Sunday Post: First of the New Year

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
~this meme was inspired in part by - In My Mailbox~
It's a chance to share News.
A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog.
This is your news post, so personalize it. Include as much as you want or as little.
Be creative, it can be a vlog or just a showcase of your goodies.

Not much happened this week on The Little Reading Nook.

What Happened Last Week:

• Thursday:
• 2015 Goals
• January Goals
• Audiobook Challenge

What's Happening This Week:

• Monday: Late Sunday Short Post
• Tuesday: Teaser Tuesday
• Wednesday: Wondrous Words Wednesday
• Thursday: Review - The New Mrs. Collins by Quanie Miller
• Friday: ???? (Friday Reads)
• Saturday: ????

Happy Reading,

MoniqueReads

Sunday Post #9

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
~this meme was inspired in part by - In My Mailbox~
It's a chance to share News.
A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog.
This is your news post, so personalize it. Include as much as you want or as little.
Be creative, it can be a vlog or just a showcase of your goodies.

I don't believe that it has been 8 weeks since I have done a Sunday Post.  Not much has happened on the blog since the last on back in January.

Current Giveaway (Ends April 1, 2013 @ 12:00am):

(Clicking picture will take you to giveaway page)

What Happened Last Week:

• Teaser Tuesday:  was brought to you  by  Love in the Years of Lunacy by Mandy Sayer
• Wednesday: Review of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson (which for some reason is very popular page view count wise)
• Friday Finds: Four new books added to my TBR List
• Reflecting on February:  Where I admit publicly how horrible I was at completing my reading goals for  February.

What's Happening This Week:

• Sunday:  Sunday Shorts from 16 Bars by Ran Walker
• Monday: Review of  The Lynching of Louie Sam by Elizabeth Stewart
• Tuesday:  Teaser Tuesday from A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
• Friday: Friday Finds

Happy Reading,

MoniqueReads

Sunday Post #1

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
~this meme was inspired in part by - In My Mailbox~
It's a chance to share News.
A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog.
This is your news post, so personalize it. Include as much as you want or as little.
Be creative, it can be a vlog or just a showcase of your goodies.

There have been a lot of end of the year review post popping up in my RSS Feed.  I am going to openly admit that I have been a bit envious.  When I see all the books that others read, my little puny number is quite depressing.  Then there are those readers/bloggers that make graphs about the books that they have read.  The geek in me gets excited and I think "why didn't I do that?"  So this year, I promise myself that I will keep better records so I can open up my spreadsheet (did I mention that I love spreadsheets) and create cool graphs.

What Happened Last Week:

• Monday: End Of Year Review - Where I show how I completely failed in 2012
• Tuesday: Three teaser sentences from  Little Bee by Chris Cleave - Which I am really enjoying right now.
• Wednesday:  Goals for the New Year - I blast the site with different challenges that I signed up for an my goals. (the link is to the main post)
• Friday:  I showed off the cookbooks that I had discovered while reading other peoples blogs.

What's Happening This Week:

• Monday:  Start of Bout of Books Read-A-Thon (I will have only on master post)
• Tuesday: Teaser Tuesday from The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
• Wednesday: Wondrous Word Wednesday - Words that I had to look up while read Little Bee by Chris Cleave
• Thursday:  Review of Little Bee
• Friday:  Weekly Friday Finds Meme
• Saturday: Weekly Stacking The Shelves Meme (which I completely forgot to do this week).

Happy Reading,

MoniqueReads

Sunday Post #8

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
~this meme was inspired in part by - In My Mailbox~
It's a chance to share News.
A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog.
This is your news post, so personalize it. Include as much as you want or as little.
Be creative, it can be a vlog or just a showcase of your goodies.

So, there are only two days to go and 2012 will official be over.  I love the start of a New Year, it is so full of possibilities and a prefect time to plan.

Over the next couple of days, I will be wrapping up 2012 on this blog and planning for the upcoming New Year.

One of the things that I am most excited about (regarding this blog), if changing my rating system.  I have been using a star system since I started this blog years ago and have always been dissatisfied with it.  The only reason that I have continued to use it is because it is easier to translate my ratings to the various sites that I review on.   I am not going to worry about that starting in 2013.

While I am not going to stop review on other sites, for The Little Reading Nook.  I am going to start giving letter grades.  For some reason, I think letter grades will be more reflective for how I feel about a book.  And now that I review there elements of each book (plot, character, and writing) I can give grades for each element separately and an overall grade.

What Happened Last Week (light week):

• Monday:  Review of Christmas in the Bottoms by Charles Harvey
• Friday Finds: Books that I found on Bite My Books.
• Saturday: Where I books got for free from the Authors Solutions booth at the Miami International Book Fair for Stacking The Shelves.

What's Happening This Week:

• Monday: Review of  The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
• Teaser Tuesday:  A quote from Little Bee by Chris Cleave  and a bunch of post about challenges.
• Wednesday: Wondrous Word Wednesday
• Thursday:  Booking Thur Thursday
• Friday:  Weekly book finds
• Saturday:  New Books

Happy Reading,

MoniqueReads

Sunday Post #7

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
~this meme was inspired in part by - In My Mailbox~
It's a chance to share News.
A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog.
This is your news post, so personalize it. Include as much as you want or as little.
Be creative, it can be a vlog or just a showcase of your goodies.

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What Happened Last Week:

• Monday:  Review of Lucretia and the Kroons by Victor LaValle.
• Tuesday: Showcased two sentences for  The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu for Teaser Tuesday.
• Wednesday: Discussed why I abandoned The Family Business by Carl Weber with Eric Pete.
• Friday Finds: Where I showcased books, that I found on the 3 R's Blog.
• Saturday: Weekly Stacking The Shelves Post where I show off 7 books that I found at the Miami International Book Fair.

What's Happening This Week:

• Monday: Review of the 32 Candles by Ernessa T. Carter
• Teaser Tuesday:  A quote from YA Sci-Fi novel The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor.
• Wednesday: Review of the The Flight of the Blackbird by Faye McDonald Smith
• Friday:  This weeks finds will highlight books I found on other blogs.
• Saturday:  A spotlight on my haul from Miami International Book Fair.

Happy Reading,

MoniqueReads

Sunday Post #6

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
~this meme was inspired in part by - In My Mailbox~
It's a chance to share News.
A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog.
This is your news post, so personalize it. Include as much as you want or as little.
Be creative, it can be a vlog or just a showcase of your goodies.

It's official, I am back from my unplanned break.  I was burned out and could not find anything that I was interested in reading.  And I did not feel like writing reviews.  Boo...Anyways in other news.

What Happened Last Week:

• Teaser Tuesday:  I highlighted The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore.  There was a great quote in the book that I just had to share.
• Friday Find:  The theme was foreign locations where I found four books that would take me out of Florida.
• Stacking The Shelves:  I highlighted a little bookstore that has been stealing my money and invading my book shelves.

What's Happening This Week:

• Monday: Review of the novella Lucretia and the Kroons by Victor LaValle
• Teaser Tuesday:  A quote from YA Sci-Fi novel The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor.
• Wednesday:  Why The Family Business by Carl Weber and Eric Pete fell victim to the 20% Rule.
• Thursday:  I'm back in action with Booking Thur Thursday
• Friday:  This weeks finds will highlight books I found on other blogs.
• Saturday:  A spotlight on my haul from Miami International Book Fair.

Happy Reading,

MoniqueReads

Sunday Post #5

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
~this meme was inspired in part by - In My Mailbox~
It's a chance to share News.
A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog.
This is your news post, so personalize it. Include as much as you want or as little.
Be creative, it can be a vlog or just a showcase of your goodies.

Where Have I Been?

I sort of hit a blogging slump.  It's much like a reading slump, but instead of not wanting to read I didn't want to blog.  I had things to blog about and I did read books.  But I didn't want to blog about them.

The good news is that I now have a little room to pre-schedule reviews and will have like a three week advantage.

The bad news is that I have decided to abandon a book.  The first one this year, The Fifth Vial by Michael Palmer.  I will post a full run down about why I decided to throw in the towel latter today.

What's Happening This Week:

• Sunday:  20% Rule -why I did not finish The Fifth Vial
• Monday:  I will be interviewing author Eugenia O'Neal (my first author interview).  I really hope you stop by and read the interview Eugenia is a really nice person and her interview is full of information.
• Tuesday:  Teaser Tuesday  featuring I'm Only Human After All by Alex Rogers
• Wednesday:  Review of Jessamine by Eugenia O'Neal.
• Friday: Friday Finds
• Saturday: Stacking The Shelves

GiveAway:

• Win 1 copy of Jessamine by Eugenia O'Neal.  Entry rules and details are on the GiveAway page.

This has to be the first time in a long time where I have had a post scheduled for every day in a week.  I don't know how people do it, it's exhausting.

Happy Reading,

MoniqueReads

Sunday Post #4

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
~this meme was inspired in part by - In My Mailbox~
It's a chance to share News.
A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog.
This is your news post, so personalize it. Include as much as you want or as little.
Be creative, it can be a vlog or just a showcase of your goodies.

Tonight is the last day for the High Summer Read-a-Thon...  I didn't get as much reading done as I would have liked but it was fun trying.

What Happened Last Week:

• Reviews: The Upper Room by Mary Monroe - probably one of the worse reviews that I have written so far this year.
• Teaser Tuesday:  Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Stout - I finished it and review will be up soon.
• Booking Through Thursday:We discussed preference between standalone and series.
• Friday Finds:  I showed off six books that I discovered because of Page Plunker.
• Stacking The Shelves:  Only two new books this week.

What's Happening This Week:

• Reviews:  I plan to have the review for Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Stout up by Monday and hopeful I will be done with Jessamine by Eugenia O'Neal done and reviewed by Wednesday.
• Weekly Memes:  I am adding a new weekly meme Wondrous Words Wednesday hosted by BermudaOnion's Weblog.

Happy Reading,

MoniqueReads

Sunday Post #3

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
~this meme was inspired in part by - In My Mailbox~
It's a chance to share News.
A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog.
This is your news post, so personalize it. Include as much as you want or as little.
Be creative, it can be a vlog or just a showcase of your goodies.

Nothing happened to here last week.  I was so lazy.  I only did Stacking The Shelves.  I promise to do better this week.  Pinky swear.

What Happened Last Week:

• Saturday:  Stacking The Shelves, where I added three new ebooks to my collection.

What's Happening This Week:

• Weekly Memes:  Teaser Tuesday, Friday Finds, Stacking The Shelves, Sunday Post
• Reviews:  The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau will be posted on Monday.
• Read-a-Thon:  Once Upon a Read-a-Thon starts on Monday, I will do nightly updates on my progress.  I still have to figure out which books I want to read.

Happy Reading,

MoniqueReads

Sunday Post #2

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
~this meme was inspired in part by - In My Mailbox~

• It's a chance to share News.
• A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog.
• This is your news post, so personalize it. Include as much as you want or as little.
• Be creative, it can be a vlog or just a showcase of your goodies.

This week has been a bit of a bomb.  I didn't read any of the books that I wanted to read.  Maybe I am suffering from reading exhaustion.  Is there such a thing?

What Happened Last Week:

• Reviews:  On Wednesday, I reviewed One Blood by Qwantu Amaru.
• Booking Thru Thursday:  All about teachers and reading.  I shared my story about Mrs. Hershey.
• Friday Finds:  I added 8 more books to Mt. TBR. 
• Stacking The Shelves: I purchased 3 more books this week.  All were on sale at B&N (eBooks). Sweet Smoke by David Fuller has been sitting on Mt. TBR for awhile.  A Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mendela by Nelson Mendela and Rose of Fire by Carlos Ruiz Zafon  which is a short story.  

What's Happening This Week:

• Monday:  I will announce the winner for the giveaway.
• Reviews:  My review of  The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau should be up by no latter than Wednesday.
• Teaser Tuesday: Will feature Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Stourt.

Happy Reading,

MoniqueReads

Sunday Post: #1

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
~this meme was inspired in part by - In My Mailbox~

• It's a chance to share News.
• A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog.
• This is your news post, so personalize it. Include as much as you want or as little.
• Be creative, it can be a vlog or just a showcase of your goodies.

This is my first time participating in this meme.  Normally I would do Sunday Salon, but I thought it was a time to try something new.

What Happened Last Week:

• Wicked Wildfire Read-a-Thon (June 20 - June 24) - There is still one more day left on this RAT.  It has been a great opportunity for me to catch up on some reading.  Since I am still trying to read the books I had planned to read in April.  I'm so far behind.
• Friday Finds:  I added 11 more books to Mt. TBR  which brought the total number of books on my official Goodreads to read list to 265 on friday.  Way to many.
• Reviewed:  On Friday, I finished my review of  Oxford Messed Up: by Andrea Kayne Kaufman.  
• Stacking The Shelves: I added two more books to Mt. TBR and purchased A Tree Grow in Brooklyn, which has been sitting on the mountain for some time now.  Mt. TBR is officially 267 books strong.

What's Happening This Week:

• GiveAway:  This week I'm holding my first giveaway for 2012.  I am giving away my copy of Oxford Messed Up: by Andrea Kayne Kaufman.  The giveaway only last one week, from June 24 until July 1st.  You can enter here.
• Reviews:  My review of One Blood by Qwantu Amaru should be done by Monday.
• Teaser Tuesday:  This Tuesday's teasers will be from The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau.  Thanks to NetGalley.
• If I am lucky *crosses fingers*  I can start Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout by the end of the week but that all depends on The Keepers of the House.

Don't forget to enter the giveaway.

Happy Reading,

MoniqueReads