Bookish Rants or Raves: Holiday Reading Habits

‘Tis the season of giving, of partying, of family get togethers and of relaxing, so what does that mean for you and your reading habits?

I for one will say that whenever Christmas rolls around, I barely get any reading done, being at home for 10 days means catching up on a million things and spending time with family.

One would think that with so much “free time” it spells happiness in the form of a dwindling TBR pile, but alas, no it does not. I looked at my bedside table today and realised that I have had the same book sitting there for over a week without picking it up!

I have found more recently especially that most, nearly all, of my reading gets done outside of the house. Whether it be while I’m in my car waiting, at work on lunch break or the rare occasions I am using public transport.

On …

Advent Calendar Day 18: Bloodthirsty by Flynn Meaney + Giveaway

Welcome to the eighteenth day of Book Lovers Inc Advent Calendar. Each day we will offer you one great read in a giveaway on all 24 days till Christmas.

Today you will have the chance to win Bloodthirsty by Flynn Meaney!

Now, if you want something completely different from the traditional vampire book…this is it! Bloodthirsty is: 1: From a guys perspective 2: Doesn’t have real vampires in it and 3: pokes fun at how crazy the world has gotten over vampires in general! I absolutely loved this story, it reads so quickly and you’re left wanting so much more, plus the laughs that come from this book, well, let’s just say I got some funny looks while I was reading this in public. As far as I’m concerned, whether you like vampires or you loathe them…either way you’ll love this!

Purchasing Info: …

Review: Revving Her Wild Engines by Cassandre Dayne

Revving Her Wild Engines

Format Read: E-book
No of Pages: 66
Release Date: 20 February 2011
Publisher: Rebel Ink Press
Genre: Erotic Romance
Formats Available: E-book
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon

Book Blurb:

Stephanie Simon was more than ready to have her most secret and sinful fantasies fulfilled. And the thought of having a torrid affair with David Tyler took her breath away. Unfortunately however, Stephanie and David have never met. Introduced by a friend, they’ve only conversed via the Internet, where they tell each other their every hidden fantasy. Stephanie’s is a wicked tryst on the back of David’s motorcycle and a ménage. And as luck would have it, David has the perfect third in mind.

Fuelled by Stephanie’s hunger to explore, David sweeps Stephanie off her feet with a wild ride across a pool table in front of his friends and a ménage that leaves her engine revved …

Advent Calendar Day 1: Running Blind by Nicki J. Markus + Giveaway

Welcome to the first day of Book Lovers Inc Advent Calendar. Starting today we will offer you one great read in a giveaway on all 24 days till Christmas.

Today you will have the chance to win a story by Nicki J. Markus. Now, I absolutely adored this story. It’s only ten pages long but what was packed into those ten pages had me in a book hangover for nearly two days!

Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon

Book Blurb:

It seems like any ordinary day as Nick waits for the train, but then a chance encounter with a young woman turns his world upside down. What is it that she is running from and will helping her jeopardise his own secret, making him a target too?

The Review:
Running Blind is one of the best short stories I have read in a long time.
Nick is …

Review: Bloodthirsty by Flynn Meaney

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 234Release Date: 5 October 2010Publisher: PoppyFormats Available: Harcover, Ebook, PaperbackPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon

Book Blurb:

Attention, all girls reading this:

We get it. The message is coming through loud and clear: You think vampires are hot. Your little sister thinks vampires are hot. Your mom thinks vampires are hot. Every single female on the face of the earth thinks vampires are hot. Girls love vampires, and I love girls. Unfortunately, girls don’t seem to love me.

So I’m making a change. For all the guys reading this, say a little prayer to the high school dating gods for me. Here’s hoping that girls think fake vampires are hot, too.

My Thoughts:

Bloodthirsty was a non-stop laugh for me, purely because it was so true.

Finbar is for want …

On the Booklovers Shelves: Special Vacation Edition

For this edition of shelf porn I will be showing you exactly how I smuggle so many books on holidays. My family are not readers, and I am fully aware that they don’t have the slightest inclination about how desperately I need to read. So to keep everyone happy I resorted to the favoured saying of “what they don’t know won’t hurt them” and started hiding my books so no one knew exactly how many I took.

So now I’m going to show you some of the ways I hid my books and turned my luggage into my holiday shelves:

The first way is simple…a book bag –>

Stylish and easy to pack, you can fit quite a few books in here – I shove them down the side as well. This bag is a canvas bag I actually got for …

Review: Comfort Food by Kitty Thomas

Format Read: HardcoverNumber of Pages: 186Release Date: 21 March 2010Publisher: Burlesque PressFormats Available: Harcover, EbookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon

Book Blurb:

Emily Vargas has been taken captive. As part of his conditioning methods, her captor refuses to speak to her, knowing how much she craves human contact.

He’s far too beautiful to be a monster. Her attraction to him and his lack of violence has her walking a fine line on the edge of sanity.

Told in the first person from Emily’s perspective, Comfort Food explores what happens when all expectations of please and pain are turned upside down. As whips become comfort, and chicken soup becomes punishment.

My Thoughts:

Comfort Food was a powerful read, but it didn’t truly touch me in the ways I was expecting.

Emily is a captive of a …

Review: Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 764Release Date: 1 January 1995Publisher: Orion BooksFormats Available: Paperback, Harcover, Audio Book, EbookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon

 Book Blurb:

One man, Richard Cypher, holds the key to the fate of three nations, to the fate of humanity. But until he learns the Wizard’s First Rule his chances of succeeding in his task are slim. And his biggest problem is admitting magic exists at all…

A novel of incomparable scope and brimming with atmospheric detail: this is a world where heart hounds stalk the magical boundaries between countries, and worlds, for unwary human prey, blood-sucking flies hunt on behalf of their underworld masters, and where artists can draw more than just your likeness.

There is nowhere to hide, nowhere is safe. Here magic makes love twice as sweet, and betrayal …

Review: Bloody Jack by L. A. Meyer

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 290Release Date: 1 June 2004Publisher: Harcourt PaperbacksFormats Available: Paperback, Harcover, Audio BookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon

Book Blurb:

ADVENTURE AND DECEPTION ON THE HIGH SEAS!Life as a ship’s boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming a skilled and daring sailor as the crew hunts murderous pirates on the high seas.There’s just one problem: Jacky is a girl…

My Thoughts:

Bloody Jack has potential to rival Captain Jack Sparrow, she is that good.

Jacky wasn’t always called Jacky; she was once called Mary, living on the streets of London after That Dark Day when her parents and sister were claimed by the plague. The first part of our story details …

My Wishlist: The TBR Edition

Hello out there!

Welcome to another edition of my wishlist. Now usually I list a few books that I can’t wait to get my hands on and add to Mount TBR or just obsessivly own in general, but this week I have decided to do something a little different, I have decided to tell you what I most want to read on Mount TBR.

I have bought so many books lately and I am sure you have felt at times that you wish you could read four books at a time or just read four times faster to get through all the books that you just have to read at this moment because they are literally calling to you from their little booky pages…

Well I am feeling it at the moment, but I also have some review book responsibilities to adhere to …