It’s time for my May Random Read (a fun meme hosted by I’m Loving Books). The idea is to pick one random book from your Goodreads To-Read list (using Random.org) to read within the month. As I mention every month, I am in love with this meme! This is such a great way to make sure that I actually read some of those books that have been in my TBR list for eons.Last month, I only got to one […]
Best of the Bunch is a book blog hop hosted over at Always Lost in Stories on the last day of each month, where we can look back over the books we have read over this past month and give a Best of the Bunch award to our favorite book of that month. April 2014 Running a bit late with my Best of the Bunch this month, but that’s okay. Sometimes you just have to forget your […]
Me and Mary Buckham with her book (which she signed for me) and the “shapeshifter” that she gifted me with. Last Saturday, I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Barbara Vey Readers Luncheon in Milwaukee. I was surprised at what a big event this was – there were 60 authors in attendance including some big names like Debbie Macomber (who was the keynote speaker and was quite funny) and Gena Showalter. There […]
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. Last week on FYFA:Had a crazily busy week! I’m working on a new editing project (Book #2 in the True North series by Allie Juliette Mousseau) and I got to attend the Barbara Vey Reader […]
It’s official! My flight is booked, my tickets are purchased – I’m heading to BEA this year! (Including the BEA Bloggers Conference!). So, are you going too? Let me know because I REALLY want to meet all of you! I cannot wait!! Being a newbie BEA attender, I’ve been desperate to find all the advice I can get. So, for my own knowledge, I decided to put together a list of links to people’s […]
Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is: Top Ten Characters I Love to Hate Gotta give some respect to those villains, right? Our books just wouldn’t be the same without them! Here are the ones that came to mind: From The Lunar Chronicles Wiki Queen Levana from Cinder by Marissa Meyer – I recently finally read Cinder, so this villain came immediately to mind. Levana is amazingly beautiful on the outside (due to a glamour, of course), but completely evil on the […]
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. Last week on FYFA:Hope everyone had an amazing Easter!! We finally had a beautiful day (almost reached 80 degrees!) and got to enjoy the day outside. So we were very thankful, especially after our ridiculously […]
“Debut novelist Blankman’s account of life in Munich prior to Hitler’s 1933 elevation to the chancellorship is completely engrossing….Blankman creates riveting tension for her heroine and pulls readers through with an irresistible subplot featuring forbidden love.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “I’m in awed envy of the daring with which Anne Blankman plunges into her difficult and sensitive subject matter. To read Prisoner of Night and Fog is to be immersed in a breathtaking evocation […]
There are so many reasons that I loved this book! While historical fiction isn’t always my thing, I’ve always been interested in World War II – not necessarily the battles, but the human stories that played out in that time (in fact, I’m reviewing another WWII book on Friday – I think that these are the only two WWII books I’ve read since Anne Frank when I was in middle school and I’ve managed […]
Title: Mine to Tarnish Series: Mine #0.5 Author: Janeal Falor Release Date: December 2, 2013 Pages: 128 Goodreads Rating: 3.9/5 Stars My Rating: 4/5 Stars My Content Rating: 13+ (Nothing more than kissing) Summary from Goodreads: Katherine’s place is the same as any woman’s—on the shelf next to the dresses and bolts of cloth. When she’s sold to a warlock, life grows even bleaker. Her new owner is as old and rancid as he is cruel, driving her to do the unthinkable: run. […]