Sunday Post No. 2

Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It gives us bloggers the opportunity to share our news, on and off our blogs! We can post about our most recent blog posts, books acquired, and anything else we'd like to share with our fellow book bloggers. Although this is a weekly meme, bloggers can participate on a monthly basis, if they so desire. For the hop rules, click HERE. To link up to this week's post, please click on Sunday Post, 1/15/17.

Last week, I participated in this meme for the first time, and posted some pictures from our recent trip to Key West. Well, here are MORE pics!

Do tune back in next week, because I will be posting more pics. I am IN LOVE with Key West!! This was not my first visit, but it WAS my longest. Besides, I now have an Android phone with an EXCELLENT camera, so I was able to snap away to my heart's content! Lol.

RECENT OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD DISCOVERY!!

For those of you (and that includes me!) who are SF & Fantasy fans, this is an INCREDIBLE find!! Although I much prefer to read physical books, I simply could NOT pass this up when I discovered the link on Facebook the other day! All of the books you will find HERE are FREE!! They are all available immediately through InstaFreebie. So beam on over!! 

I have gleefully acquired the following titles!

FANTASY

SCIENCE FICTION

The last book, The Backworlds, has a different cover on the InstaFreebie link. I much prefer this one. Besides, this book is also available in paperback, with the cover above. If I enjoy reading it, I will later buy the paperback, of course! (Yeah, I do crazy bookworm stuff like that.)

Last Week on A Night's Dream of Books

Sunday Post No. 1

Book Review: Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor, by Lisa Kleypas

WOW No. 192: Guardian of Secrets, by Brenda Drake

BBH No. 81: Reading Every Single Day

SCS No. 195:Faithful, by Alice Hoffman

Current and Upcoming Events on A Night's Dream of Books

READS

 

POSTS

(These are currently in progress)

Book Review: Why We Can't Wait, by Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Mystery Blogger Award

Book Review: Miracle on 5th Avenue, by Sarah Morgan

Waiting On Wednesday No. 193

Book Blogger Hop No. 82: The One Time the Movie Was Better than the Book

Shelf Candy Saturday No. 196

CURRENT GIVEAWAY

This is a "Beautiful Cover Giveaway" which is part of my "Shelf Candy Saturday" post for the date of January 7, 2017. Click on the image above to access the post. This giveaway ends at midnight on Feb. 8th. Good luck if you decide to enter!!

UPCOMING GIVEAWAY

This is a blog hop giveaway in which I will be participating! It's hosted by Mary @ Bookhounds, and will start this coming Thursday! Click on the image above for more deets!!

That's all I have for this week! Hope you all are having a great weekend! Happy MLK Day to all of my American blogger friends!

Sunday Post No. 1

Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It gives us bloggers the opportunity to share our news, on and off our blogs! We can post about our most recent blog posts, books acquired, and anything else we'd like to share with our fellow book bloggers. Although this is a weekly meme, bloggers can participate on a monthly basis, if they so desire. For the hop rules, click HERE. To link up to this week's post, please click on Sunday Post, 1/8/17.

HAPPY (BELATED) NEW YEAR!! I'm very excited to be participating in this meme for the first time!  I will probably be doing so on a monthly basis, or perhaps on a biweekly basis. I'll play it by ear.

Let me introduce myself: my name is Maria Behar, and I live in Miami, Florida, where Santa visits on a surfboard, lol. I have two book blogs -- A Night's Dream of Books, which is mostly dedicated to YA fiction, although I also review adult books on it, and MindSpirit Book Journeys, which is dedicated to classics, literary fiction, and nonfiction. I'm so happy to meet you all!!

New Year's Celebration!!

Last week, my husband and I returned from a trip to Key West!  We left on Thursday, 12/29, and got back on Wednesday, 1/3. It was SO much fun!!  First we visited the Hemingway House Museum, which was so fascinating.... We joined a tour, and got to know more about the life of this great American writer. Then I visited the Gift Shop (of course!), and bought two of his books -- A Farewell to Arms, and Collected Poems, plus a museum guidebook. Here are some pics!

 

I also bought three books about Key West, at the Key West Art and Historical Society! Here are pics of the books I bought.

Hubby and I ate at several excellent restaurants, our favorite being "Fogarty's", on Duval Street, which serves AWESOME burgers! That was where we also celebrated New Year's Eve. We also visited "Señor Frogs", where they were playing great music! We didn't dance, though; instead, we just listened and sipped our drinks.

I took so many pictures! I couldn't possibly share them all here, but I will post a few. Key West has such nice artistic vibes to it, and the sunsets are spectacular! Also, the houses in the older parts of the city are just so picturesque! I'm already missing it....

New Year (Bookish) Resolutions

1.  Stop buying printed books for at least SIX months. This is really important! I'm running out of room on my shelves. E-books are not my preferred reading format, but I do read them from time to time. I guess I'll have to read more of them now..... Not only do they save space, but they're frequently cheaper than printed books. (Not always, though.)

2.  Read the books I already own! Some of them have been sitting on my shelves for YEARS. As for e-books, I have more than 100 of them on my Android phone's Kindle app, and most of them are unread, too.

3.  Strike a balance between my two blogs. MindSpirit Book Journeys needs more of my attention.

4.  Strike a balance between blogging and reading. Sometimes my blogging does get in the way of my reading, and I am a slow reader, so that makes it worse.

5.  Cut down on blog tour posts. They can not only be stressful, but they usually don't get many comments.

6.  Publish more blog updates on Twitter and Facebook. I often get behind on this task.

Favorite December Read

 

This was such a DELIGHTFUL read! The female protagonist is a gutsy person who is determined to put the past behind her and start a new life. I really admire her determination! The guy she falls for is so sweet and, needless to say, sexy! Also, there's a heroic dog included. This was the PERFECT Christmas-themed romance!

Last Week of December On A Night's Dream of Books

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Book Review: Christmas In Cupid Falls

Waiting On Wednesday No. 190: Crazy Messy Beautiful

Shelf Candy Saturday No. 193: Roseblood

Last Week of December On MindSpirit Book Journeys

Book Blogger Hop No. 1: Reading Classics as a New Year's Resolution

First Week of January on A Night's Dream of Books

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Waiting On Wednesday No. 191: Shadowcaster

MIDWINTER'S EVE GIVEAWAY HOP WINNER!!

Shelf Candy Saturday No. 194: EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING Beautiful Cover Giveaway!!

Upcoming Reviews on A Night's Dream of Books

First Planned Read of 2017 on A Night's Dream of Books

Other memes I'm joining in 2017

I'm going to be joining this meme, which is hosted by the blog Mom with a Reading Problem. Originally, it was posted weekly. It will now be posted on the first Monday of every month, which suits me just fine! Look for my post on the first Monday in February!