My haul of happiness:
Purchased:
as recommended by Morgan---who says bloggers don't sell books?? :D
For review:
Epic happy dance!! I can't wait to see what happens after that incredible ending in Perfect Ruin!!
The happy dancing continues...so excited for this one!
Eeep! So. much. happy dancing!! This book is definitely one of my most anticipated of 2015! The ARC came with the final cover art inserted inside,
like so:
like so:
And all that happy dancing was a timely calorie burner, because I also received this beauty for review:
Home Baked Comfort by Kim Laidlaw
I adore Williams-Sonoma cookbooks. So much yumminess and always the best food photography around. I don't review cookbooks here, but I take on a few for the publication I write for. But I will tell you now, every single recipe within looks amazing. Daughter has already said she wants us to bake our way through it, Julie & Julia style. :)
Many thanks to Penguin, Scholastic, & Simon & Schuster for the review books!
I adore Williams-Sonoma cookbooks. So much yumminess and always the best food photography around. I don't review cookbooks here, but I take on a few for the publication I write for. But I will tell you now, every single recipe within looks amazing. Daughter has already said she wants us to bake our way through it, Julie & Julia style. :)
Many thanks to Penguin, Scholastic, & Simon & Schuster for the review books!
The Weekly Nutshell
{Tuesday} Waiting on Wednesday: Dark Shimmer
Wow, I guess I just sort of fell off the radar this week! I haven't felt much like blogging; partly for the fact that there is just lots going on in daily life, but if I'm honest it's partly because of all the negative ugliness going on this week regarding Stacey Jay. She is a favorite author of mine and I happened upon her blog post earlier this week---when I investigated further, I was just shocked at the amount of judgmental nastiness going on in the YA community. She asked for help from her fans, was completely open about what all donations would be used for, was honest about the fact that she could not afford to write a book without financial backing so without it, she would have to concentrate on things that actually put food on the table, and was completely dragged through the mud for it. I don't get it. Why people felt they had the right to judge her, accuse her of blackmail or any other devious thing, call her names and threaten to post her home address (huh??) is beyond my comprehension. She reached out to her fans to back a book that she thought they might want to read but was not being picked up by her publisher---something hundreds of authors have done before her. That's all. Kickstarter works like this: if you don't like the idea, don't donate. End of story. This kind of negativity just saps me of all will to blog and makes me want to run from the internet screaming.
Anyhoo...sorry for the rant. But that's my two cents. I know I generally stay out of these things, but especially after Stacey's post where she bravely stands up for herself and we see clearly just how hurt she was by all of this, I couldn't help but get it off my chest.
In other news LOL...
Finished Monstrous this week, and it was dark and lovely :) Full review coming soon. Starting Storm Siren today, yippee!
Happy reading, everyone! And many happy thoughts---we can't fly without them, right? :D
Wow, I guess I just sort of fell off the radar this week! I haven't felt much like blogging; partly for the fact that there is just lots going on in daily life, but if I'm honest it's partly because of all the negative ugliness going on this week regarding Stacey Jay. She is a favorite author of mine and I happened upon her blog post earlier this week---when I investigated further, I was just shocked at the amount of judgmental nastiness going on in the YA community. She asked for help from her fans, was completely open about what all donations would be used for, was honest about the fact that she could not afford to write a book without financial backing so without it, she would have to concentrate on things that actually put food on the table, and was completely dragged through the mud for it. I don't get it. Why people felt they had the right to judge her, accuse her of blackmail or any other devious thing, call her names and threaten to post her home address (huh??) is beyond my comprehension. She reached out to her fans to back a book that she thought they might want to read but was not being picked up by her publisher---something hundreds of authors have done before her. That's all. Kickstarter works like this: if you don't like the idea, don't donate. End of story. This kind of negativity just saps me of all will to blog and makes me want to run from the internet screaming.
Anyhoo...sorry for the rant. But that's my two cents. I know I generally stay out of these things, but especially after Stacey's post where she bravely stands up for herself and we see clearly just how hurt she was by all of this, I couldn't help but get it off my chest.
In other news LOL...
Finished Monstrous this week, and it was dark and lovely :) Full review coming soon. Starting Storm Siren today, yippee!
Happy reading, everyone! And many happy thoughts---we can't fly without them, right? :D
