reading life – Stories On These Walls

2 Bookish Sale Alerts you may have not heard about | 03.22.2022

Posted on March 22, 2022 by Stacia

Owlcrate just listed their February 2022 “Among the Monsters” box featuring Only a Monster by Vanessa Len on their shop site. Check out my unboxing and review of the items in this box below!

Buy the box here.

(Also from March 22-31, they’re running a 20% off sale of all the items in the Books in Bloom category – see the right sidebar. But be sure to use the code BLOOM!)

Owlcrate February 2022 Among the Monsters Unboxing & Review: Featuring ONLY A MONSTER by Vanessa Len

Whimsical Publishing is running a Spring Sale – 20% off everything! (Hint: even PREORDERS! Click on the images below to learn more.) I don’t know about you, but I love pre-order campaigns and artwork! ❤ So I already nabbed my copies <3.

Do you know of any bookish special deals going on right now? 🙂 Feel free to let me know! And as always, happy reading!

First Lines Friday | 03.18.2022

Posted on March 18, 2022March 18, 2022 by Stacia

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
Finally… reveal the book!

(I discovered this prompt on The Geekish Brunette. <3)

It was safest to cross the ocean at night, when the moon and stars shone on the water. At least, that’s what Jack had been raised to believe. He wasn’t sure if those old convictions still held true these days.

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