Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer is available as a free online read from June 7th to July 5.  Click on the title for the website.  It’s not downloadable.  The hardback went on sale on June 5th.  If you are curious about it’s sales numbers, thebookseller.com has the numbers here.

Just in time for summer beach reads, there is a waterproof case for the Kindle eReader.  Gizmodo has a picture of it here.  Kinda pricey, but probably worth it if you want to read by the pool or at the beach or anywhere else that there’s a risk of water damage.

The New York Times has an article about competition between ebook readers and doesn’t even mention the Sony Reader!

The British Library has acquired the archive of J. G. Ballard for it’s …

Review: Sanctuary’s Price by Moira Rogers

Format Read: Ebook Number of Pages: 127 pages Release Date: October 27th 2009 Publisher: Samhain Formats Available: Ebooks Purchasing Info: Good Reads, Author Website, Amazon

Book Blurb:He’s only been surviving. Her magic can show him how to live.

After a decade under a corrupt alpha’s thumb, Dylan Gennaro is still reeling from the changes in his life: a new home, a new alpha, a pack at war. Even normal things like an ending relationship. Still, when he’s asked to work with an outcast witch, he agrees without hesitation. Maybe by protecting her, he’ll rediscover his own inner strength. If, indeed, it exists.
Sasha Wallace lost her mentor in a vicious attack that left her scarred in spirit as well as body. While she’s grateful for the refuge offered by the Red Rock alpha, it’s tough living with the pack’s …

Promo + Giveaway: Dangerous by Diana Palmer

About the Book:Tall, lean and headstrong, FBI agent Kilraven lives by his own rules. And one of those rules includes keeping his hands off Jacobsville’s resident sweetheart, Winnie Sinclair, no matter the temptation. Shy and innocent, Winnie couldn’t handle a man like him—a merciless man with a haunted past. And this small town may hold not only the woman he fights to resist, but the answers to a cold case that is very personal to Kilraven….

Winnie has had her own share of sorrow and senses Kilraven’s pain. Even though she tries to deny it, the gentle 911 operator feels a connection with the darkly handsome agent. When he makes the disturbing discovery that her family’s unsavory past might have a bearing on his case, Winnie is determined to help him crack it…and the ice around his heart.

As they combine forces …

My Wishlist: The Haven & the Alex Croft Novels by K. Price

Hi all! And welcome to another segment of my bi-weekly Wish list! I hope you will like this week’s wishlist

This week I chose as my Wish list is…

The Haven series and The Alex Croft novel by Kalayna Price

I just discovered this series by accident when I was looking up another book. It certainly piqued my interest. I hope you will like my pick for this week’s wish list.

Anyway here’s the blurb for the first book:

Once Bitten (Haven #1)Published: January 9th 2009by Bell Bridge BooksPaperback, 276 pagesISBN 0980245397 ISBN13: 9780980245394Click Here for a sneak peak excerpt

Vampires and Shapeshifters.

Kita Nekai, on the run and the smallest of her shifter clan-a calico cat among lions and tigers-is being hunted. She was expected to accept her role as her father’s successor whether …

Review: Bring On The Night by Sonya Clark

Format Read: eBookNumber of Pages: 70Release Date:  May 17th , 2010Publisher: Lyrical Press, IncFormats Available:eBookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Lyrical Press, IncBook received by the author for review.Book Blurb:If there’s one thing Jessie hates, it’s going after her own kind.

She may be used to taking a bite out of human killers, but she leaves her fellow immortals alone. It’s only after a series of gruesome murders have her suspecting vampires and werewolves are going after innocents does she set out to put a stop to it.It’s not long that Jessie finds herself racing against the waxing moon to stop an ambitious gang of monsters with a sinister agenda.

Only a vampire can own the night.

My Thoughts:

This is was the first time that I encountered an Urban Fantasy book in such a short format. I have found that it is usually Paranormal Romance novels that come …

All YA Love: The Draw to YA

As I sit on the train everyday going to and from work, I have a unique opportunity…I witness a diverse crowd of people reading a wide range of books. Last year, it was fun to see the guys reading a book from the Twilight series (guess what, we can tell even with the dust jackets off LOL) and years ago it was the Harry Potter series…the “true adult book lovers”, to me, stuck with the original covers, not the fancy schmancy grown up ones!

So what is it about YA that captures an audience that is YA and, well, older? Off the top of my head, here’s my list of things:

Character Development ~ So much growth takes places over the teen years. At high school, you meet so many new friends & are exposed to new things, both good & bad (though I missed …

Review: 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson

Format Read: BookNumber of Pages: 336Release Date: October 1, 2006Publisher: HarperTeenFormats Available: Paperback, EbookPurchasing Info: Maureen Johnson, Goodreads, BookDepository

Book Blurb: When Ginny receives thirteen little blue envelopes and instructions to buy a plane ticket to London, she knows something exciting is going to happen. What Ginny doesn’t know is that she will have the adventure of her life and it will change her in more ways than one. Life and love are waiting for her across the Atlantic, and the thirteen little blue envelopes are the key to finding them in this funny, romantic, heartbreaking novel.

My Thoughts:I had heard about this novel, and seen it around several times before, while at the book store it sparked my attention enough to buy. The cover, as well as the synopsis, really intrigued me, it sounds and looks like a …

New Releases – June 8, 2010

Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce

Genre: YAScarlett March lives to hunt the Fenris– the werewolves that took her eye when she was defending her sister Rosie from a brutal attack. Armed with a razor-sharp hatchet and blood-red cloak, Scarlett is an expert at luring and slaying the wolves. She’s determined to protect other young girls from a grisly death, and her raging heart will not rest until every single wolf is dead.

Rosie March once felt her bond with her sister was unbreakable. Owing Scarlett her life, Rosie hunts fiercely alongside her. Now Rosie dreams of a life beyond the wolves and finds herself drawn to Silas, a young woodsman who is deadly with an ax– but loving him means betraying her sister and has the potential to destroy all they’ve worked for.Twenty-five-year-old Jackson Pearce delivers a …