Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

A New Jersey library removes all copies of Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology. Despite the fact there was no good reason why this happened the the library director used child porn as an excuse. The ACLU have found out that a rightwing conservative group contacted the Library director to remove all copies even though there was no formal challenge was filed to the library. The matter is now being investigated by the ACLU.

Colleen Gleason has announced a new vampire series which is not related to her Gardella Vampire Chronicals. The new series will start in 2011 and will feature the Draculia.
“In 2011 readers will meet a whole new world of vampires who mingle with the haute ton in 19th century London. Called the Draculia, these vampires are strong and sexy, and a …

Review: Ruthless by Anne Stuart

Format Read: eARCNumber of Pages: 400Release Date: August 1st, 2010Publisher: MiraFormats Available: Mass Market Paperback, eBookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository US, Book Depository UK

I received this book as a review copy from the publisher through netgalley.Book Blurb:

Few outsiders will ever witness the dark misdeeds of the Heavenly Host. And among this secret society, where exiled Georgian aristocrats gather to indulge their carnal
desires, fewer still can match the insatiable appetite of their chief provocateur, the mysterious Viscount Rohan.
Pursuit of physical pleasure is both his preferred pastime and his most pressing urge, until he encounters the fascination of a woman who won’t be swayed. And while
his dark seduction appalls the pure and impoverished Elinor Harriman, she finds herself intrigued…and secretly drawn to the man behind the desire.

My Thoughts:
I am a huge fan …

Interview Author Devyn Quinn + Giveaway

We are really happy to have author Devyn Quinn here today. Siren’s Call, the first book in her Dark Tides Series cam out this week and she is here today to talk about her new series and to celebrate her new release. Please give Devyn a warm welcome.

The Geeky Lover: Devyn, can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Devyn: I live in the scenic Southwest, though I have called several other states home. I am a huge fan of dark gothic music & shoot-’em-up action movies. But reading is my first love and I spend too much time with history books, as well as feeding my addiction for celebrity biographies. I especially enjoy reading books on Hollywood before the 1960′s and I’m crazy about Marilyn Monroe, her legend and her myth.

The Geeky Lover: Describe a typical day of …

My Wishlist: Sweet Sixteen Edition

Hey All!!!

Welcome to another new weekly wishlist of mine. 

Huge thanks to Susi and the other Book lovers for taking over in my absence. And also thanks to you all for the support and the recovery wishes. 

So on with the show…

Here’s my new book wishlist. All these books have a sixteen year old heroine in common but otherwise the stories vary. 

So let’s call this weeks Wishlist: The Sweet Sixteen edition. 🙂

Here you go:

First up is:

Almost to Die For: A Vampire Princess Novel (Vampire Princess of St. Paul) by Tate Hallway

Release Date: August 3rd 2010 Publisher: NAL TradeAmazon, Book Depository US, Book Depository UK

Description:

On her sixteenth birthday, Anastasija Parker’s present winds up being the shock of a lifetime. When her mom referred to her absentee dad as a deadbeat …

French Fried by Chris Dolley

Format Read: PDFNumber of Pages: 229Release Date: June 2010Publisher: Book View Cafe Formats Available: Ebook (Kindle, epub,PDF, RTF, LRF)Purchasing Info: Amazon, Smashwords, Book View Cafe, Author’s website

Book Blurb:

Animals behaving badly, other people’s misfortunes and the most bizarre true crime story ever. French Fried is the unfortunately true account of Chris Dolley’s first eight months in France and has been described as ‘A Year in Provence with Miss Marple and Gerald Durrell.’

Moving house with three cats, two horses and an enormous puppy is fraught at the best of times. But during a storm? Within ten minutes of Chris and Shelagh landing in France a gust of wind rips the roof off their horse transporter and they and their animals are left on a cliff top while a replacement horsebox is sent …

Interview and Giveaway with Caragh M. O’Brien

Today, I am thrilled to offer you a glimpse into Ms. Caragh M. O’Brien‘s life as well as her upcoming work; author of Birthmarked, my favorite dystopian novel ever! She’s currently working on book 2, which I can’t tell you how excited I am to read it!

The YA Lover: I am sure you have been asked this before, but where did you get the ideas for the world you created in Birthmarked? Not so much the story itself but the dynamic world?

Caragh: Let me say first, Jenn, that I’m delighted you invited me by and that you enjoyed Gaia’s story so much. The original ideas for the wasteland and societies in BIRTHMARKED came while I was driving across the country during the drought of 2008. In the southern states, every lake we drove over was …

Review: Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 418Release Date: 27 MayPublisher: DefinitionsFormats Available: PaperbackPurchasing Info:  Author’s Website, Goodreads, BookDepository US, BookDepository UK, Amazon,Book Blurb: 

“You’ve always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I’ve fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?”

She is pretty and talented – sweet sixteen and never been kissed.
He is seventeen, gorgeous and on the brink of a bright future.
And now they have fallen in love. But…
They are brother and sister.

My Thoughts:

Warning: This book is NOT suitable for younger teens.

That was possibly the most horrifyingly moving book I have ever read.

The Whitely kids don’t have it easy. …

Review: Bring On The Night by Jeri Smith-Ready

Format Read: Kindle Edition (Privately Bought)Number of Pages: 384Release Date: July 27th, 2010Publisher: PocketFormats Available: Mass Market Paperback, Kindle, ePubPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads,Amazon, Book Depository US, Book Depository UK , Books On Board

Book Blurb:

“Recovering con artist Ciara Griffin seems to finally have it all. A steady job at WVMP, the Lifeblood of Rock ‘n’ Roll. A loving relationship with the idiosyncratic but eternally hot DJ Shane McAllister. A vampire dog who never needs shots or a pooper-scooper. And after nine years, it looks as if she might actually finish her bachelor’s degree!

But fate has other plans for Ciara. First she must fulfill her Faustian bargain with the Control, the paranormal paramilitary agency that does its best to keep vampires in line. Turns out the Control wants …