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The Leave-Me-Alone-I-Want-To-Forget-About-Work Winner post
Hey Everyone!
The holidays are approaching but sadly I’m not saying this because I feel the Christmas spirit due to holiday songs being played everywhere or smelling mulled wine on the street, no sadly I say that because all our clients have gone crazy and realized that the year is almost over and they want to finalize things before 2012 rolls around. Meaning that this past week I didn’t get home before 9-10 pm. Every.single.night. I could hurt these people with my Death Glare; why don’t they realize that people (=that is I) need and want to get in the holiday spirit by relaxing and spending time on more agreeable matters?! Grr. So another weekend I had to work, and I so cannot wait for the holidays to roll around and go on vacation. I want some breathing time please!
But I’ll take a deep breath and let you …
Advent Calendar Day 11: Breathe by Sloan Parker + Giveaway
Welcome to the 11th day of Book Lovers Inc Advent Calendar. Each day we will offer you one great read in a giveaway on all 24 days till Christmas.
Today you will have the chance to win a copy of Breathe by Sloan Parker. Once in a while you find yourself reading a book that make you cry and laugh and cry again, and it’s so good you’d even ask for more. Breathe is one of these books for me. Even now, months after reading it, I’m still haunted by the ghost of this book. It’s a wonderful love story that will leave you happy and grinning like a fool. 😉
Breathe by Sloan Parker
Length: 254 pages
Genre:Contemporary suspence M/M romance
Release Date: November 16th 2010
Publisher: Loose ID
Formats Available: Ebook
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Loose ID, Amazon, GoodReads
Book Blurb:
Lincoln McCaw lost everything …
The International Giveaways Café (24)
Welcome back to our Saturday morning get-together, where we have the chance to discuss book giveaways, link up our own giveaways, and enter all the others.
If you’re anything like me, book buying is a thing of dreams through the holidays. Thankfully, there’s lots of great giveaways running out there (including our Advent Calendars, which are awesome!), so there’s still chances to win the books that may not be in the budget.
My Saturday includes Christmas shopping (which I’ve just started); how about all of you lovely readers out there? Are you madly shopping over these last two weeks. Or have you done all the shopping, and now get to sit back with the egg nog, listening to carols and wrapping? (If so, can you stop by my place to help me wrap?! 😉 )
Have you won anything recently that you’ll get the chance to read now? The Book Lovers would love …
Advent Calendar Day 10: Carnal Secrets by Nadia Lee + Giveaway
Welcome to the 10th day of Book Lovers Inc Advent Calendar. Each day we will offer you one great read in a giveaway on all 24 days till Christmas.
Today you will have the chance to win Carnal Secrets, a stellar (and sizzling!) contemporary romance both Lea and I fell in love with at first read!
Nadia Lee enchanted us with her gripping strorytelling, realistic characters and off-the-charts intense emotions. (The chemistry between the h/h was one of the hottest and most intense thing I have ever read!) So let us share this gem with you, and trust two of your resident Book Lovers when they say that Carnal Secrets is a novel you absolutely must read! 😉
Length: 132 Pages
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Formats Available: eBook, Kindle, Nook
Purchasing Info: Smashwords,
Happy Birthday to our HEA Lover @pattepoilue
Happy Birthday to Our HEA Lover!
Happy Birthday to our wonderful Caroline. Usually we post our bday wishes here but this morning–well, in the middle of the night–we here at Book Lovers Inc got a message from the future. The email included a document that describes Caro’s future adventures, and we thought why not post it today in addition to our usual birthday squeeing. So here is your chance to take a look into Caro’s upcoming years.
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Once upon a time, in a land far, far away (or not so far, if you’re anywhere near France), the lovely princess Caroline sat in her tower, waiting for her true love. A prophecy had been delivered at her birth that a handsome prince would rescue her and give her the ‘Happily Ever After’ she sought.
One day, as Caro was searching for a new book to read, she knocked her knitting basket …
Around the Bookish World : News Week-in-Review
Welcome to this week’s news post and we have global anti-trust investigations, the results of the bad sex awards for fiction, authors behaving badly again and more books to watch out!
First up a few weeks ago, I reported that the Office of Fair Trading is going to investigate Agency pricing in the UK. Well it looks like that that the EU and US authorities will also be investigating as well. The investigations will focus whether the Big six publishers joined forces with Apple to collude upon pricing. The publishers have stated adamantly that they are innocent but it will be very interesting to see how these investigations will pan out and if it is proven true it will be one very expensive decision.
The winner for the Bad Sex Awards in Literary Fiction and the dubious honour goes to David Guterson who wrote this gem about the art of love-making. …
Review: Busted in Bollywood by Nicola Marsh
Busted in Bollywood by Nicola Marsh
Format Read: e-book provided courtesy of the publisher
Length: 241 Pages
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Formats Available: Trade Paperback, Kindle
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Publisher, Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, The Book Depository, Kindle
Book Blurb:
Shari Jones needs to get a life. Preferably someone else’s.
Single, homeless and jobless, Indo-American Shari agrees to her best friend’s whacky scheme: travel to Mumbai, pose as Amrita, ditch the fiancé her traditional Indian parents have chosen. Simple.
Until she’s mistaken for a famous Bollywood actress, stalked by a Lone Ranger wannabe, courted by an English lord and busted by the blackmailing fiancé.
Life is less complicated in New York.
Or so she thinks, until the entourage of crazies follows her to the Big Apple and that’s when the fun really begins.Shari deals with a blossoming romance, an …
Interview: Nicola Marsh + Giveaway!
Nicola Marsh
It’s our great pleasure to welcome Nicola Marsh to BLI today! Nicola is here for the latest stop in her Entangled Publishing Blog Tour to celebrate the release of her latest novel Busted in Bollywood, which was published on December 6, 2011.
A contemporary romance, Busted in Bollywood is receiving rave reviews and is about heroine Shari Jones who is a single, homeless and jobless, Indo-American. Shari agrees to her best friend’s whacky scheme: travel to Mumbai, pose as Amrita, ditch the fiancé her traditional Indian parents have chosen. Simple. Until she’s mistaken for a famous Bollywood actress, stalked by a Lone Ranger wannabe, courted by an English lord and busted by the blackmailing fiancé.
Oh Ho! Doesn’t Busted in Bollywood sound fun and unique?
Lea: Nicola! Welcome to Book Lovers! Thank you so much for taking time out of your busy schedule to join us here …
9 Dec 2011 Advent Calendar Day 9: First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones + Giveaway
Welcome to the 9th day of Book Lovers Inc Advent Calendar. Each day we will offer you one great read in a giveaway on all 24 days till Christmas.
Today you will have the chance to win a signed copy of First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones! *Whoo Hoo* First Grave of the Right, being a debut novel this year, had a cool back story and was a whole lot of fun to read/listen too. If you like quirky characters (obviously, I do :p ) then you’ll really enjoy this one.
Purchasing Info: Amazon, Book Depository, Chapters, Author’s Website, Goodreads
Book Blurb:
Charley sees dead people. That’s right, she sees dead people. And it’s her job to convince them to “go into the light.” But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (i.e. murder), sometimes they …
Review: Simply Irresistible by Jill Shalvis
Format read: ebook
Release Date: 1 November 2011
Number of pages: 684 pages
Publisher: Forever
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Source: review copy provided by publisher through NetGalley
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon
Christmas in Lucky Harbor is a 2-in-1 reissue of Simply Irresistible and The Sweetest Thing by Jill Shalvis, this review is only of the 1st story: Simply Irresistible
Blurb:
Simply Irresistible – Book #1 in the Lucky Harbor series
Maddie Moore’s whole life needs a makeover.
In one fell swoop, Maddie loses her boyfriend (her decision) and her job (so not her decision). But rather than drowning her sorrows in bags of potato chips, Maddie leaves L.A. to claim the inheritance left by her free-spirited mother-a ramshackle inn nestled in the little coastal town of Lucky Harbor, Washington.
Starting over won’t be easy. Yet Maddie sees the potential for a new home and a new career-if only she can convince her two …
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