Theme of the Month: Summertime Sadness + Giveaway!

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Don’t ask me why or how but I thought it would be fun to do monthly themes here on the blog. What exactly does that mean? It means that each month of the year I will pick a theme to focus some special attention on.  It may be a genre, it may be a series, or it may just be something completely random.  I have only just started planning things out for the rest of 2015 and I just want to have some fun and see where this goes.

June is here and you know what that means; summer! For this first month I decided to go a different route than the regular poolside reads.  I’m kinda obsessed with Lana del Rey so of course I used her song title to help me out with this month’s theme: tearjerkers!

To kick off the month, I’ve got a tearjerker prize pack for one lucky reader.

What you can win:
One book from my list of favorite tearjerkers or one of my blogger recommendations for tearjerkers
One book of your choice
Chocolates/candy
Some tissues
A teddy bear

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Just fill out the Rafflecopter and there will be chances for extra entries throughout the month. Just look for the posts with the summertime sadness button. Comment on any of them for extra entries!

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38 comments

  1. I’ve been talking about Sunday Sadness a lot this week. That feeling that you are sad to have to go back to work. However, as a teacher, I definitely don’t understand summer sadness. I can’t wait!

  2. I wouldn’t read tearjerkers exclusively, but I definitely appreciate when one is truly well done! Looking forward to seeing how the month unfolds here!

  3. I do monthly themes too! I love it. It’s a great way to explor a genre or specific type of books that I might not otherwise read a lot of. Your first topic sounds really interesting, although as we talked about at BEA I’m not a big fan of super sad reads. Hope you enjoy!

  4. I usually done read them cuz it’s so hard to find good ones. I definitely like to if they are awesome…Thanks for the giveaway Katie!!

  5. I like happy tear jerkers. 😛 Because who doesn’t like a happy ending?! I will still read sad tear jerkers because I’m pretty good at holding it back.

  6. I think it’s awesome you have monthly themes. And yep, I love me a good tearjerker. I mean who doesn’t, right?

    I’m also having a giveaway on my blog. Check it out if you’re interested 🙂

  7. I love tear jerkers. The crying and swollen eyes is never fun, but when a book can move you to tears? That’s such a powerful thing. Love the monthly theme idea! Was wondering if the giveaway was open int? Thanks!

  8. Yes! I love when a story brings out so much emotion. It’s so good! Thanks for this giveaway!

  9. I haven’t read very many tearjerkers but I can say I’m a fan. I just need a good story to go with the tears and I’m sold. Thank you for the unique giveaway.

  10. Personally, I do enjoy tearjerkers because that means the book was pretty darn good. My friends who read The Fault in Our Stars all cried when they read it, but when I did I did not. Now, that may be partly due to the fact that twitter spoiled it for me. John Green’s writing have a love/hate relationship so that was another part to it. All the Bright Places and I’ll Give You the Sun are two examples of books that made me cry. They were well-written and I felt like I was experiencing the events right along with each of the characters.

  11. I hate tearjerkers and I love them, they usually end up thrown against the wall or full of tear stains, and The Fault In Our Stars is my favorite book! 😉

  12. I’m definitely stocking up on summer reads. Just bought Made You Up, Extraordinary Means, P.S. I still love you, and Kissing in America. Love contemporaries!

  13. It depends on my mood. Sometimes you just feel like something light and airy and you want to laugh. Other times, you want something that will just take you and through you around (emotionally) a little bit.

  14. I am currently into fantasy novels lately, but I love tearjerkers once in a while. Like, I just read an intense fantasy book/series, I want to lighten up my mood with a contemporary. Whether it be something that is cry-worthy, or just something that is perfect for summer 🙂

  15. Tearjerkers are so great to read, but then they leave me crying… Why do I read them again? Oh yeah, because they give me the feels!

  16. I love tearjerkers! If a book makes me cry then it ends up in my favorites. To me, it means that I connected to the characters and the story 🙂