The International Giveaways Café (98)

Welcome back to another Saturday morning that’s usually filled with awesome bookish giveaways available worldwide. Now is the perfect time to add your link below to get more exposure for your own giveaway. Hope you all have a great weekend planned and enjoy some relaxing time with a great (new?) read 🙂

And, remember to let us know if you’ve won anything recently; the Book Lovers would love to hear! As book lovers, we’re happy to spread the word…and the love 😉 Good luck to everyone!

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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; …

Around The Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s Bookish news! In this edition we will have another twist in the long-running saga of Google’s lawsuit with the Author’s Guild, Shakespeare meets Star Wars and more news from authors and upcoming books to watch out for!

The big news this week is over the long-running saga with the lawsuit with the Author Guild and Google over Google Books. It seems now the 2nd Circuit judge has made a decision which could allow Google to argue a Fair Use argument but they have to refer to a lower court to judge the case. If the lower court decides in favour of Google they may win the 8 year long case on that argument but  it looks like this lawsuit will rumble on for a while yet.

Quirk Books, the publisher behind PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, will be releasing a book which combine Star Wars and Shakespeare, I …

Drinking Tropes: Dragon Bound (to the ER)

Quite a number of individuals argued that dragons prefer debauchery to all other past-times (such as amassing treasure, devouring their enemies, or acquiring the knowledge of the universe).

I beg to differ. Thankfully, Fangs for the Fantasy invented the perfect medium through which to survive this endeavor. The Paranormal Romance Drinking Game. A true stroke of genius. For every trope, we drink. Huzzah!*

Raise a glass for Thea Harrison’s Dragon Bound, and join me as we drunkenly dive into the world of the Elder Races. Spoilers (and drunken rambling) Ahead!

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She had stolen from one of the most dangerous creatures on Earth, a creature so frightening that just imagining him was more scariness than she ever wanted to meet in real life.

I am not impressed. I believe this mandates a drink. Brutalizing the English language has to be in there somewhere. “More scariness”? No. How about “more terrifying …

Dragon Day 2013: The Results Are In!

Some of you may have noticed that Book Lovers Inc. was briefly taken over by dragons! In an effort to appease our new draconic overlords, you battled for draconic treasures, and voted as to which dragons we should next honor with the same exuberant adulations heaped upon Lady Trent and Seraphina.

The results are in! Next on The Dragon Lovers’ Dragon Reading List is….

The Eon Duology by Alison Goodman!* Comprised of:

Eon (aka Two Pearls of Wisdom)

Eon has been studying the ancient art of Dragon Magic for four years, hoping he’ll be able to apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune. But he also has a dark secret. He is actually Eona, a sixteen-year-old girl who has been living a dangerous lie for the chance to become a Dragon-eye, the human link to an energy dragon’s power. It is forbidden …

New Releases: July 1-7, 2013

Title: The Outcast Prince
Author: Shona Husk
Series: (Court of Annwyn, #1)
Genre: paranormal romance
Release date: July 2, 2013 by Sourcebooks Casablanca

Description:

Caspian Mort can feel the history in anything he touches, a gift he inherited from his father, the Crown Prince of Annwyn. Devastated over his ex-wife’s infidelity, Caspian has withdrawn from human contact except when working as an antiques dealer.

While assessing the contents of the historic Callaway House he encounters the beautiful Lydia Callaway and senses that her home is haunted by a banished fairy. But what does the dangerous exile want? Unbeknownst to Lydia, she’s the owner of the last remaining portal to Annwyn—a mirror hidden somewhere in the house. To keep Lydia safe, Caspian will have to divulge the secrets of his heritage, and risk losing his heart again.

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A Cursed Embrace (Weird Girls, #2) by Cecy Robson
A Midsummer Night’s Scream by R.L. Stine …

Book Lovers Book Club: July 2013 Voting Results

Good morning everybody!

It is now time to reveal the how the July votes went!

July’s book will be:

Soulless by Gail Carriger

First, she has no soul. Second, she’s a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette.

Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire – and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate.

With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London’s high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart?

This month we will also be continuing the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb with the …

Sunday Cravings

Hello my fellow Book Lovers everywhere in the world! You can’t even imagine how glad I am to finally get back home and back to my mundane everyday life! How was this week for you? I seriously hope it was better than mine and that you read a couple of good books whereas I had no time whatsoever of reading a single line. But time to remedy that fact since the first week of July is full of new tantalizing titles.

So, let’s start!

Stella: Taken By the Duke by Jess Michaels

An eye for an eye, a sin for a sin…

The Pleasure Wars, Book 1

Amid all the lies and scandals that fuel Society’s gossip mill, one truth has stood out: House Rothcastle and House Windbury have always hated each other.

Lady Ava Windbury prays the feud will someday end, to no avail. One dreadful night, her brother accidentally causes the death …