Category: Amber’s Rambles

What I Want To See More Of In YA

I’m getting back into the swinging of blogging again, so I thought I’d do an easier post. This will be in my Amber’s Rambles feature! For the first time in forever. I love how wide the Young Adult genre there is, there’s contemporary, historical, fantasy, science fiction, romance, etc. Sometimes though, I wish there were more widespread aspects. Therefore, here are some things I would love to see more of in Young Adult Fiction. ~Social Class~ I want to see more lower income characters and I want to see how that affects their life. I’ve been in some interesting positions where at times, I was at a higher social class than my peers. Though during this time, I had no idea we were “high” lower class because I thought we were middle class. Imagine that for a second. Then there have been times when my family was at a lower economic class […]

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Posted June 6, 2016 by Amber in Amber's Rambles, Uncategorized / 0 Comments

The Piracy of eARCs

Hi everyone! Welcome back to Amber’s Rambles, my feature where I discuss bookish topics. Last week I discussed a lot about justifications on buying and selling ARCs. For the majority of the post, I was for the buying and selling of ARCs. I said then that I would be bringing up a more important issue, in my opinion. The More Important Issue? Now that I’ve said what I have to say about buying and selling ARCs, it’s time to switch the focus over a bit. Every few weeks I see authors talk about how google results show unpublished electronic ARCs of their books up on pirating sites or sites that have their books. I think this is a more important topic because piracy is becoming more and more common. It started with music in the early 2000s, expanded to movies, games, software, ebooks and is now hitting eARCs. I suppose it […]

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Posted February 26, 2016 by Amber in Amber's Rambles / 1098 Comments

Buying & Selling ARCs: Is It Ever Justifiable?

Why do you always say what you believe? Every proclamation guarantees free ammunition for your enemies. (Non-Stop, Hamilton) Hi book blogosphere! It’s a rare moment, I’m going to be doing my Amber’s Rambles feature which I have not done in forever. I have a plan for changing that later this month. If you don’t know what Amber Rambles is, it’s basically my discussion feature where I discuss bookish things and such. ~Introduction~ Anyway though, that’s not what I’m posting about. I’m going to be discussing a topic that has been making the rounds. Again. This happens fairly often in the book community. The topic at hand are ARCs. Buying and selling them, to be exact. This will be a two part post. In the first part I’ll discuss buying and selling ARCs and in the second part, I’ll talk about a possible bigger issue. I’m […]

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Posted February 18, 2016 by Amber in Amber's Rambles, Uncategorized / 0 Comments

I Read The Fault In Our Stars In A Strip Club

Late in the winter of my twenty-first year, I decided a strip club was the perfect place to read The Fault In Our Stars, a book that would be heartbreaking, but poor naive me had no idea. In reality, a comfortable bed surrounded by ice cream to help the inevitable pain with a cat to snuggle with, would be the perfect place to read such a book. I’d love that as much as everyone. That’s just not the truth. This is the truth. Poor, naive Amber. Sorry. Yes, you read the above correct. No, I am not joking. Yes, I’m aware of how that has to be the WEIRDEST place to ever read that book. Well, I guess I didn’t JUST read it in the strip club, but I definitely read the majority there actually I think I did! Okay, so let me explain how this all happened exactly. A […]

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Posted May 21, 2015 by Amber in Amber's Rambles / 356 Comments

All The Songs I Associate With Books

Amber’s Rambles is a feature where I talk about different topics relating to books and blogging. Good evening everyone! I hope your evening (or day, depending on where you are) is going great! You have probably noticed that I love music between my sporadically posted Musical Monday posts to my Monthly Recaps and Looking Forward To: posts that contain a ton of music. For tonight’s post I am going to be discussing something that I’ve wanted to from the very beginning, but never got the chance to. You may have heard that Leila Sales book “This Song Will Save Your Life” hit bookshelves in paperback format. While I haven’t read this book, I know it is extremely music heavy, so obviously, I’m just crazy about the idea. So in honor of This Song Will Save Your Life, I figured tonight would be the perfect time to do this post. I […]

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Posted April 16, 2015 by Amber in Amber's Rambles / 238 Comments

Cleaning Out The Feed(Reader)

Amber’s Rambles is a semi-regular feature at YA Indulgences where I talk about various topics involving books, blogging and the book blogging blogosphere. Tonight I am going to be talking about Blog Feeds. I use BlogLovin’ while I know others use Feedly. I love BlogLovin’, it keeps all the blogs in on place, I can organize them, I can create collection and it marks a blog “Read” for me after I click on it. I can also save posts, which I love. So it’s basically a win for me. . . Mostly. I don’t know about you guys, but when I started book blogging in July, I followed anybody and everybody. What I mostly started following though were big blogs and a lot of my following incentives was “If I follow them, I get an extra entry for this giveaway”. Yes, I was that person. It didn’t really matter if […]

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Posted March 26, 2015 by Amber in Amber's Rambles / 239 Comments

When Life Interferes. . . (Amber’s Rambles #16)

This is Amber’s Rambles, a feature where I discuss bookish or blogging topics. It is typically posted on Thursdays, but may be posted on other days as well. To see past posts, you can go here. Ok, I can’t believe I’m writing this. This has been a blog post I have been wanting to write forever. I think I’m posting it now because life is interfering now. As bloggers, we know there are times when we can’t read/blog/comment because of “life” and it’s interference(s). I just wanted to write this to talk about when events or just regular stuff happen, we find ourselves being unable to read or blog or comment because of it. Actually, I think this post is going to go a bit different than that. If you follow me on Twitter, chances are you’ve seen a tweet such as “Rescue me” or “Why don’t any of you […]

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Posted March 12, 2015 by Amber in Amber's Rambles / 324 Comments

When Writer’s Block Strikes (Amber’s Rambles #15)

Amber’s Rambles is a semi-weekly feature where I discuss bookish and blogging topics. To read past Rambles, you can go here. So I just asked a question on my Twitter, a bit of a rhetorical question, but a question none the less. It was “Does anyone else ever “forget” how to review when they haven’t done it in weeks?” and then went on to say that I have “serious” writer’s block, compared to, you know, unserious writer’s block. My last review was written on the sixth. Since then I’ve drafted reviews, outlined reviews and read a semi-constant stream of books. I typically try to post my reviews on Tuesdays and Thursdays, along with the occasional Friday/Saturday review, if I didn’t post on Tuesday/Thursday. I like having a regular schedule for reviews and I’ve been pretty good with it…Until things like this happened. It always happens the same way, it’s around 9 at […]

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Posted February 19, 2015 by Amber in Amber's Rambles / 303 Comments

2015 YA Trends/Themes (Part 3) – Amber’s Rambles (#14)

Amber’s Rambles is a semi-weekly feature at YA Indulgences. Generally these posts will be discussions having to do with books, authors or blogging. To read past posts, you can go here. Hey everyone. It’s finally time to post my final discussion on the YA Trends/Themes I’ve heard about this year. This topic has sort of opened my eyes to how different authors deal with the same subject matter, such as suicide, mental illness and memory loss. This week I’m going to cover memory loss, “interesting” romances, ensemble casts and trios. Remember by Eileen Cook–Harper’s father is the head of a company whose latest treatment is “Memex”, a treatment that softens the memories for people. When the company opens up their treatments to teenagers and Harper goes through a loss, she wants the treatment, but is surprised when her father refuses to allow her to get it. When […]

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Posted February 13, 2015 by Amber in Amber's Rambles / 390 Comments

2015 Trends/Themes (Part 2) – Amber’s Rambles (#13)

It’s time for Amber’s Rambles again. This is a weekly discussion feature where I talk about books or blogging or anything involving the two. To view past Rambles, you may go here. This week I am continuing with my 2015 trends/themes in Young Adult Fiction. Last week I talked about books with suicide, mental illness, LGBTQA and quirky themes that were coming out our have already come out this year. This week I’ll be listing off some fairytale retellings, mysteries, illnesses, and fake identities. A Court of Thorn and Roses (#1) by Sarah J. Maas-Ah yes, the newest Sarah J. Maas book that everyone (practically) is freaking out over. I include myself in that “everyone” too. 🙂 ACoTaR is a Beauty and The Beast retelling and contains fairies. Let’s be clear, Beauty and The Beast is my FAVORITE disney movie EVER. I. Am. So. Excited. For. This. Fairest (Lunar Chronicles #0.5) by […]

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Posted February 5, 2015 by Amber in Amber's Rambles / 813 Comments