Month: March 2021

March 2021 Monthly Wrap-Up & Best of the Bunch

March 2021 Monthly Wrap-Up & Best of the Bunch

My Goings-On in March: I now share so many details in my Sunday Posts about everything that’s been going on that it feels really redundant to share here as well. So I’m only sharing the most important things that happened this month. Here are the things stand out to me this month: Most of this month has been spent planning for future things… Vacation planning. We haven’t been on a vacation in almost two years, so […]

Posted March 31, 2021 in Best of the Bunch, Monthly Recap / 11 Comments
Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 3/28/21

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 3/28/21

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): Two of my three kids had spring break this week, which basically meant we just watched more TV than usual. What I Read: […]

Posted March 28, 2021 in Uncategorized / 13 Comments
March 2021 Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up Link-Up & Giveaway

March 2021 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 February giveaway ends soon, so head over there for your last chance to enter! This is the link-up AND giveaway for our February 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 […]

Bite-Sized Reviews of Cybils Nominees: A Game of Fox and Squirrels, Wishes and Wellingtons, Mulrox and the Malcognitos, Cleo Porter and the Body Electric, and Another Dreadful Fairy Book

Bite-Sized Reviews of Cybils Nominees: A Game of Fox and Squirrels, Wishes and Wellingtons, Mulrox and the Malcognitos, Cleo Porter and the Body Electric, and Another Dreadful Fairy Book

Yes, I know I’m STILL working my way through all my Cybils reviews. I just don’t want to leave any of these books out! So, even though the awards have been doled out, I still want to feature some very quick reviews of the nominees I read since there were so many good ones. I’m calling this the Long-Titles Cybils List. I hope these bite-sized reviews will be enough to feed your fiction addiction. This book […]

Posted March 23, 2021 in Cybils, Reviews / 5 Comments
Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 3/21/21

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 3/21/21

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 snowed this week, but now we’re back to beautiful weather! What I Read: I started reading Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas. I […]

Posted March 21, 2021 in Sunday Post / 19 Comments
I’ve Been Stalking Your Goodreads. Let’s Discuss.

I’ve Been Stalking Your Goodreads. Let’s Discuss.

I’ve recently been in one of those moods where I glance through the 100+ audiobooks in my Hoopla Favorites list and … just don’t see anything I want to listen to. I know that’s utterly ridiculous—there are so many fantastic books on the list! But sometimes you just don’t feel inspired to read what’s right in front of you. I typically see my Hoopla audiobooks as “freebie” books. So often, my reading feels scheduled because […]

Posted March 18, 2021 in Let's Discuss / 18 Comments
List of Ten by Halli Gomez: Review & Gomez’s Top Ten Addictions

List of Ten by Halli Gomez: Review & Gomez’s Top Ten Addictions

Today I’m featuring LIST OF TEN by Halli Gomez, a heart-wrenching #Own Voices contemporary about a boy with Tourette Syndrome and OCD who’s counting down to the day he will commit suicide. Read on for my thoughts on the book and then make sure you also check out Halli’s list of top ten addictions! (But don’t worry—it’s much more lighthearted than the list of ten in the book—I feature this list a lot because it […]

Posted March 16, 2021 in Author Top Ten Lists, Reviews / 11 Comments
Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 3/14/21

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 3/14/21

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 some absolutely gorgeous weather this week, so we tried to spend a little bit of time outside. It’s supposed to snow […]

Posted March 14, 2021 in Sunday Post / 22 Comments
Rosie Loves Jack by Mel Darbon: Spotlight & Giveaway

Rosie Loves Jack by Mel Darbon: Spotlight & Giveaway

Welcome to the Rosie Loves Jack Blog Tour! I decided to participate in this blog tour because there aren’t many books out there that feature a main character with Down syndrome. I haven’t read this one yet, but it seems like a worthy read, and I wanted to give all of my readers a chance to win a copy of their own! Read on for a fun game of Two Truths and a Lie with […]

Posted March 12, 2021 in Giveaways (Ended) / 3 Comments
Balancing Spending on the Blog, Making Money, and All the Moral Dilemmas that Go Along With It

Balancing Spending on the Blog, Making Money, and All the Moral Dilemmas that Go Along With It

I’ve recently been thinking a lot about supporting local bookstores as much as possible. I’ve always supported local bookshops by attending author events and buying books at those, but they haven’t been happening in person recently and I haven’t attended a ton of online events. In the past, I’ve sent books for US giveaways through Amazon because it was the cheapest method, but during COVID I’ve tried to send via local booksellers or Bookshop.org (which […]

Posted March 9, 2021 in Let's Discuss / 25 Comments