Sundays with Sam - The Sunday Post

Sundays with Sam is a combination of Sunday Post hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer and Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

Discussion: Losing the Social Media Game

This Week’s Topic: Losing the Social Media Game

As bloggers, we are Expected to be EVERYWHERE! We need to have a presence on Twitter, Goodreads, Instagram, Facebook, Tumbler, Pinterest -- name that social site, and we are supposed to be there.

Blog Tour: Small Town Hearts by Lillie Vale

Small Town Hearts
Lillie Value
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Publisher: Swoon Reads
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Goodreads

Rule #1 - Never fall for a summer boy.

Fresh out of high school, Babe Vogel should be thrilled to have the whole summer at her fingertips. She loves living in her lighthouse home in the sleepy Maine beach town of Oar’s Rest and being a barista at the Busy Bean, but she’s totally freaking out about how her life will change when her two best friends go to college in the fall. And when a reckless kiss causes all three of them to break up, she may lose them a lot sooner. On top of that, her ex-girlfriend is back in town, bringing with her a slew of memories, both good and bad.

And then there’s Levi Keller, the cute artist who’s spending all his free time at the coffee shop where she works. Levi’s from out of town, and even though Babe knows better than to fall for a tourist who will leave when summer ends, she can’t stop herself from wanting to know him. Can Babe keep her distance, or will she break the one rule she’s always had - to never fall for a summer boy?

Blog Tour: Dig by A.S. King

Dig
A.S. King
Genre: Young Adult, Magical Realism
Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Goodreads

The Shoveler, the Freak, CanIHelpYou?, Loretta the Flea-Circus Ring Mistress, and First-Class Malcolm. These are the five teenagers lost in the Hemmings family's maze of tangled secrets. Only a generation removed from being simple Pennsylvania potato farmers, Gottfried and Marla Hemmings managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now sit atop a seven-figure bank account, wealth they've declined to pass on to their adult children or their teenage grand children.

"Because we want them to thrive," Marla always says.

What does thriving look like? Like carrying a snow shovel everywhere. Like selling pot at the Arby's drive-thru window. Like a first class ticket to Jamiaca between cancer treatments. Like a flea-circus in a doublewide. Like the GPS coordinates to a mound of dirt in a New Jersey forest.

As the rot just beneath the surface of the Hemmings precious white suburban respectability begins to spread, the far flung grand children gradually find their ways back to each other, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name.

Top Ten Tuesday: My Spring TBR - Adult Edition

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's topic is...

My Spring TBR (Adult Edition)!

Last week I shared 10 YA books from my spring TBR, which I believed would garner high ratings from me. However, I tend to read across ages, and also have a ton of adult books on my TBR, and I want to show those books the same amount of love as my YA babies.