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.
MONDAY
Because I have so many ARCs this month I could only pledge four books, but any books off my gigantic TBR is a plus.
I have already finished one!
Also on Monday, I answered friendship questions about Saffron and Fig, and I added the Hidden Magic snippet I had posted earlier on author MR Graham's blog for her weekly feature TUESDAY TEASER.
I tell you why I didn't care for THE GIRL FROM EVERYWHERE and that my next two ARCs are Middle Grade.
I give you my top five Adult Fiction standalone recommendations.
SATURDAY
LIBRARY
After stalking Edelweiss, where all of the author's other ARCs were offered, for months, I found out for some reason they had offered this ARC on Netgalley during my requesting ban last year, and I never saw it. I then tried to trade for it and entered about ten contests for it to no avail. So I borrowed it from the library.
WON
Well, actually, Eileen from BOOK CAT PIN's cat Ripple (see my Ripple Fan Club button on the book) won this book for me. There was a Jacob Tibbs lookalike contest, to win a hardcover copy of the book, so I told Eileen she should enter Ripple's photo. She did, and he won! She had them send the book to me. That was so nice of her.
PURCHASED EBOOKS
There is a group of authors I am friendly with and I am trying to read at least one book from each of them. This was my latest add.
During the week of Dr. Seuss's birthday the Seuss interactive book apps are always on half price sale for $1.99. Last year I bought ten for babysitting because with each one I bought I got Amazon coins and I finagled it so I purchased 10 book apps for $8.00! This year they didn't offer the coins, so I only bought two: THE SLEEP BOOK and I HAD TROUBLE IN GETTING TO SOLLA SOLLEW. These apps are wonderful. It is like getting the ebook, audiobook, and a learn-to-read app rolled into one because the app has a mode for each one. Seeing that the ebooks alone are $7.99 - $9.99, even the full price of $3.99 is a bargain. Here is a YouTube video of the learn-to-read mode.
TELL ME TUESDAY
BEYOND THE BOOKS THURSDAY
Me Time Activities
TOP FIVE FRIDAY
Characters Other Readers Don't Get
THE SUNDAY POST
I have also joined a three week blogging event.
So many book bloggers on Twitter were talking about having zero motivation last month that Rachel, from BEAUTY AND THE BOOKSHELF, came up with the idea of this extravaganza. It starts Wednesday March 8th and runs for three weeks. There are three prompts a week, Monday-Wednesday-Friday, but you don't have to do them all. Each day's post will have a Linky, so we can all blog hop and motivate each other. You can view all the details: HERE.
Have a Splendiferousness week!
