Geekdom of Books: Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone!

This week I found something really geeky and amusing which totally deserves a post of it’s own. Luckily it fits at least a bit to Eastern so I could come up with a reason to post it:

The Nabaztag.

It’s these super cute bunny on the left and it can entertain you endlessly or so they say.

What can it do?
It connects via wifi to the wonderful world of the internet and is able to
– tell you what the weather will be like (yes this rabbit can speak LOL)
– read your RSS reader for you (that sounds just fantastic to me)
– inform you about new emails or txt messages
– it can move it’s ears matching to the music it plays with the fitting light show included

and the list goes on and on….it’s a learning little robot with always updating features.

And they also launched a smaller edition of it called

Interview: Author Joely Sue Burkhart & Giveaway

We are so happy to have author Joely Sue Burkhart here today. Her book, Dear Sir, I’m Yours will be released in print tomorrow so we grabbed our opportunity to ask her everything we always wanted to know about her book.  You can also find a chance to win her new release at the end of the interview. 😉

The Geeky Lover: Hey Joely, it’s so great to have you here!

Joely: Thank you so much for having me!

The Geeky Lover: Tell us a bit about yourself?

Joely: I’ve got three monsters (girls) ages 11, 8, and 6 and I work full-time as a computer programmer.  I’ve been writing seriously since 2003 and am thrilled to have works with Samhain Publishing, Drollerie Press, and Carina Press.

The Geeky Lover: I thought it would be …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

There was a lot going on in the world of ebooks this week.   The agency pricing model for ebooks is causing some titles to be temporarily unavailable at some retailers.

Sony sent out an email this week to their Reader Store customers that starting April 1st, some titles would be unavailable and that prices on some books would be changing.

BooksonBoard put up a link on their homepage to information about the effects of the new agency pricing at their store.   Until the details get worked out, new orders of the five publishers books are not available.  The new prices will be set by the publishers and many will be higher than previously.  Also, in the US, sales tax will start to be collected on these publishers titles. 

Publishers Weekly reported that Amazon is also still working out the details …

Review: Bite Me by Christopher Moore

Format Read: ebookNumber of Pages: 209Release Date: March 23, 2010Publisher: HarperCollinsFormats Available: hardcover, ebookPurchasing Info: Author’s website, Goodreads, Amazon

Book Blurb:

The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency backup mistress of the Greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public.

Whoa. And this is a love story? Yup. ‘Cept there’s no whining. See, while some lovers were born to run, Jody and Tommy were born to bite. Well, reborn, that is, now that they’re vampires. Good thing theirs is an undying love, since their Goth Girl Friday, Abby Normal, imprisoned them in a bronze statue. Abby wants to …

The Sexy Book Lover: My Wishlist & Giveaway

Hey all! Missed me? Happy April! I hope everyone has been doing good. Today I am going to share with you a series that I really love and can’t wait to get my next dose of. I don’t say much this time. We don’t want to spoil those who haven’t read this House of Night Saga.The House of Night series by P.C. Cast + Kristin Cast

First up…

Marked

After she is Marked, 16-year-old Zoey Redbird enters the House of Night and learns that she is no average fledgling. She has been Marked as special by the vampyre Goddess Nyx. But she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers. When she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school’s most elite club, is mis-using …

Randomly Booked: Miami and Deadtown

I grew up in Miami Beach. Every year I grew older I saw more and more how much I didn’t like living there. There was nothing to do in Miami for people under the age of 21. I didn’t have a drivers license or car so when I wanted to go to some places I had to get my parents to take me where I needed to go.

At the moment I’m on vacation in Miami and during this trip I met a new friend. She gave me a few presents which made my day because each one meant something new. One of the books this friend gave me is called Deadtown by Nancy Holzner.  I immediately after I saw it knew that I really wanted to read this book but I can’t remember why.