The New Release Challenge is hosted by Lexxie from Un(Conventional) Reviews. You pick a level, I'm only doing 30 books, Level 1 (New Release Newbie) as I am starting in the 2nd Quarter of 2018. Then from here, you read, review and then link up to your review post. 

To-Do List

• Created a Pocket (Read it later) and Evernote account...check out the past mini challenges post to see what you can do with these
• Printed my Monthly Blog Planner from Confessions of a Homeschooler click here for your FREE copy and started to fill it out with pre-planned posts e.g. tours, memes. 
• Updated my GCal blog calendar
• Fixed up my email so all my emails goes to my Gmail account. I couldn't make my blogging one on Gmail because the email address I wanted was sadly already taken ~ Email Best Practices by Heylade
• Deleted some files that I no longer need ~ Digital Decluttering
• Created 6 post templates (Review Tours + Blog Tour Guest/Author, Weekly memes etc) 
• Drafted 8 of my posts, but still have to put the main content, the review
• Did quite a bit of research into the Migration from Blogger to Wordpress and even emailed a few services that do it to ask some questions
• Visited and commented on quite a few Bloggiesta participants

My Goals

• Participate in the Scavenger Hunt and knock out at least 10 categories
• Participate in 2 Read-a-thons
• Read 20 books average of 2 per week
• Be supportive - 20 blogs/comment/tweet per week
• Participate in one Twitter Chat
• Participate in one of the Social Media Fun per week

The first Read-a-thon for COYER is the "Red, White or Blue" to commemorate the 4th of July Independence Day for the United States. So pick books that have Red, White OR Blue in the cover and a short review to enter in the Rafflecopter giveaway. For all the official stuff including rules and how to get bonus round points click here or the event button above. 

Day 1 ABEA - Introductions

Tell us a bit about yourself: How long have you been blogging? Where are you from? How did you get into blogging?

I absolutely love series' but I think that if an Author captivates a reader and impacts ones life in one book, then you know that book must be amazing. The one book that I think EVERYONE should read at least once in their life is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

What book are you reading right now?

Please keep an eye out for my upcoming review and I will also be kicking off the blog tour for this fantastic book with an Author Interview. 

What is the top book in your TBR pile right now? 

Instagram Challenge

About The Book

Eleanor & Park

by Rainbow Rowell

Publisher: St Martin's Griffin

Buy It Now: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository

Synopsis 

Paperback Princess Review 

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell is unlike any other YA Contemporary Romance I've read in the past. I'm not a huge fan of YA Contemporary Romance, or romance for that matter so I didn't have very high expectations. It just wasn't my favourite genre, so I was pleasantly surprised when I absolutely LOVED, LOVED this book and I couldn't stop from turning the pages. I couldn't even explain to myself why I had loved it so much but I did...strange right? 

Eleanor is considered a strange red-headed teen. She's unpopular at school and she cops a bit of flack for being her and being an individual. She comes from a broken home and had just returned after reluctantly spending a year living with her Mother's friend. 

Park has lived in the same area since he was born, his Father lived there when he was young. He's a quiet Asian kid who's not popular but not disliked either. He's from a loving home with parents that are still in love. 

Their mother jabbed a long fingernail at his dad and covered the phone again. 'I'll send you to your room, too.'
'Honey, I wish you would,' their dad said, throwing a throw pillow at her.

Eleanor & Park are two very different people but attending the same school and living in the same housing development, what takes place in Eleanor & Park is the unlikely friendship/relationship that forms between the two. 

I think that my favourite part of Eleanor & Park were the characters, they were just so gorgeous and the interaction and the chemistry and the emotions with each character was so well written that you really see in depth into each character, which makes the readers heavily invested in their life and world. We have Eleanor that is just plain weird:-

Girls who don't want to be looked at don't tie curtain tassels in their hair. They don't wear men's golf shoes with the spikes still attached.

Then we have Park, who's just as normal as can be and when they meet they didn't meet in the love at first sight way, the gradual friendship that developed between them was so sweet and real. 

He always felt like he should say something to her, even if it was just 'hello' or 'excuse me.' But he'd gone too long without saying anything since the first time he'd cursed at her, and not was all just irrevocably weird. For an hour a day. Thirty minutes on the way to school, thirty minutes back. Park didn't say anything. He just held his comics open wider and turned the pages more slowly."

Love the way Rowell explained things:-

That would be a giant understatement anyway. She was the only person in class who'd read her poem like it wasn't an assignment. She recited it like it was a living thing. Like something she was letting out. You couldn't look away from her as long as she was talking. {Even more than Park's usual not being able to look away from her.} When she was done, a lot of people clapped and Mr Stressman hugged her. Which was totally against the Code of Conduct.

Eleanor lived a very hard life:-

But if she told Mrs Dunne about the toothbrush...maybe Mrs Dunne would just get her one. And then Eleanor could stop sneaking into the bathroom after lunch to rub her teeth with salt. (She'd seen that in a Western once. It probably didn't even work}.

Eleanor's dialogue is filled with so much emotions:-

I just want to break that song into pieces,' she said, 'and love them all to death.

humorous

She didn't want to run, period. It made her breasts feel like they were going to detach from her body. 'I'm going to tell Mrs Burt that my Mom doesn't want me to do anything that might rupture my hymen,' Eleanor said. "For religious reasons.

She tried to remember what kind of animals paralyzed their prey before they ate them...
Maybe Park had paralyzed her with his ninja magic, his Vulcan handhold, and now he was going to eat her.
That would be awesome.
Jesus. Was it possible to rape somebody's hand? 

so sweet in their interaction:-

are you trying to give me a nickname?
No, I love your name. I don't want to cheat myself out of a single syllable.{because apparently everything made her want to kiss him. Park could tell her that he had lice and leprosy and parasitic worms living in his mouth, and she would still put on fresh Chapstik. God}

interaction between his parens and Park

"How long am I grounded?" Park asked his father.
"That's not up to me, that's up to your Mother.'
His dad was sitting on the couch, reading Soldier of Fortune.
"she says forever,' Park said.
"I guess it's forever then.'

love Park's family even Grandparents

"I thought you were grounded,' his Grandpa said.
"Hush, Harold, you can't be grounded from your own grandparents..."

I had so many quotes because there was absolutely no review I could have written that would have given this book the credit it deserved, by quoting I think it really gives those reading this review the idea on what type of book it is. It is definitely one of those books that stays in your mind for a long time.

Author You've Read The Most Books From

Best Sequel Ever 

Currently Reading

Drink of choice while reading

E-Reader or Physical Book

Fictional Character you probably would have dated in High School

Glad you gave this book a chance

Hidden Gem Book

Important Moment in your reading life

Just Finished 

Kind of Books you won't read 

Longest Book You've Read

Major Book Hangover Because of

Number of Bookcases You Own

One Book You've Read Multiple Times

Preferred Place To Read

Quote that Inspires You/Gives you all the Feels From a Book You've Read

"Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something."

Reading Regret

Series You Started And Need To Finish

Three of Your All Time Favourite Books

Unapologetic Fangirl For

Very Excited For This Release More Than All Others

Worst Bookish Habit

X Marks The Spot: Start at the top left of your shelf and pick the 27th book

Your Latest Book Purchase

Zzz-Snatcher Book (last book that kept you up WAY late) 

ARC August is a month long challenge hosted by Octavia and Read, Sleep, Repeat. It's main purpose is to challenge us bloggers to read as many of our ARC books in the month of August. To sign up and for all the other official stuff, click on the link or banner above.

Goals

These are books from Netgalley/Edelweiss. Only the latter three are for blog tours in August. 

As I finish reading each one I'll remove the picture and link my review to my weekly updates. So the less book covers that are on here the better! I don't think I'll finish all these, but I'd like to at least get through half of it. 

AND I may even have books that I do read that ARE ARC's but aren't on this list, I'll just update those with my review links on my weekly updates. 

Week 1 (August 1-7) 

Banish by Nicola Marsh
Pretty When She Dies by Rhiannon Frater
Tragic by JA Huss

Week 2 (August 8-14)

Date with the Dead by Chris Myers
Letters to Nowhere by Julie Cross

The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is created by April at Good Books and Good Wine. Daily for the duration of 15 days each blogger participating will post their reply to the corresponding topic above. April will post up her daily response along with a linky so that participating bloggers can leave their own link to their daily post. Click on the event banner or link above for more information or to sign-up.

Day 5 - Tear Jerkers
Day 6 - Shopping for Books 
Day 7 - Blogging Quirks
Day 8 - Blog Appeal
Day 9 - Why do I blog about books?
Day 10 - How do I choose what book to read?
Day 11 & 12 - 5 Best blog posts and Combat Book Blogger Fatigue
Day 13 - Under Appreciated Book that EVERYONE should read
Day 14 - Book Deal Breakers

I cannot believe it's the last day of The Book Blogger Challenge. I'm quite sad that this 15 days come to an end so quickly! I hope that April hosts a similar challenge in the near future. I really enjoyed doing these posts, along with visiting other bloggers and getting to know them so much better than just reading their normal posts. Thanks so much April for hosting this fantastic challenge and I'm definitely in when you do it again! Please check my responses for the earlier days, all linked above, and finally the last day of the Book Blogger Challenge...

Day 15 ~ Book Blogging Mentors

I haven't been a part of the book blogging community for long, so unfortunately I do not know that many bloggers personally, nor have I been blessed with a mentor. However, the following bloggers are those that I consider to be my mentor, whether they know it or not. 

The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is created by April at Good Books and Good Wine. Daily for the duration of 15 days each blogger participating will post their reply to the corresponding topic above. April will post up her daily response along with a linky so that participating bloggers can leave their own link to their daily post. Click on the event banner or link above for more information or to sign-up.

The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is created by April at Good Books and Good Wine. Daily for the duration of 15 days each blogger participating will post their reply to the corresponding topic above. April will post up her daily response along with a linky so that participating bloggers can leave their own link to their daily post. Click on the event banner or link above for more information or to sign-up.

Day 5 - Tear Jerkers
Day 6 - Shopping for Books 
Day 7 - Blogging Quirks
Day 8 - Blog Appeal
Day 9 - Why do I blog about books?
Day 10 - How do I choose what book to read?
Day 11 & 12 - 5 Best blog posts and Combat Book Blogger Fatigue

Day 13 ~ Describe one under appreciated book that EVERYONE should read

I struggled to choose ONE book as there's a few like:-

Between the Lives by Jessica Shirvington

So Much To Tell You by John Marsden

BUT my main choice is the Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody

Source: Sodahead

The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is created by April at Good Books and Good Wine. Daily for the duration of 15 days each blogger participating will post their reply to the corresponding topic above. April will post up her daily response along with a linky so that participating bloggers can leave their own link to their daily post. Click on the event banner or link above for more information or to sign-up.

• Netgalley Knockout will run from July 1 - September 30 

• You are not limited to ebooks from Netgalley! You can include any ebook you have received for review from Netgalley, Edelweiss, or from a publisher or author directly. It just must be an ebook and it must be a review book. 

• You can only count books that you read from July 1 to September 30. Nothing read before the challenge starts or after it ends will count toward the challenge! 

• You do not have to only include books released during the months July, August, or September - but you can include these, of course! Any electronic review book counts, whether it has already been released or is still yet to be released! 

• Again, even if the book has already been released, if you're reading a review ebook copy of it then it counts toward the challenge! 

• And if you find this post after July 1st - no worries! You can join the challenge through the linky all the way up to September 1st if you'd like!*** 

• There will be a giveaway for any blogs who link up their wrap up post at the end of the challenge in September! Every blog on that linky will be entered and one winner will be randomly chosen to receive an ebook of their choice under $15.00 from the ebook seller of their choice! 

The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is created by April at Good Books and Good Wine. Daily for the duration of 15 days each blogger participating will post their reply to the corresponding topic above. April will post up her daily response along with a linky so that participating bloggers can leave their own link to their daily post. Click on the event banner or link above for more information or to sign-up.

Source: Pretty Deadly Reviews

The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is created by April at Good Books and Good Wine. Daily for the duration of 15 days each blogger participating will post their reply to the corresponding topic above. April will post up her daily response along with a linky so that participating bloggers can leave their own link to their daily post. Click on the event banner or link above for more information or to sign-up.

Day 9 ~ Why do I blog about books?

The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is created by April at Good Books and Good Wine. Daily for the duration of 15 days each blogger participating will post their reply to the corresponding topic above. April will post up her daily response along with a linky so that participating bloggers can leave their own link to their daily post. Click on the event banner or link above for more information or to sign-up.

Day 8 ~ Quick! Write 15 bullet points of things that appeal to you on a blogs!

The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is created by April at Good Books and Good Wine. Daily for the duration of 15 days each blogger participating will post their reply to the corresponding topic above. April will post up her daily response along with a linky so that participating bloggers can leave their own link to their daily post. Click on the event banner or link above for more information or to sign-up.

Day 7 ~ Blogging Quirks

The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is created by April at Good Books and Good Wine. Daily for the duration of 15 days each blogger participating will post their reply to the corresponding topic above. April will post up her daily response along with a linky so that participating bloggers can leave their own link to their daily post. Click on the event banner or link above for more information or to sign-up.

Day 6 Shopping For Books