Monday, 18 March 2013
Sunday Post
Sunday Post is a weekly feature hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Reviewer. It's main purpose is similar to that of a Sunday newspaper; recap of the week gone by, additions to your library and what is going on in the book blogging community.
Welcome to my Sunday Post of the fortnight, as some may have noticed I do a Sunday Post every 2nd Sunday rather than every Sunday, I just don't buy enough books to do a weekly haul post. This week however, I've had PLENTY of books come in but I haven't had the chance to take pics of my big haul so I will just leave it for either next week or the following fortnight.
I'm just curious, do you all do a Stacking of the Shelves/In My Mailbox and Sunday Post weekly? Are some Sunday posts shorter than others?
For the bloggers that use Blogger, do you use the default comment app? I can't seem to get the threaded comments working for my blog so I decided to trial Disqus for a week. It kept using my profile pic despite the comments coming from others, so I removed it and it removed all my comments during the time I was trialing it! I'm researching into alternatives and contacted Blogger to try and get my threaded comments working as that's all I want from Disqus anyway. So I'd like to know, Blogger users, what do you use for your comments? How are you finding that?
Addition to my Library
Inspired by The Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga's Reviews and In My Mailbox hosted by The Story Siren
Badass Bookie had an event where she featured 2013 Debutantes (debuting Authors). It's such an awesome feature which is in it's third year running with awesome giveaways and I won Dualed by Elsie Chapman. Thank you Lisa!
Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
Enthralled by Melissa Marr edited by Kelley Armstrong
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
These are just my buys. Enthralled is actually a compilation of different YA Paranormal Authors with Kami Garcia (Beautiful Creatures), Rachel Vincent (Soul Screamer Series), Ally Condie (Matched Trilogy), Rachel Caine (The Morganville Vampires) just to name a few of the included Authors. It's actually a short-story book, so each short story is written by one Author.
The Sky is Everywhere is a book I've had on my wishlist for awhile and I was so lucky to found it at my local "discount" book stall, and I cannot believe at how pretty the cover is! It comes with a little ribbon to close it like a journal.
These are the non-fictions I've bought. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. There is also an included journal to accompany this book and Kikki-K stationery store here in Australia also have workshops. Check out the links provided if your interested.
The other two are miniatures "For Dummies" books. As you can see I'm not a very decent photographer hence these books LOL
Blog Recap
Blog Tours
Review ~ Legacy of the Clockwork Key by Kristin Bailey
Guest Post ~ Wanted by Annika James
Review ~ Beyond the Eyes by Rebekkah Ford
Guest Post ~ Return by Charity Santiago
Review ~ I Am Alive by Cameron Jace
Review ~ Surrender by Rhiannon Paille
Review ~ Ashes by Estevan Vega
Spotlight ~ Eustice by Alex Gulczynski
Guest Post ~ Rising Calm by Haley Fisher
Review ~ Exhale by Jennifer Snyder
Spotlight ~ What's a Witch to do by Jennifer Harlow
Promotional Posts (Release/Blitz/Blast)
The Undesirable by S Celi
Trust in me by Bethany Lopez
Undertow by Elle Chandour
Snowbound by Elizabeth Kirke
Transcend by Michelle Madow
Astarte's Wrath by Trisha Wolfe
Blood & Snow by Rashelle Workman
Cover Reveals
Endless Summer by CJ Duggan
Death's Awakening by Sarra Cannon
The Wicked Within by Kelly Keaton
Catalyst by Jennifer Snyder
Hell's Hollow by Summer Stone
Demon Derby by Carrie Harris
Runes by Ednah Walters
The Reborn: The Book of Dain by Casse Narome
Lash by LG Castillo
Awakened by Kriston Johnson
Coloured Wielders by Dawna Raver
Pretty When They Collide by Rhiannon Frater
Stripped by Brooklyn Skye
Weekly Memes
In The Blogosphere
Spring Blog Carnival is an annual event that is in it's third year running. It is created and organised by some amazing book bloggers: Lori at Pure Imagination, Candace at Candace's Book Blog and Angela at Reading Angel. The Spring Blog Carnival is a virtual Carnival for book bloggers, each blog participating is a "booth". So as not to wreck this AWESOME event with a crappy explanation of how it runs, please click on the button above for a better and more comprehensive explanation of this event.
Sign ups for booths are currently taking place, it's a first idea, first come basis so hurry if you've got an idea for a booth!
Last but not least...Paperback Princess is going to be holding a booth at this year's Spring Blog Carnival!!! The preparations for my booth is currently underway and I hope you all enjoy the booth I'll be presenting!
I was not able to participate in Kimba the Caffeinated Reviewer's Take Control of our TBR piles event held for the entire month of March, sign ups are still open, unfortunately for me I've over committed myself to blog tours so unable to actually read books in my "TBR" pile.
Anyway, so for those that missed out like myself Kimba is hosting another event in May! Click on the button above to sign up now.
The Book Monsters is hosting two Read-a-thons corresponding with each other.
March 29 - April 5 ~ Monster Read-a-thon
April 5 - April 8 ~ Monster Review-a-thon
You can join one or both, click on the button above to sign up!
Last but certainly not least...
The First EVER Twitter based Book Blogger Conference. Click on the button below for more info or click here to vote for your favourite nominated bloggers.
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