Sunday Post (August 24)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, a post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things received, and share news about what is coming up on the blog for the week ahead. To get in on the Sunday funday, see the rules here: Sunday Post Meme.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This week had me back at school every day. I’m telling ya, getting back on schedule is hard to do. As the week went on I did not want to get up.

I got my first letter from my brother, JB. It seems to be taking an entire week for either of us to get letters from the other. He’s about halfway through. I put in my request for days off to spend another road trip with my family going to Georgia in October.

School starts on Monday, even though I’m not quite ready for it!

~ Last Week on G1000W ~

• The Girls of August by Anne Rivers Siddons (review)
• An American Girl in Italy by Aubrie Dionne (review + giveaway)
• Karmack by J.C. Whyte (blast + giveaway)
• WWW Wednesday
• Yefon: The Red Necklace by Sahndra Fon Dufe (review)
• Finding Fuzzy – A “You-Decide Tale” of a Lost Friend by Cat Michaels (blast + giveaway)
• Discussion: Minimizing
• Feature Follow Friday
• Guest Post by Madhvi Ramani (author of the Nina series)

~ This Week on G1000W ~

• Frankie Dupont And The Mystery Of Enderby Manor by Julie Anne Grasso (review)
• The End of Innocence by Allegra Jordan (spotlight + giveaway)
• Dead Girl Walking by Ruth Silver (blast + giveaway)
• Roots by Kelbian Noel (review)
• WWW Wendesday
• Discussion 
• Eclair Goes To Stella’s by Michelle Weidenbenner (review + giveaway)
• Feature Follow Friday
• In the Rearview by Maria Anne Green (blast + giveaway)
• August Monthly Chit Chat 

~ Other Open Giveaways on G1000W ~

• The Pen Pieyu Adventures (Diane Mae Robinson) – ends 8/28
• Hero’s Sword Series (M.E. Sutton) – ends 8/29
• WhipEye (Geoffrey Saign) – ends 9/6
• The Secret of the Sacred Scarab (Fiona Ingram) – ends 9/2
• Skies Like These (Tess Hilmo) – ends 9/3
• Storms of Lazarus (by Karen Kincy) – ends 8/26
• Young Knights of the Round Table: The King’s Ransom (Cheryl Carpinello) – ends 9/9
• Son of War, Daughter of Chaos (Janette Rallison) – ends today!

~ New Arrivals to Land of 1000 Wonders ~

Not much has come down the wires. I’m working on getting things read and off my TBR.

~ Around Town in the Spotlight ~

Today is the last day to sign up for the Annual Beat the Heat Read-A-Thon. It runs through the end of August.  it runs through the end of August. You can see what I set my goals at here.

Remember last week when I shared Rachel’s post about an update and other news about LitRate? Well, if you didn’t catch it last week, here it is again. This week I found another great post about the importance of pledging even a dollar.

OK. I don’t think I’ve ever said this, but here it is: if you don’t follow Oh, The Books! (Asti, Kelley and Leanne) you need to. Take five seconds and go subscribe to their blog in any way you’d like. They always have stellar posts, and for a baby blogger like me, they have very useful and relevant information that they share regularly. The teacher in me loves that. The post that impressed me this week was Kelley’s co-blogging feature about managing emails and contact forms.

Other things I found around that I’d like to spotlight….

• Jennifer shared the pros and cons of self-publishing
• Amberr shares some basic blogging tips about building strong blogging communities
• Jennifer also shared a writing tip for recording details
• Kimba @ Caffenaited Book Reviewer celebrates her 3rd blogoversary with a scavenger hunt giveaway
• Carrie features a Guess the Quote Literary Games challenge for fun
• Carrie is going to BEA 2015
• The PJV is five!
• Brittany has some recommendations for what to read after TFioS
• Go sign up for Tackle Your TBR Read-a-thon
• Laura is calling for guest posts