Year: 2018

Bite-Sized Reviews of After the Fire, Watersnakes, Into the Bright Unknown and House Arrest

Bite-Sized Reviews of After the Fire, Watersnakes, Into the Bright Unknown and House Arrest

I’ve got four reviews for you today: a YA contemp, a YA historical fantasy, a graphic novel, and a MG contemp in verse. I hope these bite-sized reviews will be enough to feed your fiction addiction! If, like me, you’re fascinated by stories about cults, this book will be just what you’ve been searching for. It explores what happens to people after they leave a cult environment—in this case, unwillingly. I love that the book looks at all […]

Posted December 6, 2018 in Reviews / 14 Comments
Are You An Email Hoarder? Let’s Discuss

Are You An Email Hoarder? Let’s Discuss

My husband just changed some administrative stuff on our email accounts to make things work more smoothly, and he noticed that I had over 10GB of email saved. He gently suggested that I might want to delete one or two (thousand) things. I wasn’t surprised. Especially when I considered the fact that I really don’t ever delete anything. I went and checked out my Feed Your Fiction Addiction email, which I assumed—correctly—was one of the […]

Posted December 4, 2018 in Let's Discuss / 45 Comments
Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Incentives & Giveaways Galore – 12/2/18

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Incentives & Giveaways Galore – 12/2/18

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. This past week on FYFA (and in my life): It’s December. Can you believe it’s December? 2018 is almost done, and I sort of wish I could say I’d accomplished more in 2018, […]

Posted December 2, 2018 in Sunday Post / 24 Comments
November 2018 Wrap-Up & Best of the Bunch

November 2018 Wrap-Up & Best of the Bunch

  My Goings On in November: I’ve been working on finishing up my first draft of the YA novel I wrote last NaNoWriMo. (This past year I focused mostly on editing the MG book I’m now querying and doing more writing workshops and study.) As of writing this post, I’m almost there. My goal was to finish in November, and I was so close last night, but I wasn’t feeling all that well, and I realized I was basically […]

Posted December 1, 2018 in Best of the Bunch, Monthly Recap / 28 Comments
December 2018 Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway

December 2018 Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway

Welcome to the December monthly link-up for the 2018 Book Blog Discussion Challenge hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight! December is festive, with all kinds of holidays (and hopefully at least some time off if you don’t celebrate!). And before you know it, it’ll be a new year, new start! And we’ll be posting next year’s sign ups… you know, when we get around to it […]

Looking for a List of 2019 Reading/Book Blogging Challenges? Look No Further!

Looking for a List of 2019 Reading/Book Blogging Challenges? Look No Further!

My annual list of book blog and reading challenges is up! You can find it here: MASTER LIST OF 2019 READING CHALLENGES This year, I decided to put the list up as a “page” on my blog instead of its own post. For … reasons. I’m actually not sure now if they were good reasons, but I did it that way so I’m sticking to it (because it would be more confusing to remove the page […]

Posted November 29, 2018 in Challenges / 69 Comments
November Wrap-Up Round-Up Link-Up & Make Me Read It Giveaway

November Wrap-Up Round-Up Link-Up & Make Me Read It Giveaway

It’s time for the November Wrap-Up Round-Up! The October giveaway ends in a couple of days, so head over there for your last chance to enter! This is the link-up AND giveaway for our November wrap-up posts. If you don’t already know about the Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up, read the information below: Every month, at the end of the month, I’ll put up a monthly wrap-up link-up post where everyone can link up their month-end posts. […]

Explorer Academy: The Nebula Secret by Trudy Trueit – Review & Giveaway

Explorer Academy: The Nebula Secret by Trudy Trueit – Review & Giveaway

This is a fun and adventurous first book in a younger middle grade series. Filled with high-tech gadgets and virtual reality(ish) simulations of distant lands, it’s sure to capture readers’ imaginations. At the end of the book, there’s even some real-world discussion of innovations that could lead to the many different types of tech in the book—I loved that real-world tie-in. Cruz’s virtual “journeys” to different lands were interesting—I especially loved the trip to the butterfly conservation […]

Posted November 26, 2018 in Giveaways (Ended), Reviews / 11 Comments
Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Incentives & Giveaways Galore – 11/25/18

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Incentives & Giveaways Galore – 11/25/18

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. This past week on FYFA (and in my life): We had a relaxing Thanksgiving break. Maybe a little too relaxing since we then forgot about my daughter’s gymnastics practice on Saturday. Oops! I […]

Posted November 25, 2018 in Sunday Post / 48 Comments
Fun with SPAM! #5

Fun with SPAM! #5

Something sad has happened lately: I haven’t been getting much Spam. At first I was sort of baffled, but then I realized it’s because, due to the new(ish) GDPR regulations, I added the checkbox about my privacy policy to my comments section. I’ve gone from having hundreds of messages in my Spam folder to only a few! For most people, this would be good news, but for me it means I haven’t been able to write a […]

Posted November 22, 2018 in Fun with Spam, Let's Discuss / 50 Comments