{"id":1578,"date":"2015-12-10T13:45:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T18:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silk-serif.com\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2015-12-10T13:48:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T18:48:35","slug":"thursday-bookish-updates-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/silk-serif.com\/?p=1578","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Bookish Updates #15"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ThursdayBookishUpdatesBow\"<\/a><\/center>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. <\/em><\/p>\n

I was inspired by a post I read by Kelsye at Wise Ink Blog Ultimate Bloggers Guide to Growing Your Readership<\/a>. 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<\/i>, 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<\/em> and where we are going. <\/em><\/p>\n

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While perusing my Twitter feed I spotted the 2016 Debut Author Challenge<\/a> by Jana @ The Artsy Reader Girl. It looks like a great\u00a0yearly<\/em> Challenge all about reading and reviewing one debut novel a month, which helps me read all those amazing 2016 NA\/YA debut books on my TBR list! It appears there will be monthly giveaways (INT!) but my main focus is on finding new authors and completing my first blogging challenge next year. I suggest checking it out because 2016 will be the year of amazing debut authors<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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There’s also another\u00a0yearly<\/em> challenge being hosted by Danielle @ Love at First Page, the 2016: A Series A Month Reading Challenge<\/a>. The whole idea is that individuals read an entire series each month until December 2016.\u00a0 This ambitious challenge pushes readers to tackle those long TBR lists of series and duologies that otherwise would go unread. Although, I feel this challenge is much too arduous for someone like me, I think it sounds like a really fun and worthwhile challenge!<\/p>\n

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Got some ideas on how to improve this feature or something that may interest us? Feel free to throw out suggestions, ideas or your own event!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"The<\/a><\/td>\nby Heidi Heilig<\/strong>: Greenwillow Books.<\/em><\/p>\n

Another 2016 release that I cannot wait to read and share with everyone. Sure to have plenty of action, adventure and an unique nautical flair, The Girl From Everywher<\/em>e was actually one of my Most Anticipated Reads for 2016<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Nix\u2019s life began in Honolulu in 1868. Since then she has traveled to mythic Scandinavia, a land from the tales of One Thousand and One Nights, modern-day New York City, and many more places both real and imagined. As long as he has a map, Nix\u2019s father can sail his ship, The Temptation, to any place, any time. But now he\u2019s uncovered the one map he\u2019s always sought\u20141868 Honolulu, before Nix\u2019s mother died in childbirth. Nix\u2019s life\u2014her entire existence\u2014is at stake. No one knows what will happen if her father changes the past. It could erase Nix\u2019s future, her dreams, her adventures . . . her connection with the charming Persian thief, Kash, who\u2019s been part of their crew for two years. If Nix helps her father reunite with the love of his life, it will cost her her own.<\/span><\/h5>\n
In The Girl from Everywhere<\/em>, Heidi Heilig blends fantasy, history, and a modern sensibility with witty, fast-paced dialogue, breathless adventure, and enchanting romance.<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[76,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-thursday-bookish-updates","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/silk-serif.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/silk-serif.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/silk-serif.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silk-serif.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silk-serif.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/silk-serif.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"http:\/\/silk-serif.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silk-serif.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/silk-serif.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silk-serif.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silk-serif.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}