Month: January 2022

Cybils Poetry Finalists! And Bite-Sized Reviews of Everywhere Blue, Snow Birds, You Don’t Have to Be Everything, and Call Me Athena

As my regular readers know, I was a round-one judge for the Cybils Awards in the Poetry category. Well, the finalists have been announced, so I thought I’d share them! You can check out the lists of finalists for the other categories on the Cybils website. Since I hadn’t yet reviewed four of the finalists on the blog, I thought I’d feature those reviews for you now. (I’ve already posted reviews of Me(Moth), Starfish, and […]

Posted January 7, 2022 in Cybils, Reviews / 8 Comments

December 2021 Monthly Wrap-Up & Best of the Bunch

My Goings-On in December: Here are the things that stand out to me this month: Holidays! Much of December was spent with family (Jade’s home for Christmas break and the other two kids have off as well). I love breaks because we do stuff like play board games and watch movies and shows together. We also did our annual Escape Room (we had to resort to board game versions last year, so this was extra […]

Posted January 4, 2022 in Best of the Bunch, Monthly Recap / 18 Comments

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 1/2/22

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): Happy New Year, everyone! Our NYE was low-key as usual, but we still had fun. We played games (I got Codeword and Mysterium for […]

Posted January 2, 2022 in Sunday Post / 21 Comments

January 2022 Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway

Welcome to the January monthly link-up for the 2022 Book Blog Discussion Challenge hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight! I can’t quite wrap my head around it being 2022, but here we are, so let the discussing begin! (I swear, I’mma write at least one or two this year. Pinky promise.—This was Shannon who said this, but I totally agree with her.) The winner of our […]

Posted January 1, 2022 in Book Blog Discussion Challenge, Giveaways (Ended) / 7 Comments