Thursday, June 25, 2015

The Blog Most Likely To... and Giveaway!

Hi everyone! Are we all excited to read The Boy Most Likely To by Huntley Fitzpatrick, heading our way in August? I AM! I liked My Life Next Door a lot - and I'm not even a huge YA contemporary fan!

Today, I'm going to share with you my blog's superlative. I thought of a lot of possibilities... some creative but fitting, some not creative at all. Some of the ones I came up with were:

The Blog Most Likely To...

... get swoony! (I mean, come on. I have 712 posts tagged with "Romance", and 125 Swoon Thursday feature posts - this is a weekly feature, so 125 weeks of swoon. We all know how much I LOVE a good swoon.)

OR

... blog/read at work! (The evidence is below!)








But ultimately, one thing really stuck out to me, and my blog's superlative was born. My blog is the blog most likely to...

MAKE READING AND BLOGGING MATHY!

(Yes, mathy is not a word. I know.)

How so, Alyssa?

Recall that yours truly is an environmental engineering, earth & planetary sciences, and Spanish triple major (or maybe two and one minor at this point). Math dominates my studies, along with science. I weave math and science into all areas of my life, including blogging.


I have my own meme! Yes, it's *Science* in Fiction, but I get mathy too!

I've done a "A Look at ____: Statistics and Numbers" post since 2012! Though the 2012 one was boring.


Here's some of the information from 2014:

 
 
  

Oh yeah. Things get real mathy up in here. This isn't about bragging or anything - it appeases the math/science nerd and engineer in me to see data compiled in an organized and readable manner.

Speaking of organized... being a math-obsessed person goes hand-in-hand with my control freak/obsessive nature. I mean, I've got this going on...


(Snippet of ARC posting data from 2014. Organized by title/author, publication date, age level, and posting date. Purple means I've read it. Red means I've not read it/I missed the date. There are no reds for 2014 - not anymore, anyway!)

And this...


(Snippet of books read in 2014 data - this is how I got the pie charts. Categories are Title, Author Year of Publication, Publisher/Indie, Dominant Genre, Age Level, Rating, Source, Number. You can see the tabs at the bottom of the picture - those have each individual pie chart!)

And this...


(Calendar schedule for May 2015. See colors below.)


(Calendar schedule for July 2015. Purple is review, pink is "Science in Fiction" meme, green is blog tour or promo, red is "Waiting on Wednesday", light blue/green is potential blog tour/promo, yellow is potential ARC that I may/may not receive. Stacking the Shelves is always Saturday, and Swoon Thursday is always Thursday, which is why both of those days usually don't have anything on the calendar - because it doesn't change.)


I do some crazy math at the beginning and end of every year and figure out how much I can read per month. At the beginning of every month, I do some more crazy math and plot out the month's schedule in ARCs and non-ARCs to be read and reviewed. Lots of math going on!

And I don't mind whipping out some fancy math skills to help younger bloggers!







(It's been many years since I did pre-calc stuff! Nikki is very smart and picked up this quickly. So proud!)


So that's that! Do you think my superlative matches my blog? Does it at least match my personality? :D What's your blog's superlative?


About The Boy Most Likely To:

The Boy Most Likely To by Huntley Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Dial Books
Publication Date: August 18, 2015

Summary (from Goodreads):

Tim Mason was The Boy Most Likely To find the liquor cabinet blindfolded, need a liver transplant, and drive his car into a house

Alice Garrett was The Girl Most Likely To . . . well, not date her little brother’s baggage-burdened best friend, for starters.

For Tim, it wouldn’t be smart to fall for Alice. For Alice, nothing could be scarier than falling for Tim. But Tim has never been known for making the smart choice, and Alice is starting to wonder if the “smart” choice is always the right one. When these two crash into each other, they crash hard.

Then the unexpected consequences of Tim’s wild days come back to shock him. He finds himself in a situation that isn’t all it appears to be, that he never could have predicted . . . but maybe should have.

And Alice is caught in the middle.

Told in Tim’s and Alice’s distinctive, disarming, entirely compelling voices, this novel is for readers of The Spectacular Now, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, and Paper Towns.



The Giveaway:

20 comments:

  1. Um, this is AMAZING. I am so bad at math and science in general, I feel like some awful stereotype from the 1950s ;) You have, by the way, totally given me inspiration! I have decided I will try to make a table, like you did in the ARC posting thing. Also, how fabulous are you for helping Nikki!? Also, WHERE were you when I failed Statistics. Twice ;) (Fine- I got a D in one, and then technically dropped the second one, and had to retake it. Still!) Fabulous post!

    Shannon @ It Starts At Midnight

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    1. THANK YOU! I am so glad to have helped in some way! A table would be good, that's how I decide and organize when I'll read what, etc. I would have totally helped you in Statistics - I've now taken two classes in it (apparently statistics is important in engineering, mrph). Hopefully you're finished with statistics!

      And thank you so much! <3

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  2. I am in awe of your math/science skills! (I never did badly in math, but certain types clicked quickly and others...didn't. :P) I loved your 2014 stats roundup! It got me to start a spreadsheet for this year's reading. :)

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    1. Aww, thanks, Kel! Good luck with this year's reading stats/numbers and data creation! I need to update my spreadsheet for 2015 DESPERATELY D:

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  3. Oh those labels most definitely fit from my observation after a few visits a week. You have me wondering what label Delighted Reader would wear...

    I still need to get busy and read the first one in this series.

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    1. Awww, thank you, Sophia! I bet it would be something adult-romance-novel-related ;D And you should! I LOVED My Life Next Door :)

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  4. I knew there was a reason I liked you! Seeing info like this is totally cool and amazing! I'm not good at numbers like you are, but they make sense when it comes to marketing and what does and doesn't work. Kudos to cleaning out the e-mail! Thanks to you I started clearing out stuff from 2011, which I know is totally ridiculous on my part! (lol) HUGE Hugs...When I get rich, you're hired! www.intheknowwithro.blogspot.com

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    1. LOL! Thank you! I like you too! I should have added a minor in marketing, I think ;D That is a great idea, Ro! And I wouldn't mind that, at least I'd know I'd have a job hehehe. Thank you!

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  5. Wow! I admire your math skills! I suck at math. I'm okay with algebra and whatever kind of math you do in chemistry, but in general, I'm not a fan! In fact, when I was a senior in high school, I cheated most of the way through my advanced math class. The teacher never collected our assignments so I never did them and when he asked for my grade, I just said I got a couple wrong. Somehow I still always passed the tests? Maybe I just didn't apply myself enough. But excellent choice of superlative! :)

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    1. Ooo, wow! I'm kind of baffled that nothing was collected! Literally nothing was NOT collected, across all subjects in my high school. Everything was turned in, and it was rare that it was just completion. But hey, at least you'll never be tested in that manner again, right? To each their own!

      Thank you very much, Cyra ^_^

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  6. Oh my goodness! All these numbers make my head hurt. I can honestly say that I despise math and actually changed my major so I would have the least amount of contact with it! I admire your skills and your organization for sure. Thus, I like swoony better :)

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    1. LOL! Sorry not sorry ;D That is understandable! Thank you so much, Liza. I like swoony as well =)

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  7. YEP!! Your blog is the most likely to get mathy and sciency!! ;) Mathy might not be a real word but for some reason it makes math seem more... cute?? I dunno! ;)

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    1. LOL yeah tbh I didn't know what to plop in there for the sense I was going for, so "mathy" seemed most appropriate ;D Thank you!

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  8. I JUST PUT UP MY SUPERLATIVE TOO!

    Can I saw I love yours? It truly is so you, girl! I laughed when I saw "most likely to get mathy" because it is SO TRUE! Embrace the genius in you and roll with it!

    Also, your organization is something I'm super jealous of. I keep thinking "oh this post will go up today!" and then it just never gets written. I still have 2 BEA recaps to do! But hey...I got the first 2 done so that's something? TEACH ME YOUR WAYS!

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    1. YAY! Thank you so much! I agonized over this one, versus the swoony one. But a lot of people are doing something swoon- or romance- or book-boyfriend-related, and I thought mathy made more sense with my personality.

      Anyway! Thank you - I take pride in being so organized! It makes me feel good :D I'll get started on those classes! ;)

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  9. Gorgeous post Alyssa. <3 Thank you for sharing about this :) And aw, your blog is all kinds of swoony :D Love that. <3 Hah, I suck at math :p Well, I know the regular things, but nothing advanced at all, since I did nothing after grade 7. Sigh. Stupid diseases :\ But I'm okay with that :)

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    1. I had a feeling that I could have gone either way, with swoony or mathy! And don't feel bad! <3

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  10. Wow, this is pretty incredible!! I'm very organized, so I also have a color-coded Google Calendar and very detailed (and also color-coded) spreadsheet for my ARCs. But I'm NOT AT ALL good at math. Very impressive!! :)

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    1. *headdesk* Seven months later and I JUST saw this comment. Lisa, you have the loveliest photos on Instagram! You are artsy, I am mathy, and we are queen organizers. :D Thank you!

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