December 2012 – Page 3 – The Lit Bitch

Special Feature: Giving the Gift of an E-Book

December 12, 2012December 12, 2012by The Lit BitchLeave a Comment

Still trying to figure out what to get the reader in your life? Why not an e-book?

What’s that you say? You don’t know how to gift an e-book? Well you need not fear, gifting someone an e-book is simple!

My friends over at Open Road Media have put together a fantastic ‘how to guide’ about giving e-books for the holidays that I thought I would share with you! Since WordPress.com is lame and I can’t embed JavaScript, I’m going to include a link to their website here so you can watch the video. Not a video person? Here is an easy step by step guide for the reader in us all about gifting an e-book.

Open Road Media is one of my fav places to purchase e-books from. They have a variety of books to choose from so that means they will likely have something for even the most difficult person to buy for on your list!

Not to mention, For the next three weeks shoppers can choose holiday gifts from the thousands of ebooks in their catalog. They even have special features and suggestions for everyone on your list from “the romantic” and “the geek” to “the culture buff ” and “the kids.”

The best part though….they have an ongoing “steals and deals” selection featuring gifts under $5. Shoppers can watch the videos to quickly learn exactly how to give an ebook across major online stores, then scroll through to find ebooks that make excellent holiday gifts!

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Giveaway: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

December 11, 2012by The Lit Bitch3 Comments

It’s giveaway time! We have another fantastic giveaway for a lucky reader. This week’s giveaway is for a galley copy of Me Before You by Jojo Moyes and a poster of the book cover!

If you haven’t read this book, you should. It is a beautiful story about life and learning to live. This is one of those books you simply must read. It is though provoking, enlightening, powerful, moving, insightful….there are not enough adjectives for me to describe how wonderfully written this novel is.

So here is your opportunity to win a copy of the book and a lovely poster:

Giveaway runs 12/11/12 to 12/18/12

(how to enter)

On this blog you must leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway. Your comment MUST include your email so I can contact you….if you do not enter an email in the comments your entry will be void. Winners will be notified by email the day after the giveaway closes and have five days to respond, it not another winner will be chosen.

(GIVEAWAY OPEN TO US ONLY)

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Review: A Wreath of Snow: A Victorian Christmas Novella by Liz Curtis Higgs

December 9, 2012by The Lit BitchLeave a Comment

It’s Christmas Eve and snow has started falling on the small Scotland town of Stirling. Margaret Campbell has just had a row with her family and wants nothing more than to catch the first train out of Stirling back to Edinburgh.

Gordon Shaw has just completed his interview for the newspaper he works for and he too is eager to leave Stirling but for an entirely different reason. Stirling was his home long ago until the shame of a tragic accident forced him to move away.

The snow is coming down harder when the train finally departs from Stirling with Margaret and Gordon on board when it collides with a large snow drift (also known as a wreath in Scotland). It looks like Margaret and Gordon will be forced to stay the night in Stirling after all.

As they begin the long, cold walk back to town they start up a conversation and when Gordon reveals who he is, Margaret is angry but after he explains his past and the guilt he has been harboring for so many years, she can’t help but see him as a changed man.

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Review: Quickies by Ollie Levy (Short Story Collection)

December 9, 2012February 10, 2013by The Lit Bitch3 Comments

In this collection we meet a wide variety of people from all walks of life….some are married, single, engaged…..some have high flyer careers, and some are average Joe’s, but they all have one thing in common….they all love a good quickie.

Why fuss with a marathon love making session when a quickie will get the job done? That’s the question that Ollie Levy explores in her series of short stories appropriately titled Quickies.

What I loved about this collection was each randevú was short and sweet. There wasn’t a lot of back story and the characters literally got right down to business. It made for a fast and steamy read. It wasn’t overly graphic and the sex scenes were all tastefully done.

Sex scenes are always difficult to write….too much one way and they are raunchy, too much the other way and they are cheesy…Levy got it right in this story collection. They were all written with a practiced hand that shows erotica at it’s finest.

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