The International Giveaways Café (55)

Good morning all and welcome back to another great list of bookish giveaways from around the world. I hope your Saturday is starting out well and is full of lots of time to read and relax.

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 format shown. (Please use the URL for the contest post, not a general blog URL; you don’t want to make it tricky for others trying …

Around the Bookish World: Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post! We have news from Sony’s new ereader which was launched this week, book news and snippets as well as the books to watch out for!

The new Sony ereader, the PRS-T2, which features a better button layout, zooming, and sharing capabilities which readers can post their favourite passages on Facebook. The PRS-T2 also features a pearl-ink screen, two month battery life if the wifi is off and a 2 gig memory. The price offered for the new reader is slightly cheaper compared to its predescors which is at $129. However some commentators have stated there isn’t nothing new or innovated with this new model and disappointed that this ereader wont feature a frontlit screen, which the Nook or the rumoured upcoming Kindles have.  More info on the ereader can be found be found here and it is up for order right now!

It seems tablets …

Guest Post by Claire Ashgrove + Giveaway

Today we are really excited to welcome back author Claire Ashgrove in celebration of her newest release, Bound by Decency, the first book in an all new Historical Romance series featuring sexy pirates! Claire stops by today with a character interview, so please give her a warm welcome and don’t forget to check at the end of the post for the giveaway details of the tour 🙂

Good morning everyone! Thanks for having me back here at Love to Read for Fun! I’m thrilled to be able to talk about my debut historical, Bound by Decency. And I thought I’d kick off today with a personal one-on-one with Cain.

What did you think the first moment you saw India? Be truthful, Cain.

Cain: Beyond the fact that she was a means to an end, Miss Prescott was quite captivating. I have never seen eyes that are so very blue. I found myself …

Bookish Rant or Rave: Reading with an E

Commuting on the subway every morning can be quite amusing, if one can take time to notice the little details. I recently had a moment of sudden awareness in which I looked up and down the train platform and noticed that the VAST majority of the countless people waiting for the train were reading from various electronic devices–tablets, phones, e-readers. Of course, there were still many reading the daily (free) newspaper supplement circulated locally, but it was hilarious looking around and seeing how ubiquitous the use of devices was. It really made momma proud.

These days, pointing out that electronic reading (e-reading) is the norm is a boring, unsurprising understatement. However, the fact that it feels like it’s happened in the relative blink of an eye is absolutely fascinating. Not even four years ago (when RIM’s Blackberry was all the rage) was there so much use of portable devices for …

Interview with M.L. Buchman + Giveaway

Good Morning Book Lovers! I say good morning because I’d like to welcome today’s guest to Book Lovers Inc, military romance author M. L. Buchman. The latest book in his series about the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) is I Own the Dawn, so see, morning! But also, as you’ll read in my review later today, very terrific. (The first book in the series, The Night is Mine, was equally marvelous. If you’re curious, catch my review at Reading Reality)

Let’s hear from the man with the many pseudonyms, M.L. Buchman…

Marlene: Hi Matt, welcome to Book Lovers Inc.! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Matt: I’m a male who writes romance. I’m a recovered computer nerd who can design and build a house or single-hand a 50′ sailboat. I’m a driven type-A about work and a total romantic mush in my real life. I’ve consulted …

New Releases: August 13-19, 2012

Onyx (Lux, #2)
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Genre: YA

Being connected to Daemon Black sucks…

Thanks to his alien mojo, Daemon’s determined to prove what he feels for me is more than a product of our bizarro connection. So I’ve sworn him off, even though he’s running more hot than cold these days. But we’ve got bigger problems.

Something worse than the Arum has come to town…

The Department of Defense are here. If they ever find out what Daemon can do and that we’re linked, I’m a goner. So is he. And there’s this new boy in school who’s got a secret of his own. He knows what’s happened to me and he can help, but to do so, I have to lie to Daemon and stay away from him. Like that’s possible. Against all common sense, I’m falling for Daemon. Hard.

But then everything changes…

I’ve seen someone who shouldn’t be alive. And I have …