Sunday, December 6, 2015

THE SUNDAY POST #36

THE SUNDAY POST is a weekly wrap-up 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 guidelines, HERE.

I didn't do a Sunday Post last week because I had the plague. I am almost 100% better now. It effected one of my eyes and the other one was weeping in sympathy, so I didn't get much reading done. I had to listen to the last quarter of the ARC I was reading with text-to-speech. I was surprised how much better the male voice is on my new Kindle Fire than my older Fire.
I tell you about why I didn't like Warren the 13th and the All Seeing Eye: HERE.
 I participated in a book release blitz for one of my favorite authors. I felt really bad because the promotion company was terrible. The post had punctuation and grammar mistakes, and bad formatting that had to be corrected.  Most of the blogs posted it with all of the mistakes *cringes*, and the Rafflecopter was for another author's cover reveal! I emailed them about the Rafflecopter problem the night before and they didn't fix it until a few hours before the blitz ended. The tweets for the Rafflecopter didn't even say there was a giveaway! 
Anyway, I am half way finished with a review copy the author sent me, and I am loving it. It is the sequel to BLINDED BY THE LIGHT (free on Kindle Unlimited); a Dystopian set in the UK. The setting where The Union group resides is really unique. I like these books because they show the characters celebrating holidays and having entertainments. She introduced a new setting and added a new POV character, so it has been exciting to read.

$1.99 eBook
This is an Adult Literary standalone by a YA author, and it is about a bookstore. I adored this story, and I think you will, too.
JKR visited the set of FANTASTIC BEASTS and you can read about it: HERE.
Cait is celebrating the first anniversary of her blog's name change with festive frivolity: HERE.

It will most likely be another light blogging week because of holiday preparations, and because I am starting to work on my Book of the Year post. I will also be working on The Perpetual Page Turner's 6TH ANNUAL END OF THE YEAR SURVEY. I wanted to do it last year, but I participated in a five day end of the year Top Ten Blog Hop, and I was burned out. I have decided to skip the blog hop this year because for all the extra work it was, there was not that much extra traffic and I gained zero followers. The only guaranteed post next week will be a TELL ME TUESDAY.
Have a terrific week.