Bookish Rants or Raves: I {Don’t} Feel Like It!

Hey everyone! Recently I have been thinking a lot about the act of reading. It looks like something so simple and innocuous, but I feel it is anything but.

As a reader I tend to give a lot of myself to any book or book series I am reading and if it doesn’t connect with me, it will be a uphill battle to get to finish it.

One of the most important aspects of reading is the mood. I can have a ton of amazing books in my TBR, but if I am not in the mood to read a certain genre, I will avoid it as much as I can.

Take YA for example. For the last few months I haven’t been able to feel almost any excitement about YA novels and have only been able to read a couple. I don’t …

We Love Your Comments Giveaway: Winner & new Start

This winner of our We Love Your Comments Giveaway for November is……

Mariya 

who commented on our post “The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me?“:

OMG. I thought I was the only one. I could bitch about the cover for hours b/c there are millions of things I hate about it. I think the model is the #1 thing I hate most about the cover! And yes you are corrcet saying that it is too late.I mean it is book 5. If they wanted to change the model, couldv’e done it eariler. I love the other kate. She is kate for me. This new model is not kate. I didn’t get drawn into the series by the covers, I just thought they were okaiexz..but I think MAgic Slays has the worst cover.But again I can whine and moan about how they changed …

New Release: November 29 – December 5, 2010

Wicked Nights With a Lover (The Penwich School for Virtuous Girls #3) by Sophie Jordan

What should a proper lady do when she believes her days are numbered?Step One: Take a Lover . . .

After being told she will not survive beyond the year’s end, prim and lovely Marguerite Laurent intends to live what remains of her life to the very fullest. Though she may never know love, she will know passion—and she agrees to a whirlwind romance with a former admirer. But hours before embarking upon her grand adventure, Marguerite is abducted—by an unscrupulous rogue who boldly announces his intentions to bed and wed her before the week is out!

Step Two: Live With No Regrets . . .

Ash Courtland pulled himself up from the gutter to become a successful man of business, and now he wants …

Interview: Author Sophie Jordan + Giveaway

We are very happy to have author Sophie Jordan here at Book Lovers Inc today. The final novel in her Penwich School for Virtuous Girls series, Wicked Nights with a Lover, will be released tomorrow and she is here to tell us a bit about herself, her writing and her historical romance series. Please give her a warm welcome. And be sure to stay tuned till the end, because brought a surprise for one reader. 

BLI: Sophie can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Sophie: I’m the author of historical romance novels and young adult fiction for HarperCollins, as well as paranormal romance for Pocket. I’m fortunate to be doing what I love in life — writing stories I love and raising a wonderful family in the process.

BLI: Describe a typical day of writing? Are you a planner or pantser?

Sophie: As I …

Explore This! Salem, Massachusetts

I’ve had the pleasure of reading a couple of Nathaniel Hawthorne short stories this year through two of my university courses, The Birthmark and most recently, Young Goodman Brown. This got me thinking about Salem, Massachusetts…and of course what it is most famous for.

What I didn’t know before was that Nathaniel Hawthorne had ancestors that were involved in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Hawthorne was born in Salem, so his family must have resided in the town for several generations. For more information on the Witch Trials (I found this an interesting account of what happened and why) click here. There was a lot of misunderstandings that got completely out of hand, and were fueled by young girls and family resentments.

Salem, MA is a lovely, old town with lots of history but sadly has this bad reputation, …

Guest Post by Kieran Kramer + Giveaway + Sneaky secret giveaway!

It’s with pleasure that we welcome again author Kieran Kramer on Book lovers Inc. Kieran’s new novel, Dukes to the Left of Me, Princes to the Right, is coming out tomorrow. It’s the 2nd book in the Impossible Bachelors series, I will just say these books are really worth your time! Let’s give a warm welcome to Kieran who will tell us all about her love of musicals and her encounter with a great but intimidating editor. Stay until the end for a great giveaway…and keep your eyes opened for a very sneaky secret giveaway in the guest post *g*

“Show (Don’t Tell!) Me Now: How Kate Duffy + Musicals = A Memorable Moment for an Aspiring Writer”
Okay, I am nuts for musicals!!! If I had my druthers, there’d be a “Life’s a Musical Day” the first Monday of every …

Bookish Eye Candy: Peeta – The Hunger Games

Welcome back to Bookish Eye Candy. I would love to continue on with Lara Adrian’s Midnight Breed Series, but i have not gotten any further on the series yet. So we will def. be coming back to that series a little farther down the road. Now……*wiggles brows* we are going to move onto my newest favorite YA series. The Hunger Games Series by: Suzanne Collins.

Hunger GamesBook 1By: Suzanne Collins

Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, “The …