I probably never would have picked up a copy of this ebook if I hadn't seen it mentioned on Twitter, primarily because I don't get the Hello Kitty phenomenon. I'm not sure if it was @avidbookreader, @McVane, or @limecello who recommended it, or a conversation the three of them had. In any case, I downloaded a sample of the book and was hooked, ( Read more... )

Avid Reader's TBR Challenge is good for me and my TBR.  It is slowly (very slowly) winnowing down the TBR mountain.  Sometimes I wonder why some of the occupants are on the shelves, though, since so many of the books I select for the challenge wind up unfinished.

This month's book: Fashionably Late by Nadine Adjani

(c) 2007 by Forge/Tom Doherty ( Read more... )

It's a St. Patrick's day SBD.  Maybe I should drink some green beer?  Eh, no.  But I have some Irish whisky at home, so I'll pour a glass this evening in honor of the SBD-ery.

I skimmed Jo Barrett’s This Is How It Happened (not a love story) last week. It wasn’t a love story, and I had no HEA expectations of it. When I first finished the book, I ( Read more... )

The holiday weekend in books: not very felicitous.

1. Down Home Zombie Blues by Linnea Sinclair. CBA --> DNF. Which is a shame because I’m sure this is a good book.

2. Under the Rose: An Ivy League Novel by Diana Peterfreund. C. I didn’t hear much about this follow up to Peterfreund’s debut, which was promoted all over the place. No budget? Or was ( Read more... )

Drive by review...

Title: Girls of Riyadh

Author: Rajaa Alsanea

Copyright: 2007 for the English translation and publication; originally published in Arabic in 2005

Why did I pick it up? I read a review in The Economist (part admiring, part dismissive) and decided to pick up a copy.

Did I like the cover? No, the cover art/design would’ve put me off ( Read more... )

I've read a bunch of books in the past week or so, some good, some not so much.  The slump, I think she is over!

Dipped in Chocolate by Renee Luke

I read this one last week?  10 days ago?  The second story was okay, and third story was good but needed more space.  I hated the first story:  the heroine deserved to be bitch-slapped and the hero a boot ( Read more... )

I’ve heard such good things about it. And the premise seemed interesting, a meta-romance, I think it's called, with the narrator entering the world of romance reading and writing. Keishon, in case you’re blog-hopping, I’m not wondering why so many others love it and I don’t.  I just don’t -- there’s no accounting for taste, and this book just doesn ( Read more... )

Has anyone read Whitney Gaskell's Testing Kate? I liked Gaskell's Pushing 30 and thought her follow up book, True Love and Other Lies was good too...but I hated Me, Myself and I, in part because of the choppiness and perspective shifts. So I'm waiting to see what others think but haven't found any reviews.

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LibraryThing is my new favorite website. I found it originally via Rosina Lippi's blog. I added a whole bunch of books from my library -- with many more to go. I really like the widget that posts random bookcovers from your library . . . except the javascript doesn't work in Live Journal. So I've posted it to my blog over at blogspot . . . ( Read more... )