April was a nice month. I got to spend more time outside. Which I truly love. My flower garden is doing spectacular this year too. I bought a bunch of new flowers to try out. My son helped me pick out the flowers. The blue flower plant is the one he really wanted, since blue is his favorite color. As you can see I got them planted and they are doing spectacular in the garden. My rose bush is also coming back to life thanks to the Miracle-Gro LiquaFeed All Purpose Plant Food I got to spray on my plants.

I also bought some set cushions for my plastic chairs outside. Now everyone has a comfortable place to sit and enjoy the backyard and garden.

April Surprise Email Subscriber Giveaway – Jerry M won a $5 Amazon GC
April Book of Choice Hop – Gaby N. picked eCopy of Starry Eyes by Jenn Bennett
Raining Romance Book Hop – Nikki picked paperback copy of Midnight Heat by Sarah Grimm

April is National Library Week. I do so love my library. Their where several great posts this month featuring libraries, apps, and more. I did a post over at Bea’s Book Nook for her Libraries Around The World feature! This Month, Angel’s Guilty Pleasures & Millbrae, CA, stop on by and check it out.  

Their where also several great April Discussion Topics linked up and featured this month hosted by Feed your Fiction Addiction and It Starts at Midnight. My favorite ones are all the different Library posts. I hope you will hop on over and check out all the great discussions!

• Win one of two complete sets of Faith Hunter’s Jane Yellowrock novels! Click Here
• Enter to win a Piper J Drake Gift Basket (print copies of Extreme Honor and Hidden Impact, sports bag, fun Piper J Drake and Corbin swag) Click Here
• Paperback of Blood Heart by Lexi C. Foss Click Here
• $10 Amazon GC, ECopy of Murder, She Knit Click Here
• $10 Amazon, an ecopy of both the books Click Here

• Angel’s Weekly Book Releases: 4/30 – 5/4
• Angel’s Weekly Book Releases: 4/23 – 4/27
• Angel’s Weekly Book Releases: 4/16 – 4/20
• BBH: Fictional Towns You’d Love To Live In
• Book Tag: Book Blogger Confession
• Quarterly 2018 Library Savings
• TTT: Books I Liked, but Will Never Re-Read
• 2018 National Library Week April 8-14
• Angel’s Weekly Book Releases: 4/9 – 4/13
• Randomness – AeroGarden
• Angel’s Weekly Book Releases: 4/1 – 4/6
• April Book of Choice Giveaway Hop ~ 1st – 15th
• Raining Romance Books Giveaway Hop ~ April 1st – 14th

April Library Love

My Nook, Books, and More I won the March New Release Giveaway Hop and I picked Born of Darkness in paperback. I also won a $20 Amazon GC from Caffeinated Reviewer during the Diversity Hop & $30 Amazon GC from Author Dixie Lee Brown during the Blurb Blitz Tour for Heart of a SEAL, check out her book.

Review

Thank you to the publishers, tour hosts, and authors.

Author ARC’s: Sevan by Mandy M. Roth, Wyvern’s Mate by Deborah Cooke, Wicked Witchcraft by Ella Summers (Newsletter Novella), Twelve Dancing Angels by Ella Summers (Newsletter Novella), Fighting for Everyone by Laura Kay

Bought

Amazon Free – Rebel Cowboy, Sinful Intent, The Montana Bride, Witched At Birth, Serious Leigh, Accidental Leigh

Amazon Bought – Desert Roots ($.99c deal), Psychic’s Spell, Untitled Hidden Legacy Novella #1 (Pre-Order), Chocolate With A Side of Murder ($.99c deal), How to Break an Undead Heart, How to Claim an Undead Soul, How to Save an Undead Life, Rome’s Chance

Nook –  Planet Dragos (Pre-Order)

Audiobook – Silence Fallen (1 Credit), Magic Bleeds (1 Credit)

Movies – Thor: Dark World, Doctor Strange, Strictly Ballroom

Wild Invitation, Generation 18, Wild Embrace, Hot and Badgered, Silence Fallen, Soul Thing, How to Break an Undead Heart, Dragons Among Them, Newsletter Exclusives: Volume 1 by Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian, Reckless in Texas, Shield of Winter

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The start of the month me and my family went on vacation to Disney. We had a blast. You can see all the fun things we did here, 2017 Disney Family Vacation. We also finished AYSO Soccer (outdoor). After our last game we had a party. The season was fun and it’s nice to see your child having fun. In the US we celebrated Thanksgiving on Nov. 22nd. We had a very nice Thanksgiving. I didn’t have to cook this year and I was thankful for that, but also thankful for my family and all of you, my followers. I hope everyone had a Wonderful Thanksgiving. 

Last month I signed up for the Audible Subscription. Now Audible has offered a Romance Package. I couldn’t resist the free one month try and then for those that have an Audible Subscription you get a discount on the Romance Package instead of $14.95 a month it’s only $6.95. Ya, totally couldn’t resist. My library has a great Audiobook selection, but they don’t have everything. I can now get more amazing authors to try. 

On the the blog: I started a few new features this month: Monthly Library Love and Randomness. I plan to keep up with both. The Randomness is going to be anything. It could be products I bought or fun kid crafts or who knows… I do more then just read/listen to books, so I thought I would share my experiences in other areas of my life. 

I put out a call for help in hosting the Library Love Challenge for 2018 and Brooke Blogs answered. Thank you! She will be joining me in 2018 as co-host. I’m happy to have the help in spreading the word on Loving Your Library.

I found a new plug in: WPDISCUZ. It’s a comment plug in. I’ve been looking for something that will allow you to get an email or notice when someone replays to your comment only, not for all comments, just your own. So, now I think I’ve found it. Their is a box at the bottom of the comment section to click that says “Notify of new replies to this comment“. If you click it before you hit Post Comment then you will get a notice and see when someone replays back.

Congratulations to the winners!

The Black Friday Book Bonanza – Ann S.
Justice For Erin Giveaway – Manual P.
The November Book of Choice – Sandra

Bought

Amazon Free – Keeper of the Peace, Keeper vs. Reaper, Claiming Her Alien Warrior, The Siren’s Son, Game of Love, Test Drive, Eternity, Not His Dragon, Captured by Sweet Alien, The Alien’s Mission, Chosen By The Dragon, 1001 Dark Nights: Bundle Ten, The Quinns – Winer Valley Wolves Box Set, Just One Bite, King: King #1, Vengeance of a Viking, Fugitive of Magic, Guarding Her Dragon

Amazon Kindle – Wildfire ($1.99 eBook), Promise the Moon ($.99c eBook)

Audiobooks – Wildfire (Discounted since I purchased/own the eCopy $12.99), Magic Stars ($1.99), Gunmetal Magic (1 Credit)

Paperbacks – Tempted & Taken

Review Books 
Thank you to the publishers, tour host, and authors for these lovely additions!

From the Author – Tempting Jupiter (Arena Dogs) by Charlee Allden, Amid The Winter Snow (A Holiday Anthology) by Grace Draven, Thea Harrison, Elizabeth Hunter, & Jeffe Kennedy, & Thrown To The Wolves (Black Dog World) by Hailey Edwards

Ride Wild, Audio: Wildfire, Audio: White Hot, Audio: Magic Bleeds, Audio: Magic Slays, Danger’s Vice, Love of the Dragon, Audio: Archangel’s Blade, Audio: Gunmetal Magic

 

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What do you think of this new feature? I’m going to separate my Library Love from my Monthly Wrap-Up posts on the blog. I want to put focus on all the wonderful things you can pick up at your local library. I practically visit my library once a week and I check out the online catalog almost every other day. I also love the book store they have inside and whenever they do a book sale I check it out. You never know what amazing finds you will find; plus all precedes go to the library. Win! Win! 

Movies – The Dark Tower, The Fate of the Furious, Kong: Skull Island

Audiobooks – Archangel’s Blade, Magic Slays, Archangel’s Consort, Hexed

Kid Books – Bob and Flow, Brickbeard’s Treasure, Happy Pig Day!, I Broke My Trunk!, In A People House, Rock-a-bye Room, Small Pig, So Sleepy Story, Stop the Stone Monsters!, Subway, The Thank You Book, Goodnight Little Monster, There Is a Bird on Your Head!

Kid Movies – Dinotrux: Reptool Rescue, Finding Dory, Power Rangers Dino Charge: Hero, Lego Batman the movie: DC Superheroes Unite, Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justic League Gotham City Breakout, Transformers Rescue Bots: Return of the Heroes, Trolls, Boss Baby, Spirited Away

The Darkest Torment (Hardcover $3), DragonMark (Hardcover $3), Halfway to the Grave (Paperback $0.50c), & Awakened (Paperback $0.50c)

Next Month the Sign-Up for the 2018 Library Love will be going live. Get ready for another amazing year of LOVING YOUR LIBRARY!

We made it through one full month of school. My son just loves school and everyday when I pick him up he chatters away about his day. I love listening to him talk about all the fun and exciting things he did that day.  We also got school pictures back. OMG he looks surprised. We are going to do the retake on picture retake day. Hopeful we get something a little better. AYSO Soccer is going strong and we just finished up our last month of swim classes until summer. I bought some more plants to add to my garden. I love being able to have plants again. They just add to my enjoyment of being outside. 

– Won from Feed Your Fiction Addiction for participating in the Discussion Post Challenge any book set in any country, except the USA; my pick was Moonshadow

– Won an eCopy of All for a Rose from Author Jennifer Blackstream

– Received from Author Setta Jay a book copy of Destined to Crave

Nadine S. – Email Follower Giveaway: $5 Amazon GC 

Teresa T. – Won the Clear Your Shelf Giveaway Hop. She picked The Hellion and The Highlander & Bengal’s Quest. 

Bought

Amazon Free – Thane’s Redemption, Dazzled, Haunt the Haunt, Walk the Walk, Dragon Hunter, His Ruthless Bite, The Knight of Ambra, Mating Behavior, Jarek, A Rancher’s Surrender, Agents Under Fire (3 in 1 books), The Twenty-Sided Sorceress Series, Darkness Awakened

Amazon Bought – SEAL Wolf in Too Deep, A SEAL Wolf Christmas, SEAL Wolf Hunting, SEAL Wolf Undercover (All where on sale for $.99c or $.55c)

Review Books
Thank you to the publishers, tour host, and authors for these lovely additions!

NetGalley/Edelweiss/Tour Host – Hot and Badgered, Halloween is Murder, Tales of the Were Grif, Love Potions, Dance with the Devil

Author – Lure of the Tiger by Anna Lowe & Treasured by a Tiger by Felicity Heaton

The library is a great place to pick up books, movies, manga, audiobooks, magazines and more. I love my library and the freedom to borrow. This is August’s Library Love.

Movies – Mechanic: Resurrection, Tomorrowland, The Mechanic, The Great Wall

Audiobooks – Bone Crossed, Iron Kissed, Magic Burns, Frost Burned, River Marked, Silver Borne, Magic Strikes

Kid Books – Bear Wants More, Boom Boom Go Away!, Cuddle Up Goodnight, I Am Going!, I Will Take A Nap!, I’m A Frog!, Watch Me Throw the Ball!, Work Dogs Work!

Kid Movies – Blaze and the Monster Machines, DuckTales the Movie, Transformers: Robots in Disguise Collection, Lego Next Knights Season 3

Justice for Boone, True Colors: A Novella of the Elder Races, Dance With The Devil (Gods of War, #1), Magic Strikes, Shelter for Elizabeth, Of Flame and Fate, Treasured by a Tiger, Frost Burned, River Marked, Silver Borne, Magic Burns, The Hunt, Hunting Ground, Bone Crossed, Justice for Corrie, Lure of the Tiger, The White Lily

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Don’t forget to check out the current giveaways happening on the blog!

I did some book shopping in July and spent all my birthday money. I may have gotten a little carried away.

Amazon Free – Jumping Barrel, Being Green, Blonde & Blue, Only Vampires Cry Blood, Call to Honor, Moon Kissed, Accidental Abduction, Kissed by a Dark Prince, Kodiak’s Claim, Blue Moon Saloon Volume One Box Set, Sweet Venom, The Safe Bet, Lord of the Bears, The Beauty Bride, Accounting for Love, Ride: A Bad Boy Romance, Dark Summoner, Maiden Flight, Mikolaus, Taken for the Alien Prince, Lucifer’s Daughter 

Amazon Bought – Moonshadow ($.99c sale), A Generation of Vipers ($.99c sale), Dragon Unbound ($1.99 sale), (All Salvation Pack $.99c each): Wolf at the Door, Wolf on a Mission, Wolf on the Hunt, Wolf on the Run, Wolf from the Past, Wolf in her Bed, Wolf in his Heart. Sasquatch Surprise (Sale $.99c), Claim & Protect (paperback), Ride Hard (paperback), Breath of Fire (paperback), Ride Rough (paperback), Allegiance of Honor (Hardcover), Pre-Order: Ride Wild (paperback), Wildfire (paperback)

Review Books

Thank you to the publishers, tour host, and authors for these lovely additions!

NetGalley/Edelweiss/Tour Host – To Tame a Wild Heart & So I Married a Sorcerer

Authors –  Tamed by a Tiger, Unleash the Darkness, & Danger’s Halo 

These are some other random purchases I made throughout the month. 

The library is a great place to pick up books, movies, manga, magazines and more. I love my library and the freedom to borrow. This is July’s Library Love.

Movie – Sing, Patriots Day

Kid Movie – Howdy Partner, Kung Fu Panda Holiday, The Pirate Fairy, The Transformers The Movie, Transformers Rescue bots – Bots’ Battle for justice & Protect and Explore & Dinobots, Ninjago: Tournament of Elements Season Four

Kid Books – Biscuit Finds A Friend, Robert the Rose Horse, Ruby Paints A Picture, The Thank You Book, My New Friend Is So Fun!, Good Night Chirp!, Would You rather Be a Bullfrog?, Lord Vader’s Villains, Great Day for Up!, Shampoodle, Spark, New Tricks I Can Do!

Books – Extreme Honor, Ultimate Courage

Spellbinder, Archangel’s Viper, Hell Breaks Loose, Forged in Fire, Extreme Honor, The Unlikeable Demon Hunter: Need, Wild Things, To Tame a Wild Heart, Drakon’s Plunder, Ultimate Courage , Wild & Sweet, Divine Awaking, Dark Divine, Bear to Love, Dragon Unbound, Unleash The Darkness, So I Married a Sorcerer

July is my birthday month. In celebration I participated in the Book of Choice giveaway hop hosted by FLYLēF. That was fun! And, so I’ve decided to continue my participate joining in August and September’s Hop, so make sure to stop by and enter. Who doesn’t like a chance to win a new release for that month?

For my Birthday I received a gift card to Amazon, some money, Fantastic Beasts Movie, Tororo Shoulder Message Bag, and a ProCase to carry my MacBook Air in. Of course with the gift cards I bought books and they are featured below in my Amazon Prime Day and above in the Staking the Shelves & BB&B memo. 

Real life has been fun this summer. My son is into swimming and soccer. I’ve been taking him around to his classes. We also have been taking part in some programs hosted at our local library for the summer for those kids entering TK and/or Kindergarten. It gave me an hour of uninterrupted free time. I did some blogging and reading. I do so love uninterrupted time.

Lets see what else has been happening. My husband finally got his boot off his foot and is getting back into shape and refereeing two soccer games a week. If you don’t know, a while back almost 2 months now, he had a hairline fracture in his foot and had to have a cast on for 6 weeks then move to a boot for another 2 weeks, so it’s been a process. I’ve been the chaffer as well as the cleaning lady. No help from him for several weeks; because of his foot. Now, he can start helping out around the house again.

We’ve had some warm weather and a few very HOT days here in California this year. When I’m not reading or blogging I’m working on my garden. It’s a work in progress, but I’m enjoying watching my plants and flowers come to life. So, my green beans aren’t as tall as I thought they would be by now. I’ve caught my dog, Saphira, eating them now and then. I don’t know why, but if I leave her outside on the patio unattended she sneaks over to the tomato plant and green beans. Silly dog!

Amazon Prime Day! Did you pick up anything? I took advantage of the buy $15 in books get $5 off and some of the sales happening. The books I bought: Wild & Sweet, Shards of Hope, Fate’s Edge, Blood Lust, & Dragon Bound.

I also bought the Amazon Fire 7 and Ztotop Folio Case for the Fire 7. I’ve been playing with the Fire 7. I bought it for my mom to give to her for her birthday in November. My mom is not computer savvy. She’s got an iMac (by my request) and an iPad (her dad’s older iPad) and just recently I finally got her to update the flip phone, yes a flip phone, to an iPhone. It’s been a process getting her to understand how to use these devices, especially with her living in Indiana and me in California.

Well her iPad is giving her troubles. She doesn’t use a lot of the feature on it. All she uses is Safari, Facebook, Emailing, Reading (not really), maybe taking pictures and the occasional FaceTime, which she can do on the iPhone now. She wants to read more, but has trouble understanding how to buy books and everything else in that process. I thought the Fire would be a good opportunity to help her out. So, before I give it to her I needed to test it. So, far I’m liking it and find it easy to navigate and use. My only complaint is the adds on the lock screen. I wish I could turn them off or change them to be more in my interests. If the Fire 7 doesn’t work out, well it didn’t cost much so no big deal. My mom’s also been talking about Alexa. She wants Alexa and the Fire 7 I bought has Alexa… I’m hoping she likes the device and finds it as easy as I do to work with. 

Some other news on the blog front. I completed my Goodreads Challenge of reading 100 books for the year. Now it’s time to see how many over I’ll get.

Last month I mentioned how I finally got the Continue Reading button to work on the blog after 3-years of trying to figure it out. Well I accomplished adding a line under and over on the top menu. I don’t understand the coding, but I figured this out and can’t be happier.

While surfing around the net and visiting other blogs I ran across the 2017 Book Blog Discussion Challenge hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight and decide to join in! For more information, sign-up, and monthly email reminder: Click Here. Their have been some really great topics discussed by a verity of bloggers in the month of July. If your interested in see all the July discussion, you can check them out HERE on the link up. 

Last month I also mentioned how I won a copy of Silver Silence from Under The Covers Book Blog & also Author Juliette Cross Big Box Giveaway. The books arrived. Look at all the goodies that arrived this month. I’ve got lots of new authors and series to try out. I also won a kindle eCopy from Lisa Dawn Wadler for the The Dragon’s Wife which I’m hosted a giveaway for one lucky follower to win, ENTER HERE. 

These are the winners throughout the Month of July for the giveaways I’ve hosted personally.
Congratulations to all the winners!

Andrea M. won the Win It Wednesday Paperback copy of Kissed by a Dark Prince 

Dianna H. won the July Book of Choice Giveaway Hop and she picked Stillhouse Lake as her book

Yardia A. won the $5 Amazon GC offered up during the 10 Quick Things About Me

Mary D. won the Win It Wednesday Paperback copy of Kinked

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