Ah, July! It's always one of my favorite months of the year, for pretty obvious reasons that have BIRTHDAY written all over them. But I feel that this July has been one of the best.
On the blog To kick off my birthday month (I'm fifteen now! EEEK), I opened up a Pinterest contest for writers! That ends TODAY, and the results should be out soonish after that! Alyssa the Great tagged me for the #MoreHappyThanNot tag, so I incorporated that into a Weekend Wordfest post about my
Another mini-review for you all today! This one is of Blood and Salt, a forthcoming YA debut from my Freshman Fifteens mentor (!!!) that you won't want to miss.
NOTE: I received an advance copy of this book for free from the author. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Release Date: September 22, 2015 Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Category: YA Genre(s): Horror, fantasy, romance Pages: 352 (paperback ARC) Format/Source: Paperback ARC, Received from
This is my first book review post on Fairy Skeletons in over two years! I’ve been incredibly behind on reviewing books lately, so I’ve decided that I’m going to be doing mini-reviews until I catch up. Here goes nothing!
Release Date: September 9, 2014 Publisher: Knopf Age Group: Adult Genres: Apocalyptic Pages: 336 (hardcover) Format/Source: Ebook, Borrowed from library Find the Book: Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station
So I'll get right to the point: book reviews (and other assorted bookish posts) are coming back to Fairy Skeletons.
[via] Around two years ago (wow, it's been quite a while), I announced in this post that I wouldn't be doing as many book reviews on this blog. And I stuck to that. In that time, I haven't done a single book review here. But that doesn't mean I haven't been reviewing; I'm very passionate about literature and I have opinions about it that I love sharing. Instead, I've
[via] Hey all! For this week's wordfest, I'm bringing you all some of my own writing again, in the form of two different excuses to share snippets of my WIP On the Midnight Streets.
First up, the lovely and ever-so-supportive Rachana tagged me for the 777 Challenge! Check out her challenge post here. The rules for this challenge are as follows:
Share 7 lines from the 7th page of one of your manuscripts. Then, tag 7 bloggers.
The following bit is the first seven lines of OtMS's third
First basic takeaway point today: I'm terrible at titling tag posts. I should just accept this and move on.
Second basic takeaway point: Alex McCarron, over at Third Star to the Right, tagged me for The Tag of Randomocity and is therefore a lovely person who should be showered with virtual fairy raspberries (since she likes raspberries so much). Not that she wasn't thoroughly lovely already, of course.
The rules Paste the button onto your blog post. Leave a new list of questions (or just pass
Hello, everyone! ATTAC is back (that is the coolest phrase) with our fourth round of #LitLove!
(Can you believe #LitLove has been a thing for over half a year already?) graphic courtesy of alyssa [image source] So what is #litlove? It's a collaborative post series that happens every two months or so. It debuted in December 2014, featuring myself and four other lovely writer/bloggers, a group that I dubbed ATTAC:
Alyssa / Topaz / Taylor / AnQi / Christina (that's me!)
Officially(ish) speaking:
#litlove is our
Happy fourth of July to those of you celebrating in America!
Before we jump into this post, a reminder:
I'm turning fifteen! To celebrate, I'm hosting an #amwriting Pinterest contest with some pretty snazzy prizes. http://t.co/j55CEBB0jI — christina im (@_christinaim) July 1, 2015 Let's get to it! My phenomenal friend Alyssa @ The Devil Orders Takeout linked me ages ago to do the #MoreHappyThanNot tag. This was a very cool thing created by Shelumiel of the blog Bookish and Awesome. (Check out the original post here, and
It's my birthday! (Not really; my real birthday is in a few days.) But it's my birthday month, at the very least. I've been thinking a lot about how I've been alive a whole decade and a half and that's pretty cool. I've also been thinking about how this blog has been my outlet and place of comfort here on the Internet for over three of my fifteen (!!!) years.
I can't ever stress this enough: this blog has gone on for this long because of you, my
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