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):
- Blogging. I’m back! Look at me, I actually blogged and visited blogs this week. I spent most of my blog-hopping time reading and commenting on the discussions linked up to the challenge (um, I realized there are still some from August I haven’t gotten to!). But I should be able to do even more visiting this week!
- Family pictures. I think we’ll finally be getting our family pics this afternoon. Weather kept us from getting them last week. I have zero family pictures that I can hang on my walls without making my oldest miserable (she is not fond of pictures of her before her transition), so I’m excited to finally have some nice ones!
- What I Read:
- I read Ice! Poems About Polar Life and Hello, Earth!: Poems to Our Planet, both of which are nominated for Cybils in the category I’m judging. I’ll be writing bite-sized reviews of all the Cybils books, so watch for those!
- I also started reading Rewritten by Tara Gilboy and Violets Are Blue by Barbara Dee (don’t ask me why I started reading both at once – one’s digital and one’s physical, but it’s still silly, I know).
- I finished listening to The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins and started listening to Tristan Strong Destroys the World by Kwame Mbalia.
Here’s what you may have missed on the blog since my last Sunday Post:
- September 2021 Monthly Wrap-Up & Best of the Bunch
- Bite-Sized Reviews of The Woods Are Always Watching, Pie in the Sky, Shatter the Sky, and How to Find What You’re Not Looking For
Book Blogger Birthdays and Blogoversaries:
Here are the birthdays and blogoversaries for this week! I hope you’ll go wish these bloggers well on their special days! Make sure you check out the calendar to see what you might have just missed or what’s coming up. (If you want to be added to the calendar, it’s easy! Just fill out the birthday/blogoversary form.
- 10/18 – Michelle @ Book Briefs‘ Birthday
- 10/22 – Lisa @ Lisa Loves Literature‘s Birthday
- 10/22 – Suzanne @ The Bookish Libra‘s Birthday
Book Haul:
NetGalley:
I got approved for In Every Generation by Kendare Blake. Combining my love of Blake with my love of Buffy pretty much feels like a recipe for the perfect book! I also got approved for Feather and Flame by Livia Blackburne. I really enjoyed Blackburne’s Rosemarked Duology, and I tend to love Disney retellings, so I’m excited for this one! Finally, just yesterday I was approved for Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen. Thanks to the publishers for these awesome books!
Great Discussions/Goings On Around the Blogosphere:
- Marie @ Drizzle and Hurricane Books tells us how she uses Notion for blogging.
- Sam @ We Live and Breathe Books asks if she’s too late to comment. (I commented on this post three weeks late, so I’m going with no.)
- Malka @ Paper Procrastinators gives us A User Guide to NetGalley
- Louis @ Monstrumology tells us about her fanfiction
NEW Pre-order Campaigns
Head over to my new Pre-Order Campaigns Page to see ALL of the pre-order deals, including pictures!!
Here’s the list of all the pre-order campaigns that I just added to the list this week:
Pre-order THE BALLAD OF DINAH CALDWELL by Kate Brauning to receive a Halloween short story, “Godzilla Girls.” (Ends 10/29?) CLICK FOR DETAILS
Pre-order WHEN WE WERE THEM by Laura Taylor Namey from Mysterious Galaxy to receive a signed/personalized copy, stickers and a bookmark! (Ends 11/1) CLICK FOR DETAILS
Pre-order THERE ARE TRANS PEOPLE HERE by H. Melt from a participating indie to receive a READ TRANS POETS print! (Ends 11/15) CLICK FOR DETAILS
Pre-order HEARTLESS PRINCE by Angela De Vito and Leigh Dragoon to receive a signed bookplate, a print, and a bookmark! (US only) (Ends 11/1) CLICK FOR DETAILS
Awesome Giveaways:
(Make sure you scroll to see them all!)
- Twitter Giveaways:
- On my blog, you can enter the giveaway for the October 2021 Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway and the September Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up & Giveaway. You can also enter to win a copy of Frankie & Bug.
- Head over to a GREAT read and enter Jessica’s Creeptastic Giveaway! (Which includes a copy of White Smoke.)
- Head over to Book Briefs for a chance to win BRIARHEART and more!
- Enter to win a collection of Simon Teen’s new fall books
- Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight is celebrating her 8th blogoversary with a giveaway!
- Head over to The Children’s Book Review’s Giveaway Page to win A WOLF’S CURSE and more!
- Head over to KidLit411 for a chance to win this week’s giveaways!
- Head over to Lisa Loves Literature for a chance to win 3 books from Lisa’s ARC pile.
- Head over to Literary Ramblings to enter to win this week’s giveaways!
- Head over to JeanBookNerd for a chance to win The Charm Offensive and more!
- Head over to Bookhounds YA for a chance to win A BEAST SO BEAUTIFUL, SALT MAGIC, BRIARHEART, and more! (Check the sidebar)
- Lots of blogs participating in the October 2021 Of Books Giveaway Hop!
- Book Riot has lots of giveaways, including A Year of Free Books!
Lots of good stuff! Have any giveaways or great discussions happening on your site right now? Feel free to share them in the comments!
Welcome back. I hope the family pics go well and the older ones probably didn’t include Digit either which is a tragedy.
Anne – Books of My Heart This is my Sunday Post
Unfortunately, we still didn’t get the dogs in the pics. It’s hard enough to get all six of us, adding three dogs into the mix would be insane! (I did wish we could have, though.)
Enjoy your NetGalley books. I have a few left to read in the next couple of months too.
We used to get family pictures done before we had digital camera and then we just had someone take a picture of us because they charge so much to have them done professionally.
Yes, professional pics are definitely expensive!
Oh! I hope we’ll get to see some of those family pictures! The ones we have are pretty recent, from my brother’s wedding about a year ago, but they aren’t hung up yet. The ones hung up are over 10 years old!
And I’m so glad you had a chance to blog and blog hop! I’ve been playing catch up as well, and have commented on posts from as far back as January 2021! But I appreciate you mentioning my more recent post!
I hope you have a wonderful week!
I always feel bad when I’m going back to really old posts, but I’d still rather not miss out on the discussions – it’s not like they expire!
Awww. That’s so awesome that you are doing a family portrait. We used to do a cousin’s picture as kids, but we never really did that. I think they are great though
These are just with our immediate family (including my mom). That’s hard enough for us to coordinate! 🙂
I’m curious about the new Blake one especially since reading her latest. And yay for new family pictures!
Hope you have a wonderful week!
I’m such a big Buffy fan, that Blake’s newest book was a no-brainer for me. I definitely needed to request it the moment I heard about it!
Ooo, curious about In Every Generation. Enjoy.
I have such high hopes for that book!
Hope your pictures came out well. Glad you are back to blogging. It must mean your manuscript is done. That’s awesome! Thanks for mentioning my giveaways. Natalie @ Literary Rambles
Yes! I finished my latest draft, and I’ve actually already gotten feedback back from one person. I have a little bit of work to do, but I think I’m VERY close to being able to send this one to my agent. Cross your fingers for me!
I hope your pictures went well, or go well, if you haven’t done them yet! How fun!!
I’m sort of all over the place when it comes to blogging and commenting these days. hah I think I might take most of November off or something…just one less thing to stress about for a little bit!
Sometimes you just need to give yourself a break. I’m glad that I did take some time off from the majority of my blogging because it enabled me to finish the latest draft of my book, but it’s nice to be back!
Nice on the family photos! I hope we’ll get to see the finished product. I have memories of getting those done when I was a kid. 🙂
I’ll definitely post a few of the pics once I get them!
Glad to see you’re back! <3
It’s nice to be back in the swing of things!
Have fun getting your family photos done! We haven’t done one since Robin was little, but there are lots of snapshots over the years. (Mostly taken by me, though, so there aren’t many with me in them.) Maybe I’ll get my parents to take one of the three of us on Christmas.
Your new books look great! I have been eyeing Skin of the Sea. I hope it’s as good as it sounds.
Have a great week!
We do have snapshots, but even those have gotten much rarer over the years. Plus, I find that we have a lot more of my one daughter than the other two kids, just because she tends to do more stuff with us. (The other two are happier to keep to themselves and their video games.) LOL!
Welcome back! I hope the new pics will be (are?) awesome. Your daughter sure deserves them to mirror her new image (not sure if “image” is the right word here, but you know what I mean). Congrats on your approvals too!
I’ve only seen a few of the pics so far, but I love the ones I’ve seen. Can’t wait to see them all!
Welcome back! I’m also trying to get back into blogging now that my summer chaos has died down. Catching up on comments seems to be a never-ending struggle. I want to visit everybody’s blogs, but there are so many!
So very true! For most of my blogging career, I was great about replying to all of my comments and commenting back, but this past year I’ve fallen way behind. I have a plugin that tracks my un-replied comments, and it now says I have almost 1300 comments that have no reply! I really wish I could get the plugin to reset starting right now, but turning it off and back on didn’t seem to do that. It’s a lost cause now!
This is about the time my brother’s family usually takes their family pictures. I always love having them of my niece and nephew. I need to bug them to find out when they are doing it! I’ve been getting behind on visiting other blogs. Trying to do better, but this month, and since school started back, it’s all been crazy! Glad you’re having some time to get back, and it looks like you got some good books this week. Thanks for mentioning my birthday this week too!
Yes, happy birthday!! Tell those students to be extra nice to you today. 🙂