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.
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 also posted this month's K&M review on my Children's book blog, TICKLING DRAGONS. Five year old Kaylee tells us all about BAD KITTY GOES TO THE VET.
She is so stinkin' cute!
On Thursday KissinBlueKaren asked us to talk about things we have won for BEYOND THE BOOKS.
This week was a freebie, so I tell you about the top books I read when I was a teenage hippie in the 70s.
In celebration of AUSTRALIA DAY on Tuesday, Melanie, from YA MIDNIGHT READS, posted one of her INSTAGRAM photos to Twitter. These are all Australian authors. I was telling her that one of my favorite books by an Australian author is THE MINNOW by Diane Sweeney.
Laurie from BAY STATE READER'S ADVISORY offered up a wonderful CARAMEL POPCORN recipe in honor of NATIONAL POPCORN DAY on the 19th. Have you ever heard of mushroom popcorn? No? Well, she tells you all about it.
Image by ANASTASIAMANTIHORA Deviantart.
Twitter was a buzz with tweets about the new SORTING HAT QUIZ on the revamped POTTERMORE. A lot of people were put in different houses. OUCH! My son took the new quiz and he remained in Hufflepuff, but he only took the original test a couple of months ago. People are speculating that if you took it the first time as a child or teen your personality may have changed since then. I was an adult when I took it, so we shall see. I have been sorted into Ravenclaw with all four tests I have taken over the years. I tied to log on yesterday to take it, but I have forgotten my password and am still waiting for the change email. If you are logged into your old account you can opt to keep your old house and wand if you don't like your new ones.
Pinterest is at it again with the "Picked For You" pins in our feeds, after they PROMISED no more a couple of months ago. Yesterday I had 30 pins from people I follow and 72 "Picked For You" pins; that's over 2/3 of my feed! 10 of them were about cleaning toilets! It said it was based on recent activities. Hmm... I was pinning cookie recipes yesterday. Plus, a pin about pizza that was supposed to be for my Harry Potter crafts board, a pin about palm reading that was supposedly inspired by my paint colors board, and a photo of a dog in a sweater sitting on an old lady's lap on a bus that was for my martini board. Huh? Plus, just because I have boards named My Music, and BoOkS, doesn't mean I like ALL music and ALL books! They had previously admitted on their Facebook page that the PFY pins were a huge mistake and they had done away with them, for good, and that we would only get one "promoted" pin per every ten followed pins. Liars!
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I have used free clipart three times lately that has shown up as the image when the blog post is published, but when I have come back to see if anyone has commented it has changed to a black box with an ad for the site I got it from. The last time this happened was on my Children's blog, and the site was PIXABAY. I don't know if the other two times were the same website. Has anyone else had this happen? I was wondering if this was a new "trick" clipart sites are using. Why do they think that replacing images with ads will gain customers?
And to end on a positive note... THANK YOU, Cait, from PAPER FURY for linking my WHATCHA THINKIN' BOUT post about naming book characters in your WEEKLY FURY recap post!
I am going to squeeze in the monthly LL (not me) & A tag later today while it is still January!
TELL ME TUESDAY
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Can I manage a TOP TEN TUESDAY on my MG blog? Maybe.
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Maybe a WHATCHA THINKIN' BOUT on Wednesday.
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Thursday's BEYOND THE BOOKS prompt is Parenting Tips. Hehe.
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TOP FIVE FRIDAY'S topic is Futuristic Settings.
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THE SUNDAY POST
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I will be continuing to add the page amounts to the books on my ARC schedule. It has helped because sometimes if a book is a quick read I will pick it up and get it read in-between longer books. Plus, if it is a 300+ plus page book I will know to start it a little earlier. I am almost caught up on this!
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I also noticed that all the fonts on my section headers/vectors/banners don't match, so I will be taking care of that, and coming up with a new image for the Kookies and Milk feature.
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I am also going to go through and update all of my reading challenges and do all the link-ups.
HAVE A FABULOUS WEEK!
