Dual Review: Dear Sir, I’m Yours by Joely Sue Burkhart

Format Read: eBook

Number of Pages: 256
Release Date: June 16th 2009
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Formats Available: eBook, Trade Paperback(Print Release: April 6th) 
Purchasing Info: GoodReads, Author Website, Book Depository

Book Blurb:This professor’s final exam includes a spanking.

There’s no house restoration too challenging for Rae Jackson, a.k.a. “The Fix-It Lady”. There’s no fixing the past, though. Like the day she left college. A semester of flirting with her English professor ended when he spanked her to the best orgasm of her life. Afraid of her own eager willingness to comply with the sexy dom’s commands—no matter what—she fled.

Yet not even five years can dim her memory of his masterful touch.

Conn never forgot the one student who gave him a big fat “F” on the greatest test of his life. After all these years, he’s still …

Review: Heist Society by Ally Carter

Format Read: Hardcover

Number of Pages: 304

Release Date: Feb 16, 2010

Publisher: Hyperion

Formats Available: Hardcover, Audio

Purchasing Info: Amazon.com, Book Depository

Book Blurb:

When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her on a trip to the Louvre…to case it. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria…to steal the crown jewels. When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own–scamming her way into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave the family business behind. Unfortunately, leaving “the life” for a normal life proves harder than she’d expected. Soon, Kat’s friend and former co-conspirator, Hale, appears out of nowhere to bring her back into the world she tried so hard to escape. But he has good reason: a powerful mobster has been robbed of his priceless art collection and wants to retrieve it. Only a master thief could have …

Review: Shift by Rachel Vincent

Format Read: eBook

Number of Pages: 441
Release Date: March 1st 2010
Publisher: Mira
Formats Available: Paperback, eBook
Purchasing Info: GoodReads, Author Website, Book Depository

Book received as a Review Copy from netgalley.

Book Blurb:Being the first female werecat enforcer isn’t easy. Scars accumulate, but I’m stronger in so many ways.As for my personal life? It’s complicated. Choices worth making always are. Ever since my brother’s death and my father’s impeachment, it’s all I can do to prevent more blood from spilling. Now our Pride is under attack by a flight of vicious thunderbirds. And making peace with our new enemies may be the only way to get the best of our old foe. With the body count rising and treachery everywhere, my instincts tell me to look before I leap. But sometimes a leap of faith is the only real option…

My …

New Releases: March 29, 2010

30th March

The Mage in Black (Sabina Kane, #2) by Jaye WellsGenre: Urban FantasySabina Kane doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to family. After all, her own grandmother, leader of the vampire race, wants her dead. So when she arrives in New York to meet her mage relatives, the reunion puts the fun in dysfunctional. Not only is mage culture completely bizarre, but everyone seems to think she’s some kind of ‘Chosen’ who’ll unite the dark races. Sabina doesn’t care who chose her, she’s not into destiny. But the mages aren’t Sabina’s only problem. In New York’s Black Light District, she has run-ins with fighting demons, hostile werewolves and an opportunistic old flame. Sabina thought she’d take a bite out of the Big Apple – but it looks like it wants to bite …

Geekdom of Books: Bookish Jewelery

In a frantic search to find something to blog about this week I stumbled upon something I thought all female Book Lovers would enjoy.

Jewelery with a bookish touch. I so love this idea and I found perhaps, something for all of us.

1. Really Geeky Earrings

I found these on Etsy and I totally love the idea. No, we don’t all have to wear Watchmen earrings now. That would be dumb. LOL
No, you can get any book you want in this shop. You just have to ask.

Think about the possibilities. A new pair of books for every day of the week? OMG I love these earrings.
And they only cost 25 USD.

Here is the link to the shop. Copyright for the pic and the art has Lauren Swingle.

2. Steampunk Book Necklace

Steampunk is getting more popular with every day and now Etsy is nearly overrun with Steampunk Jewelery. I think this one is a …

Randomly Booked: Quote

Since I’m traveling my post today is short today.One of the books I’m reading is extremely good and when I start reading I don’t want to stop.
 Here is a quote from the book, which made me laugh. Night Play is a book about a were-wolf but not in the same sense as in Harry Potter. I fell in love with the main character who’s name is Vane (he’s a werewolf – a wolf who turns into a human).

Below is a quote from a scene where Vane had to use a credit card. (below is a picture of how I picture Vane as I’m reading the book)

“It was laughable, really, that a wolf had a human credit card. But then, this was the twenty-first century and those who didn’t blend quickly found themselves exterminated. Unlike …

Bookish Rants or Raves: From Page to Screen

How many times have we heard the phrase: “Based on…” when referring to movies or TV shows? The tradition of transforming a novel into a movie or a TV series has been going on for the longest time and it makes complete sense, doesn’t it? There are so many books out there and  tons of them just scream to be adapted to a screen, any screen.

How many time have you read a book and thought about which actor or actress would represent your favorite character better? To be honest, I don’t, ever. You might want to cast stones, but I hate movie of TV show adaptations of books I’ve read. They never match, let alone surpass whatever expectations I have for them and they always turn out to be a disappointment for me.

I have to say that I do find myself enjoying a few …

Review: Montana Rose by Mary Connealy

Format Read: EbookNumber of Pages: 320Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.Formats Available: Paperback and Kindle EditionsPurchasing Info: Amazon, Author Website, GoodReads Montana Marriages Series #1Inspirational, Historical & Western RomanceBook received from Netgalley for Review.

Book Blurb:

Fire up your love of romance with Montana Rose, where Cassie Griffin, a seemingly spoiled pregnant woman, is widowed one day and wedded the next. Marrying handyman Red Dawson seems the only alternative to Cassie’s being hitched to a brutal rancher. But can this “china doll” bear exchanging smooth silk for coarse calico? Red was reluctant to be yoked to an unbeliever, but sometimes a man has no choice. Will Red change Cassie’s heart by changing her name? Wade Sawyer is obsessed with saving Cassie from a marriage of convenience. How far will he go make her his own?

My Thoughts:

Montana Rose starts off …

All YA Love: Interview with Bonnie Doerr

It is our pleasure to have had an opportunity to talk with Bonnie Doerr, author of Island Sting.

Tell us a bit about ISLAND STING.

Telling about a novel I wrote should be an easy thing for me to do, right? But the book has been described so many ways by readers that I often don’t know how to approach this request. And, honestly, it’s more about what the book is to readers than what it is to me. So first I’ll use the thoughts and words of others to talk about it.

To ground the story, ISLAND STING is a contemporary adventure/mystery novel set in the Florida Keys. Though it’s often included on lists of YA reads (these days YA seems to stretch up to college age), it’s more for younger teens and tweens.

I get a kick out of stringing …

Review: Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

Format Read: Hardcover

Number of Pages: 480 
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins
Formats Available: Hardcover, eBook, Audio
Purchasing Info: Author Website, GoodReads, BookDepository

Book Blurb:What if you had only one day to live? What would you do? Who would you kiss? And how far would you go to save your own life?

Samantha Kingston has it all—looks, popularity, the perfect boyfriend. Friday, February 12th should be just another day in her charmed life. Instead, it’s her last. The catch: Samantha still wakes up the next morning. In fact, she re-lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she had ever imagined.

My thoughts:One night Samantha Kingston was a typical teenager, out with friends. She was part of the ‘in’ crowd and everyone was headed to a house party. But on the …