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June 20, 2011 | Monday | 21 Comments
Lately I’ve been using the Kobo app on the iPad to read, and I found myself turning to the iPad in the evening more often than the Kindle. I’ve been on a reading tear, not only because of the RITA Reader Reviews, which have damaged the schedule of my TBR list like whoa and moly, but because I’m super busy during the day and in the evening am ready to read and disappear into someone else’s story for awhile. The Kobo app is interesting to me because of the way it tracks what I do, and shares stats with me…
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April 26, 2011 | Tuesday | 7 Comments
Time for some more RITA® Reader Challenge reviews, which readers have taken to like romance readers reading romance novels. (Obvious statements is obvious!) Today, we have a review for the RITA® nominated novella “Mistletoe Magic” by Sandra Hyatt in Under the Millionaire’s Mistletoe, plus the other novella in the book, “The Wrong Brother” by Maureen Child, both reviewed by Lindlee. The cover copy: Pucker up for two irresistible millionaires who are about to meet their matches…under the mistletoe! “The Wrong Brother” by Maureen Child Well, she’d asked to be kissed. Who was Sam Hale to deny a beauty such a…
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March 27, 2011 | Sunday | 235 Comments
Here’s a little something new and different. To celebrate the release of “Faking It,” by Elisa Lorello, I’ve got my totally-craving-spring hands on a giveaway for you: flower delivery service California Blooms is donating 1 dozen roses to a Smart Bitches, Trashy Books reader located in the continental U.S. The winner will also get a free copy of FAKING IT! If you win, you can have the flowers and book sent to yourself (who doesn’t want a dozen roses and hot read delivered to her door?) or someone you love. Faking It by Elisa Lorella is about Andi, a composition…
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March 15, 2011 | Tuesday | 53 Comments
I had a request for the runners up in the reader nominations for the DABWAHA, so here are the top ten books, with the finalist and the nine runners up as nominated by readers in each category. An asterisk denotes a tie. YA 1. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (Finalist) 2. Matched by Ally Condie 3. Linger by Maggie Stiefvater 4. The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong 5. The Duff by Kody Keplinger 6. Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly 7. The Iron King by Julie Kagawa 8. The Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa 9. Princess of Glass by Jessica Day George 10*. Last…
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March 04, 2011 | Friday | 34 Comments
From reader Gry, a link to this marvelous video from Pioneer Library Systems’ Virtual Library, which shows off what more than 26 checkouts looks like in a physical book. My favorite part: Harper Collins offers a lifetime guarantee of their copy of Neil Gaiman’s “Coraline.” Mmmmmmm. Irony. This video is long, but I learned from it, particularly what types of damage librarians consider easily fixable. Link to the video? Right here. You can read their Open Letter from the Pioneer Library System to HarperCollins about their decision to limit check outs of digital books to 26, and requiring additional purchase…
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February 16, 2011 | Wednesday | 225 Comments
With the news that Borders filed for bankruptcy, I started thinking about the Borders that I went to when I was younger, back when a giant huge bookstore was a luxury I’d never experienced. There were fireplaces! And big huge chairs! And more books than I’d ever seen in my life, and the employees were friendly as opposed to condescending like the people in the local bookstore near my house who never had any good chapter books for kids. Colleen Lindsay was saying that if the local Borders near her brother’s home closes, there won’t be a bookstore for 35…
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January 16, 2011 | Sunday | 27 Comments
A friend of mine, Iron Lesbian #2, emailed me with a request and I thought one of you smart folks might have a better solution that I did: I got a message from a HS classmate and I’m hoping you can help (she emailed me because she knows I’m a big reader and I have paper books plus iPad and Kindle). Her daughter has dyslexia and needs to both see and hear words. Deb downloads audio books on the iPad but the daughter needs to both see and hear the words. Do you know of any iPad apps that would…
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January 05, 2011 | Wednesday | 34 Comments
This is another I Read This To Push It On The Unsuspecting Bitchery. It’s older, and not totally a romance, but it is a favorite of mine. It takes place in Feudal Japan, and is a version of the story of the 47 Samurai. I remember someone in the comments of… something… asking if both characters in Impulsive were Asian, and that’s it’s rare to get both main characters to be a minority. So here we are (although I planned to do this one long before that conversation even happened). Cat is the daughter of a daimyo and…
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December 14, 2010 | Tuesday | 22 Comments
I tweeted about this book after I finished the ARC, and I still think about this book, AND remember the title - which is totally odd for me. Blake did a number of really interesting things that made this book different from a lot of contemporary romance: The heroine, Tessa, has Crohn’s disease, which means she has periods where she’s very weak, nauseated, and ill, and she’s on a very strict diet to try to control the intestinal inflammation. Crohn’s disease is not a sexy disease, but it does profoundly affect the people who have it, often severely. If there’s…
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November 09, 2010 | Tuesday | 16 Comments
Another small chapter in the Dorchester saga: New York Times bestselling Dorchester author Angie Fox has received her rights back to her book The Last of the Demon Slayers and has released it earlier than originally scheduled as a Kindle book. The book will also be available through print-on-demand for those who want a paper copy. Dorchester’s financial problems, according to Fox’s 6 November blog entry, had resulted in canceled orders, so she decided to get the rights back and release it herself as a self-published book. Fans had been asking for the next installment in her series - and…
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October 12, 2010 | Tuesday | 48 Comments
I think of the three Sony readers with the updated touch screens as the Lexus, the Mercedes, and the Hummer. The Lexus, or the Sony Pocket, is slender, trim, comes in pink and is luscious. The Hummer is the Daily and my gosh golly it’s huge. Built like a Zagat’s guide on steroids, with wireless and a touch screen interface and did I mention it’s huge? It’s like a reading sky scraper. The middle one, the Touch, I think of as the Mercedes. And I want to be clear here, the high-end car analogy, which I will absolutely beat into…
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August 19, 2010 | Thursday | 6 Comments
Holy smoke. More than 500 people entered the giveaway for a Sony Pocket Reader, a case, and two free books. That’s a LOT of people. How can I pick just one? I can’t. I admit it. I can’t pick just one. So… I’ll pick two! I have a red demo model Sony Touch reader to give away as well for a second-place winner, thanks to the nice people at SONY USA. See what all that contest entry madness does to me? MADNESS I tell you. So, let’s pick us a winner! No, two winners! Random.org has chosen: First place: Georgina!…
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July 08, 2010 | Thursday | 15 Comments
Desperate reader Catherine has a HaBO, but it involves a plot twist so it’s a spoiler below the fold. Be ye Warned!
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April 23, 2010 | Friday | 21 Comments
First: Elmo and Robert DeNiro. Look, I’m a cabbage!
Then, thanks to JamiSings, it’s time for… Easy Reader.
How badass of a book trailer would it be to have a book showcased on that big screen and have the two of them talking about it? Word.
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April 22, 2010 | Thursday | 98 Comments
In a comment thread, Amanda asked: If you were a writer who had a new website that was RIDDLED with spelling and grammar errors, would you want a reader to email you about it? An author I like has a terrible website, the errors are all over the place. I’d like to mention it to her, because I don’t think it represents her well. I’m sure the site is outsourced and she doesn’t actually do the rotton spelling, but you think she might look at it every once in a while… Or should I do a big butt-outski? Her question…
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