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):
So, yesterday we just had our end of year performance for my acting class at our homeschool co-op. I love teaching the class, but I have to confess that it feels like a bit of relief after the performance is finished. We’ll still be doing plenty of school around here, but all of the classes I’ve been teaching at co-op are over!
Here’s what you may have missed on the blog last week:
- March Wrap-Up Round-Up Link-Up – Link up your March wrap-up posts here and watch for the giveaway, which will be posted on my blog on the 8th!
- The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz: Review
- March Wrap-Up & Best of the Bunch – Find out what you might have missed in March
- April Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway
- Announcing BookBloggicon: a New Annual Book Event You WON’T Want to Miss! – Seriously, make sure you check this out, guys!
Next week on FYFA:
- Reviews of Toward a Secret Sky by Heather Maclean, The Pain Eater by Beth Goobie and Just Another Girl by Elizabeth Eulberg
- The Dead Inside by Cyndy Drew Etler: Review & Giveaway
- Let’s Discuss: Something bookish! 🙂
Book Blogger Birthdays and Blogoversaries:
Lots of birthdays and blogoversaries again this week! I hope you’ll go wish these bloggers well on their special days! Make sure you 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.)
- April 3rd – Jillian’s Books‘ Blogoversary
- April 3rd – Tiffany @ The Bookish Thought‘s Birthday
- April 3rd – Wanda @ booklovercircumspect4‘s Birthday
- April 5th – Chapter Break‘s Blogoversary
- April 5th – Zeee @ I Heart Romance & YA‘s Birthday
- April 8th – jessicasblog45‘s Blogoversary
I got Royal Bastards for review from Disney-Hyperion. Greg over at Greg’s Book Haven has talked about this one on his blog several times and got me interested, so I was excited when it was offered to me! Thanks so much, Disney!
Great Discussions/Goings On Around the Blogosphere:
Here are a few posts I loved this week:
- Author Jolene Buchheit shares her fangirling over at Second Run Reviews
- This Six Degrees of Separation meme is new to me (I found it via Cat on the Bookshelf’s post), and it’s so much fun!
SJ Pajonas’s romance Summer Haikus, which takes place in Japan, is free right now on her blog. I have no idea why this book hasn’t sold better because I absolutely adore it. It has diversity, an amazingly strong friendship and a super sweet romance. Check it out now while you can!- The free audiobooks for the 2017 SYNC summer program have been announced! The first books are available on April 27th!
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer is getting a new book series from Simon Pulse and it’s going to be written by Kiersten White. I am SO excited about this!!]
- Hooked to Books announced a new reading challenge with lots of great prizes!
- Cait @ Paper Fury shares her advice on How to Come Up with Discussion Ideas that Will Thrill Humans and Dragons Alike
Pre-Order Deals:
- Pre-order DEFY THE STARS by Claudia Gray to receive a FREE EXCLUSIVE sticker! (ends 4/3)
- Pre-order BLACKSOULS by Nicole Castroman and receive a poster, signed bookplate, and bookmark. (ends 4/10)
- Pre-order SPINDLE FIRE by Lexa Hillyer and receive an 8″x10″ framable map (and you’ll also be entered to win a Kindle Fire!). (ends 4/10)
- Pre-order ALEX AND ELIZA: A LOVE STORY by Melissa de la Cruz to receive a custom pin and signed bookplate! (ends 4/10)
- Pre-order ALWAYS AND FOREVER, LARA JEAN by Jenny Han and get custom Lara Jean nail decals, a signed bookplate, and more! (ends 5/1)
- Pre-order A COURT OF WINGS AND RUIN by Sarah J. Maas and receive an exclusive color poster of the official map! (ends 5/1)
- Pre-order GIRL OUT OF WATER by Laura Silverman and receive a signed postcard and playlist. You will also be entered to win one of two prize packs and one grand prize prize pack containing a $25 B&N gift card. (ends 5/1)
- Pre-order IT STARTED WITH GOODBYE by Christina June and get a bonus chapter from before ISWG begins! (ends 5/8)
- Pre-order THE CROWN’S FATE by Evelyn Skye, and you can get a limited edition bookmark and a set of 3 stickers–Team Vika, Team Nikolai, and Team Pasha! Plus, there’s an additional giveaway if you order from Kepler’s. (ends 5/15)
- Pre-order BRANDED by Eric Smith and you’ll get a set of signed postcards of the covers, an Inked and Branded quote postcard set designed by author and illustrator Ashley Poston, and a handful of temporary tattoos! (ends 5/22)
- Pre-order DARK BREAKS THE DAWN by Sara B. Larson and get a signed bookmark (and you’ll be entered to win LOTS of other great prizes!!) (ends 5/29)
- Pre-order ENIGMA by Tonya Kuper receive an Enigma swag pack, including a signed book plate, plus the possibility of lots of other goodies as well! (ends 6/30)
- Pre-order WASTE OF SPACE by Gina Damico and receive a bookmark, a magnet, and a 4″x6″ print of Damico’s original hand-drawn sketch of the spaceship’s schematics. (ends 7/11)
Other Current Giveaways on FYFA:
(Besides the ones listed with this week’s posts)
- March Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway – Last chance to link up your March discussions here and enter the giveaway!
Even More Awesome Giveaways on Other Sites:
- Tanya @ Girl Plus Books is celebrating her 2nd blogoversary with a giveaway!
- Head over to Pink Polka Dot Books for a chance to win a physical copy of The Other F-Word by Natasha Friend
- Head over to It Starts at Midnight for a chance to win a copy of Nemesis or a copy of The Glittering Court!
- Help Samantha @ The Book Disciple pick out her April reads and enter to win an ebook of your choice while you’re at it!
- Enter to win the March #NOVLbox curated by Claudia Gray, author of Defy the Stars!
- Head over to Metaphors and Moonlight for a chance to win a signed paperback of The Immortal Coil
- Head over to Lisa Loves Literature for a chance to win a Tricksters Series Prize Pack, including: Signed copies of all A.L. Davroe books, A Kindle Fire, and a $50 Amazon Gift Card!
- Head over to NovelKnight for a chance to win a pre-order of ROAR by Cora Carmack.
- It’s Book Briefs’ 6th blogoversary and Michelle is celebrating with a huge giveaway!
- Head over to Happily Ever Chapter to enter to win 50 YA Books in the YALit Giveaway (INT). (Note that you’ll be subscribed to the sponsoring authors’ mailing lists, and there are a lot of them!)
- The Bookkeeper’s Secrets is doing a year-long 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!
Congrats on finishing the acting class! I hope you enjoy your new book.
Thanks! I had great fun with the class, but it’s nice to be done with the stress of performance day!
Nicole, thanks for sharing Jolene’s guest post!
You’re very welcome. It was fun!
Glad your classes are over! I hope this means you’ll have a little extra time on your hands. Have a great week!
I’m hoping so too, although we always have to catch up on some things after co-op is done. 🙂
Oh nice! Been seeing this one around a lot lately! Hope you enjoy it too!!
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Have a GREAT day!
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I’m looking forward to it!
Have fun with the extra time now that classes are over. Maybe read that fabulous new book!
That’s definitely part of the plan! 🙂
I missed your post last week, so I just read it now lol. Glad you liked the Beauty and the Beast movie! And oh an acting class, that sounds fun! Did you used to act or something? I took a week or two-long summer camp acting class thing once as a teen, but I would have no idea how to teach that!
I was a theater major in college, though I haven’t done any acting in quite awhile now. It’s fun to dip my toes back in with my homeschool co-op classes!
I can’t wait for Royal Bastards as well! Yay, for a physical ARC (I only have an e-copy). Looking forward to reading your thoughts on this book.
Have a great week!
I was excited when they contacted me about that one because it sounds perfect for me.
I’m curious to see your review for Royal Bastards. I’m glad the performance for your acting class is over -and that all co-op classes you teach are over. Hopefully that alleviates some stress!
-Lauren
Yes, it will be nice to have a little bit more free time. Of course, it always seems like that sometimes gets eaten up, but we shall see!
Yay for Royal Bastards! I hope it’s good. 🙂 And I’m thinking of trying the Pajonas book, her stuff looks fun.
Hope you have a supr week Nicole!
It was you who talked about it, right? I’m not crazy? I hope you enjoy Pajonas’s book—I think it’s a shame it hasn’t gotten more attention.
Yay for finishing the co-op class! I will look up Royal Bastards now you have me curious.
It’s nice to have a little extra breathing room. 🙂
Oooh, so many give aways!
I know that feeling of loving teaching a course, and at the same time being relieved when it’s successfully wrapped up! 🙂
Yep—it’s an interesting dichotomy!
Royal Bastards sounds interesting. Hope you enjoy it! I’m also curious about the new Elizabeth Eulberg book. I’ve enjoyed her books in the past.
Hope you have a great week! Thanks for visiting my blog 🙂
My review for Just Another Girl will either go up tomorrow or Wednesday (depending on what the TTT topic is this week and whether or not I decide to post one).
Awesome that you finished teaching your acting class. I can imagine you feel a little relieved. I hope you get to read some more now! 😀
Have a great week and happy reading!
I love the class, but there’s definitely a little relief when we’re done with the stress of performance day!
Yay for finishing up your class!!
I’ve been out of the loop on new and upcoming releases lately so I’ll have to check out what Royal Bastards is about, I love the tagline!
I hope you have an awesome week!
Royal Bastards seems like the type of book I’d love so I’m excited to read it!
I think there is always a bit of relief that comes after working on a project (in your case a class), no matter how much we enjoyed the process. I bet the performance was wonderful. 🙂 Royal Bastards looks like a good one! I hope you enjoy it. I hope you have a great week, Nicole! (Your blog is so much fun!)
The performance did turn out great. I was really proud of them!
Such a comprehensive, fantastic post! Thanks so much for sharing 😀 And I hope you enjoy Royal Bastards 🙂
Brittany @ Brittany’s Book Rambles
Glad that you find these helpful!
I finally have a contact at Disney, so I had to email and request Royal Bastards. 🙂 It sounds so good!
Hope you get it (and love it!).
Royal Bastards looks so good! Greg has definitely made it sound tempting and I hope you enjoy it. You’ve shared so many giveaways and great things I don’t even know where to start! Have a great week!
Greg has great book taste, so I’m guessing I’ll love it!
Glad to hear the coop classes are over and now you can relax! Loved your review of The Inexplicable Logic of My Life. Spot on. For me the prose and characters made it a 8-start book minus three stars for the things you mentioned. 5-stars review 🙂 It’s awesome you got the Royal Bastards! Can’t wait for your review! 🙂
The show went really well, so now I have a bit more downtime—sort of. Though it doesn’t feel like it somehow. How does that work?
Hooray for being done with classes (the ones you teach, anyway)! That has to be a lot off your plate. I loved your April 1 post, Nicole. So funny. 🙂 I’ll have to check out Royal Bastards… this is the first I’ve seen/heard of it. Thanks so much for sharing my blogoversary giveaway! Hope you’re having a great week!
The performance went really well and it’s definitely nice to have it off my plate now. 🙂
Thank you for mentioning Summer Haikus!! I super appreciate it and hope some of your readers take me up on the free offer. Sounds like it was a good week to wrap things up! I always feel a huge amount of relief when I finish up a big project. I get so anxious about it and getting it done. I bet it’s nice to have that co-op part done with! 🙂
I’m happy to help spread the word about Summer Haikus—I really hope some of my friends will check it out because it definitely deserves more attention!
Oops. Only a week behind at commenting back! Thanks for visiting my blog though! I’ll do better this week. 😉
Greg’s great at getting books into our TBR piles and I have a couple from him that I need to check out!
I CANNOT BELIEVE ABOUT BUFFY… I’m going to check that post out IMMEDIATELY!
Hope you had a great week again this week and I’ll try to catch up with you when you post. 🙂
Oh, trust me, I understand how that goes. I feel like lately I’m perpetually a week behind. Yikes!