What's Up Wrap Up - May 2011

Oh, May, where have you gone - and why did you go so quickly?!

I'm still reading like a madwoman, but the reviews are just trickling through. Not sure why, but I know that May was full of graduation shenanigans and out-of-town adventures. Which meant a very tired Rat whose brain can only handle absorbing words.

June looks like it will be a rather gorgeous & sunny month! My NetGalley queue is diminishing as I'm trying to be less request-happy, so I am focusing more efforts on tackling my "bought books" TBR pile! Woohoo!


How Did April Go

Books Read

19 books devoured - 0 borrowed, 7 bought, 12 for review
Total To Date: 128
8 eBooks - 0 bought, 8 eARC
Total To Date: 67 
10 books that were part of a series
5 YA 2011 debuts - Total To Date: 25

Books Reviewed

19 reviews posted - 13 full reviews, 6 mini-reviews - Total To Date: 86
0 (5 stars) reviews
10 (4 stars) reviews
9  (3 stars) reviews
7 YA 2011 debuts

Blog Maintenance
Review (by month) & (by author) updated 5/31
Blog design revamped - background and layout formatting 5/30

Other Blog-Related Niceties

Blog tour participant for Isobel Carr
- Review of Ripe For Pleasure
Blog tour participant for Katie Lane
- Review of Going Cowboy Crazy & Make Mine A Bad Boy
- Author Q&A
Blog tour participant for RANDOM MAGIC TOUR: PIRATES!
- Review of RANDOM MAGIC
- Queen of the Sea mini-tour participant
- Post of pirate grub
Continued Weekly Blog Feature: Thursday Thinks
- When is a good time to post?
Reviews on LibraryThing and GoodReads updated 5/28
Reviews on B&N and Amazon in progress (2011 reviews updated 5/28)

RMT Pirates! The Parting Glass

Today’s the wrap day for

Random Magic Tour: Pirates!

From Queens Of The Sea art doll designs
to Pirate Queens
to Mermaid's Cove Musical Hop
to RUM + PLUNDER giveaway (ends today!),
there is some piratical fun to be had!

Check out the all the tour stops here!

For the wrap day of the tour,

we’re just going to raise a final pint o’ grog

along with a cheerful sailing song,

to say thanks for the good company. Yaaaargh.

Smooth seas and sunny days be ahead o’ ye!

As one of the mates - ahoy, matey!

sailing with this crew of buccaneers,

the{EPIC|rat} would like to say

thank you  for visiting the blog

and hope you also enjoyed

some of the other great blogs on the tour.

Don't forget to check out the book behind the tour

RANDOM MAGIC

where a boy and a girl search for a missing Alice

in a world more wondrous than Wonderland

Message in a Bottle

Visit Liana's Paper Doll Blog to see the Pirate Queen Sasha

and read more about her at Moonlight Gleam's Bookshelf