Year: 2021

Bite-Sized Reviews of Cybils Nominees: Dragon Assassin, The Girl Who Speaks Bear, Mulan: Before the Sword, Bones in the Wall, and The Barren Grounds

Bite-Sized Reviews of Cybils Nominees: Dragon Assassin, The Girl Who Speaks Bear, Mulan: Before the Sword, Bones in the Wall, and The Barren Grounds

The Cybils Awards winners have been announced, and you should definitely check them out! Congrats especially to Rival Magic, which won in the MG spec fic category, which is the category I judged for round one. 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. It will take me quite some time to get to […]

Posted February 18, 2021 in Cybils, Reviews / 3 Comments
Mia Mayhem Series by Kara West, Illustrated by Leeza Hernandez: Black History Month Spotlight

Mia Mayhem Series by Kara West, Illustrated by Leeza Hernandez: Black History Month Spotlight

Since this month is Black History Month, I’m putting a little extra spotlight on some recent books featuring Black main characters. This is the second feature: a review of the latest three books in the Mia Mayhem chapter book series! The Mia Mayhem chapter book series is super cute and shows kids that anyone can be a superhero! I love the diversity in this series. Not only is the main character Black, but other kids […]

Posted February 16, 2021 in Black History Month, Reviews / 0 Comments
Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 2/14/21

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 2/14/21

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): Reminder – Enter my 8th blogoversary giveaway! And check out the new Pre-Order Campaign Page. Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone. We don’t really celebrate around […]

Posted February 14, 2021 in Sunday Post / 26 Comments
Unbiased Reviews: Is There Such a Thing?

Unbiased Reviews: Is There Such a Thing?

Every once in a while I’ll see someone talk about how they don’t trust certain reviewers because they think their reviews are probably biased. I’ve thought a lot about this. What does it mean to be biased, and can we really ever claim not to be biased in our reviews? After all, biases can’t be helped. Even if we did absolutely everything we could to avoid conscious biases, what about subconscious biases? Lately I’ve been […]

Posted February 11, 2021 in Let's Discuss / 32 Comments
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel by Jason Reynolds and Danica Novgorodoff

Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel by Jason Reynolds and Danica Novgorodoff

As my regular readers know, I make an effort to feature POC authors on the blog regularly. Still, since this month is Black History Month, I figure there’s no harm in putting a little extra spotlight on some recent books by Black authors. Here’s the first feature: a review of the graphic novel version of Long Way Down, which I was very excited to get my hands on! I absolutely loved Long Way Down when I read […]

Posted February 9, 2021 in Black History Month, Reviews / 11 Comments
Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 2/7/21

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 2/7/21

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): Reminder – Enter my 8th blogoversary giveaway! And check out the new Pre-Order Campaign Page. AMM Announcements were made! Megan and I announced that we’ll […]

Posted February 7, 2021 in Sunday Post / 35 Comments
City of the Plague God by Sarwat Chadda: An Exciting and Enlightening Read!

City of the Plague God by Sarwat Chadda: An Exciting and Enlightening Read!

One grade school memory that stands out most vividly for me is the huge project I did on Mesopotamia when I was probably in about fifth grade or so. I was entranced by all things Mesopotamian—the culture, the mythology, the political landscape, even the geography. Now, I’ll confess that I don’t remember a whole lot of it anymore, but all these (many) years later, something still thrills within me at the mere mention of the […]

Posted February 4, 2021 in Reviews / 6 Comments
January 2021 Monthly Wrap-Up (& Some December Updates Too)

January 2021 Monthly Wrap-Up (& Some December Updates Too)

My Goings-On in January: 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. And, I mean, mostly we’re just staying home. So I won’t share unless something exceptional happened during the month. Only two things stand out to me this month: I finished my stint as a Cybils Awards round 1 judge and we picked our finalists in […]

Posted February 2, 2021 in Best of the Bunch, Monthly Recap / 13 Comments
Feed Your Fiction Addiction’s 8th Blogoversary Giveaway!

Feed Your Fiction Addiction’s 8th Blogoversary Giveaway!

Feed Your Fiction Addiction turned eight yesterday, so it’s time to celebrate! Blogging is a huge part of my life, and I almost can’t remember the “before.” Thank you to everyone who’s been part of this journey with me! In the past eight years, I’ve posted: Over 1972 total posts (I’ve deleted some over the years, so it’s actually well over this number.) 227 discussions 1082 reviews (Some of these were made private when I changed […]

February 2021 Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway

February 2021 Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway

Welcome to the February monthly link-up for the 2021 Book Blog Discussion Challenge hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight! Well, 2021 is well underway, and I for one, am feeling thankful! We’ve been enjoying reading everyone’s discussions, so keep them coming! The winner of our December discussion challenge giveaway was Davida @ The Chocolate Lady’s Book Review Blog. She got to pick a book she wished […]