THE SUNDAY POST is a weekly feature hosted by Kimba at The Caffinated Book Reviewer. It is a chance to recap the previous week, share news, showcase books and/or bookish things we have received, and tell about what is coming up on our blog in the next week. You can view the rules, HERE.
MONDAY: I started a new job, so nothing bookish got done other than finishing Compulsion in the wee hours of the morning because I couldn't put it down during the last 20%.
TUESDAY: I posted a TELL ME TUESDAY. I was also aproved for two Month9 Books review eARCs, for the very first time! I have been requesting review books from them for about six months, with zero approvals, so it was a nice surprise.
WEDNESDAY: There was no Whatever Wednesday post because I was reading during my spare moments and didn't get a chance to put the finishing touches on it. B.W.O.
THURSDAY: I read this wonderfull blog post about the books Elizabeth, at So Long... and Thanks For All the Fish, felt shaped her life growing up, HERE. It gave me an idea for a post on how the Harry Potter books shaped our family life while my son was growing up. I might also do a post about how the book Heidi impacted my character as a child.
FRIDAY: Did some blog visiting and comment replys; then read The Raven Boys.
SATURDAY: Family time.
RANDOMNESS:
Lori M. Lee, the author of Gates of Thread and Stone, posted the link to this article on Twitter. It is hilarious! HOW TO TELL IF YOU ARE IN A HIGH FANTASY NOVEL.
Lori M. Lee, the author of Gates of Thread and Stone, posted the link to this article on Twitter. It is hilarious! HOW TO TELL IF YOU ARE IN A HIGH FANTASY NOVEL.
I post an #FF for my top five favorite YA authors every Friday on Twitter and I include a writing quote with it for them. I loved the one I found for last Friday. It also made me look into the author the quote was from, and I ended up buying the audiobook of The Thirteenth Tale.
LET'S DANCE!
WHAT I GOT:
BOOK MAIL:
On Tuesday I received a beautiful hard cover of The Raven Boys from Amanda at Of Spectacles and Books. She sent it to me in exchange for a guest review on her blog. It matches the HC of Blue Lily, Lily Blue, I won. Now I need to find someone who wants to trade for a HC of The Dream Theives.
On Tuesday I received a beautiful hard cover of The Raven Boys from Amanda at Of Spectacles and Books. She sent it to me in exchange for a guest review on her blog. It matches the HC of Blue Lily, Lily Blue, I won. Now I need to find someone who wants to trade for a HC of The Dream Theives.
EBOOK and AUDIOBOOK DEALS:
On Wednesday I found a free edition of The Time Machine that had a FREE add-on narration, HERE. If you only want the 49¢ audiobook, you can find that, HERE.
On Wednesday I found a free edition of The Time Machine that had a FREE add-on narration, HERE. If you only want the 49¢ audiobook, you can find that, HERE.
On Saturday I bought the audiobook of The Thirteenth Tale after looking into the author of the above #FF quote. I know I am on a book buying ban, but it was only $6.95 and I didn't know how long it would be that price. If you want to check out her writing style first, her short story The Princess and the Pea is a FREE EBOOK.
REVIEW BOOKS:
MONTH9 BOOKS: I received eARCs of Lucas Mackenzie and the London Midnight Ghost Show and The Perilous Journey of the Not-So-Innocuous Girl for review.
NETGALLEY: Shadow Scale, the sequel to Seraphina, was a Read Now on Thursday. If you want it you should go check to see if it is still there.
NEXT WEEK:
I will be working on my blog review for Compulsion. I will also be working on my guest post review of The Raven Boys for Of Spectacles and Books. My Whatever Wednesday will be the story about my son's pineapple pants, as requested by Cait at Paper Fury. I also think I am going to start drafting that Harry Potter tribute idea. There will also be a new Kookies and Milk post up on my Children's book blog at some point.
Is anyone planning on doing any special Black History Month posts in February?
