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Romance Novel Reviews, Author Interviews, Commentary
Bookish Rant: Unconventional Endings Need Not Apply
“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it” -Edmund Dantes.
Book adaptations are a constant bone of contention for Book Lovers. Do we want to see our favorite works beautifully depicted on screen a la Game of Thrones? Or are we outraged by the humorous defilement of a definitely not humorous body of literature in School of Thrones? (Note: Regardless of sexposition in the former, and lack of Arya in the latter, I am a huge fan of both adaptations.)
I take most adaptations on a case-by-case basis. But will instantly and irrevocably transform into a flaming ball of nerd-hate when screenwriters who are essentially transmitting the story directly from page to screen, get a sudden aneurysm brainstorm and “improve” the ending. Screw things like plot, character development, …
Bookish Rant or Raves,Draconismoi,featured 
16 May 2013
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Romance and Me: Discrimination Based on Name
Hi Everyone!
You all know that I’m an equal opportunity reader when it comes to romance: I read anything from contemporary to historical, erotic to inspirational, sci-fi to paranormal. I keep an open mind and I’m always up to expand my reading horizons by experimenting with different sub-genres. So with that disclaimer out of the way I can make my confession: despite my tolerant and open-minded reader beliefs I sometimes discriminate books/stories/characters based on names.
And I don’t mean the cutesy and at times over the top names of the town/place the story is set in, like a contemporary romance being set in the small town of Love, or Promise Harbor or a historical romance taking place in Harmony Creek or Temperance Manor. No, those just receive an eyebrow twitch, but they don’t disturb me too much to make me stop reading the book.
featured,Romance and Me,The Latin Lover 15 May 2013
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New Releases: May 13-19, 2013
Title: Parallel
Author: Lauren Miller
Genre: YA urban fantasy
Release date: May 14, 2013 by HarperTeen
Description:
Abby Barnes had a plan. The Plan. She’d go to Northwestern, major in journalism, and land a job at a national newspaper, all before she turned twenty-two. But one tiny choice—taking a drama class her senior year of high school—changed all that. Now, on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Abby is stuck on a Hollywood movie set, miles from where she wants to be, wishing she could rewind her life. The next morning, she’s in a dorm room at Yale, with no memory of how she got there. Overnight, it’s as if her past has been rewritten.
With the help of Caitlin, her science-savvy BFF, Abby discovers that this new reality is the result of a cosmic collision of parallel universes that has Abby living an alternate version of her life. And not only …
New Releases,The Needy Lover 14 May 2013
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Guest post by Christine S. Feldman + Giveaway
Please give a warm welcome to Christine S. Feldman, who stops by Book Lovers Inc. to celebrate the release of Coming Home, her debut romance novel! Christine is a fellow friends-to-lovers fan, just like myself and here she talks about why she enjoys reading and writing this trope so much. Join us and if you answer Christine’s question at the end you could even win an Amazon gift card! 😉 Christine, take it away!
I love friends-to-lovers romances. They’re some of my favorites. That’s probably why I still sit down and watch movies like Some Kind of Wonderful or When Harry Met Sally whenever they come on T.V. even though I already have the dialogue memorized.
There’s something about the hero and heroine starting out as friends that seems to add a deeper layer to the romance, because they already have so much …
Book Lovers Book Club: Reminder! Suggestions needed
I hope your Monday went as quickly as mine.
This is just a quick reminder post to get your suggestions in for the Book Lovers Book Club!
I will be putting up two polls next week made up of all the suggestions we receive and as long as we get enough suggestions we’ll be able to do a new genre every month! (At least that’s what I hope at this stage)
1st book club: Stand alones or First in series suggestions for any genre! Any format (graphic novel, audio book, paperback etc)
2nd book club: Series suggestions – any genre, series must be finished or finishing up within the next two to three months (so we don’t run out of books)
Happy Monday!
Book Lovers Book Club,The Winged Lover 13 May 2013
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Guest Post: Melinda Dozier’s Time Changes Everything Blog Tour + Giveaway
We are pleased to welcome Author Melinda Dozier to BLI for the next stop in her blog tour celebrating the release of her new novel, Time Changes Everything, which is available today from Entranced Publishing. Reading romance has always been at the top of Melinda’s favorite past times. After hectic days of teaching English to middle school students, Melinda finds time to write and read in the evenings. She lives in Guatemala, Central America with her husband, three boys and German Sheppard. Melinda enjoys being the queen of her household and dreams of being pampered fully by her boys once they are grown. Melinda loves reality TV, traveling, blogging and playing Words With Friends.
We are looking forward to reading Melinda’s Guest Post today which is entitled: I’m Not Crazy! The Voices and Research behind Time Changes Everything.
Be sure and enter Melinda’s Giveaway opportunity via the …
featured,Giveaways,Guest Post,Melinda Dozier,The Danger Lover 13 May 2013
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Sunday Cravings
Hello my fellow Book Lovers everywhere in the world! How are you this weekend? Have you read anything really interesting lately that you want to share with us? Any recommendations would be grateful as for once more I’m in a book slump… I don’t know why I keep feeling this way more and more often. Anyway, this week will be a little bit slow bookwise I’m afraid. Not many titles are scheduled for release, and that is seriously not helping the fact that I don’t know what to read 😛 So, let’s see which titles caught our attention from the small selection this week.
Stella: The Rebound Girl by Tamara Morgan
Book one of Getting Physical
Plastic surgeon Whitney Vidra knows all about getting over a cheating ex. She followed her boyfriend halfway around the world before she found out about his infidelity. Now she’s focusing on her career …
featured,Sunday Cravings,The Coffee Lover 12 May 2013
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The International Giveaways Café (92)
Welcome back to another Saturday morning filled with great bookish giveaways. We’re into the first round of hockey playoffs here in North America, so my question for today is: have you read any romances with sport stars as hero or heroine? (ie. Jaci Burton.) What’s your favourite sport to read about or perhaps hasn’t been featured yet but you’d like to see? Hope you all enjoy the rest of your 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!
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 …
The Int'l Giveaways Café,The Quirky Lover 11 May 2013
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Around the Bookish World: Week-In-Review
Welcome to this week’s news post! This week have news that could shake up DRM in the future with legislation that could allow unlocking in the US, Candace Bushnell’s latest book leaked online due to her email account being hacked into and more news and tidbits.
This is really interesting to note that there is an amendement in Congress right now for the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright ACT) that proposes users to unlock devices and software from DRM restrictions for their personal use. This could potentially affect the future of DRM especially for ebooks and with Tor and a few other major publishers starting to lean towards to offer non DRM books for certain imprints. I suspect this is the beginning of the end of DRM for ebooks which hasn’t really affected the state of piracy and Tor recently announced that their move to non DRM ebooks hasn’t caused a spike …
News,The Smutty Lover 10 May 2013
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Character Interview by Elle James + Giveaway
Please give a warm welcome to Elle James, who is back to Book Lovers Inc. to celebrate the release of Voodoo for Two, the second novel in her Cajun Magic series! And she has brought you a special treat: a character interview with the heroine, Lucie Lebieu! So read on to learn more about Lucie and don’t forget to enter the giveaway at the end. 😉
Interview with Lucie LeBieu
by Elle James
At the Raccoon Saloon, Lucie is working as a waitress in a bar full of rowdy Cajuns.
Male Reporter: Do you have time to answer a few questions, Ms. LeBieu?
Lucie: (settling onto a bar stool) If you make it fast and not too personal.
Reporter: As the granddaughter of the infamous Madam LeBieu, how much hands-on experience do you have with the art of Voodoo?
Lucie: Gran LeBieu has been after me to learn the trade, but …
Elle James,featured,Giveaways,Guest Post,The Latin Lover 10 May 2013
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