Daily Archives: July 25, 2010

It’s Monday, what are you reading?

Posted on July 25, 2010
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Sheila from One Person’s Journey through a World of Books hosts this meme and I love to participate in it! Head on over and check out her blog and the great participants there.

Okay, so while I loved the freedom of not choosing a list of books to read, it also had me floundering a bit this week.  I found that I love making the list and anticipating what I have coming up and ticking them off the list as I get them read.. so back to list-making I go!

Books I’ve Read this Week (links to reviews):

  1. The Colour by Rose Tremain
  2. Infidel by Ayaan Hirst Ali
  3. Dracula in Love by Karen Essex
  4. Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
  5. The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
  6. His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
  7. Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik

Book reviews put up this week:

  1. Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning
  2. Bird in Hand by Christina Baker Kline

Books to read this week:

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Winners of Got Books?! Contest!

Posted on July 25, 2010
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My Got Books?! Contest was a huge success! Thank you to everyone that entered – I gained over 30 followers (thank you so much, I know it wasn’t required to enter and I feel humbled and am so glad to have you all aboard!).  There were 85 entries into my contest making it my most successful one yet!

This year’s winner was:

ANNE JOLLY

The winner was selected through random.org but.. let me share her joke with you all:

There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire to become a great writer.
When asked to define “great” he said, “I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger!”
He now works for Microsoft, writing error messages.

I have contacted the winner and she will be getting the full Grand Prize package of:

AND!

In addition, she had to choose a number as well.. and the number she chose was #2 – (which, in Google Spreadsheet terms is #1) and that means that….

READING ANGEL wins a Pre-Order of Mockingjay, her book of choice!

(& Just ’cause I like to spread the love around a bit)

… SO DOES ANNE JOLLY! (Who also wanted Mockingjay!)

This was a fantastic 48 hours and I’m so thankful to all of you that participated and hope you will stick around for some very fun contests coming up.. this week even!

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Dracula in Love by Karen Essex

Posted on July 25, 2010
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Dracula in LoveDracula in Love by Karen Essex

Pre-Order on Amazon

Summary:

Karen Essex turns on the heat in this transporting and darkly haunting new tale of love and possession that puts forth the question: What if everything you knew about Dracula . . . was wrong?

My Review:

Word of warning – do not read this book when you are out say.. babysitting and have to leave the house at 11PM.

I jumped at every. little. noise.

That said… Wow. This was quite the read. Michelle Moran, on the cover, dubs this the “Twilight for adults” and in a way, she’s right. Only in this case, Mina.. as the new Bella, is not quite so chaste.

Wow, I’m still trying to wrap my head around this book.

Okay, so for those of you younger readers, this is really, really steamy in parts. Don’t fall for the Twilight hook – this is definitely not as tame as Twilight (those are words I never thought I might say). But for those of you adults who want a “real” vampire story, one that includes dark, mysterious characters and focuses around the Sidhe and the old stories of powerful female vampires – yeah this is the book for you.

Dark, spooky, horrifying (blood transfusions and strait-jackets anyone?) and filled with a romance that will make you shiver and look over your shoulder.

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