Last week on FYFA (and in my life):
This week has been hectic because my oldest and I were racing to finish his online chemistry course before he leaves for Japanese immersion camp (which he does today). Even though it’s technically an online class, 99% of the instruction was via the textbook, so I was going through it with him (he doesn’t learn well from just reading a book if it’s a subject he’s not interested in). Luckily, I like chemistry a whole lot more now than I did when I was in high school—except for labs (or, more accurately, the questions that go with the labs—a lot of it’s still Greek to me. Luckily, math is my son’s strength). Anyway, we’re done now, so FREEDOM! He’s off to camp for two weeks, so it’s going to be weirdly quiet around here.
Today we’re celebrating Father’s Day! Last week, my husband and I went to see Wonder Woman. It’s been a VERY long time since I’ve seen a movie in the movie theater that wasn’t animated! We both really enjoyed the movie.
I mentioned this last week, but it’s worth repeating: I’m thinking of doing a Three Dark Crowns re-read (or read for the first time) event before One Dark Throne comes out—possibly a traveling re-read where we all put our comments in as we read and then send it on to the next person, BUT I NEED ONE OR TWO OF MY ORGANIZED BLOGGER FRIENDS TO HELP! You guys know me—I’m great with ideas (I have LOTS of them for this!!) but organizing all the little details is not my strong point. Anybody want to help? Please let me know in the comments or shoot me an email!
Here’s what you may have missed on the blog last week:
- Roar by Cora Carmack: Review, Excerpt & Giveaway – Last chance to win a ROAR Swag Pack and $20 Amazon or Barnes and Noble Gift Card!
- Sign-Ups for Series in a Month and COYER Summer Reading Challenges
- Bite-Sized Reviews (and a Giveaway!): Eliza and Her Monsters, If I Fix You, The Gauntlet, Goodbye Days, and The Sun Is Also a Star – Still time to win my ARC of The Sun Is Also a Star!
Next week on FYFA:
- Let’s Discuss: Something bookish! 🙂 All I know for sure is that I’ll post a discussion since I didn’t manage to get one up this week. Seriously, that’s all the planning my brain can handle right now.
Latest FYFA Giveaway Winners!!:
- None this week.
Book Blogger Birthdays and Blogoversaries:
Here are the birthdays and blogoversaries 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.)
- June 19th – April @ Between the Pages‘ Birthday
I held myself to my promise of reading two NetGalley/Edelweiss books before I got another one, so the list is relatively short this week.
For Review:
I got S.J. Pajonas’s newest, Crash Land on Kurai for review and I’m really excited to read it! I also received Hello, Sunshine from Disney-Hyperion. This one really appeals to me because I was a theatre major in college and the MC is trying to make it as an actress. (Neither of them are from NetGalley or Edelweiss, so they totally don’t count for my deal.)
Edelweiss:
I saw this one on last week’s TTT, and I knew I had to get it—I immediately made sure to read two NetGalley/Edelweiss books, so I could. 🙂
Purchased:
I got my pre-order of Our Dark Duet!
Swag:
I got my #BroodyBFF swag in the mail! I especially love the bookmarks, which have fun @YABroodingHero Tweets on them.
Great Discussions/Goings On Around the Blogosphere:
- Karen @ Kissin’ Blue Karen asks Reviews: One at a Time or a Bunch at Once?
- Austine @ Novel Knight talks about Blogging Expectations and Why She Hates Them
Pre-Order Deals:
I’m now putting these in order of release date to make it easier on myself (and you, I think). Any new deals that I just added to the list this week will be denoted with a *** so you can easily find them!
- Pre-order SALVAGED by Jay Crownover and receive an advance excerpt of DIGNITY and a Saints of Denver Doodle download to print at home. (ends 6/19)
- Pre-order MIDNIGHT JEWEL by Richelle Mead and receive nail decals inspired by The Glittering Court and a chance to win a basket of Richelle Mead’s favorite things. (ends 6/26)
- 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 BECAUSE YOU LOVE TO HATE ME edited by Ameriie (with stories by authors like Marissa Meyer, Victoria Schwaab and more!) and receive an exclusive notebook and pencil set and a bookplate signed by Ameriie. (ends 7/10)
- Pre-order SECRETS OF THE TULIP SISTERS by Susan Mallery and receive a free PDF of chapter 1 with notes from the author! (ends 7/10)
- ***Pre-order THE DRAGONS OF NOVA by Elise Kova and receive swag. The more pre-orders, the more swag will be unlocked! (ends 7/10)
- 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)
- Pre-order THE LAST MAGICIAN by Lisa Maxwell and receive a signed bookplate, bookmark, and a temporary tattoo. (ends 7/17)
- ***Pre-order CRYSTAL BLADE by Kathryn Purdie and receive a high-quality map print, a bookmark, an autographed and personalized bookplate, and a download link for the song Purdie wrote and recorded for Burning Glass. (ends 8/15)
- Pre-order WARCROSS by Marie Lu and receive “Life After Legend” an exclusive short story set after the events of the Legend Series (ends 9/11)
Other Current Giveaways on FYFA:
(Besides the ones listed with this week’s posts)
- June Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway – Link up your June discussion posts and enter to win!
Even More Awesome Giveaways on Other Sites:
- Read It Forward is giving you the chance to win a $500 gift card for your local library
- Paper Fury is celebrating its six year anniversary and Cait is giving away a $10 giftcard, a bookish necklace and a A 10,000-word critique of your writing.
- Head over to I Am a Reader for the $100 Sweet Romance Giveaway
- Head over to With Love for Books for a Ravenclaw Hardcover, Notebook & Necklace giveaway
- Head over to The Book Belles for a chance to win a Reel Bookish Box (for a month of your choosing) as well a 2017 release of your choice (INT)
- Enter to win a Why I Loathe Sterling Lane Prize Pack
- Head over to It Starts at Midnight for the Boldly Bookish Blog Tour
- Head over to Batch of Books for a chance to win a Captain Underpants Prize Pack
- Author L.C. Mawson is hosting the Start Reading Diverse Giveaway where you download lots of freebies of diverse reads!
- Megan over @ Book Birds is celebrating her 1st blogoversary and she’s giving you a chance to win a book from TBD to celebrate! (INT)
- 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!
What a great haul! I am definitely curious about Our Dark Duet. Enjoy your reading, and here are MY WEEKLY UPDATES
I’m super excited about Our Dark Duet because I loved the first book!
I can’t seem to stay away from NetGalley….for whatever reason. I hope you love all of them.
Grace
Oh, it’s a constant struggle.
A Japanese immersion camp sounds amazing. I would have loved to have done something like that’s as a child.
Me too! My kids are lucky—why can’t I be one again? 🙂
Japanese Camp sounds fun! I hope he has a good time. I know with my son, if he doesn’t like the subject he gets very frustrated.
I really need to read The Savage Song, I have it on my COYER List, I hope to get to it this summer!
Have a great week, Nicole! Happy Reading! ox
I realized I should have put Our Dark Duet on my COYER list! Guess I’ll have to read five books, so I can add it. LOL!
Nice looking haul. Our Dark Duet. What a great title. Need to see what it’s about. I never liked chemistry in school. Now I wish someone had supported me when trying to find a major. Love the forensics shows and wish I’d made a career in that field. I bet your son will have a blast at camp!
My Sunday Post
Chemistry definitely wasn’t my favorite—luckily it was more pleasant (for me) this time around!
OOh nice new reads!! Some new to me ones for the most part! Except for Our Dark Duet! Which I also picked up! can’t wait to read it! Happy Reading!!
Here’s my STS
Have a GREAT day!
Old Follower 🙂
Saw that you had Our Dark Duet on your Sunday Post too—I LOVED the first book, so I’m excited to read it!!
I want to see Wonder Woman. And Crash Landing on Kurai sounds pretty good too! I’ve seen that one making the rounds and didn’t realize at first it was a new SJ PAjonas book.
Japanese immersion camp sounds great! How exciting. And Chemistry was not my strong suit in high school. 🙂
Have a great week Nicole!
Pajonas is great, so I’m always eager to read her books!
Hope your son has fun at camp!! I am pretty much only at the theater for animated movies still 🙂 Enjoy your new books and have a great week!!
My youngest is 12 and we STILL pretty much only go to the animated movies. I love them, but it’s nice to see something else now and again.
Japanese immersion! Wow! What an opportunity!
I really enjoyed Wonder Woman too. I was expecting it to be good but it really exceeded my expectations.
Enjoy your week 🙂
Here’s my Sunday Post 🙂
It was definitely excited. We saw it in special Dolby Digital, so the quality and sound were amazing!
I am trying really hard not to request any on Netgalley. It’s so hard sometimes though!
I know—it’s such a huge temptation. I need to read two more before I request another one now!
I never go to the cinema now…it’s too expensive! I’ve kind of let my film watching slump over the last few years so I need to make more effort to get the mega pile of dvds watched! I think I feel I should be reading instead so I don’t watch all the stuff I’d like…pesky tbr! Have a great reading week!
It’s definitely true that it’s expensive—we were kind of shocked since we went to see the special Dolby Digital version. Usually I go to the early (cheap) show with my kids. 🙂
I hope your son has fun at camp! I’m envious that you got Our Dark Duet. I’m on a waiting list for it, but it’s a long list. Have a great week!
Waiting list at the library, I assume? Hope you get it sooner rather than later!
I really need to get a copy of Our Dark Duet soon! I hope you enjoy it 🙂
I’m finally finishing the Darker Shade of Magic series right now though. I’m about halfway through A Conjuring of Light.
Have a great week! 🙂
haven’t read her other series yet, but I definitely plan to!
My kids last day of school was today. I feel like screaming FREEDOM as well. I gotta check out that new book you got from Edelweiss. Love that cover! Thanks for shout out to my discussion! Have a great week!
I thought I was the only one that felt that way since I homeschool. I guess even when you don’t, you’re still a slave to homework.
Looking forward to Secrets of the Tulip Sisters. Have a great week.
I actually hadn’t heard of Tulip Sisters, but I’m always eager to share all the pre-order deals!
chemistry wasn’t my favorite either. So I’m glad you are done! Summer yaaaay! I can’t wait to see Wonder Woman! Hope you guys liked it!
We loved Wonder Woman!
I like your rule for reading/requesting ARCs! I am notoriously picky about requesting ARCs and months can go by without me requesting a single title. And for some reason this month I have gone wild at Edelweiss and requested 10 titles! What the heck was I thinking?! LOL I’ve been approved for 2 and denied for 1 so maybe it’ll be okay. 🙂
I try to be really good about the books I request, but lately I’ve found that I have a backlog.