A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares by Krystal Sutherland Published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers on September 5th 2017 Genres: Young Adult, Magical Realism Pages: 347 Source: The Publisher From the author of Our Chemical Hearts comes the hilarious, reality-bending tale of two outsiders facing their greatest fears about life and love—one debilitating phobia at a time. Ever since Esther Solar’s… Read more »
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Lucky in Love by Kasie West: Review & West’s Top Ten Addictions (with a Twist!)
Lucky in Love by Kasie West Published by Scholastic on July 25th 2017 Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary Pages: 333 Source: NetGalley, Blog Tour In this new contemporary from YA star Kasie West, a girl who wins the lottery learns that money can cause more problems than it solves, especially when love comes into the picture. Maddie doesn’t believe in luck. She’s all about hard… Read more »
ALA Annual 2017 Event Recap
Last weekend was ALA Annual, and what a whirlwind it was!
Star-Crossed by Barbara Dee: Review & Dee’s Top Ten Addictions
Star-Crossed by Barbara Dee Published by Aladdin on March 14th 2017 Genres: Middle Grade, Contemporary, LGBTQ+ Pages: 256 Source: The Author Mattie is chosen to play Romeo opposite her crush in the eighth grade production of Shakespeare’s most beloved play in this Romeo and Juliet inspired novel from the author of Truth or Dare. Mattie, a star student and passionate reader, is delighted when her… Read more »
What You Need to Know Before You Open a NetGalley Account
NetGalley is an incredible way to start receiving review copies of books. In general, getting approved for a book via NetGalley is much more likely than getting a physical ARC of that same book. Which makes sense—publishers can afford to give out digital ARCs a lot more freely than physical ARCs. Sometimes bloggers are scared… Read more »
A Book Blogger’s Guide to Acronyms, Terms and Slang
Last week I posted about OTPs and several people said that they didn’t know the acronym. It occurred to me that there are LOTS of book blogging terms that aren’t particularly obvious. When I first started out as a blogger, I often stared in puzzlement at words or acronyms that meant nothing to me. Heck, even nowadays… Read more »
Feed Your Fiction Addiction’s 4th Blogoversary!
That’s right, I’m a year older and my blog is too! This makes four years for the blog. More than that for the rest of me. 🙂 In the past four years, I’ve posted: 1205 total posts 120 discussions 549 reviews (that’s the number of posts, not actually the number of books reviewed) 237 giveaways… Read more »
2016 End of Year Book Survey
Once again, Jamie over at The Perpetual Page Turner has created her annual End of Year Book Survey and I thought I’d join in the fun! I skipped some and added some fun graphs to my stats at the beginning. Hope you enjoy! 2016 Reading Stats Number Of Books You Read: 205
Reflections on My Reading Year: 2016
2016 is almost over and lots of us our reflecting on the past year, taking a look at our goals and accomplishments. I thought it might be fun to look back at some of my old Top Ten Tuesday posts to see how I did with reading the books I said I was anticipating in… Read more »
A Recap of the YA Lit Conference & Fandom Frenzy 2016
Anderson’s annual YA Lit Conference is a gathering of authors, educators and librarians (with some bloggers thrown in) to discuss … well, books. Then, the next day is the YA Fandom Frenzy—this day is geared toward fans and includes lots of fun games and activities. This year 33 authors were in attendance, including a few… Read more »
