Hoarder Survival Guide
- Cynthia @ Bingeing on Books asks How far would you go to read?
Other Current Giveaways on FYFA:
(Besides the ones listed above)
- Bloodmoon by Aurora Whittet – Still time to enter to be one of five winners to get the Bloodmark Prize Package that contains 1 signed hardcover copy of Bloodmark, Bloodmark Saga Temporary Tattoos (set of 3) and a Bloodmark Saga bookmark
- December Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway – Link up your December discussions and enter to win!
Pre-Order Deals:
- Preorder LONG WAY HOME by Katie McGarry & receive 3 bonus stories for FREE!
- Pre-order HISTORY IS ALL YOU LEFT ME by Adam Silvera for a chance to win a trip to NYC!
- Pre-order CARAVEL by Stephanie Garber and get a special free gift from the author and a signed, personalized copy.
- Pre-Order WINDWITCH by Susan Dennard to be eligible to receive a free pair of Windwitch-themed socks, patch and a signed bookplate!
- Pre-order CRYSTAL STORM by Morgan Rhodes and get a set of Falling Kingdoms buttons!
- Pre-order WAYFARER by Alexandra Bracken and receive a personalized holiday card from Bracken, as well as an 8×10 print.
- Preorder THE EDGE OF EVERYTHING by Jeff Giles to receive a keepsake metal bookmark!
Even More Awesome Giveaways on Other Sites:
- Enter to win 10 hardcovers (like Heartless, Gemina, and The Diabolic, just to name a few) via The YA Hardcovers Xmas Giveaway!
- Lisa Loves Literature is celebrating year-end with a big giveaway!
- Lots of blogs participating in the December to Remember Giveaway Hop!
- Enter to win one of two ARCs of COMING UP FOR AIR by Miranda Kenneally and a water bottle
- The Bookkeeper’s Secrets is doing a year-long giveaway!
- Head over to WhoRuBlog for a chance to win a $175 B&N Gift Card!
- Lots of blogs participating in the This or That Giveaway Hop!
- Head over to Girl Plus Books for a chance to win a Signed Set of the Wait For You Saga by Jennifer L. Armentrout
- Author Azalea Dabill is hosting a 21 Adventures Christmas Book Bundle Giveaway!
- Cynthia over at Book Binges is celebrating her blogoversary with a giveaway!
- Charnell @ Reviews from a Bookworm is returning to blogging and celebrating with a giveaway of up to £40 of books from Book Depository (INT)
- There are tons of prizes in this YA Reader Giveaway Blitz!
- It’s Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight’s Birthday and she’s celebrating with a big giveaway!!
Lots of good stuff! Have any giveaways or great discussions happening on your site right now? Feel free to share them in the comments!
I hope you have fun at the luncheon. I’ve heard a lot of good things about the Becky Albertalli book, so I’m interested to hear what you think about it.
I know. There are always some good books. I so need to read White Heart of Justice as well, and Then Pocket Full of TInder. Great stack this week.
Grace @ Books of Love
I hope the snow holds out so you can enjoy your luncheon! It sounds like a lot of fun. I’d love to do something with bloggers near, but I don’t know that many that live close and it’s difficult to plan these things! haha
-Lauren
Ooh nice! I wanted to go to that Luncheon myself, but firstly, I knew December in Wisconsin could generally mean snow. And the fact that it’s on a Sunday doesn’t bode well for my traveling. I’d need it on a Saturday to ever consider making that attempt. But snow. Yeesh. I love it, but I loathe driving in it! Especially sooo far! Hope you have (had) fun!
Nice new reads too! Totally new to me ones! Hope you enjoy them all!
And thanks again for the birthday mention!! I’m looking forward to Friday just to be off a day earlier than normal! LOL!
Here’s my STS
Have a GREAT day!
Old Follower 🙂
Have fun at the luncheon. Hope the weather held out. Lots of great books – Lucky in Love is one I am excited for. Have a great week!!
Good luck! I hope you make it and enjoy the luncheon, even with all that snow.
Enjoy the luncheon. Sounds wonderful and crossing fingers the snow cooperates.
Hope the snow held off! We got a ton too and they’re already closing things for Monday! the luncheon sounds fun. and thanks too for the list of reading challenges- I’m finalizing which to do next year so that came in handy. 🙂
I hope that you made it to your luncheon safely and that you enjoyed it! You got lots of nice books too – sounds like a lovely week all things considered 🙂 Happy reading! xx
Oooh, what is the novel cuisine luncheon? I’m intrigued by the title! We got a dusting of snow this past week, but not much. I’m ready for a big snowstorm. I just like to have one every winter, and last year we got almost no snow. Have a great week, and thanks for stopping by my Sunday Post earlier.
Hope your lunch was spectacular! We got snow too and we stuck it close to home.
I hope you had a fabulous luncheon and that the snow wasn’t a hazard. My “bubble” name makes an appearance here because I never understood why people freaked out when they got less than 3-4 feet of snow (since we get those sized storms all the time out here). And then I moved to Indiana and visited our family every other weekend in Chicago. Oh. My. Gosh. The snowplowing and snow removal back there is such a huge safety hazard and so beyond scary! I’d never been nervous driving in snow until I moved back there. So what I’m trying to say lol is that I hope you had a safe trip there and back and had a wonderful time at your luncheon! ♥
I hope you had a great time at the Novel Cuisine Luncheon, and you took plenty of pics to share with us!
Seeing all those Kasie West titles, I had to go to Edelweiss myself! I could only request By Your Side ??
No fair! You deserve all the Kasie West!!
Wow! You put together a really nice list of giveaways. This is something that I always think of doing, but never have gotten around to. I appreciate you mentioning one of my posts.
I have fun putting this list together every week and it seems like people appreciate it!