Sunday Post #214

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. What happened this week? Not sure why, but this week was just a bit meh. Lots of little things that heaped up. Although also some good things happened. I got a nice chunk of work done, had lunch with my mom and even had some inspiration for blog posts. There was a […]

Posted January 22, 2017 by Lola in Sunday Post / 46 Comments

Lola’s Kitchen: Curry Rice Recipe

Lola’s Kitchen is a feature on Lola’s Reviews where I talk about all things related to food, cooking and baking. These posts can be recipe posts, tens list posts about food or recipes or more discussion type posts about food. I love cooking and spend some time in the kitchen almost every day, so I wanted to give it a place on my blog as well. The banner for this feature is designed by Michelle from Limabean Designs. This dish is a bit of a combination between curry and fried rice and it has quickly become one of my favorite […]

Posted January 20, 2017 by Lola in Lola's Kitchen / 22 Comments

Lola’s Ramblings: When you want to read everything

Lola’s Ramblings is a feature on my blog Lola’s Reviews where I ramble on about a book related or a non-book related topic. These are discussion type of posts where I talk about a topic and readers can weigh in on the topic in the comments. Usually these posts are everything that doesn’t fall under any standard header, like tours, cover reveals, memes, challenges, recaps or reviews. Lola’s Ramblings posts are discussions of a certain topic and my point of view on them. The banner for this feature is designed by Michelle from Limabean Designs. I want to talk about […]

Posted January 19, 2017 by Lola in Lola's Ramblings / 32 Comments

Review: I Found My Rhino by Erin Hayes

I Found My Rhino by Erin Hayes Rating: 4 stars Blurb: Last night was great. Mind-blowing, even. One minute, I’m at a bar trying to locate Ernest Shepherd, a rhino shifter. The next, I’m going home with a gorgeous bartender named Ryan for a night that I’ll never forget. What I didn’t realize is that Ryan is Ernest’s grandson. He’s a rhino shifter, too. And he may just be the rhino I’m looking for to fill a vacancy at the zoo. When we started our professional relationship with unsanctioned benefits (my boss would kill me if she knew), I didn’t […]

Posted January 18, 2017 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 18 Comments

Review: Death of a Toy Soldier by Barbara Early

Death of a Toy Soldier (Vintage Toyshop Mystery #1) by Barbara Early Rating: 4 stars Blurb: Liz McCall grew up in a playful winter wonderland but it was never her dream to manage her father’s vintage toyshop. However, after he sank his entire police pension into the business, someone needed to help him turn his dreams into reality—and keep him from sneaking off to patrol the not-so-mean streets of East Aurora, NY. The mood goes from nice to naughty when a nervous man, who was trying to have his antique toys appraised, is found in the shop with a lawn […]

Posted January 16, 2017 by Lola in Coyer, Mystery, Review / 12 Comments

Sunday Post #213

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. What happened this week? This was another pretty good week. It was a decent work week, two tours that ran ended and a new one started. And a new review opportunity went live on Lola’s Blog Tours, if you like NA books with a forbidden romance, please have a look. I also […]

Posted January 15, 2017 by Lola in Sunday Post / 44 Comments

My To-Be Read List #29: the winner

My To-Be Read List is a meme hosted by Because Reading is Better Than Real Life where at the beginning of the month visitors can choose which book I’ll be reading this month. On the first saturday of a month the poll will be up, then on the second saturday of the month I’ll announce the book that won and on the last saturday of the month I’ll post my review of the book. This was quite the exciting poll, at first Alien Frog Prince seems to be going to win, but eventually In with the New came out on […]

Posted January 14, 2017 by Lola in My To-Be Read List / 24 Comments