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Hi all! I know it's not the weekend, but there's something special about this box subscription that I won't want you to miss out. Which one is this? It's the Book Boyfriend  box. I chose this subscription as one of Christmas wishlist since I heard such good things about the box and I'm thrilled to have received my first one this month! Like I said, February is a very special month indeed! A little about the Book Boyfriend Box : The Book Boyfriend Box is a bi-monthly book subscription service. According to their website "Book Boyfriend Box is a bi-monthly curated subscription box delivering the best new YA books and fangirl feels right to your door. We love a good character-driven story with a swoon worthy cast and want to celebrate our favorites while meeting some new ones on the way. We also believe that book mail is the best mail, and strive to deliver that joy to you. Each box contains a hardcover copy of a recently released YA novel along wit...

Thank you for dropping by for my 2016 Year End Favorites series these past two weeks! Now that you know ALL my top favorites, here's a little fun ultimate challenge! The ULTIMATE WORD SEARCH of ALL my top favorites of 2016! (You do not  need to play to enter the giveaway below.) Here we go! (Hint: To make the letters bigger, click on the "Aa" on the top left of the puzzle.) Have fun! How'd you do? Sorry, no answer key, but I do know they're all in there! Again, many thanks to the publishers and author, V. Joy Palmer for providing many of the prizes.  To end, here is the last giveaway: as part of my Year-End Favorites Reads , I'm gifting one winner a box of books that may or may not include the books on my list, but were included in the prizes I received for my blog's Year-End Favorite Reads, courtesy of the publishers and authors that sent me prizes.   a Rafflecopter giveaway I know you'll miss the fun we had ...

Title:   A Piece of the World Author: Christina Baker Kline Publisher:  William Morrow, Imprint of HarperCollins Publisher Release Date:   February 21, 2017 Genre: Literary Fiction "Graceful, moving and powerful.” --Michael Chabon, New York Times bestselling author of Moonglow From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s mysterious and iconic painting Christina’s World. "Later he told me that he’d been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn’t like the way he portrayed me: dragging myself across the field, fingers clutching dirt, my legs twisted behind. The arid moonscape of wheatgrass and timothy. That dilapidated house in the distance, looming up like a secret that won’t stay hidden." To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. ...

Welcome to my very late   Year-End 2016  Favorites !! My year end favorite reads are books I've read in 2016 for the first time (and not necessarily all reviewed here - eek! or reviewed in 2016 - a few were posted in January 2017).  They are also not all published in 2016, but majority am.   To start it off, here's what's going to happen.  Every day  in through February 28th (minus Sundays) at  6:00 PM EST ,  I will tell you my favorite reads in the category of the day through their covers (you know how I love covers) and  you click on them to see my review of the book (in a new window).  Then you come back and fill out the Rafflecopter for a chance to win a prize!  For series, my criteria is still the same as above, but I would need to have read at least 2 books in the series in 2016 (rereads + new reads) to be added in this category (Otherwise, there would be a LOT more). (NOT in any specific order!) ...