Month: November 2021

Bite-Sized Reviews of Violets Are Blue, Rewritten, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and Closer to Nowhere

Bite-Sized Reviews of Violets Are Blue, Rewritten, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and Closer to Nowhere

Today, I have a MG contemp, a MG contemporary fantasy, a YA dystopian, and a MG contemporary in verse. I hope these bite-sized reviews will be enough to feed your fiction addiction! Violets Are Blue is an incredibly realistic middle-grade depiction of a child dealing with a recent divorce and a mother’s downward spiral into depression and addiction. I think what I loved most about this book is how believable Wren’s thoughts and feelings are. […]

Posted November 4, 2021 in Reviews / 14 Comments
October 2021 Monthly Wrap-Up & Best of the Bunch

October 2021 Monthly Wrap-Up & Best of the Bunch

My Goings-On in October: Here are the things that stand out to me this month: Sending my WIP off to critique partners. I finished my latest draft of my book at the beginning of October and sent it off to some critique partners. I’ve already received some incredibly helpful feedback, and my goal is to get the book to my agent by the end of the year (which is … coming sooner than I realize.) […]

Posted November 2, 2021 in Best of the Bunch, Monthly Recap / 24 Comments
November 2021 Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway

November 2021 Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway

Welcome to the November monthly link-up for the 2021 Book Blog Discussion Challenge hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight! Look, I know we say this every month and it is like beating a dead horse but… is it just us, or is this year flying? Maybe we are just getting old. Honestly, it’s probably that. Either way, old people enjoy discussions too, so keep ’em coming! […]