Aynde is looking for a book that sounds very memorable and very Google-able, but alas, she can't recall the title and I can't find it on Google: I'm trying to find a title to a YA book and thought I could plead with you to ask your readers if they know it. Eons ago (1987/88) I checked out a book from my schools library. I remember the heroine was the class clown and had a … Continue reading S-HaBO-Day: Tiny Tidy Tina is Memorable→
Time to announce the reader nomination winners, and the complete slate of 2012 DABWAHA nominees! The YA Reader Nominee is: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green ( A | BN | K | S) An interesting pick, and definitely one of the best books of 2012. The Contemporary Reader Nominee is: About That Night by Julie James ( A | BN | K | S) Julie James was the … Continue reading Time to announce the DABWAHA Reader Nominees!→
Prachi writes in with this request for a Mills & Boon she read over 10 years ago: I was looking for a book – I guess published somewhere between 2002-2005, It's a Mills and Boon sensual romance (equivalent of Harlequin Desire or Blaze line I think) It's set in a small town. The heroine is apparently a 'bad girl' with a bad marriage and a mad ex husband behind her. The hero is a cop, … Continue reading S-HaBO-Day: Gotta Love a Hair-Brave Hero→
This request comes from Kelly, who read this book a long time ago: First of all, I love your website, your posts on FB, and HABO in particular. Today, I am hoping that HABO can work its magic for me. I read the book in question many moons ago in high school, so between 1988 – 1991. I borrowed the book from the library, so I'm not sure how much older than that time frame … Continue reading S-HaBO-Day: Forget the Elevator, Love on the Pool Table, Baby!→
Time to announce the winner of the library of 19 Philippa Carr ebooks from Open Road Media! The winner as chosen by Random Integer Powers is: MissMonky! Madam Monky, please email me to claim your prize winnings! Thank you to everyone who entered – I love how many of you were all, “I'd start with the first one in the series, duh.” OCD Reading FTW! Have an awesome weekend, y'all.
Housekeeping note: Disqus has upgraded and it seems I cannot go back to the old version (that would be strike one). I'm keeping an open mind about the new sytem, and am trying to modify it so it fits what we do and how we communicate. Let me know in the comments here if you notice anything that's completely off the wall bizarre? Thanks. I hate forced upgrades. Dammit, Beavis.
The Woman Reader is both too much and too little of a good thing. Belinda Jack takes on the monumental task of telling “A story never told before: the complete history of women's reading and the controversies it has inspired” (quote taken from book jacket). The book beings with prehistory and proceeds through the modern day. My feeling about The Woman Reader that it while it has great scope and ambition, it is too academic … Continue reading The Woman Reader by Belinda Jack: A Guest Review by CarrieS→
From Gry, our Norwegian Friday Videos Correspondent, we have a video that is a Buzzfeed article set to music. Choral music. Australian choral music! Link! I don't know how I'm going to read anything on Buzzfeed without hearing singing now. Most of Australian Voices' videos are spiffy – to say nothing of The Facebook Song. I hope you weekend is filled with funny things. I definitely wish I were a Jedi.
Kit Rocha's Beyond Shame is nominated in the PNR/SF category for the 2013 DABWAHA, and it's on sale currently for 99c! ll Noelle Cunningham has ever wanted is a life beyond–beyond the walls of Eden, where only the righteous are allowed to remain, and beyond her stiflingly restrictive existence as a councilman's daughter. But only ruins lie outside the City, remnants of a society destroyed by solar storms decades earlier. The sectors surrounding Eden house … Continue reading Books on Sale: Historical, Contemporary from Kristan Higgins, and DABWAHA Nominated Books!→
Time to play Which Cover do you Like Better? I received two ARC (advanced reader copies) in the mail yesterday, both of which had one cover on the ARC itself plus a color printout announcing that the book had a new cover. Interesting! I tweeted the covers last night and wondered what caused the change. I wanted to share with you because the change in the cover art is remarkable. If you like faces on your … Continue reading Cover Changes: Faces vs. Things→
Liza Palmer is a spiffy writer- though I didn't like the heroine of her 2008 book “Seeing Me Naked,” I remember the writing well. Her book More Like Her is $1.99. (Yeah, I totally bought it. These deals are as dangerous for me as they are for you, I promise). What really goes on behind those perfect white picket fences? In Frances’s mind, beautiful, successful, ecstatically married Emma Dunham is the height of female perfection. … Continue reading Books on Sale: Contemporary Romance And Romance-Like Books - Plus Cake Pops!→
