The International Giveaways Café (102)

Happy Saturday all and welcome back to the best place to share internationally available bookish giveaways. After spending the last couple of months reading American Literature (the ‘for school’ kind, not the fun kind), I’m finally ready to toss these school books aside and read some smexy fiction. Now I just have to decide where to start again… Anyway, hope the rest of your weekend is a winning one, with a good amount of reading time set aside 😉

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 …

Around The Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post – albeit it a bit late due to server issues which we have been experiencing the past day or so. Hopefully things will settle down and we apologise for any inconvenience! In this week’s edition, we have more news on J.K Rowling and the lawyer who leaked her penname, while the DOJ is still looking at Apple but this time at their practices to ensure the ebook collusion doesn’t happen again and much more!

J.K Rowling has won a sizeable donation for charity from the lawfirm that leaked the confidential information that she was Robert Gabrailth and the book she wrote under his penname, THE CUCKOO’S CALLING. She sued Chris Gossage who is a partner at the firm,told his wife who then passed on the information to  a friend who leaked it on twitter won damages. All the parties involved have apologised to Rowling …

The Book Lovers Pick of the Litter for July

Otherwise known as the “squee on me, people” post. Read carefully, I did NOT say “pee on me”. This is the “picks” post and not the “pans” post. If we ever decide to do a snarky “pans” post, Cass is going to have to write it.

I thought we’d try a “which books we squeed over the most this month” post. This is it. The books The Book Lovers loved in July. What we read in July, not necessarily what was published, or what we reviewed.

Fangirling was permitted and even encouraged. Oohing and aahing begins here.

Anna: Less than a Gentleman by Kerrelyn Sparks: I may not have yet read Sparks’ very famous pnr series but I’m definitely in love with her Historical Romance one! I read last year the first book in the Historical series and I immediately fell in love with Sparks’ writing style and her ability to …

Review: Generation V by M.L. Brennan

Format read: mass market paperback (review copy)
Series: American Vampire, #1
Release Date: 7 May 2013
Publisher: Roc
Length: 320 pages
Formats available: paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Author’s Site, Barnes & Noble, BookDepository

Book Description:

Reality Bites….

Fortitude Scott’s life is a mess. A degree in film theory has left him with zero marketable skills, his job revolves around pouring coffee, his roommate hasn’t paid rent in four months, and he’s also a vampire. Well, sort of. He’s still mostly human.

But when a new vampire comes into his family’s territory and young girls start going missing, Fort can’t ignore his heritage anymore. His mother and his older, stronger siblings think he’s crazy for wanting to get involved. So it’s up to Fort to take action, with the assistance of Suzume Hollis, a dangerous and sexy shape-shifter. Fort is determined to find a way to outsmart the deadly vamp, even if he isn’t quite sure how.

But without having matured …