Bite-Sized Reviews of The Big Flush, Give Me a Sign, Come See the Fair, Always Isn’t Forever, and Year on Fire

Today, I’m reviewing three YA reads and two MGs. I hope these bite-sized reviews will be enough to feed your fiction addiction! I absolutely adored the first book in this zany MG series, so I jumped at the chance to review THE BIG FLUSH. At Barnes & Noble, I often recommend this book to younger MG readers or more reluctant readers. The combination of humor and fun illustrations makes it very accessible. This second book is […]

Posted August 8, 2023 in Reviews / 3 Comments

Sunday Post & Book Pre-order Campaigns Galore: 8/6/23

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. What’s been happening since my last Sunday Post: I went to Spain and Italy! Check out my post with pictures and highlights of the trip. Getting Danielle ready to go back to […]

Posted August 6, 2023 in Sunday Post / 8 Comments

August 2023 Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway!

Welcome to the August monthly link-up for the 2023 Book Blog Discussion Challenge hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight! If you don’t know what this challenge is all about or haven’t signed up yet (but want to), head on over to the challenge sign-up page to learn more! Even if you’d rather not join, we hope you’ll stop by occasionally to check out the MANY discussion […]

Posted August 1, 2023 in Book Blog Discussion Challenge, Current Giveaways / 0 Comments

July 2023 Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up Link-Up and Giveaway

The Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up is hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight. We’ve decided to go with a yearly giveaway for this one, just like the Discussion Challenge. We will have three winners: Two from the usual rafflecopter, and one that we will pick out of the folks who link up every month (via random.org, we’ll just list the names and pick that way)! So commenting and […]

Posted July 27, 2023 in Current Giveaways, Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up / 0 Comments

My Trip to Spain and Italy in Pictures!

My mom, my husband, and I headed to Europe to join my younger daughter Danielle, who had just finished her study abroad. She’s now very fluent in Spanish, which came in very handy since we definitely encountered a decent number of people in Spain that didn’t speak English (luckily the same wasn’t true in Italy). Jade and Noah didn’t come on the trip because Jade was absolutely not interested in a vacation filled with random […]

Posted July 20, 2023 in Let's Discuss, Uncategorized / 24 Comments

Sunday Post & Book Pre-order Campaigns Galore: 7/2/23

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. What’s been happening since my last Sunday Post: Today is Jade’s birthday! I actually don’t know as of writing this what we’ll be doing to celebrate, but I have a feeling it […]

Posted July 2, 2023 in Sunday Post / 12 Comments

July 2023 Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway!

Welcome to the July monthly link-up for the 2023 Book Blog Discussion Challenge hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight! If you don’t know what this challenge is all about or haven’t signed up yet (but want to), head on over to the challenge sign-up page to learn more! Even if you’d rather not join, we hope you’ll stop by occasionally to check out the MANY discussion […]

Posted July 1, 2023 in Book Blog Discussion Challenge, Current Giveaways / 0 Comments

Introducing: Not the Worst Friend in the World by Anne Rellihan (Plus, a Giveaway!)

I am incredibly excited to be able to feature my Author Mentor Match mentee’s debut novel, NOT THE WORST FRIEND IN THE WORLD about a girl who tries to help her new friend figure out if she’s been kidnapped! Some of you may remember me talking about co-mentoring for AMM with my good friend Megan E. Freeman and then I was doubly excited when we chose our mentee, Anne Rellihan. Well, Anne’s book is releasing […]

Posted June 29, 2023 in Current Giveaways / 4 Comments

June 2023 Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up Link-Up and Giveaway

Posted June 27, 2023 in Current Giveaways, Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up / 0 Comments

Food Fight by Linda B. Davis: Review & Davis’s Top Ten Addictions

Today I’m featuring FOOD FIGHT by Linda B. Davis, a middle grade contemporary about a boy with a little-known eating disorder called ARFID (Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder). Read on for my review of the book, and then make sure you also check out the author’s list of top ten addictions to find out more about her! Buy from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Bookshop.org A middle grade contemporary that highlights feelings of loneliness, even in a crowd. […]

Posted June 24, 2023 in Author Top Ten Lists, Reviews / 2 Comments