We have a winner…

I’m just coming back from my little “meeting” with Mr. Random.org and he was so nice *waggles eyebrows* to tell me who’s the lucky girl to call a signed copy of Dear Sir, I’m Yours by Joely Sue Burkhart her own.

So without further dreaming about that meeting I will just tell you who the lucky winner is:

*~*drumroll*~*

ErotRomReader (Janna)
 Congrats! 
I will contact you ASAP!

I hope you all have a fabulous Sunday!

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Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

The iPad has garnered a lot of attention this past week.  It was released on April 3 and sales took off.  Mashable.com is quoting some iPad stats from Steve Jobs: iPad sales have exceeded 450,000 and 600,000 iBooks have been downloaded.  That’s a lot of ebooks!

An article at thebookseller.com reports that in the US in 2009, ebook sales exceeded audiobook sales for the first time.

Good news for air travellers in the US from the TSA’s blog: ebook readers, iPads and other small electronic items can be left in your carry-on bag for checkpoint screening. 

Mail Online is reporting that a proof edition of Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book has been found in Britain with a handwritten inscription by the author dedicating the book to one of his daughters who died a few years later.

The University of …

Review: Seven-Tenths by David Fisichella

Format Read: eARC from NetGalleyNumber of Pages: 232Release Date: April 1, 2010Publisher: Leapfrog PressFormats Available: PaperbackPurchasing Info: Amazon, Goodreads

Book Blurb:  An engineer whose life is in shambles meets a blind oceanographer who spends her life at sea. In this memoir of their courtship, David Fisichella writes of science, love, adventure, and danger on the ocean. He survives heavy weather, an equator crossing, and a pirate attack off the coast of Somalia. He learns how scientists study ocean physics and why their research is so important, how people live for months on a crowded boat, and what it means to be working for, and dating, the chief scientist. Told with humor, gritty details, and a refreshing sense of wonder about our oceans.

My Thoughts:“Love, Piracy and Science at Sea.” That subtitle really caught my attention right off the …

Review: Succubus Shadows by Richelle Mead

Format Read: Paperback

Number of Pages: 292
Release Date: March 30th, 2010
Publisher: Kensington
Formats Available: Paperback, eBook
Purchasing Info: Author Website, GoodReads, BookDepository

Book Blurb:Georgina Kincaid has formidable powers. Immortality, seduction, shape-shifting into any human form she desires, walking in heels that would cripple mere mortals—all child’s play to a succubus like her.

Helping to plan her ex-boyfriend’s wedding is a different story. Georgina isn’t sure which is worse—that Seth is marrying another woman, or that Georgina has to run all over Seattle trying on bridesmaid dresses. Still, there are distractions. Georgina’s roommate, Roman, is cluttering her apartment with sexual tension. Then there’s Simone, the new succubus in town, who’s intent on corrupting Seth.

And if that wasn’t bad enough, she’s started having dreams shadowy, dangerous but alluring dreams, dreams that don’t want to let …

Bookish Rants or Raves: The Price of Our Addiction

Amazing to think how much us, book lovers in general, spend on books on a regular basis. We book bloggers do receive some books for review and its a great way to get to know new and established authors. However, if you are as addicted as I am in series, there are too many of them that you follow and  unless you have contacts and/or live in the US, you rarely get a chance to receive the newest installments of the series you love so much.

Besides, we bookaholics can’t stand to not look around a bookstore and/or an online bookstore and buy some books that just catch out eyes.

I’ve lived in two different countries and neither of them is an English speaking country. I have to make do with really small areas in the local bookstores that have books in …

Review: Hourglass by Claudia Gray

Format read: ARCNumber of Pages: 352 pagesRelease Date: Mar 9 2010Publisher: HarperteenFormats Available: HardcoverPurchasing Info: amazon.com, bookdepository.com

Book Blurb:

After escaping from Evernight Academy, the vampire boarding school where they met, Bianca and Lucas take refuge with Black Cross, a fanatical group of vampire hunters. Bianca must hide her supernatural heritage or risk certain death at their hands. But when Black Cross captures her friend-the vampire Balthazar-hiding is no longer an option.

Soon, Bianca and Lucas are on the run again, pursued not only by Black Cross, but by the powerful leaders of Evernight. Yet no matter how far they travel, Bianca can’t escape her destiny.

Bianca has always believed their love could survive anything . . . but can it survive what’s to come?

My Thoughts:

The 3rd book of the Evernight series picks up with Bianca and Lucas now hiding out with the Black Cross. Hoping this is only …

All YA Love: Interview with Y.S. Lee

Today I am honored to share an interview with Y.S. Lee. I recently had the pleasure of reading her debut A Spy In The House (The Agency #1)  and  loved this unique spin on the Victorian era.Can you tell us about the book?Spy is a novel about keeping secrets, uncovering truths, scheming women, and the Great Stink of 1858 (a disgusting heat wave that paralyzed the city of London). It’s also a zippy adventure and a lighthearted joke about mystery novels. It contains not a single vampire.

My favorite scene took place in the carriage as Mary & James talk marriage & sonnet sequences, I’m smiling just thinking about it. What was your favorite scene to write?I could write dialogue between Mary and James all day. I ended up pruning quite a lot of it because if I’d left it all in, the book …

Review: The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting

Format read: ARC
Number of Pages: 336 pages
Release Date: Mar 16 2010
Publisher: Harperteen
Formats Available: Hardcover, ebook
Purchasing Info: amazon.com, bookdepository.com

Book Blurb:Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her “power” to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes the dead leave behind in the world . . . and the imprints that attach to their killers.Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find dead birds her cat left for her. But now that a serial killer is terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he’s claimed haunt her daily, …

Geekdom of Books: Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone!

This week I found something really geeky and amusing which totally deserves a post of it’s own. Luckily it fits at least a bit to Eastern so I could come up with a reason to post it:

The Nabaztag.

It’s these super cute bunny on the left and it can entertain you endlessly or so they say.

What can it do?
It connects via wifi to the wonderful world of the internet and is able to
– tell you what the weather will be like (yes this rabbit can speak LOL)
– read your RSS reader for you (that sounds just fantastic to me)
– inform you about new emails or txt messages
– it can move it’s ears matching to the music it plays with the fitting light show included

and the list goes on and on….it’s a learning little robot with always updating features.

And they also launched a smaller edition of it called

Interview: Author Joely Sue Burkhart & Giveaway

We are so happy to have author Joely Sue Burkhart here today. Her book, Dear Sir, I’m Yours will be released in print tomorrow so we grabbed our opportunity to ask her everything we always wanted to know about her book.  You can also find a chance to win her new release at the end of the interview. 😉

The Geeky Lover: Hey Joely, it’s so great to have you here!

Joely: Thank you so much for having me!

The Geeky Lover: Tell us a bit about yourself?

Joely: I’ve got three monsters (girls) ages 11, 8, and 6 and I work full-time as a computer programmer.  I’ve been writing seriously since 2003 and am thrilled to have works with Samhain Publishing, Drollerie Press, and Carina Press.

The Geeky Lover: I thought it would be …