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Sparkle Time Giveaway Hop

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Welcome to the Sparkle Time Giveaway Hop, hosted by Mama the Fox and Mom Does Reviews!

This hop is always right before the Fourth of July, and that’s always an interesting time at Chez Reading Reality even if it isn’t always sparkly. This year, as in previous years, this hop is happening just after we’ve returned from the American Library Association Annual Conference – which was in Chicago this year just as the heat wave descended. (or ascended depending on perspective. The temperatures rose suddenly as we were leaving.) Three years ago, we came home from conference with the plague. Two years ago, we didn’t yet know whether we’d contracted “con crud” or not. (We didn’t). Last year we escaped unscathed. This year, so far, so good, but one of our cars may have given up the ghost on the way TO the airport. So this time around it’s the car’s diagnosis we’re dreading instead of our own.

But we are looking forward to the July 4th holiday this weekend even if the cats are mostly NOT. Or wouldn’t be if they knew. This particular cat clowder is not fond of fireworks, although Hecate’s give-a-damn seems to be utterly busted on most subjects and this one is no exception. Still, they haven’t yet forgiven us for being away and the fireworks are not going to help!

While no one in this house is particularly looking forward to the random booms every night this weekend, we certainly are looking forward to the holiday – even if that means more time reading while staying inside where it’s air conditioned.

What about you? What are your go-tos for keeping cool during the hot months to come?

For more sparkly prizes, be sure to visit the other stops on this hop!

MamatheFox, Mom Does Reviews, and all participating blogs are not held responsible for sponsors who fail to fulfill their prize obligations.

Summer 2026 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop

Posted on by Marlene Harris | Author : | Blog Hops> Giveaways> Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop

Welcome to the Summer 2026 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop, hosted by It Starts At Midnight and Versatileer!

Once upon a time, this was the Month of Books Giveaway Hop, now it’s the Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop, with the hops starting on the days the seasons change. Yesterday, June 21, was the first official day of SUMMER for the 2026 season. But today, Monday, seems like a good day to start a fun thing to lighten the Monday blahs. So here we are.

These last few weeks of Spring in the ATL have been WET. Gloomy and WET. A lot like last year’s late spring. And the cats have been just as unthrilled about the whole thing as they were this time last year. I know we probably need the rain, but that doesn’t mean we need or even can use all of it at once!

This hop has always been terrific, whatever season it occurs. But that doesn’t mean that the hop image has matched my particular reading tastes in quite some time. Which is just fine. There’s a book for every reader and a reader for every book and they’re not either one the same all the time.

So here are the books I’m looking forward to the most this summer of 2026:

tailor by tim sullivan
enter the nightmare by jayne castle
green city wars by adrian tchaikovsky
brimstone hollow by archer sullivan
silver hand by shawn carpenter
deadly entanglement by cathy pegau
trade of blood by robert jackson bennett
wickhills by premee mohamed
unpredictable magic by faith hunter
daggerbound by t kingfisher

Brimstone Hollow by Archer Sullivan
Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher
A Deadly Entanglement by Cathy Pegau
Enter the Nightmare by Jayne Castle
Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Silver Hand by Shawn Carpenter
The Tailor by Tim Sullivan
A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett
Unpredictable Magic by Faith Hunter
Wickhills by Premee Mohamed

What about you? What books are you most looking forward to this season. Answer in the widget for your choice of either a $10 Amazon Gift Card or $10 in books so you can get one or two of the books on your list!

For more summer and bookish prizes, be sure to visit the other stops on this hop!

Dad-O-Mite Giveaway Hop

Posted on by Marlene Harris | Author : | Blog Hops> Dad-O-Mite Giveaway Hop> Giveaways

Welcome to the Dad-O-Mite Giveaway Hop, hosted by Mama the Fox and Mom Does Reviews!

Father’s Day is this coming Sunday, June 21st, in the U.S. as well as a whole host of other countries. (Which feels a bit late this year but that’s the way the calendar rolls.) In honor of that day, this blog hop celebrates dads of all kinds everywhere, whether bio-dads, adoptive dads, foster dads, dads of choice, pet dads and every kind of dad, granddad and father figure out there who is loved by their children, whether those children are little, or big, or have four feet or fur or feathers or scales, or any combination of the above.

We all need someone to fill that role in our lives. We’re not all lucky enough to get such a person. If you have one, and yours is still around, give them an extra hug for those who never did or no longer do.

For more dad-worthy prizes, and maybe a few more dad jokes, be sure to visit the other stops on this hop!

MamatheFox, Mom Does Reviews, and all participating blogs are not held responsible for sponsors who fail to fulfill their prize obligations.

Berry Good Giveaway Hop

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Welcome to the Berry Good Giveaway Hop, hosted by Mama the Fox and Mom Does Reviews!

It’s SUMMER, isn’t it? I mean really, even if it TECHNICALLY isn’t, it IS. Post-Memorial Day (even if that felt early this year) means SUMMER.

I decided to get more information about berries, so I went to Wikipedia. Now I’m confused. Not all the fruits we think of as berries are berries in the technical, botanical sense, even though they are in the less technical but much more delicious culinary sense. And there are a whole bunch of fruits that we don’t think of as berries that actually are, botanically, berries.

Watermelons – a summer tradition – are technically “giant berries”. So are pumpkins which just made my brain go ’tilt’. OTOH, blackberries (my favorite breakfast berry), along with strawberries and raspberries, are technically aggregate fruits and not berries at all. Except in the culinary sense.

Whether or not the technicalities make YOUR brain go tilt as well, tell us your favorite berry flavor (from that yummy culinary perspective) in the giveaway widget for your chance at Reading Reality’s usual hop prize, the winner’s choice of a $10 Amazon Gift Card or $10 in Books!

And if  you’re looking for more ‘berry good’ June prizes, be sure to visit the other stops on this hop!

MamatheFox, Mom Does Reviews, and all participating blogs are not held responsible for sponsors who fail to fulfill their prize obligations.

Summer Giveaway Event!

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Come What May Giveaway Hop

Posted on by Marlene Harris | Author : | Blog Hops> Come What May Giveaway Hop> Giveaways

Welcome to the Come What May Giveaway Hop, hosted by Mama the Fox and Mom Does Reviews!

This is the hop where the theme is open to a whole lot of temptation. Because that’s what the whole “Come What May” title implies. Anything could be coming this month – and a lot of things already are! Or, at least, could be.

There’s Cinco de Mayo coming on, of course, May 5. Mother’s Day is coming too, this year it’s on May 10 in the U.S. – and a LOT of other countries. Many countries have a day to celebrate mothers, but the dates vary from early February to late December around the world. (Mothering Sunday is celebrated in Britain and Ireland in March, but most of the current/former Commonwealth countries celebrate Mother’s Day the same day as we do here, officially the second Sunday of May.)

But May isn’t just filled with official holidays. There’s “May the 4th Be With You”, the unofficial but widely commemorated Star Wars themed punny holiday. And any number of songs about both the month of May (My favorite is still “The Lusty Month of May”, the song from the play (and movie) Camelot. And of course there are songs with the same concept as the hop theme, including “Come What May” from Moulin Rouge.

Whichever of the above idea tickle your fancy or your funny bone, there’s one May concept that I hope absolutely does not come your way this may. I hope you experience absolutely zero MAYDAYs in your month, or any month at all.

What do you first think of when May pops into your mind? Answer in the widget for your chance at Reading Reality’s usual hop prize, the winner’s choice of a $10 Amazon Gift Card or $10 in Books!

If you’re looking for more May prizes to come YOUR way, be sure to visit the other stops on this hop!

MamatheFox, Mom Does Reviews, and all participating blogs are not held responsible for sponsors who fail to fulfill their prize obligations.

Rain Drops on Roses Giveaway Hop

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Welcome to the Rain Drops on Roses Giveaway Hop, hosted by Mama the Fox and Mom Does Reviews!

This hop gives me an earworm every single year.

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittensBright copper kettles and warm woolen mittensBrown paper packages tied up with stringsThese are a few of my favorite things…

Of course, the words are from “My Favorite Things”, one of many memorable songs in The Sound of Music. Now that I’ve passed the earworm on to you, hopefully it will leave me alone for another year!

But you shouldn’t feel like you’re “suffering” from that persistent tune in your head, as it’s the theme of this giveaway hop! As per usual, I’m giving away the usual Reading Reality hop prize of the winner’s choice of a $10 Amazon Gift Card or $10 in books. All you have to do is tell us what one of YOUR favorite things might be!

For a few more chances at one of everyone’s favorite things – PRIZES – be sure to visit the other stops on this hop!

MamatheFox, Mom Does Reviews, and all participating blogs are not held responsible for sponsors who fail to fulfill their prize obligations.

Honey Bunny Giveaway Hop

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Welcome to the Honey Bunny Giveaway Hop, hosted by Mama the Fox and Mom Does Reviews!

Today is also April Fools’ Day, but there’s nothing fooling about this hop!

However, the ‘timely’ proximity of April Fools’ Day and Easter DOES give me the annual opportunity to use this hop to talk about Easter Candy. Because chocolate is ALWAYS an excellent thing to talk about no matter the season!

According to The Food Network’s 2026 round-up of the best Easter candy for THIS Easter, Reese’s Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs take first prize, with Cadbury Milk Chocolate Mini Eggs, Peeps Easter Marshmallow Chicks, Kit Kat Milk Chocolate Wafer Bunnies, Lindt Milk Chocolate Gold Bunnies and Sour Patch Kids Easter Bunnies rounding out the pack. So to speak.

Comparing this list to some of the lists of the ‘Most Popular’ Easter candies for this year, there’s a noticeable similarity. Leading me to wonder just how rigorous the testing was. Particularly as there isn’t a dark chocolate option in the hutch. Or clutch. Or basket. IMHO chocolate isn’t worth the calories unless it’s dark chocolate, but to each their own as that old saying goes.

Whatever your taste in Easter candy, or chocolate in general, might be, the winner of this hop here at Reading Reality will receive their choice of a $10 Amazon Gift Card or $10 in books. Enough to buy something sweet in one form or another!

For more hopping good prizes, be sure to hop on over to the other stops on this hop!

MamatheFox, Mom Does Reviews, and all participating blogs are not held responsible for sponsors who fail to fulfill their prize obligations.

Spring 2026 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop

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Welcome to the Spring 2026 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop, hosted by It Starts At Midnight and Versatileer!

Once upon a time, this was the Month of Books Giveaway Hop, now it’s the Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop, with the hops starting on the days the seasons change. Today, March 20, is the first official day of SPRING for the 2026 season. In other words, today is the Spring Equinox, the day when the light catches up to the dark and the day and night are equal or would be if that pesky ‘atmosphere’ that keeps us all alive didn’t play with the light just a bit. Nevertheless, the season literally starts getting brighter from here on out – at least in the northern hemisphere.

Spring has officially SPRUNG!

Winter briefly stepped in early this week here in the ATL, but on this first day of spring the temperatures are supposed to be in the mid-70s, which certainly sounds like spring to ME! Although I just had to look up some of the other places I’ve lived, and it’s expected to be 62 in Chicago, 73 in Cincinnati (OH), 56 and rainy in Seattle and a still freezing 25 in Anchorage. I’d rather be here.

I’ve kind of given up on wondering if my reading tastes don’t match anyone else’s – because they clearly don’t match those of whoever created the hop graphic. This is yet another season where not a one of the books featured in the hop graphic are on my personal TBR pile for the season. But I still have plenty to choose from. Here are a baker’s dozen that have risen to the top of my list for this spring of 2026:

first mage on the moon by cameron johnston
long and speaking silence by nghi vo
this kingdom will not kill me by ilona andrews
seasons of glass and iron by amal al mohtar
deadly episode by anthony horowitz
troubles turn to lose by susan m boyer
when the wolves are silent by cs harris
last contract of isako by fonda lee
vampyre client by jeri westerson
i choose the bear by shiloh walker
in the spirit of french murder by colleen cambridge
like wafers in honey by leah eskin
stay for a spell by amy coombe

A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz
The First Mage on the Moon by Cameron Johnston
I Choose the Bear by Shiloh Walker
In the Spirit of French Murder by Colleen Cambridge
The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee
Like Wafers in Honey by Leah Eskin
A Long and Speaking Silence by Nghi Vo
Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar
Stay for a Spell by Amy Coombe
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews
Trouble’s Turn to Lose by Susan M. Boyer
The Vampyre Client by Jeri Westerson
When the Wolves are Silent by C.S. Harris

What about you? What books are you most looking forward to this season? Answer in the widget for your choice of either a $10 Amazon Gift Card or $10 in books so you can get one or two of the books on your list!

Chasing Rainbows Giveaway Hop

Posted on by Marlene Harris | Author : | Blog Hops> Chasing Rainbows Giveaway Hop> Giveaways

Welcome to the Chasing Rainbows Giveaway Hop, hosted by Mama the Fox and Mom Does Reviews!

I’ve decided that this particular hop has two themes. One is all about luck. Not just finding it or getting it, but about discovering what you already have that makes you feel like you’ve gotten lucky. Galen and I feel lucky to have found each other, and know that all of the cats we’ve brought into our household over the years have been lucky that we rescued them AND that we have been lucky to have them. Even when they throw up on the bed every other day – which one momcat and her two daughtercats used to do. (So, we did a little extra laundry. They were still worth it!)

The other theme for this hop is that rainbow. Rainbows, and the very rare snowbow, are beautiful. And beauty is something that the world ALWAYS needs more of. A rainbow, in all of its variantions, is also, come to think of it, beautiful phenomenon that we are all lucky to see when it happens.

What makes YOU feel lucky? Answer in the raffle thingy for your chance at one of Reading Reality’s usual prizes, either a $10 Amazon Gift Card or $10 in Books. It may not be the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but it’s at least a coin or two!

For more chances to get lucky, be sure to visit the other stops on this hop!

MamatheFox, Mom Does Reviews, and all participating blogs are not held responsible for sponsors who fail to fulfill their prize obligations.