BLOG TOUR: The Psychic's Memoirs by Ryan Hyatt

 

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the THE PSYCHIC'S MEMOIRS by Ryan Hyatt Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About The Book:

Title: THE PSYCHIC'S MEMOIRS (Terrafide #2)

Author: Ryan Hyatt

Pub. Date: July 30, 2020

Publisher: Ryan Hyatt

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 252

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle

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In The Psychic’s Memoirs, a hot-tempered Los Angeles detective and his distracted partner are assigned to find an alleged teenage psychic whose capture might determine the outcome of a looming civil war and humanity’s relationship with a misleading alien force. The standalone novel is part of Ryan Hyatt’s Terrafide series, techie tales of woe and hope in which characters grapple with a world falling apart. The Terrafide universe, which also includes Rise of the Liberators and Stay Younger Longer, takes place on an alternate timeline that mirrors and mimics present-day events.

Praise for The Psychic’s Memoirs: 

“The Best Cyberpunk Novels of 2020 and 2021” --Joel Stafford, Joel’s Books 

"A mind-warping journey through an all-too-plausible near-future America where sociopolitical revolution and advanced technology represent the promise and peril of human evolution."--Jake Anderson, author of Gone at Midnight: The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam 

“Hyatt's superior ability to build a convincing lived-in world just over the horizon is on display page after page. This is not another orgy of post-apocalyptic horrors, but an opportunity to see every calamity as a possible stepping stone toward utopia.”--A.L. Lorentz, author of The Filter Trap and Dead Monkeys 

Check out the other books in the Terrafide series!

About Ryan:

Ryan Hyatt was born in Tucson in 1976. He was raised in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Chicago and Copenhagen before returning to his hometown and graduating from the University of Arizona in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in history, psychology and creative writing. Hyatt spent much of his twenties working as a reporter and columnist for newspapers such as the Apache Junction Independent and Santa Monica Daily Press. In addition to the Terrafide series, he is author of the modern western, The Death of Rock ‘n’ Roll, and editor of the satirical sci-fi news site, The La-La Lander, as well as Not Your Father’s Bedtime Stories, children’s tales he creates with his daughter. He holds a master’s degree in education from California State University Northridge and develops and manages literacy intervention programs for Los Angeles schools. For updates on the state of the future, visit thelalalander.com.

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Giveaway Details:

3 lucky winners will receive a finished copy of THE PSYCHIC'S MEMOIRS, US Only.

3 lucky winners will receive an eBook of THE PSYCHIC'S MEMOIRS, International.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

10/19/2020	Jaime's World	Guest Post
10/19/2020	Lisa-Queen of Random	Guest Post
10/20/2020	Two Chicks on Books	Interview
10/20/2020	JaimeRockstarBookTours	Instagram Stop
10/21/2020	Bookhounds	Interview
10/21/2020	BookHounds	Instagram Stop
10/22/2020	A Dream Within A Dream	Guest Post
10/22/2020	A Dream Within A Dream	Instagram Stop
10/23/2020	TMA Corbett Tries To Write	Guest Post
10/23/2020	tmbacorbett	Review

 

Week Two:

10/26/2020	Books A-Brewin'	Excerpt
10/26/2020	Books A-Brewin'	Instagram Stop
10/27/2020	Rajiv's Reviews	Review
10/27/2020	Rajiv's Reviews	Instagram Stop
10/28/2020	Little Read Riding Hood	Review
10/28/2020	littlereadhood	Instagram Stop
10/29/2020	Lifestyle of Me	Review
10/29/2020	Bookswithpaulak	Review
10/30/2020	Pine Enshrined Reviews	Review
10/30/2020	Jotted by Jena	Guest Post

 

REVIEW: Coming soon

Review: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

 With how short this book is, I expected to be finished with it in a couple of days. It took me a week to read this book. Not because I didn't like it, but it was so immersive and deep that I wanted to take my time reading it. I also realized when I was reading the introduction by Guillermo Del Toro that one of my favorite movies from the 90's is a adaptation. The 1999 version of The Haunting. I use to watch that movie all the time with my best friend Katie. We would watch it and talk to each other on the phone and sometime argue why Nell did this and why the spirits wanted Nell and that Owen Wilson was a babe and Catherine Zeta Jones was a stuck up snob. Needless to say while reading this, I was picturing Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta Jones and Owen Wilson the entire time.

I also realized that while reading is that the book and the 90's adaptation is so different. I know there is another adaptation that came out before the 90's version, but I have not watched that and I also have not watched the Netflix series yet. I am planning on watching all three before the year is over. 

The amount of mental health issues that Nell was going through was startling. I was not expecting it and it was not even mentioned by the "doctor" in the story. I realize that this book was written in the 50's and it might have been seen as a woman who has gone crazy, and that is that. It makes me think if there really were sounds and bangs at all prior to their stay. It may have been some sort of PK manifestation from Nell. There was that part where she was running through the house banging on doors and walls. She was also very attention seeking and clingy.

Overall, I give this a 3 out of 5. 

WISHLIST WEDNESDAY: Clothing

 Welcome to my second installment of my wish list Wednesday series. Today's post is all about the current clothing that I have in shopping carts across many websites. There are just some days that are deemed an add to cart day. Links to these products are linked below.

1. Official Blowfish 2020 BP Shirt

This is a summer college baseball team and every year when my kids do their summer reading, they get tickets to attend a game. We did not get to go this summer due to Covid and restrictions due to stay at home orders.

2. READ BANNED BOOKS

3. DISNEY PARKS PIXAR UP DUG/SQUIRREL ADULT

4. Plus Navy Celestial Print Soft Sleep Onesie

5. Plus Ultimate Stretch Gray Raw Cut Ankle Jeggings

TOP TEN TUESDAY: Under Rated Spooky Books

 I recently made a YouTube video talking about my TOP 5 Underrated Spooky Books. I have been a avid reader of That Artsy Reader Girl for years and this is my first Top Ten Tuesday. This week's topic is a Halloween-themed freebie. 

The books mentioned are a mix of genres including YA, Middle Grade and Adult.

 

1. The Breathless by Tara Goedjen

2. Nightbooks by J.A. White

3. The House by Christina Lauren

4. The Monster Hypothesis by Romily Bernard

5. The Light Houston, Texas by Joe M. Solomon

6. House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

7. The Illuminated Forest by Edwin Fontanez

8. Deadfall by Stephen Wallenfels

9. How She Died, How I Lived by Mary Crockett

10. Black 21 by Nancy Glynn

BLOG TOUR: Just Shelby by Brooklyn James

 

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the JUST SHELBY by Brooklyn James Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About The Book:

Title: JUST SHELBY

Author: Brooklyn James

Pub. Date: October 27, 2020

Publisher: Arena Books

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 290

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle,  B&N, iBooks, Kobo, Smashwords

A secret note square found in a handmade guitar proves that small town gossip is not only ubiquitous but occasionally true. This gossip comes with strings rivaling those on Ace Cooper’s guitar, the safest strings he will ever have around his heart.

Ace’s father warns him to stay away from the Lynn girl. Daughter of a deceased bootlegger and a barely living addict, Shelby Lynn is no stranger to small town contempt. She keeps her nose in the books and feet to the ground, a college scholarship the only escape from her tumultuous life.

As Ace’s heartstrings unravel, so does his family’s role in Shelby’s broken past. Thrust into a precarious journey of their roots brimming with music and betrayal, the two have never been closer…to the truth of how Shelby’s father died. One truth transforms every facet of their lives forever.

A dual POV friends-to-first-love story, Just Shelby is an unsuspecting mystery that depicts how growing together can sometimes hurt worse than growing apart.

 

About Brooklyn:

Brooklyn James is an author/singer-songwriter who savors any opportunity to blend books with music. Her first novel, The Boots My Mother Gave Me, has an original music soundtrack, making for a unique Audible experience. Out of Boots grew a platform where it was Brooklyn's honor to serve as a guest speaker with a focus on awareness and prevention of domestic violence and suicide.

Her latest speaking engagements centered around accessibility, rights, and choice in birth, as well as writing workshops on how to put pen to paper composing one's own birth story with the release of her birth memoir, Born in the Bed You Were Made: One Family's Journey from Cesarean to Home Birth.

Just Shelby gifted both the challenge and the thrill of this author's primary exploration into the Young Adult genre. She cherishes reader reviews, if you should be so inclined.

Moonlighting occasionally in voice-over and film, Brooklyn played a Paramedic in a Weezer video, met Harry Connick Jr. as an extra on the set of When Angels Sing, appeared in Richard Linklater's Boyhood for all of a nanosecond, and was a stand-in and stunt double for Mira Sorvino on Jerry Bruckheimer's Trooper pilot for TNT. Although reading, dancing, working out, and a good glass of kombucha get her pretty excited, she finds most thrilling the privilege of being a mother to two illuminating little souls and a wife to the one big soul from whom they get their light.

Brooklyn holds an M.A. in Communication, a B.S. in both Nursing and Animal Science, and lives in Texas Hill Country.

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Giveaway Details:

1 winner will receive a Signed Paperback that comes with a 3-set candle gift pack (one limited edition Just Shelby book scent "Gray Fog," one fall scent, and one winter scent). The Signed Paperback/Candle Set is valued at $35. US Only.

3 lucky winners will receive an eBook of JUST SHELBY, International.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

10/19/2020	Two Chicks on Books	Interview
10/19/2020	JaimeRockstarBookTours	Instagram Stop
10/20/2020	What A Nerd Girl Says	Excerpt
10/20/2020	What A Nerd Girl Says	Instagram Stop
10/21/2020	Lisa Loves Literature	Guest Post
10/21/2020	Lisa Loves Literature	Instagram Stop
10/22/2020	Abbott Can’t Write	Review
10/22/2020	A Dream Within A Dream	Excerpt
10/23/2020	Bookhounds YA	Interview
10/23/2020	BookHounds	Instagram Stop

 

Week Two:

10/26/2020	Lifestyle of Me	Review
10/26/2020	Cuzinlogic	Excerpt
10/27/2020	The Phantom Paragrapher	Review
10/27/2020	Books A-Brewin'	Excerpt
10/28/2020	Pine Enshrined Reviews	Review
10/28/2020	Lisa-Queen of Random	Excerpt
10/29/2020	Rajiv's Reviews	Review
10/29/2020	Rajiv's Reviews	Instagram Stop
10/30/2020	Bookswithpaulak	Review
10/30/2020	Oh Hey! Books	Excerpt

PLANNER ENVY UNBOXING!!

 

BLOG TOUR: The Alphabet's Alphabet by Chris Harris and Dan Santat

 

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the THE ALPHABET'S ALPHABET by Chris Harris & Dan Santat Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About The Book:

Title: THE ALPHABET'S ALPHABET

Author: Chris Harris & Dan Santat (Illustrator)

Pub. Date: September 29, 2020

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 48

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

 

For fans of P is for Pterodactyl comes this groundbreaking spin on the ABC's from an acclaimed, bestselling author and artist pairing!

Here's a totally twisted take on the alphabet that invites readers to look at it in a whole new way: An A is an H that just won't stand up right, a B is a D with its belt on too tight, and a Z is an L in a tug-of-war fight! Twenty-six letters, unique from each other -- and yet, every letter looks just like one another! Kind of like...one big family.

From two bestselling masters of wordplay and visual high jinks comes a mind-bending riddle of delightful doppelgängers and surprising disguises that reveal we're more alike than we may think. You'll never look at the alphabet the same way again!

 

Review: Read this out loud with my daughter Adalyn and she loved it. It is a cute little twist on the letters of the alphabet.

About Chris:

Chris Harris is a writer and executive producer for How I Met Your Mother and The Great Indoors, and a writer for The Late Show with David Letterman. His pieces have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, ESPN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and on NPR. He was also the author of the anti-travel guide Don’t Go Europe! He lives in Los Angeles.

 

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About Dan:

Dan Santat is a #1 New York Times Best Selling Author author/illustrator of over one hundred titles which include “The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend” which won the prestigious Randolph Caldecott Medal in 2015. Other titles include, Are We There Yet? and After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again)  He is also the creator of the Disney animated hit, The Replacements. Dan lives in Southern California with his wife, two kids, and various pets.

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Giveaway Details:

3 winners will receive a Finished Copy of THE ALPHABET'S ALPHABET, US Only.

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Tour Schedule

Week One:

9/21/2020	Little Red Reads	Spotlight
9/22/2020	Two Chicks on Books	Spotlight
9/23/2020	YA Book Nerd	Review
9/24/2020	Word Spelunking	Review
9/25/2020	Jazzy Book Reviews	Review

 

Week Two:

9/28/2020	Novel Novice	Review
9/29/2020	onemused	Review
9/30/2020	The Phantom Paragrapher	Review
10/1/2020	Bookroomreviews	Review
10/2/2020	YA Books Central	Spotlight

 

Week Three:

10/5/2020	Rajiv's Reviews	Review
10/6/2020	She Just Loves Books	Review
10/7/2020	Gimme The Scoop Reviews	Review
10/8/2020	Do You Dog-ear?	Review
10/9/2020	Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers	Review

 

Week Four:

10/12/2020	Reese's Reviews	Review
10/13/2020	The Pages In-Between	Review
10/14/2020	Fictitiouswonderland	Review
10/15/2020	Oh Hey! Books	Review
10/16/2020	Jotted by Jena	Review

 

Week Five:

10/19/2020	fictitious.fox	Review
10/20/2020	Jaime's World	Spotlight
10/21/2020	Twirling Book Princess	Spotlight
10/22/2020	Lifestyle of Me	Review
10/23/2020	BookHounds Ya	Review

 

Week Six:

10/26/2020

two points of interest

Review