Month: June 2019

My Top Ten Unpopular Bookish Opinions

My Top Ten Unpopular Bookish Opinions

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is an audiobook freebie, but I chose to keep it simple: Top Ten Unpopular Bookish Opinions I thought this would be a really hard topic because, honestly, I didn’t feel like most of my views are all that controversial. But then when I started exploring my past discussion posts, I found that I went through a period where I was talking […]

Posted June 11, 2019 in Let's Discuss, Top Ten Tuesday / 79 Comments
Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 6/9/19

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 6/9/19

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): My daughter’s been having a fabulous time in Costa Rica! We’ve been able to get texts when they’re in an area with wi-fi, and it […]

Posted June 9, 2019 in Sunday Post / 48 Comments
Fun with SPAM! #7

Fun with SPAM! #7

I’m excited to say that spammers have figured out ways around those pesky checkboxes in the comments section, and I now have plenty of new material for these spam posts again! So… It’s time for a new installment of Fun with SPAM, where we peek into the abyss of the Spam folder to find a few gems and imagine … what if I were really going to reply to these random crazy comments?  Take a look […]

Posted June 6, 2019 in Fun with Spam / 46 Comments
Bite-Sized Reviews of I Love You So Mochi, Girl Against the Universe, Midsummer’s Mayhem, and Nikki Tesla and the Ferret-Proof Death Ray

Bite-Sized Reviews of I Love You So Mochi, Girl Against the Universe, Midsummer’s Mayhem, and Nikki Tesla and the Ferret-Proof Death Ray

I’ve got four reviews for you today: two YA contemporaries, a MG contemporary fantasy, and a MG adventure. I hope these bite-sized reviews will be enough to feed your fiction addiction! I picked this book up on a whim when I saw two glowing reviews from fellow bloggers (Dani @ Perspective of a Writer and Sam @ We Live and Breathe Books), and I’m so glad I did! This is the type of book that […]

Posted June 4, 2019 in Reviews / 31 Comments
Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 6/2/19

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 6/2/19

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 went to a neighborhood party on Friday night and met a bunch of the neighbors. Sadly, we’ve lived here 14 years, and we […]

Posted June 2, 2019 in Sunday Post / 40 Comments
May 2019 Wrap-Up & Best of the Bunch

May 2019 Wrap-Up & Best of the Bunch

  My Goings On in May: I went to the SCBWI Marvelous Midwest writing conference! I learned a lot and found some great inspiration. One of these days I’ll manage to post a recap. I attended an online class on verse novels taught by Cordelia Jensen. I started a new editing project, a book called Momoire by Alyssa DeRose. School finished up, so the kids are all now home for the summer. That means track […]

Posted June 1, 2019 in Best of the Bunch, Monthly Recap / 27 Comments
June 2019 Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway

June 2019 Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway

Welcome to the June monthly link-up for the 2019 Book Blog Discussion Challenge hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight! You guys have been posting some fabulous discussions! I really feel like the creative juices must be flowing in the blogosphere!  🙂 The winner of our April discussion challenge giveaway was Malka @ Paper Procrastinators! She chose a pre-order of the UK version of Wayward Son as […]