Sunday, February 28, 2016

THE SUNDAY POST #48

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 tell you how glorious THE SMELL OF OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES was to read and what I was planning on grabbing from my TBR next.

Scariest Moments In Life

Top Five Recent Out Of My Comfort Zone Reads

One of my best friends I met in homeroom in 10th grade, and fellow musician, died from a brain tumor last year and his old manager and her husband chose to send me one of only 14 copies of a nine CD memorial compilation they made of his music. It spans from his days in bar bands here in Binghamton, to his solo recordings in California, and on to Chicago, and Nashville with The Outlaws, Leslie West, Foghat, Badfinger, and everything in-between. I was truely honored and I teared up just holding the case in my hands.
Back in the 80s I had a sign on my backdoor that said, "There are no rockstars allowed in this house. Leave your egos at the door." Bill was probably the most successful of all of us, yet he was the one person that sign never once applied to. He was always humble and down to earth; always helping someone. He was a beautiful soul.

WON
I won a set of four hardcover TIMMY FAILURE Middle Grade books from the LOGONAUTS children's blog. They are in the same vein as the Captain Underpants series.  Behind the top book are some Judy Blume posters I picked up at the library, and am going to use as flash giveaways on Twitter.

PURCHASED EBOOKS
It was $1.99 yesterday, but it is already back up to $4.99 today.
This one is still $1.99 today. I have no idea where my paperback is and I wanted to re-read it.
This was also $1.99 and is already back up to $11.99! It's a collection of 25 of Gaiman's short stories.

NETGALLEY
I think this is an Adult Mystery. I saw it on Catherine's blog I WISH I LIVED IN A LIBRARY. I was strongly drawn to the cover, but after reading the synopsis on NG I wanted to read it. It seems to have the same flavor as THE THIRTEENTH TALE and I loved that book even though it was a mystery, and not my thing. 
GOODREADS
This one was a Read Now. It is an indie Middle Grade.


Researchers are on the verge of tracking down the world's oldest story. You can read about their methods in this TOR.COM article.
They think it is probably about a man and a visit from the devil. Ha ha!
If you are on Facebook and are not following my sister page, LA LA IN THE LIBRARY, you are missing out on many wonderful bookish news items like the one above, and all the fantastic one day ebook specials I post like the ones I was able to grab above!

TELL ME TUESDSAY
BEYOND THE BOOKS
TOP FIVE FRIDAY

And definitely this month's BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE FOR WRITERS. I had to do some shimmying with the questions because the February list was about romantic relationships and both of my WIP stories are Middle Grade. Hehe. Also, I posted a snippet of Hidden Magic on an author's weekly feature, so now that it is free range I will be adding it to the BPFW post!

There will also be my COYER (Clean Out Your E-Reader) challenge wrap-up post. I cannot believe it is over already! I think by Friday I will have read 14 free/nearly free ebooks since December 20th.

With COYER over I am free to join up with Kimba's MARCH TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR TBR CHALLENGE. Which starts on the 1st.
I desperately need this because I will be beginning my March ARCpocalypse! I have 12 ARCs for March and I only usually read eight books a month and I cannot start ahead because I still have two ARCs left to read for this month! So much for getting any of my April review books finished ahead of time.
 
Have a spectacular week!