Updates and Excuses...

Hey, guys! I feel like I should explain why there haven't been hardly any reviews this week...Monday and Tuesday I had doctors appointments for some health issues I've been having (nothing too serious), so they scheduled my appointments on Monday and Tuesday...Then they had a crazy hard time drawing my blood (They stuck me 5 times and sent me to two different places), and then I had to get some X-rays...so we were gone all day Tuesday. And then my new medicine makes me crazy dizzy..and I can't focus on books when I'm dizzy (unless I want to vomit..which I don't). And thennn Friday and today is because I've not been able to read (dizziness), as well as the fact that today's my sixteenth birthday! I don't FEEL sixteen, but ya know, it's kinda a big deal to some peoples.

We also have another guest author! She's currently reading a book to review for us...which is fun! She's a family member, so she's very reliable. You guys can expect to virtually meet her soonish!

Anywayysss, we made an author interview form, so we're going to have LOTS of author interviews coming up soon! Which is going to be SUPER fun. If you're an author you can find and answer those questions here.

Alsooo, if you're an author, we have a newsletter specifically for AUTHORS, which you can sign up for here. All you need is your email and your name! Super easy. You'll get emails that let you know when we're accepting cover reveal requests, giveaway 'requests', and other cool things we want to do that involves you guys! If you've sent us a review request, you're already on the list. If you're not comfortable clicking random links, go ahead and comment your email (or dm us on twitter or facebook) and we will manually add you! You can sign up for our normal newsletter, too. It just pops up on the blog.

Okay, anyway. I hope you guys have a lovely weekend!

I'll blog you lovelies later! <3

Some minor issues

Hello, lovelies! Our navigation menu is a little..okay, a lot broken right now, but we're working on fixing it. I have to sleep, so I'll get right back to working on it when I wake up tomorrow. I'm so sorry, guys,
Blog you later, lovelies,
Kailei

Updates

Hello, my loves.

I am so very sorry that you guys haven't had hardly any reviews this year. We were going to get back on schedule this week (Naomi's returned from trips, I was getting out of my reading funk, and Shell was finishing up some adult things), but I am terribly sick...and, as you may know, I'm the one that stands over everyone's shoulders, breathing heavily, with my eyes bugging out of my head saying "WRITE A REVIEW! DO IT!"and I haven't been able to do that this week. I've tried to be more active on our social media because it's rather thoughtless and I don't have to leave my bed or the bath to do it, but I'm the "lay in bed and try not to cry/puke" sick, so I haven't been on my phone much.

I have finished a book, and begun writing the review, but the more I type, the more I realize that I can't focus enough to write a sound review for you or the author. I'll try to get everyone back on schedule, whether I get better or not, but I can't say whether or not I'll be able to this week. And for that, I am very sorry. I feel like we had the perfect schedule up and then winter break had to go and ruin it! How unfair!

Before my sickness got VERY bad, Naomi and I were brainstorming some new blog segments for you guys, and talking about ways to make the blog even BETTER! We are very, very excited for the new year with you guys.

Anyway, when we get these new segments up and running, we will be sure to let you know!
I was also in the middle of updating some blog pages and other key things (before my stupid body decided it needed to make me feel dreadful), so you'll get to see that, as well!

I am very, very sorry about this, my lovelies, but I'll have to blog you later.

Add CommonBookSense on Snapchat!

Yay! You guys can now add us to your SC! How exciting.You guys will get updates on our reading progress and the such! We're under commonbooksense, so make sure to friend us!

Hello, my dearest readers! This isn't a review, sadly, but, I mean, c'mon, FREE BOOKS?!  Naomi and I are a teeny bit behind on reading this week, but I THINK she's going to post a review after she's through with her school work!  I hope to finish the requested book by the end of this week, so that I can review it for everyone!

We have decided that our reviews are lacking quite a bit (thanks to Esther and Naomi's sister), but it really is a great thing! We're going to try to work on giving you guys better reviews. Especially now that we have a schedule up. I've been TRYING to get caught up with review requests..I had so many that I had to stop accepting them...Yeah, it's THAT bad. But I'm getting there!

I wasn't JUST posting this to tell you guys that we suck at reading (kidding), but a lovely author kindly informed us that his book will be free on Amazon today and tomorrow! He is on of the authors that requested a book review, and his book Roads&Circuses is on our "to-review" list. Since Sophie was supposed to read it, I figured it was that least I could do!

So, I'll leave the cover and the link to the book on Amazon and Goodreads down there. If you leave your goodreads username in the comments, we'll friend you on there! Tell me, what do YOU use to read your Ebooks? Kindle, Barnes&Nobel, iBooks, or something else?


Tom Mazzone's Tweet:
"ROADS & CIRCUSES - FREE on Amazon Dec 3rd and 4th - An ACTUAL FUNNY Political Satire - w/EXCELLENT REVIEWS - Get it!" 

Roads&Circuses for free on Amazon!

Add Roads&Circuses to your Goodreads!

I'll blog you later, my loves!

~ Kailei

Updates

Hello, people of the interweb! I'm having trouble typing and spelling today..which is weird.
Anywhoo, I just wanted to update everyone on a few things...

RANDOM REVIEWS ARE A THING OF THE PAST, PEOPLE! WE HAVE A FREAKING SCHEDULE! Oh yEaH. This is great.

"Well, what's the schedule, Kailei?"

Yes! Don't you worry...I will tell you right now!......Every five days you guys will get either a review post OR a Rant Post....if we get out of these reading slumps faster, then we can post maybe twice a week....but not right now! Updates or little chitty-chat posts, or even Promo/Giveaways DON'T COUNT! You guys are some lucky lil internet ducks.  So, if you guys haven't been up to date on the blog, tomorrow will be the fifth day...which means you guys can expect a review tomorrow sometime! Yay! We've succeeded!

AUTHORS, LOOK HERE!!!!!

I am currently about two months behind on getting to review requests.....Which is really bad, I know. But, I swear that I open and read EVERY SINGLE email, and if we don't reply to you in about a month-ish, please feel free to email us again....It usually gives me a kickstart to get back to replying to reviews. It was just such a hassle to go back and forth between email and Smartsheet...and the Smartsheet expired, so I can't even TOUCH the document, so I was looking for a way to get all the requests organized and easy to update, but nothing was like smartsheet, and just..*rips luscious locks out*. Plus, I've always been someone that likes having a physical copy of things (I can always scan them in). Since I'm the one who replies to emails, I think it's what's best for me...which is typicaly how people make life decisions..

I have decided to move us to paper, which I know that sounds weird because people usually talk about doing the opposite... But yes. I will even have Naomi start helping me with the emails. I'm really sorry that you guys have been waiting for so long.

Why does the blog's navigation bar look so weird?!?!??!?!?!

Ahhhhh, yessss, that. Well, just yesterday, I wrote our Review Policy, and I felt that it needed to be up on the navigation bar........well.....that just ruined EVERYTHING! And....the blogger that I got the template and tutorial from is apparently doing blog maitenence......so yeah, everything is probably going to look like garbage, unless, by some miracle, I figure out how I messed it up so badly and fix it.....
...Yeah...it'll be messed up for a while..

*sigh* sO MuCh fOr ReaDinG tOdaY!

Blog you later, I guessssss. Gosh, I'm so annoyed.

We have BlogLovin!

Follow us on Bloglovin

I recently discovered BlogLovin'...and by recently, I mean late last night/this morning.... But, you guys should follow us on there! You'll get updates when we post and all those great things...

If anyone that looks at our blog actually HAS an account/blog, first, we'd LOVE to follow you, but we'd also love to hear any tips/tricks on how to actually USE BlogLovin'! (a.k.a Why aren't all of our blog posts showing up there?!)
I'm going to try to get Naomi, Shell, and Sophie set up on there with both the CBS account, as well as personal ones, because, let's be honest, it's pretty cool, and, on personal accounts, we can freely follow all of you guys!!

 I know that our content has been mostly updates and "Hey, look here"'s, but we're slowly getting the hang of it. We're not going to give up on CommonBookSense, and neither should you!

On a sidenote, if you're an author or publisher, and want us to review your book you can head over to our Review Policy! We'll gladly accept any requests!

Anywho, I'm off to Wonderland (I almost typed Neverland there, haha), I HOPE to finish my "currently reading" book today!

Blog you later, Lovelies!

My great apologies....

I figure I owe you guys an explanation
as to why the blog's been rather dead the last nine days...

As probably none of you know, I've recenty moved back to the US from a European country, and this last weekend a whole house full of items was just delivered to my home. We already had things that we had gotten to sustain ourselves since being here, so it's all added to those things....My house is honestly such a cluttered mess. We have things that I didn't even remember we'd gotten.  So that's why there was no SensibleBookSunday this last Sunday. I really apologize for that! I'll try to be back up and running soon!

I think I needed to give everyone that doesn't have a social media to follow me an updated picture of my face! (Yes, my hair is three shades of blue, purple, and pink, it's more prominent since washing it, I absolutely adore the colors!)

As I said in my last post, we have established a schedule, although it isn't working yet. I know our posts have been really erratic and not often enough, but I hope we can fix that, and have the schedule working full force before the end of October!

Again, sorry about being all flakey and what not. Blog you later, lovelies!

~xoxo Kailei