My Wishlist: Jane Austen

Hi all! And welcome to another installment of my Wish list!

Today, I wanted to talk about historical romance literature based on Jane Austen novels that are being remade into scifi fantasy romances…

  There has been an uprising on these book titles that now include vampires, zombies and more. . .

Are they the new rage? I don’t know but I will let you be the judge after you check out a few of fantasy works of arts novels I have added to my wish list or just recently read.

Please let me know what you think about these choices and/or have you read them?

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-SmithPub. Date: April 2009-320ppBook info: Goodreads

So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the …

Randomly Booked: Why I love my Kindle

Now that I have a Kindle I don’t need to take anything extra with me when I go on a road trip or travel around the world. I also get instant satisfaction when I buy a book. Thats my favorite part of having the kindle. I can go and travel anywhere I want and always have a good book to read. Its a wonderful new thing for people that live abroad but prefer to read in English. In Israel there are almost no good english books in the bookstores. Now i don’t have to wait for amazon to ship my books instead all i have to do is download it. 😀

I wish there was a bookstore here like Barnes and Noble or Hugendubbel English. There are not enough people here who read in English so there’s only a small …

All YA Love: Interview with Gene Fehler

Recently I had the chance to read Never Blame the Umpire and loved it. It is a Christian fiction book that provides comfort as Kate & her family deal with with her mom’s cancer. I think this book has so much to offer: the importance of love and living life to the fullest. I know this is a book that will be staying on my shelf and being pulled out when needed …hopefully not for a long time though!

I was also lucky enough to have a chance to chat with Gene about the book, I hope you enjoy!

The Monster Lover: Can you tell us about Never Blame the Umpire?

Gene Fehler: In Never Blame the Umpire, eleven-year-old Kate is having a happy and busy summer, playing baseball and tennis. She’s also taking a three-week poetry writing class. …

New Releases: April, 13th

13 April

The Cinderella Society by Kay Cassidy

Genre: Young AdultWhen the Prom Queen becomes your fairy godmother…

Sixteen year old outsider, Jess Parker, gets the chance of a lifetime: an invitation to join a secret society of popular girls dedicated to defeating the mean girls of the world. The Cinderella Society guides all new recruits through its top secret ultimate life makeover. It’s all part of preparing them to face down the Wickeds and win. Determined not to let the Cindys down, Jess dives in with a passion. Finally, a chance to belong and show the world what she’s made of.

… be careful what you wish for.

Jess’s transformation wins her the heart of her dream crush and a shot at uber-popularity. Until the Wickeds–led by Jess’s arch enemy–begin targeting innocent girls in their war against the Cindys, …

Geekdom of Books: LOLCurrans

Hey everyone! 

Happy Monday!

Okay I had the Monday from hell today and I’m not very creative so I will use that opportunity to let the creativity of others save the day.
Enter the world of Kate Daniels and feel free to laugh as much as you want.
Here are some 
LOLCurrans

for you!
Enjoy!

 All pictures are from Ilona Andrews website or her forum. You can find even more of these great pics there! So go over a take a look and have a good laugh!

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Interview: Author, Maya Banks & a Giveaway!

We are happy to have Maya Banks, author of the Sweet series, here today. Sweet Temptation, book 4 in this series, was released last week and Maya is here today to answer all our questions about these books. Please give her a warm welcome.

The Geeky Lover: First of all, thanks for being here today.

Maya Banks: Thanks for having me 🙂

The Geeky Lover: Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Maya Banks: I live in Texas with my husband and three children. When I’m not writing or reading, love to hunt, fish, and travel. I’m a huge homebody, though, so my favorite place is home with the family.

The Geeky Lover: You live in Texas and most of your books are set in the South too. What makes this region so special to you?

Maya Banks: I love the south. Loved growing up here. …

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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Bookish Eye Candy: Beautiful Creatures

This week on Bookish Eye Candy we are going to try something different. Instead of me just sharing a book and telling you who I would like to play the part , we are going to split it into 2 weeks. The first week I will post the book, and I would like you guys to share with me who you think should play the characters. Think of it kind of like a poll. Then the following week I will post a pic of the top suggested person, along with multiple pics of who I think should play the role. Sound good? Ok here is the first book we are going with:

Beautiful Creatures 
By:
Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she’s struggling to conceal her power and a curse that …

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 …

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 …