Month: November 2020

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 11/29/20

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 11/29/20

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): Thanksgiving! I hope everyone here in the States had a nice holiday, even if things are a bit different this year. The only difference […]

Posted November 29, 2020 in Sunday Post / 22 Comments
November 2020 Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up Link-Up & Giveaway

November 2020 Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up Link-Up & Giveaway

The Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up is hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight. The October giveaway ends soon, 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, we’ll put up a monthly wrap-up link-up post […]

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 11/22/20

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 11/22/20

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): Jade’s home! Jade came home on Friday and she’s planning to stay for the foreseeable future since pretty much all of her classes are […]

Posted November 22, 2020 in Sunday Post / 15 Comments
Bite-Sized Reviews of Cybils Nominees: Kiki’s Delivery Service; Embassy of the Dead; The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez; Middle School Bites; and Into the Tall, Tall Grass

Bite-Sized Reviews of Cybils Nominees: Kiki’s Delivery Service; Embassy of the Dead; The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez; Middle School Bites; and Into the Tall, Tall Grass

As my regular readers know, I’m a round one judge for the Cybils Awards in the Middle Grade Speculative Fiction category. Because of that, I’ve been reading LOTS of books lately! I’m not allowed to share any details about our process for choosing the finalists, but I am allowed (and encouraged) to review the books as I read, so I figured I’d share four of them with you today. I hope these bite-sized reviews will […]

Posted November 19, 2020 in Cybils, Reviews / 10 Comments
Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 11/15/20

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 11/15/20

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): Reading More reading for the Cybils Awards! I finished listening to  Into the Tall, Tall Grass and then listened to Ember Falls. I read The […]

Posted November 15, 2020 in Sunday Post / 10 Comments
Bite-Sized Reviews of Cybils Nominees: Paola Santiago and the River of Tears, Mañanaland, The Copycat, & Shuri

Bite-Sized Reviews of Cybils Nominees: Paola Santiago and the River of Tears, Mañanaland, The Copycat, & Shuri

As my regular readers know, I’m a round one judge for the Cybils Awards in the Middle Grade Speculative Fiction category. Because of that, I’ve been reading LOTS of books lately! I’m not allowed to share any details about our process for choosing the finalists, but I am allowed (and encouraged) to review the books as I read, so I figured I’d share four of them with you today. I hope these bite-sized reviews will […]

Posted November 12, 2020 in Cybils, Reviews / 4 Comments
The Would You Rather Book Tag

The Would You Rather Book Tag

I’m not sure where this version of this book tag actually originated, but I saw it over at a GREAT read. (I’ve definitely seen other versions of it as well.) I thought it was a really fun one and decided to jump in! Would you rather only read physical books for the rest of your life or only audiobooks? This is kind of hard, actually. I lean toward physical books, but this is the rest […]

Posted November 10, 2020 in Let's Discuss, Tags / 11 Comments
Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 11/8/20

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 11/8/20

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): LET US REJOICE!!! Did anyone do anything this week besides stare at the news and stress? Because that basically describes my week. Tuesday night I […]

Posted November 8, 2020 in Uncategorized / 13 Comments
Breaking the News from National Geographic: Giveaway and a Fun Quiz!

Breaking the News from National Geographic: Giveaway and a Fun Quiz!

Welcome to the Breaking the News Blog Tour! This book sounded really interesting to me (and timely), so I’m eager to see what it has to say. After recently watching The Social Dilemma on Netflix and hearing that fake news spreads six times faster than actual news, I’ve realized what a huge problem this actually is. Then, of course, there are certain politicians (who will remain nameless) that like to throw out the term Fake […]

Posted November 6, 2020 in Giveaways (Ended) / 8 Comments
October 2020 Wrap-Up and Best of the Bunch

October 2020 Wrap-Up and Best of the Bunch

My Goings-On in October: Biting my nails over politics. Please, please, please let this election turn out to be a good thing and let us get back to some kind of normal! Quarantining. We spent the last two weeks indoors because my daughter was exposed to COVID through her high school swim team. She tested negative, and it was no big deal, really. Let’s face it, we haven’t been going out much lately anyway. Basement […]

Posted November 2, 2020 in Best of the Bunch, Monthly Recap / 22 Comments