Showing posts with label blog hops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blog hops. Show all posts

November 16, 2015

Book Shelfie Hop! Come see my bookshelves! #theshelfiehop

My Friends are Fiction and Bookiemoji created this fun hop just to allow us all to show off our shelves! 

Sadly my shelves are a mess AND they aren't very big.  
When I was teaching all my books went to school and I had many, many bookshelves.  I had a classroom library of around 1500 books!

 Sadly that isn't the case anymore.  Now I just have a small space/bookshelf of books that are filling rapidly. 
Right now my husband and I are in contact with a guy to build us bookshelves in our living room.  
That will make me very happy!

So here is mine

This is the top of my shelves.  It's got a few fun book stuff - mostly stuff from some of the book subscription boxes that I'm getting.  


If you want to check out some more shelves, click on some blog listed!





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October 14, 2015

October Release Giveaway Hop


As we settle in to fall, and get our reading lined up for the winter months - October has some fantastic releases!
Because of this I'm participating in the October New Release Giveaway Hop!
This hop is hosted by: Suze at Suze Lines, Loves Finds and Dreams  Shannon from It Starts at Midnight.

Here's your choices!


To find other giveaway check out the links below:

To enter:
Fill out Rafflecopter
Must be a US resident
Must be at least 13

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March 12, 2015

Blog Tour: Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman REVIEW +GIVEAWAY

I'm very excited to be participating in the blog tour for Shadow Scaled by Rachel Hartman.  
This is the sequel to Seraphina.  

About the Book

 In her Morris Award-winning and New York Times bestselling debut, Rachel Hartman took our breath away with an utterly original alternative-medieval world full of dragons, Seraphina. This novel took the literary world by storm with 8 starred reviews and appeared on numerous “Best of” the year lists. Now Random House Children’s Books is proud to announce the release of SHADOW SCALE. At last, Rachel’s eagerly awaited sequel has arrived—with an epic battle between humans and dragons. 

 The kingdom of Goredd: a world where humans and dragons share life with an uneasy balance, and those few who are both human and dragon must hide the truth. Seraphina is one of these, part girl, part dragon, who is reluctantly drawn into the politics of her world. When war breaks out between the dragons and humans, she must travel the lands to find those like herself—for she has an inexplicable connection to all of them, and together 
they will be able to fight the dragons in powerful, magical ways. 
As Seraphina gathers this motley crew, she is pursued by humans who want to stop her. But the most terrifying is another half dragon, who can creep into people’s minds and take them over. Until now, Seraphina has kept her mind safe from intruders, but that also means she’s held back her own gift. It is time to make a choice: Cling to the safety of her old life, or embrace a powerful new destiny?

About Rachel
As a child, Rachel Harman played cello, lip-synched Mozart operas with her sisters, and fostered the deep love of music that inspired much of her award-winning debut novel, Seraphina. Born in Kentucky, Rachel has lived in Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, England, and Japan. She now lives with her family in Vancouver, Canada. 

To learn more, please visit RachelHartmanBooks.com and follow her on Twitter @_rachelhartman.

(well actually my daughter's)

I agreed to be a part of the blog tour when Random House Children's Books asked because of my daughter.  She loved Seraphina, and after reading it she got several of her friends to read it as well.  So I knew if I asked her to read it and give me her thoughts she would jump at the chance.  So this review is her thoughts.

To put it in the simplest words - she loved it.  But I guess I should expand on that a bit.  First she talked about the world building.  My daughter is an avid reader, so she knows when world building is good and when it's lacking.  She thought the world Rachel Hartman created was perfect.  She talked about how detailed it was.  There is a small village, and she that it was really cool how detailed the world of that village was.

Next she said what she really liked was that there was romance in it BUT (and she is not a romance girl) she was really happy that is was just a part of the story not the whole story.  That's a huge plus for her.  It was there, but it didn't take over the story.

Then I bugged her about the actual story - how did it compare to the first book, how did the story progress?  She said was just as good as the first book if not a little bit better.  She thought this because the first book had to have a lot of background building where this one didn't need as much since you knew it already and the story could just happen.  

Lastly I asked her about the ending and how she felt about it.  She said the ending was good, and that she thinks there isn't another one.  I asked why and she said because there was an epilogue and usually that means it's over.  She found the ending satisfying - of course there were things she had questions about or would've liked different, but she understood why it was the way it was.

Over-all she really liked the book!


Random House has offered up two copies of Shadow Scale!
You must be at least 13 and a US resident
Fill out the Rafflecopter

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February 6, 2012

Follower Love Giveaway Hop



Because I love my followers especially after sticking around after basically taking two months off.  You need to be rewarded! For that I have hopped onto the Followers Love Giveaway Hop hosted by I Am A Reader Not a Writer and Rachael Renee Anderson

For US Followers You're Reward Is:

Two of the following books:

Uglies 
Pretties
The Dark Divine (ARC)
The Lost Saint (ARC)
Before I Fall (ARC)
Mockingjay
Cinder (ARC)


For International Followers  You're Reward Is:

A book of your choice from The Book Depository up to $20. Sorry tho it's only if TBD delivers to you for free!


There will only be one winner - not one for each.


Fill out the Rafflecopter form to enter!  Oh and yes this time you must be a follower since this is to celebrate my followers! But do me a favor - if you are new please only follow if you think my blog has something to offer! Take a look around and decide :)




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January 26, 2012

Young Adult Giveaway Hop: Choice of 1 of 4 Books!


Well everyone I'm easing back into blogging (apparently with giveaways!) I've really limited my participating in giveaway hops, but I thought I had to do this one!
 If you like YA books, you've got to hop around this giveaway! (ok ok I know that was lame!)
 It runs from now through the 31st. 

I'm giving away your choice of one of four books.  
The books to pick from are:
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver (an ARC)
Dark Parties by Sara Grant
Hades (Halo #2) by Alexandra Adornetto
Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck


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July 15, 2011

Welcome to BLOGFEST 2011!!!!


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Are you excited??? Are ya? Are ya? I know I am because it's BLOGFEST time!

Ok here's some details about Blogfest over-all.
It runs July 15-17
Each blog will link to 5 more blogs participating.
You can always find the whole list at our fantastic host:
  AND guess what else - you can TRACK your entries through the Blogfest tracking site. Find that site HERE.  For each blog you tract at the tracking site you gain an extra entry in a special giveaway!

Now about my giveaway!

I'm giving away of a copy of Divergent by Veronica Roth


You've got to read this book.  I read it and LOVE it!

To Enter:
Simple simple - fill out the form :)
You don't have to follow.  I only want you to follow if you check out my blog and like it enough to stick around.
Must be a US resident (sorry)

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April 30, 2011

Hoppy Easter Eggstravaganza Winner!

The winner of Abandon for the Hoppy Easter Eggstravanganza is:

DJL!

I'll be emailing you!
She'll have 72 hours to reply.

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April 19, 2011

Hoppy Easter Eggstravaganza Giveaway Hop!!!!

Yes it's that time again!! Time to hippity hop around the blogosphere and enter some giveaways!  It's the

Hoppy Easter Eggstravaganza!!!!

I'm giving away:


Abandon by Meg Cabot
What a great book for spring since it's a modern retelling of the story of Persephone!

From Goodreads

To enter
Leave a reply
Leave your email
In honor of spring: Tell me your favorite flower.  Mine is a daisy!
US only
Ends Monday April 25th



New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot, a dark, fantastical story about this world . . . and the underworld.
Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can't help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Yet she's never alone . . . because someone is always watching her. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back.
But now she's moved to a new town. Maybe at her new school, she can start fresh. Maybe she can stop feeling so afraid.
Only she can't. Because even here, he finds her. That's how desperately he wants her back. She knows he's no guardian angel, and his dark world isn't exactly heaven, yet she can't stay away . . . especially since he always appears when she least expects it, but exactly when she needs him most.
But if she lets herself fall any further, she may just find herself back in the one place she most fears: the Underworld.

Hop along to the other giveaways!!!

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February 17, 2011

Book with Love Blog Hop Winner


The winner of Shade is:

Lindsay C. who said her favorite Valentine's candy is Reeses Hearts.  I'm right with her on that one!!!

I'll be emailing her.  She has 48 to reply or I pick a new winner. 

Thanks everyone who entered and became followers! I <3 U all!!!!!!!!
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February 14, 2011

Book with Love Hop

Welcome to my stop on the Valentine's Day Books with Love Hop!
Once Upon a Twilight

We all love books, so what better Valentine's day gift that lots and lots of book giveaways!!!
This hop is being hosted by Good Choice Reading. 

I'm giving away a copy of:

Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready


To enter:

Leave a comment telling your favorite candy for Valentine's Day
Leave your email so I can contact you.
Must be 13
Must be a US resident
Ends Feb 16 at 11:59 pm CST

Now be sure to go to all the other blogs and enter their giveaways too! (Please ignore the "add your link" to the list.  I can't get it to go away!)
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