Bookish Rants or Raves: Book Snobs!

I have to confess that even though I’ve read my share of Brazilian Literary Classics when I was a kid and that I have also read some English and American Literary classics laster on when I was in college, I have always preferred spending my time with my Agatha Christie collection.

Nowadays, I don’t hide my YA, UF and PNR obsession and I am far from being embarrassed by it, but that doesn’t stop people from turning their noses when i mention the types of book I read.

To be quite honest, I don’t give a damn and it’s none of their business which kind of book I have a predilection for. However, I find ridiculous this sort of snobbish behavior.

I was wondering if any of you guys out there have ever been in a situation where you suffered prejudice for the type of book you like …

All Ya Love: Summer Reads

All this nice weather has me thinking about the amazing books out this summer. Here is my 9 BOOKS I CAN’T WAIT FOR list.

This was tough, my want list is of course much larger but then you’d be here all day. I’ve narrowed it down to 3 a month for June, July & August. All book info courtesy of Goodreads.com

JUNE:

Sisters Red (Sisters Red, #1) by Jackson Pearce Released: June 7th 2010 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Scarlett March lives to hunt the Fenris– the werewolves that took her eye when she was defending her sister Rosie from a brutal attack. Armed with a razor-sharp hatchet and blood-red cloak, Scarlett is an expert at luring and slaying the wolves. She’s determined to protect other young girls from a grisly death, and her …

Review: The Dark Divine by Bree Despain

Format Read: HardcoverNumber of Pages: 384Publisher: EgmontUSARelease Date: December 22, 2009Formats Available: Trade PaperbackPurchasing Info: Amazon.com, Goodreads, Author’s Website

Book Blurb:

A prodigal son

A dangerous love

A deadly secret . . .

I stood back and watched his movements. Daniel had that way about him that could shut me down in an instant. . . . I kicked the gravel a couple of times and worked up my courage again. “Tell me . . . I mean . . . why did you come back? Why now, after all this time?”

Grace Divine, daughter of the local pastor, always knew something terrible happened the night Daniel Kalbi disappeared—the night she found her brother Jude collapsed on the porch, covered in blood. But she has no idea what a truly monstrous secret that night really held. And when …

Interview: Author Ilona Andrews + Giveaway

Ilona and Gordon Andrews are a husband and wife writing team, and have written six books – plus several short stories and novellas. The release of their latest book, Magic Bleeds, from the Kate Daniels series recently reached number 19 on the New York Times bestseller list!

Kate Daniels series:

The Smutty Lover: Magic Bleeds is the 4th book in the series. What can we expect from Magic Bleeds, and will there be a crossroads for Kate?

Gordon: I think the crossroads came in the last book. When Kate jumped on the sword, she made a definite choice. This book is about her journey on that road.

Ilona: I agree. It’s more about having to deal with consequences of choices already made. The life that she has in MAGIC BLEEDS, the good and the bad of it, …

Review: Enslave: The Taming of the Beast by Cathy Yardley

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 236Release Date: October 6, 2009Publisher: Avon RedFormats Available: Paperback, eBookPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s website, Bookdepository

Book received by publisher for this review.

Book Blurb:

Nadia Bessonova’s career-criminal father has deadly enemies – and to save him, his devoted daughter is willing to strike a deal with the devil. She will surrender completely, body and spirit, to the dangerous Dominic Luder, and submit to his every whim.

Dominic, haunted by inner demons and hiding away in his dark, secluded manor, is mesmerized by his sensuous prisoner who inflames his bestial lust. But Nadia is no mere plaything. At once fearful, willing, and wildly passionate, she brings his most breathtaking erotic fantasies to life – and thaws his cold, wounded heart.

Nadia never dreamed she’d become a slave to her own desires in a savage game of seduction and revenge. And now that …

Review: When Marrying A Scoundrel by Kathryn Smith

Format Read: eARC

Number of Pages: 384
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Genre: Historical RomancePublisher: Avon Books
Formats Available: MMPB, ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Author’s website

Book Blurb:

A lady must be prepared for anything . . . when marrying a scoundrel.

Sadie Moon once thought she was in love. Then her dashing husband left her to seek his fortune, and she had no choice but to transform herself from a heartbroken waif into London Society’s favorite fortune-teller. But even she could not have foreseen Jack’s return—until their paths cross in the last place either would have expected: London’s most exclusive house of pleasure.

Now wealthy and successful, Jack Friday has everything he’d ever dreamed of . . . except Sadie. He swears he will never trust the woman who broke her promise to wait for him, though his passion for her burns as …

Randomly Booked: Book Deficiency Solved

When I moved to Israel I knew that there would be a huge book deficiency but it didn’t really matter that much because I always found a book I could read and when I went to visit my mom I got to go on a huge book shopping spree. Also the books here cost tripple if not more of their price in dollars. When I found that out I decided that Amazon or Book Depository were my best choices. 😛

This easter I had the genius idea to buy a Kindle when I went to visit my parents. I realized really quickly how much I loved the Kindle because of the fact that I could read my book as soon as i bought it and I could travel with many books in one device making my bag alot lighter.

When I got …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

We have two winners to announce today.  The winner of a signed paperback copy of The Betrayal by Pati Nagle is…Sullivan McPig   and the winner of the ebook copy of Many Paths by Pati Nagle is…buddyt.  Congratulations to both of you!  We will be contacting you shortly.  Thanks for participating in the contest.  Enjoy your books!BookExpo America (BEA) took place this week in New York.  I wish I could have gone, but I couldn’t so I followed the twitter hashtag #BEA10.  eBookNewser put together a roundup post on this year’s BEA here.  Publishers Weekly reports that next year BEA will return to a three day event.

Since last month, Penguin and Amazon have been trying to work out an agreement on ebook prices.  It looks like they accomplished that according to a post at GalleyCat.  This is good …

My Wishlist: Casa Dracula Series by Marta Acosta

Hi all! And welcome to another segment of my weekly Wish list! I hope you will like this week’s wishlist

UPDATE: I forgot to include the winner of Dead in the family by Charlaine Harris. Sorry about that:

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This week I chose as my Wish list is…Casa Dracula Series by Marta Acosta

Yay! I am excited about this… Its like its been a longtime since I read this series. Well really the first book. I have yet to read the rest of the books in this series. I am hoping to make some time to be re-acquainted with The Casa Dracula novels and glad to know that are more books coming soon.

Anyway here’s the blurb for the first book: Happy Hour at Casa Dracula

Guest Post by Jen Nadol: The Evolution of Writing

Today I am so excited and honored to have Jen Nadol guest post. Jen is the author of The Mark, her debut novel which was released earler this year and one of my top reads thsi year! Since she was in the process of editing book two, The Vision, I thought it would be interesting to see what she had learned….

I’d written almost all of this guest post about the evolution of my writing process from book one to book two when I realized it wasn’t telling the right story. I was focused on what changed between The Mark, published in January, and its sequel, Vision, due out in 2011. I hadn’t come up with a whole lot.

That’s because though The Mark is my first published book, it’s not the first one I wrote. To see …