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14 May 2012 
Explore This! Eigg and Mallaig, Scotland
In my wildest dreams, I have all the money I could want and I’m able to buy myself a cottage in Scotland. This fantasy has been fueled even further in my current read, Midnight’s Master by Donna Grant. The story takes off from Mallaig in Scotland, which is also the harbour you would travel from to reach Eigg. Once I started looking for pictures of the area, I got all dreamy-eyed at the thought of a quaint life in Scotland *huge sigh*.
Eigg is a small island in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. With a population of 67 (according to Wiki), I certainly wouldn’t have to worry about busy body neighbours, right? But with it’s small number of inhabitants, it makes it a great place for a greener living, environmentally speaking as well as with regards to the lush scenery.
Mallaig is no less picturesque, with it’s harbour and town. It is …
Review: Last Car to Annwn Station by Michael Merriam
Format Read: ebook from Author
Number of Pages: 326
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Carina Press
Formats Available: ebook, audiobook
Purchasing Info: Author, Goodreads, Amazon
Book Blurb:
“The fare is ten cents, miss.”
Mae Malveaux, an attorney with Minneapolis Child Protective Services, is burnt-out, tired and frustrated. Passing on an invite from Jill, her flirtatious coworker, Mae just wants a quiet night in. Leaving the office late, she’s surprised to find the Heritage Line streetcars up and running and hops aboard, eager for a quick trip home. But this is no ordinary streetcar. Death is one of its riders, and Mae is thrust into Annwn, a realm of magic and danger.
“Your transfer, miss. You’ll need that.”
Mae’s life is turned upside down as human and fae worlds collide. Her budding relationship with Jill takes a perilous turn when they are hunted by mythical beasts, and …
Interview Author Gini Koch + Giveaway
We are very happy to welcome G. J. Koch here today. Most of you might now her under one of her under pen names e.g. Gini Koch. Her latest novel, Alexander Outland: Space Pirate is a hell of a ride and today she will tell us a bit her novel and the world it is set in. She also has a giveaway in tow so be sure to take your chance to win your own copy.
BLI: Gini, can you please tell us a bit about yourself?
G. J.: I live in Hell’s Orientation Area (aka Phoenix, Arizona) with my husband, three cats (aka the Killer Kitties) and three dogs (aka the Canine Death Squad), and one very spoiled daughter, who admits to being spoiled, but likes to point out that the pets are more spoiled than she is…which is probably true. The chicklet is heading to law school …
Sunday Cravings
How are you my fellow Book Lovers? How was this week for you? Any great books you read and want to share? Mine was a really slow as far as reading is concerned week. Too slow but I kind of needed a small break 🙂
This week there aren’t that many releases but still, there are a couple of books we can’t help but drool over, no news here!
So, let’s start:
Marlene and Alisha: A Patch of Darkness by Yolanda Sfetsos
In a perfect world, Sierra Fox would have stayed away from the Council she left years ago. But in this world—where spirits have the right to walk among the living—it’s her job to round up troublesome spooks and bring them before that very same Council.
Though her desk is piled high with open cases, she can’t resist an anonymous summons to a mysterious late-night meeting with a bunch of …
The Pre-Summer Winner Post
Source: ComputerWeekly.com
Hey Everyone!
Though it was only the first week of May where I live it has been so hot and sunny everyone felt like summer had come early this year. With the temperature rising to 27-30 degrees C everyone wanted to enjoy the beautiful weather and spend as much time outdoors as possible. The terraces of the restaurants and the parsk are full at lunch time, and it is funny seeing colleagues start to have a tan just from spending their lunch break out in the fresh air 😀
I just love it when the weather is nice and warm, especially when I’m reading a particularly gripping book that I can take a sandwich and spend my lunch break on a bench in the park reading my lunch hour away. I remember exactly that’s how I devoured Gini Koch’s Touched by an Alien on a sunny …
The International Giveaways Café (42)
Happy Saturday morning all and welcome back to the café! This looks like a promising weekend, weather wise, so I’m looking forward to sitting outside on my veranda, reading a good book with a nice summer themed tea, like Twinings Lady Grey. What’s your favourite summer beverage while reading?
Also, remember to let us know if you’ve won anything recently; the Book Lovers would love to hear! At Book Lovers Inc., it’s our pleasure to share the bookish love! Good luck to everyone and hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!
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Guidelines:
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2. Add your link below, in the format shown. (Please use the URL for the contest post, not …
Around the Bookish World: News-in-Review
Welcome to this week’s news post! We have more Pottermore ebook news, another racism over people of colour in new casting choice for The Hunger Games and new excerpts from the anticipated releases by Nalini Singh and Thea Harrison as well as books to look out for!
I reported a couple of weeks that Pottermore ebooks will be available in public libraries well, they have signed an agreement with Amazon’s lending library this week. So those who are members of Amazon Prime will be able to borrow the books which will also be available in French, Spanish, German and Italian as well as English language. At the moment, the Amazon lending library is not offered to those who are outside the US.
Talking about libraries and lending, the Douglas County Library in Colorado, is doing something different in its approach towards ebook lending, by purchasing the ebooks directly from the publishers, …
Interview with Denise Tompkins + Giveaway
Today we welcome to Book Lovers Inc paranormal author Denise Tompkins whose newest release Wrath, the 2nd book in the Niteclif Evolution urban fantasy series became available recently. We sat down (even if only virtually) with Denise to ask her a few questions to get to know her and her exciting series better. Come and join us, and you could also win a copy of Wrath!
Stella: Hi Denise, welcome to Book Lovers Inc! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?
Denise: Hi Stella! It’s so nice of you to have me. I’m an avid reader of anything in the urban fantasy and/or paranormal romance genres. I’m married with no children, so writing is a full-time passion along with my love of my husband, two dogs (Sophie and Max) and three parrots (June, Wyatt and Emma).
Stella: Describe a typical day of writing? Are you …
Review: Breathing Room by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Format Read:Paperback copy purchased by reviewer
Number of Pages:400 pages
Release Date:April 29th 2003
Publisher:Avon
Formats Available: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle Edition, Audio
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Book Depository
Book Blurb:
She’s Dr. Isabel Favor, America’s diva of self-help.
He’s Ren Gage, Hollywood’s favorite bad guy.
Sometimes you just know that God has a sense of humor.
She’s lost her money to an unscrupulous accountant, her fiance to a frumpy older woman, and her reputation to headlines denouncing her as a fraud. Lately it seems Dr. Isabel, America’s favorite self-help guru, can fix everyone’s life but her own. Even the shelter of a simple stone farmhouse nestled in an olive grove can’t provide Isabel with the refuge she needs–not when the townspeople are scheming to drive her away, her plan to restore her good name has come up empty… and a movie star villain with a …
Review: Improper Relations by Juliana Ross
Format read: ebook
Release Date: 23 April 2012
Publisher: Carina Press
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Audible
Blurb:
Dorset, 1858
When Hannah’s caught watching her late husband’s cousin debauch the maid in the library, she’s mortified — but also intrigued. An unpaid companion to his aunt, she’s used to being ignored.
The black sheep of the family, Leo has nothing but his good looks and noble birth to recommend him. Hannah ought to be appalled at what she’s witnessed, but there’s something about Leo that draws her to him.
When Leo claims he can prove that women can feel desire as passionately as men, Hannah is incredulous. Her own experiences have been uninspiring. Yet she can’t bring herself to refuse his audacious proposal when he offers to tutor her in the art of …
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