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Happy Saturday morning all and welcome back to the café! So, you know how I’ve been waxing all poetic about the beautiful summer weather and the joys of reading outside? Well, today, here, it’s rainy and humid…the ugly parts of summer converged into today’s forecast :p We just have to make the best of the yucky weather and read, I guess 🙂 What do you all have planned for the weekend?

And, remember to let us know if you’ve won anything recently; the Book Lovers would love to hear! At Book Lovers Inc., it’s our pleasure to share the bookish love! Good luck to everyone and hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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Explore This!: San Diego, California

Welcome to today’ special edition of Explore This! While The Geeky Lover and The HEA Lover are out of town, I snagged their time slot…though we do miss them when they’re gone 🙂

And it’s thanks to a recommendation from The Rocket Lover that I’m whisking you off to San Diego, California; it’s the setting for the book Night Walker by Lisa Kessler. From what I hear the Mission de Alcala plays a large role in the story, but we’ll take a tour all around the city. Okay, I’ll admit, I focused a bit more on the water and the beach. I’m feeling a bit beach bummy 😉

Ah, how I would love to be on one of those boats!

The Coronado Bridge

The Gaslamp Quarters.

Balboa Park.

A lovely shoreline vista.

Mission de Alcala.

Inside …

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Happy Saturday morning all and welcome back to the café! The time seems ti be flying by so quickly right now. I hope you are all able to set aside some well deserved reading time this weekenf 🙂

Remember to let us know if you’ve won anything recently; the Book Lovers would love to hear! At Book Lovers Inc., it’s our pleasure to share the bookish love! Good luck to everyone and hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Here’s the fine print for entering your link:
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If you have a giveaway you would like to share with our other readers, the rules are simple:
1. The giveaway MUST be available to international addresses (Book Depository does count)
2. Add your link below, in the format shown. (Please use the URL for the contest post, not a general blog URL; you don’t want to make it tricky for …

Explore This!: New Zealand

I have to admit, I know very little about New Zealand. What I have experienced has been through friends’ travel photos, which were stunning. In fact, in searching for images, I found more often than not, the pictures were from either sites offering desktop backgrounds or on travel sites. Why? Because New Zealand has to be one of those perfect blends of lowlands and mountains, land and water that is pure fodder for photographers! Let’s take a look and see for ourselves:

Anaura Bay, Gisborne

Waves at the North Island.

A little wine with our tour perhaps?

A lovely panorama.

I can just imagine the view from this cable car!

There's a secluded beauty about this road through the mountains.

Nature at its best.

Can you tell this is one of those wallpapers …

The International Giveaways Café (44)

Happy Saturday morning all and welcome back to the café! Have you seen our new logo? Isn’t it all kinds of cool? The café button has been updated to match, so if you have our old one, we’d love it if you switched up too 🙂

Also, remember to let us know if you’ve won anything recently; the Book Lovers would love to hear! At Book Lovers Inc., it’s our pleasure to share the bookish love! Good luck to everyone and hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Here’s the fine print for entering your link:
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If you have a giveaway you would like to share with our other readers, the rules are simple:
1. The giveaway MUST be available to international addresses (Book Depository does count)
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Elements in Lit 201: The Publishing World

Up until now, we’ve talked about book content, genres, and other things of the sort. Thanks to some of the other BLI’ers, today we’re going to take a look at the business behind the books that we love. Publishing involves a whole lot more than just writing a book, getting it into print, then into the readers hands. As book reviewers, we have our own place in the process now, but let’s see what else is involved in the wide world of publishing:

Publishers come in all shapes and sizes. Within publishers, there are also “imprints”. For our purposes here, we’re going to discuss the definition of imprint that refers to the trade name that books are published under (though there are several different meanings, as can be found on the Wiki page). These are usually grouped into similar styles of books, like Tor, part …

The International Giveaways Café (43)

Happy Saturday morning all and welcome back to the café! In certain parts of the world (like mine), this weekend is the celebration of Queen Victoria’s birthday. What this means is an excuse for a long weekend, with the potential for a whole extra day of reading 😉 But even if you’re not part of this holiday celebration, here’s hoping that your weekend is filled with great weather and books!

Remember to let us know if you’ve won anything recently; the Book Lovers would love to hear! At Book Lovers Inc., it’s our pleasure to share the bookish love! Good luck to everyone and hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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Explore This! Eigg and Mallaig, Scotland

In my wildest dreams, I have all the money I could want and I’m able to buy myself a cottage in Scotland. This fantasy has been fueled even further in my current read, Midnight’s Master by Donna Grant. The story takes off from Mallaig in Scotland, which is also the harbour you would travel from to reach Eigg. Once I started looking for pictures of the area, I got all dreamy-eyed at the thought of a quaint life in Scotland *huge sigh*.

Eigg is a small island in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. With a population of 67 (according to Wiki), I certainly wouldn’t have to worry about busy body neighbours, right? But with it’s small number of inhabitants, it makes it a great place for a greener living, environmentally speaking as well as with regards to the lush scenery.

Mallaig is no less picturesque, with it’s harbour and town. It is …

The International Giveaways Café (42)

Happy Saturday morning all and welcome back to the café! This looks like a promising weekend, weather wise, so I’m looking forward to sitting outside on my veranda, reading a good book with a nice summer themed tea, like Twinings Lady Grey. What’s your favourite summer beverage while reading?

Also, remember to let us know if you’ve won anything recently; the Book Lovers would love to hear! At Book Lovers Inc., it’s our pleasure to share the bookish love! Good luck to everyone and hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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The International Giveaways Café (41)

Good morning all and welcome back to the best place in the web for accessing international book giveaways! I woke up this morning to a slightly cool breeze but a whole lotta sun. As long as it stays like this, my weekend will include as much time spent outside…with a good book, of course 😉 What does your weekend have in store?

Remember to let us know if you’ve won anything recently; the Book Lovers would love to hear! At Book Lovers Inc., it’s our pleasure to share the bookish love! Good luck to everyone and hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Here’s the fine print for entering your link:
Guidelines:
If you have a giveaway you would like to share with our other readers, the rules are simple:
1. The giveaway MUST be available to international addresses (Book Depository does count)
2. Add your link below, in the …