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Thursday Bookish Updates #7

September 17, 2015 · Leave a Comment

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Thursday Bookish Updates is a weekly post here at Silk&Serif devoted to anything book related. The main goal of this posting is to keep readers up to date on what’s going on in the community and get a taste of future posts. I will provide information on some community events I am participating in and blurbs on newly acquired titles to be reviewed at a later date. I might even slip in a few surprises here and there.

I was inspired by a post I read by Kelsye at Wise Ink Blog Ultimate Bloggers Guide to Growing Your Readership. Her list of ways to increase traffic got me thinking about how little I actually do to set schedules and really update readers on what to expect from my little slice of the inter-webs. In theory, this feature should help keep me on track and active. My long term goal is to turn this post into a weekly newsletter of sorts outlining where we are and where we are going.

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I received some really great mail from Algonquin Young Readers: Jackaby and an ARC of Beastly Bones. I’m really excited about getting to read this series! I’m extra excited about a physical copy since my preferred mode of reading is paper. Regardless of the portability of e-books it doesn’t really compare to the paper copy experience.

Jackaby Otherwise, I haven’t been overly active with any groups or events. I’ve been focusing on my reading (which I am seriously behind on), rediscovering Photoshop and my job search rather than community events.

I am still working on posts for BookSpark Fall Reading Challenge 2015 and The Lunar Chronicles Read Along events so check those out soon!

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Cowgrrl Up: Live by Jen Greyson: Smashwords.

I have read some Greyson before, so when she requested I read and review some of her new work I definitely could not say no!

This is Kait’s year. She busted her butt to make it to the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. No way she’s going to let glitterati gossip about the circuit’s most eligible bachelor wobble her focus. What does she care if Race Tiago’s getting married? Plenty busy running her ranch and posting wicked fast times, she’s never fallen for the playboy’s charm.But during the rodeo, Race reveals he’s more than a splashy tabloid headline, and Kait finds herself eyeing more than a new title. As new world champions are crowned, Kait’s fears escalate, worried their whirlwind romance will fade outside the fantasy of Vegas. Knowing she’s skittish as a new colt, Race offers to prove his devotion by giving them both time to tie up loose ends. They agree to meet seven months later at Cheyenne Frontier Days—Daddy of ‘Em All.
When Race doesn’t show, Kait blames her own naiveté. Like the tabloid’s say, once a player, always a player.
But there are always two sides to every story
25953603 by Lauren Bird Horowitz: Skyscape.

Another title from the BookSpark Fall Reading Challenge. I’ve heard a lot of great things about Shattered Blue and cannot wait to delve into the pages.
For Noa and Callum, being together is dangerous, even deadly. From the start, sixteen-year-old Noa senses that the mysterious transfer student to her Monterey boarding school is different. Callum unnerves and intrigues her, and even as she struggles through family tragedy, she’s irresistibly drawn to him. Soon they are bound by his deepest secret: Callum is Fae, banished from another world after a loss hauntingly similar to her own.
But in Noa’s world, Callum needs a special human energy, Light, to survive; his body steals it through touch—or a kiss. And Callum’s not the only Fae on the hunt. When Callum is taken, Noa must decide: Will she sacrifice everything to save him? Even if it means learning their love may not be what she thought?
But there are always two sides to every story

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