Year: 2019

Sunday (Saturday) Post: Book Pre-order Incentives & Giveaways Galore – 1/27/19

Sunday (Saturday) Post: Book Pre-order Incentives & Giveaways Galore – 1/27/19

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): I’m posting this on Saturday this week since I have a blog tour review scheduled for tomorrow. I got lots of blog hopping done this […]

Posted January 26, 2019 in Sunday Post / 44 Comments
Why I Love the Book Blog Discussion Challenge (Even When I Fail)

Why I Love the Book Blog Discussion Challenge (Even When I Fail)

Here’s a sad fact: I didn’t make my goal for the Discussion Challenge in 2018. This wouldn’t be so bad, except it’s my challenge (along with Shannon, of course). How do I fail my own challenge? There’s a teensy part of me that worried about this. A nagging little compartment of my brain that said, “You shouldn’t be hosting a discussion challenge if you’re not going to be the ultimate book discusser. Maybe you just don’t have […]

Posted January 25, 2019 in Let's Discuss / 36 Comments
Top Ten 2018 Books I Totally Meant to Read

Top Ten 2018 Books I Totally Meant to Read

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is: Top Ten 2018 Books I Totally Meant to Read I know you guys are astonished that I’m posting a TTT two weeks in a row. I’m sort of flabbergasted myself. But I always like these end/beginning of the year posts, so I thought I’d join in again. Here are ten (of the bajillion) books that released in 2018 that I really, […]

Posted January 22, 2019 in Top Ten Tuesday / 56 Comments
Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Incentives & Giveaways Galore – 1/20/19

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Incentives & Giveaways Galore – 1/20/19

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): I’m in a serious slump here, guys. The only thing I’ve really gotten done is organizing my house. I’ve gotten a little crazy about […]

Posted January 20, 2019 in Sunday Post / 36 Comments
Bite-Sized Reviews of Dragon Pearl and The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary

Bite-Sized Reviews of Dragon Pearl and The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary

I’ve got two reviews for you today, both MG: one is sci-fi, and the other is a contemporary in verse. I hope these bite-sized reviews will be enough to feed your fiction addiction! This book was a fun adventure based on Korean mythology and set in space. Right there, I’m pretty much sold. When Min hears that her brother is being accused of being a traitor and defecting from the Space Force, she doesn’t believe it […]

Posted January 18, 2019 in Reviews / 16 Comments
Top Ten Books on My 2019 TBR

Top Ten Books on My 2019 TBR

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Today’s (actually, last week’s) Top Ten Tuesday is: Top Ten Eighteen Books on My 2019 TBR (First Half of the Year) I know everyone else already did this topic last week, but I… didn’t. And I felt like doing it now. I’m also not featuring ten, but instead I’m featuring three from each month. Because I want to. And there are no rules to blogging. So, […]

Posted January 15, 2019 in Top Ten Tuesday / 50 Comments
Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Incentives & Giveaways Galore – 1/13/19

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Incentives & Giveaways Galore – 1/13/19

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): I spent my blogging time this week mostly catching up on replying to comments and commenting back (“catching up” is a relative term here—I […]

Posted January 13, 2019 in Sunday Post / 46 Comments
Things I Learned About Fairy Tales By Reading the Grimm’s Versions

Things I Learned About Fairy Tales By Reading the Grimm’s Versions

I have a collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales that I’ve owned for as long as I can remember, possibly even since birth. It was published in 1973, a year before I was born, and it seems like the type of book my eccentric dad or one of his eccentric friends would have thought was really funny to gift to a baby due to all the cannibalism and cutting off of body parts, etc. Anyway, I’m fairly […]

Posted January 8, 2019 in Let's Discuss / 53 Comments
Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Incentives & Giveaways Galore – 1/6/19

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Incentives & Giveaways Galore – 1/6/19

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): This was the last week of Christmas break for my kids, so I’ll be getting back to a normal schedule next week. It seems […]

Posted January 6, 2019 in Sunday Post / 28 Comments
December 2018 Wrap-Up & Best of the Bunch

December 2018 Wrap-Up & Best of the Bunch

  It feels a little weird to do a December wrap-up after I’ve already done a yearly one, but somehow I have this incomplete feeling if I don’t talk about what went on in December! So, here it is… My Goings On in December: I finished my rough draft of my YA novel and started plotting a new MG. I’m setting the YA aside for a while to let it percolate. (It’s sure to get […]

Posted January 4, 2019 in Monthly Recap / 27 Comments