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Tag: Summer 2017 Comment Challenge: July Sign-up

Summer 2017 Comment Challenge: July Sign-up

June 3, 2017June 8, 2017 ~ Alicia @ A Kernel of Nonsense ~ 14 Comments

Summer is upon us and the Comment Challenge is now underway! Hosted by Lonna @ FLYLēF and Alicia @ A Kernel of Nonsense, the Summer 2017 Comment Challenge is designed to help you form new blogging friendships by pairing you with another blogger and encouraging interaction through comments all month long. The challenge for June is already ongoing, but you can now sign up for July. Scroll down below for all the details about this challenge including the sign-up sheet. We’re excited to have you join us!

  • The Summer 2017 Comment Challenge runs from June through August
  • Feel free to sign up for one month or more
  • At the beginning of each month, bloggers will be paired together and will be asked to comment on each other’s blogs
  • If your blog is written in multiple languages, please be sure to have at least five posts (or ten, depending on which you sign-up for) written in English, to insure your partner is able to comment on your blog for the challenge
  • We’d love for you to create a sign-up post to help spread the word about the challenge
  • Options for comments include 5+ or 10+ each month
  • At the beginning of each month we will put together a post where you can sign-up and link-up with your own sign-up post

  • Sign-up: starting today through June 26th, you can sign-up to participate in this challenge for July. At the end of June, we will email participants and post the official July Comment Challenge partners list on our blogs
  • Create a sign-up post: link-up each month with your own sign-up post. What we suggest you include:
    • Announce your intention to participate in whichever month
    • Link back to your hosts: Lonna @ FLYLēF and Alicia @ A Kernel of Nonsense
    • Include the Comment Challenge graphic
    • State how often you intend to comment on your partner’s blog and if you know who your partner is, introduce him/her
    • Share any thoughts you have about the challenge and whether you’ve participated before
  • Spread the word: for this summer challenge, we’re encouraging participants to tweet using the hashtag #Summer17CC to let your fellow bloggers know about this challenge
  • Comment: starting July 1st be sure to comment on your partner’s blog and have fun!

If you have trouble viewing the Google Doc below, click here for a direct link.


July Link-up: We’d love for you to create a sign-up post for this challenge before the month is out, letting everyone know that you will be participating. As always, please visit other participants’ sign-up posts and cheer them on. Please note, the final day to add your link will be June 30th.


Here at A Kernel of Nonsense I embrace that blurred line between reality and imagination. Usually that's right between the pages of a book. Stay awhile and enjoy. ~Alicia



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Friends, I am so close to 100 books read in 2022. I am about 50 pages from finishing my current read and one more away from this goal. I felt more confident a week ago that I could make it, but the new year is coming fast and as always, full of chaos. Wish me luck! All my end of the year plans have pretty much gone out the window. I had planned to spend November reading all the cozy books and December tackling high fantasy novels. November didn't happen and I do not have the mental capacity for fantasy novels right now. I want to take it easy this month in terms of reading, so I've checked out about seven different audiobooks from my library and am hoping to get to at least half of them. Picking up a physical book right now feels really daunting and I don't want to fall into a slump forcing myself to. One of these books is S. K. Ali's Love from Mecca to Medina, but it's been so long since I read Love from A to Z, I am doing a reread of the audiobook. It's one of my favorite contemporary novels and I just love both leads so much. Definitely one of my favorite dual POV novels, which I am learning is my favorite POV for contemporary romance novels. The way I disappeared again! Apologies, friends. The world wasn't done throwing things at me and I ended up with a cold on top of everything else. I'm hoping to feel better by this weekend. This post is a couple of days late as a result, but I got some amazing book mail earlier in the week. Massive thank you to @pagestreetya for sending this ARC box my way. Quick update, friends. I've been away for a bit, but now I am back (hopefully)! I didn't read anything this past week and a half, so had really nothing to share here. I was with a family member making multiple visits to urgent care, their doctor, and the ER. It all accumulated with them being admitted into the hospital for a few days. They are home right now and on the mend. For obvious reasons I don't know how many books I will be able to get to in the next couple of weeks. I do plan on picking up Celestine Martin's Witchful Thinking. It was on my TBR at the beginning of the month and I could use something fantastical and romantic. I love when you pick up a book at the exact right time and it just leaves you feeling joyful. I am so glad I waited to read Sangu Mandanna's The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches. I was really itching to pick it up in October, but am glad I waited for things to slow down. This was a gift especially since October was so rough. Mandanna's adult fantasy is the warmest and coziest read you'll pick up this fall. I loved everything from the magical elements to its found family storyline. Mika is an infectiously bright and charming presence who descends on Nowhere House like a ray of sunshine, tasked with teaching three young witches how to control their magic. But it is its inhabitants: the quirky older couple, Ian and Ken, the nurturing housekeeper, Lucie, the prickly but alluring librarian, Jamie, and three very precocious young witches who begin to teach Mika what it truly means to be loves and accepted. The end of October left me feeling really crummy. I feel like I got a lot of stuff done, but I didn't always enjoy it. I hate that feeling when you know you should have given yourself a break, but you pushed through circumstances and in the end, you just end up making yourself unhappy. Suffice to say, I refuse to carry this feeling into November. I am taking a blogging break and picking up cozy and happy books this month. At least I'll try. As a mood reader TBRs can be difficult. Also, I hope you still enjoy pumpkins because I'm not ready to put mine away and I consider them fall decor, appropriate throughout the season. Happy Halloween, friends! I've had one hectic last week of October and wasn't able to post. 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Jackal is a riveting horror novel from start to finish about how the monsters that lurk in the dark are not as dangerous as the ones that move about in the light. Quick caption today, friends. Why is Halloween coming so quickly? With one week left, I am scrambling to get more horror books in. Last week I read Tiny Nightmares edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto and listened to the audiobook of The Last House of Needless Street by Catriona Ward. This week I have to finish Junji Ito's Tomie (this manga is massive and it's due back at my library on Saturday, so I am on a MISSION). I also have the audiobook for The Between by Tananarive Due I want to pick up as well as Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis. Will I be able to read all of these? Who knows? But I am going to try my hardest. Wish me luck! I am all over the place with my TBR for the latter part of October. I have only a vague idea of what I am going to pick up. I know I won't have time to read all the horror books currently sitting on my shelf and the library holds that somehow all managed to come in at the same time. I also ended up with more audiobooks than I first planned, so those are also a possibility. For this post I am featuring three potential reads for the last couple of weeks of the month:
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