Where I'll be

WHERE I'LL BE . . .

I know I lack blogging lately, but sadly that's only going to continue. I'll be back to school in a week and I'll be doing other things where I can't dedicated myself to blogging. Honestly if you want to know the real truth, I haven't enjoyed blogging like I use to before way back when I first started.

I think part of that is that I took blogging way too serious when it doesn't need to be and to find actual time to do blogging is another problem. When I did my last book review of the year, it was surprisingly painless. I could actually put down the words.

Now that could because I love the book or it could be when I started the review, I started it when I was about half way done and then finished it when I finished the book. I think I'll take that approach when I reading books.

I'll try to take part in challenges and participate in blog tours if I am accepted. Otherwise I'll mostly try to read and since I set my reading challenge at 63 books this year. Kara from Great Imagination made me feel kind of not challenging myself so she was doing 125 books and I met her halfway with 63. Now if I fail, I fail but I'll know in the end I'll have read some amazing books.

I'm also pretty absent on Twitter, I got the darn app on my phone/Ipad but either one or the other will get the notifications and not the other when I have set it up to doing on both devices. So I hope to stay in the Twitter universe while I'm gone from blogging because how else will I hear about new books?

Let's Ring In the NEW YEAR!!!!

New Years Resolution: Bookish things

NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION: 

BOOKISH THINGS

You know ti's that time again, to talk about that list of things to achieve by the date of December 31st 2015.

But let's review the 2014 Resolution, which was under Parajunkee New Year's Challenge: day 14 Blogger Wishlist of 2014

In Review

My Blogger Wishlist

• A new design for SassyCat's Book Review
• Cat's Tails Raters 
• Discover New Book Boyfriends
• Reunite with Old Book Boyfriends
• Guys Team sidebar banners
• Meet other Blogger Buddies
• Meet Author Buddies
• More Book Challenges . . .  You should consider what I'm doing, Reading all Series based books
• Attend Book Cons/Author Events (When possible) 

Well I got a few of those things done, I did attend an wonderful con called UtopYA that took place in Nashville, TN. It was all indies authors as well and boy I had no idea how many indies authors there were! That where I met most of my authors buddies and some blogger buddies, but most of my bloggers buddies are found online.

I did in fact get a new design! Hence what it is right now, I actually won it from a parajunkee giveaway which I'm so grateful for and that she helped me put it all up.

Did I discover new Book Boyfriends? YES! But I also reunited with some old Book Boyfriends.

Did I fullfilled my own book reading challenge? NO!!!! Reading series books was a lot harder than I thought and then school completely took my time away from any reading so I didn't even reach my 50 books mark but I was almost close.

So what's my plan for 2015? Bookish related things

• Hopefully be on a couple book tours/blog tours
• Read some books that I got from UtopYA
• Read some books that I left behind in 2014 that were supposed to be on my to read list
• Help spread the words on some indies authors and new book releases
• Complete all my late reviews, yes there are quite a few . . . :-(
• Discover some books that people were raving on this year that I couldn't get my paws on or just simply had to wait
• Help an author with her street team and recruit some people

Top Ten Wednesday: Blogging Confessions

So I think I'm going to change things up around here on SassyCat's Books Review, since I haven't been entirely active and pretty soon I won't be because of things going on in Life. So I've decided that I will participate in some of the other blogs I follow daily memes. It may not always be on that day or that week but if I see something that I like then I'll blog. 

Why I haven't done this yet or before? Well simply put I wanted to expand my own creativity when comes to blogging meme and such but then again everything that I could think of has already been around for 5 years!

So today is my Top Ten (Wednesday) Blogging Confession, I saw Great Imagination's post and I have the same problem and maybe other blogging problems. 

The Top Ten Tuesday meme is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme:  Blogging Confessions. As for me I'm posting it on Wednesday. 

I just started getting into a Reading funk, before I took off on my trip I had read four books yes I know that didn't seem many but two were for upcoming book tours, one was a series to read book and the other was an arc read. How many books I've read since after/during my trip? 4 books yet again. That is eight books read just in one month or just over a month. You can say my mind and reader's brain went mush that everything seems blah. 

 

 

 

Behind on Reviews, I've been behind on reviews since May. My total books that still need to be reviewed is 8 books. I've been gradually changing how I review books, being more critical and trying to provide the best feedback I can and express my likes/dislikes of the book. 

 

 

 

 

 

Books that I plan to read, these are books that I'll take part in reviewing an ARC copy and possibly be part of the blog tour. There are two that I'm waiting from my authors for the ARC to be available for requests. The other book is Oppression by Jennifer L Armentrout, I am crossing my fingers that I'll be attending one of the event for the Oppression Tour nearby.  That's it after that I'll be in school and hoping working a job so I'll be less active but trying to keep up with everything. 

 

 

 

 

Finding a balance, I've had struggles maintaining a balance between school and blogging there are at some points I wonder why am I forcing myself to blog? It's not a job, its a hobby that I take very serious in but I need to find that balance, set plans . . . schedule posts. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I want to improve my blog, I know I need to jump on setting up a Facebook page but I'm still holding off on that . . . don't ask me why. I think really I just need the time to sit down and go all out on creating the page rather than do a simple setup.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't have email subscribers, just the other day I thought I would get MailChimp but that proven to be difficult trying to figure out how the heck to put it on my blog. So I delete it and will try something else. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I haven't host my own personal giveaways, I'm just not where I want to be . . . I don't have the audience for starters and all my giveaways are through the blog tour host not ME. I hope that I will host giveaways but I would really like to see more audiences first. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I still books binges, that will never end but now I found great deals of awesome YA/Teen books in my discounted section at my bookstore. I'll share some of those reasons why it might just help your pockets just a little bit more. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm going to fail my goal of reading series books this year, I didn't think it would be that hard but it is! Even when I own (most) of them. So I'm going to only read what I feel like reading, what draws my attentions. 

 

 

 

 

I'm a writer (there I said it), after my trip and being at UtopYA Con I've learned a few things and it gave me a urge to a point where I want to focus on my WIP and make goals/plans for all thing that make it tough to put a book out. I love my WIP I just need to work on it more and be more dedicated to it and that's what I've been doing since I've gotten back. So that why I won't be reading as much books except for the one I plan to read and if I read other books after that then I REALLY wanted to read it.

The Cat's Meow: Playin Hide & Seek

Well this is my version of peeking from a corner like a Cat, as you can see my post today is about the fact that I'm playing Hide & Seek. Really I am in my own way, so I'm still hungover from UtopYA Con. The books haven't found a place on my bookshelves (they still remains in the bags) and I'm still sorting all the swags stuff.

Part of my reasons for not being active on my blog is simply LIFE, there's a few things going on.

• One is helping my friend plan her wedding or give her tips anyways. Her wedding is in One month from now and I'm also a bridesmaid!

• Two I had relatives in town when I had return from my trip and was spending as much time as I could with them before they left. 

• Thirdly as many don't know this and I have no problem sharing the fact but its hard for anyone to understand or grasp the concept of the fact. I have a medical condition and while I've been pretty healthy, my platelets are acting up so right now my doctors are trying to figure out why they're being this way and this problem just occur the week before I was leaving for my big trip. So everything had to be dealt and figure out after I came back and so I did. Now it's just a waiting game. 

• Fouth I need to start job hunting, like really I have to . . . it's time and I'll be focusing on that and cross fingers that I find one. 

• Fifth I'm still a student, my semester starts up at the end of august and August is pretty busy for me where I have my friend's wedding, (still Debating) attending a JLA Oppression Book Tour nearby, and whatever else comes up.

I have like a gallion things to do related to blogging and you can say I'm overwhelm . . . I'm lacking creativity and writing when it comes to blogging.

• But I am making a goal to have SassyCat's Books Review as a Facebook page but I'm still figuring that out.

• I have three books that I plan on reading before school starts up, so as far review requests go I will be posting it on my Review Policy about if I can review or not which I still have to work on.  

• Anything else like Reviews I'm just slow and late on just because I got myself hooked on reading series books which now I find lacking and ultimately failing at that goal. 

I can't think of anything else right now but just know that my lack of blogging is because of what's going on in LIFE. 

~ MEOW

Share Your Christmas Traditions Update

Hey bloggers!

I'm planning to do an two week blogging event where we can share Christmas Traditions, and other fun stuff! I'm in the process of creating the sign up form, I've never used Google Docs before and didn't know that there was ways to create forms. Which makes it a whole lot easier for me :-)

The events will start December 9th-20th Excluding the weekend, but feel free to do anything over the weekend, as far for me I will be decorating Christmas in my house and tree. 

I'm entirely new to giveaways, I really have no clue what to do or what to give! So if you guys could please comment some suggestions or email me at Katnequette1(at)gmail(dot)com. 

The giveaway would end that Friday December 20th Midnight, I'll use Rafflecopter for the winner and send the prizes out that Saturday December 21st . . . there is no guarantee that it will make it in time for Christmas since everyone sends gifts out, so I'm hoping that the post office or the UPs store isn't in an never ending line.

The sign up form will be up sometimes this weekend and it will close on November 30th, I know it a short time frame but I'm still in school and I'll be spending a lot of my time studying for finals. So I hope you can understand that.

Let me think . . . is there anything else I should add? Well if I can't think of anything everything will be on the docs that I'll send to the bloggers with type of posts they are doing and the date they are hosting.

So let's get on with the Christmas Spirits :-)

Here's the LINK!

 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1TzkWxcEo1iHhCnRAbyhVqvnLGcuFdkqBoL6ZMtQJKSc/viewform

Blogger Times: SassyCat's Schedule

Boy! It's August already? I have so much going on with life and preparing for school again. So what is happening on SassyCat's Schedule?

What's going on with SassyCat?

Well Truthfully . . . I haven't read so much, like I said life been busy so I haven't put my time into reading and I know I want to read but I want to do other things at the moments.

I'm heading back to the gym and getting my exercise on while listening to music, I'm trying to get myself healthy and motivated to eat healthy and exercise right all the while I will be heading back to school.

Upcoming SassyCat's Things 

I'm part of the Steel Lily Blog Tour by Megan Curd and I'm doing a lot of cover reveals or release blitzs or doing my book releases for the month of August. I'm trying to read some books but because I still have to write reviews I'm holding myself off.
In early September I will be part of the divided world tour organize by Xpresso Reads, I will be featuring a review of book one which I still have to read yet. Have I mention how its August already?

Have I brought any books lately?

Why yes! I brought one of my Mouse Watch books, Soul Screamers Volume 3 and it will be the first time I'll read Never To Sleep as well Replica by Jenna Black (I have it on my current reading but I haven't picked up the book since last week). Then I brought a book for my friend's birthday I can't say until she gets her gift because I'm sure she checks out my blog every once in awhile. 

So school starts soon, will I have time to blog?

Maybe not as much as I would like but I will do my best, I'm taking two courses that I know my brains will be working very hard on and reading those boring textbooks again. However I'm intrigue about my anatomy/ physiology class, part of our supplies is color pencils mmm? Maybe there's be some fun things but math? Not my strongest suit even though I do fine in some area. Most of my area of degree I've found math is almost never used.

I also might be working but that is not definite, finding a job is not an easy task and I hate interviews really . . . There a point for it but other part about interviews is that if you don't have the right qualification they won't bother.

Future Blogging

I'll drop in every now and then, I think if I plan according when to do posts, it will seem I'm blogging often but I have it schedule so wish me luck on my studies and I'll always make it to a point to have fun while in school. 

You can find me on Twitter, I'm sure I won't disappear from that because I love keeping tabs on everyone and interacting with everyone, so it wouldn't seem right if I disappear off of Twitter as well.