Oh, HOW I love the fact that it’s finally a Sunday that’s the last day of the month. I finally get to do a monthly wrapup that’s not 5 days later!! T. H. A. T. R. O. C. K. S. But anyway! It seems we always keep saying that, but I feel like even though March was longer than February, it still felt just as short? Or maybe it’s to do with the fact that the 31st of March is still actually the 59th of February..?
What have I accomplished in March? Well, a lot of things, it seems… While the blog traffic is slowly going down, I actually don’t mind it too much because I have finally caught up with posts and the comments! Other than that:
- I have broken 1000 friends/followers on Goodreads, which is pretty exciting
- I have also broken 2000 followers on Twitter, which just sort of goes up on its own now??
- I have got on the Tor.com mailing list!!! Am I ever so excited about that…
- And I have finally got over the initial fear to email publishers, so that’s a whole new lay of land for me
- I have hauled THE LEAST books a month in my whole blogging career, which is great!
- And I read 11 books, which is actually more than I hauled, for once!
Other than that, I am impatiently waiting for the Dewey’s 24h #readathon which will take place on the 28th of April! I am a little puzzled about the fact that their blog says “sign up on the sidebar”, but there’s no signup, but hey, who cares – I read for myself, I don’t really need a signup, when you think about it. I am so excited about the readathon because last time it was so much fun! Who will be joining?
Anyway, aside from all of this exciting stuff, there are all the books that I read, so let’s see what was good and what was meh! One thing I must add: the actual star ratings that I gave these books might be different from what they appear on this list, because a 4 stars non-fiction is not always the same as a 4 stars fantasy. This is a global comparison by enjoyment, and the star ratings that I give are for the book in the context of other books in its genre. Makes sense? 🙂
~ 5-Star Miracle Books Read ~
You’ve already heard me rave enough about The Zanna Function, but you will only hear about The Sunday Lunch Club as of now – and it was SPECTACULAR. It was truly engrossing, it robbed me of HOURS of sleep, and I wrote a VERY excited review which comes out on April 18th! So keep your eyes peeled, and grab a review copy on NetGalley, if you still can. And Arm of the Sphinx was a buddy read with Trang @ Bookidote, which I enjoyed immensely – it was one hell of a book, with way more twists and excitement than I expected. Can’t wait for the third in the series!
~ 4-Star Steady Good Books Read ~
Happily comes out in just a couple of days and I’m excited! You will be seeing my review soon, it was a wonderful book. Meanwhile, most of you will have probably read the review for Have Dog, Will Travel already – it’s truly a very touching and inspiring story about how guide dogs can transform a person’s life. The Lost Castle was also great, a pretty cozy and not cliche story about three women’s lives in several historical periods, all connected by a castle – review to come soon. And Sugar Money is a sad story based on real events on an attempted escape of slaves in Martinique in the 18th century. Review also coming up soon!
~ Okay Books Read ~
These were all still definitely wonderful books – just not something I know I will remember after a year or two. The Dragon Queen was nice as a fictionalized real story about the last Queen of Korea, but the way it was told was slightly odd – interspersed with mini-segments of present day, with the old story being like 90% of the whole book. I would have preferred 100%! Project Apollo was a great, informative nonfiction book with loads of photos, wonderful for the fan of space missions. And I liked The One Memory of Flora Banks and what it was trying to say – but it was a tad repetitive, although I know as an amnesia book it was supposed to be. You can read my Goodreads reviews of these titles by clicking on their names.
~ Totally Meh Books Read ~
The Glitch wasn’t even a totally meh book, it was JUST a meh book! So I feel like I had an exceptionally great reading month. This is still a 3 stars read, but it was incredibly dry and corporate, and I wasn’t sure where it was even going – and it proceeded to not go anywhere till the very end. Still, not one of my worst reads in general.
~ The Stats! ~
Onto the stats! It seems if I keep going like this, and factoring in Dewey’s next month, I should be done with my Goodreads yearly goal before May. WILD, HUH?? I don’t even know how that happened. I just quit it with the big goals and started reading MOAR and MOAR. Miracles, I tell you! #BeatTheBacklist seems to be going alright too, but the problem is that I have only scheduled a lot of those reviews, so I have not yet uploaded them or logged them on the team giveaway for points! I am sorry, Bards! I think I will be mostly on track during April cause a lot of those are scheduled for that time.
~ On The Blog In March ~
This has been yet another great month for #NewBloggers, thanks to Nicole @ FYFA, Pam @ Reverie Society, Jen @ Starcrossed Bookblog, Ivyclad Ideas and Sophie @ Beware of the Reader. Thanks for those awesome guest posts, everyone! Out of all these posts, probably the most popular one was Badass Book Smugglers, because of the unusual topic and history content. If you haven’t checked it out yet, go read about how brave intellectuals risked their lives to teach their country’s children to read!
~ Books Hauled ~
Can you believe I only hauled this many!! In fact, one was a giveaway win even… Out of these, I am most excited for Artificial Condition, which is a sequel of Murderbot #1, which I loved and loved and loved with all my heart, then the full Lantern collection – I have read the first part last year and loved it to bits as well, and of course, Vicious, my first V.E. Schwab book (that I’ve already started yesterday!) By the way, this month is GOLD for giveaways, which is so rare for an international reader – I have won two! Only one has arrived so far – Tribal Affairs – and I’ll be updating you about the next one in April. Excited!
~ Next Week ~
Next week we will have a review of Happily that I just talked to you about and you should totall grab, also a review of Sugar Money. Both of these books are being released next week. And for #NewBloggers 101, we will have A Quick Guide to Bloglovin’, courtesy of Aimee @ Aimee, Always whom we both know and love! I am excited, are you?
~ #New Bloggers 101 Content On Other Blogs! ~
This month I’m also sharing some posts on other people’s blogs that I’ve found that could be extra helpful for those #NewBloggers out there. If you’ve got some #NewBloggers content next month, throw me a link and I’ll be sure to include it!
Carrie @ Cat on the Bookshelf shares a wonderful guide to Twitter hashtags for #bookbloggers
Marie @ Drizzle and Hurricane Books shares a post on how to grow your blog
As usual, I’m linking up with Caffeinated Reviewer and the Sunday post, also with Stacking the Shelves at Tynga’s Reviews and Feed Your Fiction Addiction.
And that’s it for my March! What about you? Share your links with me in the comments, I’ll be happy to look at your posts.
I’m Evelina and I try to blog about books that matter, with a bit of fun there too! Disability and equality will be topics you see a lot, but there’s also a lot of scifi, fantasy and… GIFs. I’m also the proud founder of #ARCsAnonymous.
March has been a great month and there has been a lot of great posts on your blog!
Here is a little on how my March has been ☺️ https://wp.me/p9zpGp-1X
Thank you 🙂
Sounds like a great bookish month. Well done for emailing publishers too, now you can request specific books. Good luck. I like the sound of the blog posts that you linked too, I’m going to have a look at Carrie and Marie’s posts now. Thank you and hope your April will be a great blogging bookish month too.
Amanda.
Thanks 🙂 I hope your April is great too!
Wow, great month! I long for the days I had time to read eleven books in one month. I’m curious to hear what you think of Vicious Hope your April is just as successful!
Thanks 🙂 I think I actually only read this many because I listen on really really fast text to speech while I do the dishes and shower. A book takes about 2-3 hours that way 😀
Vicious was great, although it’s also one of those books where I just don’t know how to review it 😀 it’s just sort of a feeling and it produces no smart words 😀
Well you had a fantastic month Evelina! I had to google what Tor.com is LOL Now I’m wiser thanks to you. The things you make me do I swear 😉
Haha, thanks 🙂 yes, I guess Tor.com isn’t a publisher of your genres so much 🙂 I don’t think you read a lot of scifi, if I remember right? (pardon me if I’m misremembering!) It’s mostly scifi and some fantasy too, so I’m not surprised you haven’t heard of them – I would probably say the same to some romance publishers. But they do publish good books! So if you’re ever hunting outside your favorite genres, this is definitely recommended 🙂
You’ve had a fab month and congratulations on your giveaway wins 🙂
I blogged a promo for Tribal Affairs in February I think and it looked good so I’ll be interested to know what you think
Thank you! 🙂
Awesome month you had!!! I’ve been wanting to get on the TOR mailing list for ever! lucky you and congratulations!
Here’s to another month of happy reading and great accomplishments *holds up Rockstar Drink as a toast* 😀
Thank you! 🙂 Tor is awesome!! Have you asked them yet? Cause you should try, they are friendly 🙂 if anything, at least they’ll put you on the ebook mailing list, I think.
I wouldn’t know who to ask 🙁 I tried emailing a month ago but it got returned back to me.
I can message you their common business email where I sent it! Does Twitter DM work?
that would be great!! thank you so much!! I LOVE TOR!
I DMed it to you on Twitter last week, so you can mail them now 🙂 have you already tried? I’m sorry I’m replying my comments so late xD
Awesome month indeed! Hopefully April will prove to be just as awesome too! I need to try Vicious too (waiting to try it out around Summer). Happy reading!
Thank you! Yeah, hopefully 🙂 Vicious was nice, but… odd. But I’m sure you’ll like it, cause your blog is big on the superhero stuff! I would be super interested to hear your opinion on the book, especially because you’ve read other (real xD) superhero stuff, and I haven’t – so you’ll probably have some interesting thoughts that will come from comparisons 🙂
What a great month Evelina! More read books than hauled is excellent… I’d like to try emailing publishers but but am in the stage right before you… working up to it. Congratulations on all your numbers, talk about a stat frenzy! <3
Thank you 🙂 yeah, I can’t believe I almost didn’t haul! Miracles, miracles. Oh yeah, I mean, I already emailed someone but I’m still pretty terrified and I’m not sure when I’ll be emailing again 😀 I hope you work up your courage sometime soon 🙂
You had an awesome month! Congratulations on 2000 Twitter followers and 1000 GRs connections. Wow! I am such a black sheep when it comes to Flora Banks. Though it was jarring at first, once I got used to being in Flora’s head, I thought the approach was brilliant. And then there was all that stuff with her brother and what not that just gave me feels.
Thank you 🙂 the blog growth has slowed down a little bit now, but I am still very happy with the numbers 🙂 black sheep, huh? I thought I was the black sheep 😀 cause everyone else seems to like it. But, TBH, the reason I probably didn’t give it that many stars is because I tend to enjoy YA much less than adult books. It’s the tone, a lot of the time I just don’t enjoy it. But the concept of it all and the story behind it was truly original, meaningful and touching 🙂 and yes, the brother… Read more »
Such a good month for you! The 59th of February. LOL It’s sunny and the AC is running here and I know I am very fortunate:) Have you done a post about emailing publishers yet? That would be a good one!
Thank you, Laura 🙂 yes, the 59th of February xD luckily, pretty much the very next week we had our first thunderstorm – which always means that spring will come right after that (I don’t know how it works like that, but it does xD nature = magic!)
Nope, I actually haven’t done a post about emailing publishers because I still don’t really have very good experience in that xD but maybe I should find someone to consult me or write a guest post 😀
You had an excellent month Evelina! Congratulations again on your milestones and getting added to Tor’s list!! Honestly, I should feel much more chill about it because you’re more than deserving of all those achievements after all the work you put into your blog 🙂
And I’ve finally reached one of my favorite commenters 😀 (so many comments cause I wasn’t replying for a long time xDD)
Thank you! Haha, I feel like my achievements should be so much better though 😀 but I guess it will always feel like this. Oh, but this month is going to be just as exciting, after all, we’re doing a buddy read, and I’ll let you in on a secret. One publisher just promised to send me a book, and I didn’t even request this time, they found me! EXCIIIITEEEE
😀
D’awwww Evelina!! ♥
OMG CONGRATS!!!! That’s so exciting!!! Between your news and the buddy read I’m practically bouncing in my seat 😀
I am imagining you bouncing right now 😀
You had such an awesoome month, congratulations on everything you accomplished this month 😀 <3
Thank you! 🙂
Ok, you got me for The Sunday Lunch Club. Enjoy your latest 😉
Oh yes, definitely get The Sunday Lunch Club, it was a wonderful book 🙂 and thank you!
Yay! You had an amazing month it seems, even if numbers might be going down just a little. Easier to manage though, haha. I’m still, behind. Congrats on getting onto the Tor mailing list! I still, have a fear of emailing publishers honestly, so huge congrats and kudos to you! 🙂
Yeah, the numbers are a little down, but I’ve still got all the people who matter talking to me, so that’s what is important here 🙂 and yes, easier to manage! Although I still had 277 comments to reply when I logged in yesterday, OMG xD (but it’s more because I’ve been neglecting them… LOL) I can totally understand the fear of emailing publishers, I’ve already emailed some and I’m still completely petrified xD TBH, if a friend hadn’t basically sent me an email to copy, given me all the addresses and pushed me to do it, I never would… Read more »
Ugh i still have to get to Vicious some day. I tried it once a few years ago and couldn’t get into it at all.
I haven’t done Dewey’s in a while. Doing a one day readathon with a toddler is a no go haha.
Yeah, I can understand what you mean – I liked Vicious, but it was a lot harder to get into than most books. And it just felt different. It’s a pretty odd book, to be honest!
Oh yeah, I can imagine you’d only be able to do Dewey’s if you took Merijn to some magical fairy godmother for a day, ahahah 😀
Wait, there’s a Tor mailing list? Do they like Australians? LOL Happily has such a promising and intriguing title, so I’ll be looking for your review!
Well if they accepted me (Lithuania) I’m sure they’ll accept Australia 😀
Looks like you had a great month! Congrats 🙂 I’m planning to also take part in Dewy’s readathon and I’m taking part in a month long readathon too. (I need to play catch up on my reading badly) Hope you have a good week
Thank you 🙂 I’m so glad you’re joining Dewey’s! We’re going to have SO much fun!! Did you plan a TBR for it already? Think of how much we can read for the Bards 😀 (you really motivate me somehow xD)
Great post!
I’m looking forward to the 101 of Bloglovin. I haven’t been very active over there and have basically no knowledge about the dynamics over there.
Nice haul, too. I hear VE Schwab is very good.
Congratulations on the milestones! Well done 🙂
Thanks 🙂 yeah, I also feel like I just have Bloglovin’ just to have it, hah 😀
What a thoroughly successful month! I love the look of Arm of the Sphinx, which seems a huge amount of fun. Your blogging and book reviewing really seems to be taking off – congratulations on making the Tor mailing list, given what a great number of quality books they produce:)). I hope that April is every bit as good for you – in the meantime, have a lovely weekend, Evelina:)
Thank you 🙂 oh yes, I believe you would absolutely love The Books of Babel series 🙂 and thank you again!! I hope your April is great too.
What a great reading month. I have just two books and I will have completed my GR challenge. I was hoping to get in a few books for the TBRChallenge but it just never worked out. I hope you enjoy the new books and happy reading!
Mary my #SundayRoundup #12!
Thanks 🙂 wow, go you – for the Goodreads challenge! Now when I’m replying this comment, you’ve probably already completed it then 🙂 great job!
Good luck with emailing the publishers! Hope you have a great April.
Thank you!
My wrap-ups are always several days late. I haven’t even started writing my March wrap-up yet, so you’re doing better than I am. Congrats on all the followers! I’m hopefully going to be doing Dewey’s, but my mom and my dog are both getting surgery this month, so I’m not sure how much I’ll be able to read. I hope you have a great April!
I would always rather post a late update than leave those poor several days of the month stranded, haha 😀
Thanks! I really hope you can get to do Dewey’s, but at the same time I hope you mom’s and dog’s surgeries are going to go well! That’s a lot of stuff for one month. Hang in there!
March was such a great month for you. Congrats on reaching 1000 followers on Goodreads and 2000 followers on Twitter. Also, congrats on getting on Tor’s mailing list. I’m so happy for you! You deserve all the love from the bookish community since you’re one of the most supportive bloggers I’ve ever met.
I’m hoping to read Vicious soon. As I’m writing my dissertation on Victoria Schwab’s Monsters of Verity, I’m trying to read all of her books.
Happy readings! 😉
Thank 🙂 yes, March really was a good month 🙂 awww.. Thank you so much, you saying that means so much 🙂 you are the sweetest!
Vicious was great, but.. in an odd way. It’s one of the odder books I’ve read, and I can’t even tell you why 😀 I did enjoy it though! But it’s my first book of Schwab’s, so now I am curious about the others 🙂
yay for all these wonderful stats and accomplishments!!! I’ll have to check The Sunday Lunch Club! I’
think I need a break from speculative fiction again 🙂
Thanks, Daniela 🙂 yes, The Sunday Lunch Club was amazing! I want to go back to that reading experience 😀 yep, it’s very relatable and a good book to break from the world of fantasy, scifi and whatnot 😀
I always enjoy reading your stats! You got me excited about The Sunday Lunch Club, I look forward to your review and I’m adding it to my tbr! Have a wonderful week!
Aw, thanks 🙂 The Sunday Lunch Club was AMAZING, and I can truly, truly, truly recommend it! Definitely do grab it 🙂
Have a wonderful week too 🙂
Wow, you have had a really fantastic month! Congrats! Hope you have a wonderful week and happy reading.
Thanks 🙂
Such a good reading month! I am always so impressed by people who can read as many as eleven books in a month. I don’t dedicate that much time to it (because Netflix), but I like to think that I might one day. You read so widely too, which I appreciate. I like to do that too. My reviews of YA books tend to do the best because that’s what most people want to read about, but I love to branch out, even when my blog suffers for it.
Thank you 🙂 I think I mostly only read so many because of the text to speech! I listen while I clean, do the dishes and shower, and I listen on the fastest setting, so a book can take me about 2-3 hours, so it’s super fast 😀 and also – I don’t watch Netflix or pretty much any other shows, so that should explain it 🙂 Ah, I know, YA seems to be the most popular stuff, but I just don’t want to read based on what the crowd dictates, cause I don’t really enjoy a lot of YA,… Read more »
You’re so right! I still like YA, but it’s not all I’m interested in reading any more. It’s been really nice actually, finding bloggers like yourself who don’t just write about YA. For a little while there I was worried I didn’t have a place in the community any more.
That’s great 🙂 I think there are actually quite a lot of us who write reviews for all kinds of genres! You definitely have a place in the community, whichever genre you read <3
Looks like March was pretty good for you. I totally agree with March feeling even shorter than February. I just can’t believe it’s already April. Crazy.
Have a great week and happy reading!
It was! Thanks 🙂
Wow, a 1000 on Goodreads? That’s pretty awesome. And glad to hear that The Sunday Lunch Club was good. It does look cute. 🙂
Yay for Artificial Condition and Annihilation, which I just read. That one is definitely different!
Have a nice week. 🙂
Yup, a pretty exciting number 🙂 thank you! I hope you liked Murderbot #2, I loved it 🙂 and Annihilation is still yet to be read for me 🙂
Sounds like a great month overall and Tor. com rocks. I have 2 of their books up on my TBR in April. Seems like you’ve read some good books. I think I only had one 5-star read this month and it was an older book. I need to do my recap soon but that’s all I can remember giving 5. Hope you have a wonderful April as well.
Tor really does rock 🙂 which books of theirs do you have?
Thank you! I hope your April is going great as well 🙂
seems like you had a great reading month and i absolutely loved the bookstagram post. I won three giveaways in march which was just crazy cause im also an international. I guess march was our month. Happy new month.
Thank you 🙂 three giveaways!!! Wow! It must have been some giveaway month cause I also won two. That’s so cool 🙂 happy giveaway month for us 😀
Wow, you had such a great reading month that’s amazing – and congratulations on all the Goodreads friends, twitter followers and emails to publishers, you’re so famous haha 😉
I have heard mixed things about Flora Banks, though I usually enjoy books dealing with amnesia, I’m not really sure I’ll lose my time with that one now…
Thank you so much for sharing my post! Hope you’ll have a wonderful April 🙂 x
Thank you 🙂 haha, I’m not famous yet xD but maybe on the way, haha 😀 (kidding!)
Yep, Flora Banks was definitely a different read, but if anything, the reasons why I gave it only 3 stars was because a) it was repetitive, although that’s understandable b) I generally don’t enjoy the tone of most YA (so it’s really not the book’s fault!) So, as a YA reader, I’m sure you’ll find it very original and enjoyable – and purely for the subject matter, I would totally recommend it to you 🙂
“Or maybe it’s to do with the fact that the 31st of March is still actually the 59th of February..?” OH NOW THIS CONCEPT WILL FOREVER BE STUCK IN MY HEAD!!! T_T
On the bright side, you’ve achieved so much this month and I’m so happy for you!!! All of those followers are totally well-deserved, and being on a blogger mailing list is one of the best feelings ever. ♥
Hahaha I know right, it’s just so accurate in cold climates 😀 maybe not so much where you live, but it’s so totally true here xD
Aww, thank you, such a nice thing to say 🙂 thank you, Aimee, and thank you for joining me and guest posting too! It was great 🙂
Impressive reading…and those stats! Very awesome. Enjoy April, and thanks for visiting my blog. Savor your books.
Thanks!
Sounds like you’ve had a wonderful month! Congratulations on taking the first step to reach out to publishers. I’m still afraid to do that. I hope you have a marvelous April! 🙂
I just posted my wrap-up post here https://www.boundtowriting.com/its-a-wrap-march-2018-april-tbr-list-200-followers/
Thank you 🙂 I already requested once or twice, but I am still afraid to request some more, so I can relate xD I hope you have a great April too 🙂
OMG I felt like March was the month that would never end. Maybe it’s because I live in an area that refuses to shake the cold weather. Congratulations on those Goodreads and Twitter milestones!!! Looks like your March was filled with good books, which is probably why the month went by so quickly! 🙂 Here’s to warmer weather and more awesome books in April!
Really? You’re the first one who’s said that 😀 I also live in an area that had snow throughout all of March though. It was like a second February xD
And thank you! 🙂
Great month for you. I hope April is a good one. Have a great week!
Thank you! 🙂
Looks like you had a busy month. I hope you enjoy all of your books and have a wonderful week.
I truly did! Thank you 🙂
Congrats on your follower stats! And that’s amazing about Tor’s mailing list! Teach me your ways!! I hope you love all your new reads! 😀
Thank you 🙂 haha, I just wrote an email with all my stats, some example reviews and asked to be added! So you should try too 🙂
Wow you had a busy March, I have so many posts to read and catch up on! That’s so awesome though I’m glad you had so many 4 and 5 star reads!
I also picked up Annihilation, Vicious, and the Lantern collection in the past and am curious to see what you think of them, especially Annihilation since it seems very hit or miss with my favorite bloggers.
Hopefully you have a wonderful April as well! <3 And congrats on all the giveaway wins!
It seems that I have 🙂 ooh, cool, looks like we have a lot of reads in common! I already finished Vicious, and I liked it, but I also thought it was pretty odd 😀 but in a good way! I wonder what you’ll think. And I’ve got to start reading the Lantern collection 🙂
I hope you have a great month too!
Sounds like a great month! I have been blogging for a while but I haven’t approached publishers yet. Of course, I really have more than enough to keep me busy. Congrats on the wins! It looks like you had some really great reads in March. I hope April is just as good for you.
Thank you 🙂 you haven’t approached publishers! Why not? 🙂 You are in the US and you have a long history, I’m sure you’d be accepted with open arms 🙂
An amazing month!! Congratulations on getting on the Tor mailing list! I’m so proud of you <3 <3
Thanks!! 🙂
Congrats on the great month and on finally getting over that fear to email publishers – I don’t really track my stats, I deal too much with numbers at work so for my hobby I just ignore them.
My March ended quite abruptly with a cold and fever, but hopefully I will publish my wrap up tomorrow.
Have a great April too!
Thank you 🙂 haha, I deal a lot with numbers at work too, but I think I am too much of a stats nerd xD I just can’t NOT pay attention to them 😀 haha
Seems like you really had a great month. I am so happy for you 🙂
Congrats on getting so many followers. You are well deserved. People are really recognising and loving you 🙂
I am amazed with all those ARCs that you actually read in a month. I can’t read so many of those in a single month. After reading one book in Kindle, I crave for reading a physical book 😀
I am also happy that you are over your fear of mailing to publishers. Btw, what’s Tor.com exactly?
I hope April is amazing for you too 🙂
Thank you 🙂
Hm, actually, I now PREFER to read on the Kindle o_o and I seem to read faster on it. Force of habit, I guess! I am surprised about that as well xD
Tor.com is a scifi/fantasy publisher, and they are absolutely great 🙂 I really like their books!
I hope April is (and has been so far xD) good to you too! 🙂 sorry for my SNAIL-slow replies to comments xD xD
OKAY so first off, congrats on hitting all the friends/followers goals! I just hit 1600 followers on Twitter and I got so excited ahaha xD Glad you had such a good reading month though! And NICE HAUL. Vicious is sooooo good and I need to re-read it when it’s time for Vengeful to come out.
Thank youuuuu 🙂 I know right!! Things are SO exciting once you hit the 1000 mark on Twitter – basically, everything from that point just feels awesome somehow 😀 so congrats on hitting 1600! I hope you get over 2k soon too, or rather, I’m sure you will 🙂 I already finished Vicious, and while I like it, I have NO clue how I’ll write a review 😀 it’s just… one of those books that leaves you with an empty head 😀 it’s also so unique – I don’t think I’ve ever read anything like that? But I did enjoy… Read more »
Congrats on all the blog growth! Not only do I love your blog, but I also consider you to be one of the most friendly and welcoming bloggers out there. I’m glad more and more people are discovering you!
Thank you! 🙂 that’s really great to hear. Well, what are communities for if not being welcoming to those in them? 🙂 I still think my blog growth is ridiculously slow, but then again, I also don’t review YA books, so maybe that makes sense xD
Why are YA books the most popular, anyway? I keep thinking I must be missing something, since I typically don’t like them. I’m going to try again with Children of Blood and Bone.
SAAAAME. I like *some* YA books, but it’s got to be a really awesome one. When I was a teen, they were not really around, and I’m guessing it’s the same with you? Maybe that’s the reason. I can’t relate to them at all, plus, my teens were a… time I would rather not dwell on, so I just don’t want to read to it. I never had that teens most people have in YA books, but even if it’s YA fantasy – I just can’t relate to the feelings. Or else, they bring me back when I don’t want… Read more »
You hit the nail on the head! I know I must have the ability to appreciate YA, because I tore through The Hunger Games, but since then every single one I’ve tried has bored me. Every. Single. One. It’s like once I read The Hunger Games, all of the other ones just seemed full of tropes, like you said. And not nuanced enough. Plus everything is about that main character and what they’re going through – I like a bit of a larger scope. You’re right, YA didn’t really exist when we were teens. I just went from middle grade… Read more »
I still love me some Middle Grade 😀 aw, thanks! Yeah, I’m sure we would have been friends too 🙂 for what it’s worth, we can now be two old crones who don’t really get what the whole fuss about YA really is :DDD
I’ll check out Illuminae!
Can’t wait to hear your opinion 🙂
Sounds like a pretty good month 🙂 And, gah, yes, it did feel incredibly short somehow. Happy April!
Thank you 🙂
Yay for hauling less books than you read! That’s quite a victory! This month seriously rushed past and this year isn’t going any slower. I need to figure out how to slow down a bit! Hope you’re having a great week!
Thank you 🙂
Hey 11 books is super awesome! And congrats on the blog and Twitter growth. And why didn’t I think of the 59th day of Feb concept? That would totally explain why it was so ‘meh’.
Thank you 🙂 oh gosh, I haven’t been to your blog in forever, I am so happy I get to visit back now xD xD (way too busy :D)
Also, I didn’t think of the 59th of Feb myself either xD mom saw it somewhere online, I think… It stuck 😀
omg i am so proud of u for getitng on tors mailing list. like hell yea look at u go for INTL bloggers!!!
i hope u keep up with ur amazing reading throughout april, youre the best
Thank youuuu! And I even received a few print copies this week, I can’t believe it ;_; thank you, Lauren!! You’re also the best! 🙂