The Year We Fell Apart by Emily Martin – Review & Giveaway

The Year We Fell Apart by Emily Martin – Review & Giveaway

The Year We Fell Apart was an incredibly poignant look at the ways we try to escape the painful moments in our lives and the many mistakes that we often make along the way. This book doesn’t paint a pretty picture of the teen years, but it does paint a realistic one. What Fed My Addiction: Dealing with serious illness and death. I appreciated the way that this book dealt with terminal (or at least possibly […]

Posted January 21, 2016 in Giveaways (Ended), Reviews / 11 Comments
Bite Sized Reviews: The Map to Everywhere and City of Thirst by Carrie Ryan

Bite Sized Reviews: The Map to Everywhere and City of Thirst by Carrie Ryan

Here are some quick reviews for books I haven’t gotten around to reviewing or that I just don’t have a ton to say about. Once again, I figure a few bite sized reviews together will be enough to feed your fiction addiction!  🙂 The Map to Everywhere by Carrie Ryan and John Parke Davis Series: Map to Everywhere #1 Published by Little Brown Books for Young Readers on 11/4/14 Genres: Middle Grade, Fantasy Pages: 448 Source: BEA My content rating: MG (Nothing inappropriate, […]

Posted January 20, 2016 in Middle Grade, Reviews / 3 Comments
Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore – 1/17/16

Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore – 1/17/16

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 (and in my life): This past week, I got to attend the Truthwitch and Passenger author event at Anderson’s Bookshop (along with my mom, as usual). Not too much else new […]

Posted January 17, 2016 in Sunday Post / 16 Comments
What Blogging Has Done to My Bookshelves – Let’s Discuss!

What Blogging Has Done to My Bookshelves – Let’s Discuss!

Before I started blogging, believe it or not, my bookshelves were completely under control. I mean, I’m not gonna claim they were all neat and tidy, but they were reasonable. In fact, I didn’t buy myself all that many books. (I say myself because I did buy my kids tons of books – I think I was making up for the lack of books on my own shelves by completely overflowing my kids’.) I felt like I couldn’t justify the […]

Posted January 15, 2016 in Let's Discuss / 87 Comments
Thief of Lies by Brenda Drake – Top Ten Reasons Arik is Swoonworthy & Giveaway

Thief of Lies by Brenda Drake – Top Ten Reasons Arik is Swoonworthy & Giveaway

I want to start this post by telling you all that I was planning on reviewing this book, but due to a snafu with the NetGalley widget I wasn’t able to access it. Still, the book seems so fun that I wanted to feature it on the blog and give you all a chance at the giveaway. I just wanted to clarify that this spotlight post isn’t an indication that I read the book and […]

Posted January 14, 2016 in Author Top Ten Lists, Giveaways (Ended) / 9 Comments
Identity Crisis by Melissa Schorr – Review & Giveaway

Identity Crisis by Melissa Schorr – Review & Giveaway

I really enjoyed Identity Crisis because I felt like it was a somewhat lighter take (though not too light) on what can be a very serious issue – and sometimes we need that. There are lots of “issue” books out there, and they’re all important, but they might not always feel accessible, especially to a younger YA crowd. This one does. The synopsis describes the book pretty accurately, so I’m just going to jump straight […]

Posted January 13, 2016 in Giveaways (Ended), Reviews / 4 Comments
Bookishly Ever After by Isabel Bandeira (The Book About Me as a Teenager) – Review

Bookishly Ever After by Isabel Bandeira (The Book About Me as a Teenager) – Review

First off, I have to say that I’ve been dying to get my hands on this book ever since I met Isabel Bandeira at BEA in 2014 – she was sweet and fun and dressed in quirky bright dresses, and I could just tell that her book was going to be adorable, just like her. I was right. The book centers around Phoebe, who is a bookish introvert, much more comfortable living in her stories […]

Posted January 11, 2016 in Reviews / 24 Comments
Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore – 1/10/16

Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore – 1/10/16

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 (and in my life): It was back to work this week – well, school. Our homeschooling co-op started up and we’ve started working on that play I wrote. Right […]

Posted January 10, 2016 in Sunday Post / 18 Comments
Firsts by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn – Review

Firsts by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn – Review

This book is so incredibly hard to encapsulate in a review because it brings up so many topics of discussion. This is the type of book that just makes me want to go on and on and on about my feelings because they’re so complex. I’ll try not to do that, but I make no promises. Simply read the synopsis and you’ll probably be able to tell right away why I feel so conflicted about […]

Posted January 9, 2016 in Reviews / 24 Comments
Year-End Wrap-Up Giveaway!!

Year-End Wrap-Up Giveaway!!

So, this is the final Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up of 2015. Now that people have linked up their December and year-end wrap-up posts, it’s time for the giveaway! I created this giveaway as a scavenger hunt to encourage people to visit the wrap-ups. There are entries for commenting on wrap-up posts and then there are additional entries for visiting specific posts and answering a question about them. Speaking of giveaway hosts, I have several bloggers who are […]