Sunday Update!

This week has been shaping up to be pretty excellent! First, I got a lot of wonderful books this week including The Tropic of Serpents. I am trying so hard to keep to the order of my TBR list, but I am definitely struggling! I want to read this book so badly! It is the sequel to A Natural History of Dragons, which was one of my top books of 2013. Second, my graduate adviser appears open to the idea of me sending my dissertation committee this semester. He has forgotten that there are large sections he has not read yet, but this conversation has boosted my spirits. 
Book Haul  

ARCs & Galleys

I received three ARCs this week. First, I received The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan from Tor. Second, I received Honor among Thieves by James SA Corey and Lovecraft's Monsters edited by Ellen Datlow.

From Giveaways

I received two books from giveaways this week. I received Angelfall by Susan Ee from the lovely ladies at My Shelf Confessions. I also won One Night Three Hearts by Adele Allaire from a Book Nookie Reviews tour. I am not sure whose site I won it on. :( If I won it on your site, post a comment, and I will credit you!

Bought

I bought four books this week! Crazy! I bought The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker and Perfect Ruin by Lauren DeStefano from Amazon. They were both Kindle daily deals! I got two books from Goodwill today. I snapped up Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling ($0.69!) and Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (I had already bought the e-book, but I got the hardback for $1.29!). I love my Goodwill. The book selection is crazy amazing. Also, I am almost halfway to owning all of the physical Harry Potter books again!

Currently Reading

The Flight of the Silvers: I am really enjoying this book so far. It grabbed me from the first page. There is lots of action!

Hollow City: I am halfway through with book, and I am also enjoying this book more than I thought. If you liked the end of Mrs. Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, you will like the style of this book.

A Dance with Dragons: Because I finished my latest Sookie book, I am back to listening to this book while getting ready for bed. It is still slow going, because I am only listening to it while getting ready for bed, but it is good. I am curious to see how this book turns out.

 
Read This Week 

Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris

Hang Wire by Adam Christopher

Bloggiesta

Bloggiesta is going well. I have been doing research on web hosts today and figuring out how I want my About Me page to look like. I was out most of the day, so I wasn't able to sit and work on my blog too long. Sunday will be coding day!

Important Commenting Information!!! (I will keep this info at the bottom of the next week's posts.)

I just switched my commenting system over to Disqus, because I recently realized that the Blogger commenting system doesn't automatically email people when I (or others) respond to their comments. Well, it can, but it doesn't work in a seamless way. So in a moment of spontaneity, I decided to put Disqus on my blog. It is a fairly popular commenting system, so hopefully this won't be too upsetting for anyone. I find it really easy to use as a commenter, so I thought folks would be okay with it. We will see how this goes. If you all hate it, we will try something new.

If you can't see Disqus, I have found a couple of reasons why this may be happening! Please don't write this off as a Disqus issue, if you can't see Disqus, there are probably other things on the Internet that you can't see.

1. Are you using Avast for antivirus protection on your browser? If so, click the Avast icon in your browser and allow "social networks allowed." If this doesn't work, try also allowing "web analytics allowed." You can just do this for my blog or just this one page on my blog. Avast can be very stringent, and it hides Disqus, Google+ commenting, and social media buttons on sites for me. I was so annoyed that I could never find a Twitter button to share things until I changed this setting in Avast.

2. Do you use other plugins or extensions? They might be causing the issue. I haven't noticed a problem with using plugins like ad-aware/ad-blocker.  You may need to turn some of these off and refresh the page or restart the browser.

3. You may need to clear your brower's cache or cookies. On the other hand, you may need to enable cookies.
 

If you STILL can't see Disqus, please let me know! Feel free to email or tweet me! I switched to Disqus to improve our discussions, if you can't comment, Disqus isn't worth it.