Last week on FYFA (and in my life):
Had another fun week around here! My kids had a friend over who had moved to Boston in the spring, so it was great to see her and hang out in the pool (they braved the cold water!), at the dog park and at Great America amusement park.
Here’s what you may have missed on the blog last week:
- Girl on the Verge by Pintip Dunn: Review & $25 Gift Card Giveaway – Still time to enter to win the gift card!
- Bite-Sized Reviews of The Names They Gave Us, The Crown’s Fate, Tell Me Three Things and We Were Liars
- May Wrap-Up & Best of the Bunch – See what you may have missed on the blog in May and what my favorite read was!
- June Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway – Link up your June discussion posts and enter to win!
- Royal Bastards by Andrew Shvarts: A Deliciously Dastardly Read!
Next week on FYFA:
- Violet Grenade by Victoria Scott: Review & Giveaway
- May Wrap-Up Round-Up Giveaway
- Let’s Discuss: Something bookish! 🙂
Latest FYFA Giveaway Winners!!:
Congrats to my three latest winners!
- Dena @ Batch of Books won The Best Kind of Magic by Crystal Cestari
- John Smith won Kill All Happies by Rachel Cohn
- Danielle Hammelef won the April Wrap-Up Round-Up Giveaway and she chose The Secret of a Heart Note by Stacey Lee
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 4th – Kelly @ Kelly in Hali‘s Birthday
- June 9th – Dual Reads‘ Blogoversary
NetGalley:
I was all set and ready to say that I was good this week and didn’t get any new books, but then I remembered that I got approved for Nyxia (which I’d requested a little while back). Ah well, no regrets—this one sounds good!
Purchased:
I got my pre-order of The Crown’s Fate last week, but I forgot to take pics. Needed to fix that, of course! And, of course I had to get a picture of my name in the acknowledgements
Great Discussions/Goings On Around the Blogosphere:
- If you’re at BEA/BookCon right now or headed to ALA later this month, Lauren @ Shooting Stars Reviews gives this great list of other things you can do in Chicago or New York!
- Jackie @ Too Much of a Book Nerd tells us about The Power of Pingbacks: How to Properly Tag Someone
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 FOLLOW ME BACK by A.V. Geiger and receive a signed bookplate! You will also be entered to win a grand prize #EricThornObsessed backpack filled with fangirl themed goodies. (ends 6/5)
- Pre-order DIVIDING EDEN by Joelle Charbonneau and receive a signed postcard, a set of 4 stickers and a flashing LED ring. If you enter from a tour stop store, you’ll also be entered into a drawing to win 1 of 10 t-shirts. (ends 6/5)
- Pre-order ONCE AND FOR ALL by Sarah Dessen and receive a pocket planner and you’ll also be entered to win a trip for two to Emerald Isle, the beachside town that inspires the setting in Sarah’s books! (ends 6/6)
- Pre-order ROAR by Cora Carmack and receive a Skyfire pendant and Stormheart Chart in a cloth bag! (ends 6/12)
- Pre-order SAINTS AND MISFITS by S.K. Ali and receive a signed hijabulous bookmark & postcard with your name in Arabic. (INT) (ends 6/12)
- ***Pre-order OBSIDIO by Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman and you’ll be entered for a chance to have your name listed in the casualty list in the book! (ends 6/13 at NOON PACIFIC)
- 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 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 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 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)
- May Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway – Last chance to link up your May discussions and enter the giveaway!
Even More Awesome Giveaways on Other Sites:
- Head over to The Book Disciple for a chance to win a $10 Amazon or iBooks gift card!
- 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!
- Head over to Caffeinated Book Reviewer for a chance to win Wildfire, Slightly South of Simple and Iluminae
- You can win an ARC of The Last Magician
- 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)
- Head over to Lisa Loves Literature for a chance to enter FLYLeF’s 2nd anniversary giveaway. They’re giving away a one-month subscription box to Owl Crate or $35 Amazon gift card for an international winner! (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!
Sounds like a fun week and a great visit with the kid’s friend over. I got my copy of The Crown’s Fate last week and spent the last few days listening to The Crown’s Game on audio to refresh my memory. Now I am so ready to dive in to the finale. Hope you have a wonderful week, Nicole!
Hope you end up loving The Crown’s Fate!!
It is nice that your kids had a friend visit. I miss my pool. The water is always freezing here but I know my kids don’t care. I hope you have another great week!
I don’t know how much longer our pool is going to last. Every year we think the liner’s going to give out or something else major is going to die—we’re not willing to put money into it anymore. Hopefully it will keep chugging for a few more years!
I wanted Nyxia at BEA, but they ran out of copies, so I’m now waiting to get approved for it on NG. Crosses fingers. Great stack this week.
Grace @ Books of Love
Good luck! I hope you get it!
Glad you had a great week! I’ve never been to Great America but I bet it’s awesome. 🙂
Nyxia looks great.
Nice review of Royal Bastards by the way. I was looking forward to it but wavering a little after seeing a lukewarm review, so yours was nice to see another take. I love shifting loyalties and if the book reminds you of Robin Hobb that’s a plus! I am going to try this.
I hope you love Royal Bastards—I feel like the worldbuilding isn’t as elaborate or involved as Hobb’s but the shifting loyalties and the subterfuge (and the general style) all reminded me of Hobb!
That’s great about the friend visit. I’m sure having a friend move was a bit rough! Thanks for sharing my blog post. 🙂
Yeah, I think I was actually the one in the family who was most sad because the mom was a very good friend of mine. Wish she could have come for the visit too, but it was nice to see her daughter!
OOh nice!! I liked The Crown’s Fate! And it’s always cool to see my name in a book! It’s just surreal! I wish I could go to ALA but it’s the same weekend my parents are going out of town and I have to dog sit. Sigh…need to get to some bookish event soon! I’m going crazy! LOL!
Here’s my STS
Have a GREAT day!
Old Follower 🙂
Too bad you can’t make it to ALA—I was wondering if I’d be seeing you there!
That is super cool that you got mentioned in the acknowledgements! Have a great week!
It was exciting to see my name in print!
I never got around to finishing my egalley of The Crown’s Fate. I wonder if I downloaded it to my Kindle app so that maybe it isn’t expired yet. 🙂 Thanks for including my giveaway!
Yes, if you downloaded it, it will still be there for you. Hope you have it!
Wow, look at you showing up in the acknowledgments! Super cool!
It’s fun to see your name in a book!
It must have been nice both for you and the kids to hang out with a friend who has moved away!
I love how organized you always are, Nicole 🙂 Thanks for helping us other bloggers keeping track of stuff 😉
Have a wonderful week and happy reading.
Ha! I love that you just called me organized. I obviously am a fantastic faker!
It always amazes me how my kids can get in the water even when freezing! I guess that living here in New England that’s the way to go LOL but not me! No thank you 🙂 Glad to hear you guys had fun! 🙂 and yay! your name looks awesome on The Crown’s Fate! Congrats 🙂
I’m a wimp—it has to be at LEAST 80 degrees outside and the pool has to be somewhere in the upper 70s or I just can’t bear it. 🙂
Thank you so much for mentioning my post! I feel honoured :’) and wow look at all these pre-order deals! I’ll definitely go and preorder some of these books now! XD
I always love to spread the word about great posts! Thanks for writing it!
I’m running way behind on blog visits after a few days away from the computer so forgive the quick stop here! Enjoy your new books!
No worries! I can certainly relate.