Books
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Giveaway: Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles by Ron Currie, Jr.
It’s giveaway time! We have another fantastic giveaway for a lucky reader. This week’s giveaway is for a copy of what is sure to be a post modern favorite: Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles by Ron Currie, Jr. If you haven’t read anything by Currie before, this is your opportunity to win a sensational book and explore the wonderful world of post modern lit. I will also be hosting an interview with the author soon so be watching for details. Giveaway runs 1/29/13 to 2/5/13 Winners will be announced 2/6/13. (how to enter) On this blog you must leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway. Your comment MUST include your…
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Review: Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles by Ron Currie, Jr.
Here is a post modern novel after my own heart. In his latest novel Ron Currie, Jr sets out to tell the capital-T Truth about his life, career, and his tumultuous love affair with a woman no one could ever hold a candle to, Emma. He has been in love with Emma since the moment he met her in eighth grade, after a short romance in their teens, Ron and Emma went their separate ways. Emma married another man while Ron tried desperately to escape Emma’s ghost by finding comfort in the arms of many other women. Later in life their paths cross and they begin their romantic relationship again, even…
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Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1) by Stieg Larsson
Financial journalist, Mikael Blomkvist’s, life is falling apart. Not only is he being sued for libel and facing jail time and mounting financial losses, his boss (who happens to be his sometimes lover) is forced into accepting his resignation. When he is at his lowest point, Blomkvist is approached with a curious offer of employment. Henrik Vanger is a wealthy, retired CEO of a major Swedish company, Vanger Cooperation. Vanger wants Blomkvist to use his trained journalists eye and find out what happened to his niece who mysteriously disappeared in the 1960’s. Blomkvist doesn’t really have a whole lot of options….he needs the money Vanger is offering but Vanger also…
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Announcement: Giveaway Winner of Celebrating Pride and Prejudice: 200 Years of Jane Austen’s Masterpiece by Susannah Fullerton
And the winner of Celebrating Pride and Prejudice: 200 Years of Jane Austen’s Masterpiece by Susannah Fullerton is….. Shivanee (liked on Facebook) The winner will be notified via email. Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to Voyageur Press for making this giveaway possible! Cheers!
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Review: The Cross and the Dragon by Kim Rendfeld
Under Charlemagne’s reign, Francia was no stranger to war. War was just part of every day life in 773, but so were romance and chivalry. Alda’s brother, Count Alfihar of Drachenhaus, is starting marriage negotiations for her to wed the wealthy and good looking, but cruel Count Ganelon of Dormagen. Alda has no desire to marry Ganelon at all, she would rather wed another….Prince Hruodland, heir to the March of Brittany but alas he is of royal blood and far above the reach of a Countess. But yet Alda and her uncle can’t help but sense Hruodland is more than interested in Alda’s hand. Ganelon is jealous of the friendship between…
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Giveaway: Celebrating Pride and Prejudice: 200 Years of Jane Austen’s Masterpiece by Susannah Fullerton
It’s giveaway time! We have another fantastic giveaway for a lucky reader. This week’s giveaway is for a copy of the fantastic book Celebrating Pride and Prejudice: 200 Years of Jane Austen’s Masterpiece by Susannah Fullerton. This is a beautifully illustrated hardback book. It is an absolute MUST for any Jane Austen fan! Giveaway runs 1/9/13 to 1/16/13 Winners will be announced 1/17/13. (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…
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Review: A Parachute in the Lime Tree by Annemarie Neary
While Ireland might have been neutral during WWII, it doesn’t mean that the war didn’t effect the lives of it’s Irish residents. Kitty in Dunkerrin, a small town in the middle of Ireland. One morning she wakes up to find a parachute hanging from one of her lime trees. The previous night, Belfast was hit by Luftwaffe air raiders so Kitty can only assume the parachute belongs to a German. She later finds the airman raiding her kitchen and injured. Hi name is Oskar and he explains that he has deserted the war and wishes her no harm. Kitty agrees to help Oskar. Oskar has one mission in mind when he…
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The Lit Bitch is hosting the 2013 Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire) Reading Challenge
Winter is coming. Well I guess technically winter is already here in Oregon’s as is it almost everywhere else in the Northern hemisphere….LOL . Back by popular demand, I decided to host a very informal reading challenge for the A Song of Ice and Fire series again this year on my blog. The rules are simple, read the Song of Ice and Fire series…post comments, blog about it, review the series….totally up to you! You must sign up for the series here via Mr Linky and please also spread the love by grabbing the button and posting to your blog I will be changing the format slightly from last years style. Last year I just read…
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The Lit Bitch is hosting the 2013 Outlander Series Reading Challenge
It’s that time of year again Sassenachs! Time to sign up for the Outlander Reading Challenge 2013! This is the time of year where all my fellow readers begin looking for new year reading challenges and book clubs and unlike last year, I am getting an early start and spreading the word about the Outlander Series Reading Challenge that I am hosting again this year. This is the second annual Outlander Series Reading Challenge, last year was my first year hosting the challenge and after great success I decided to host it again this year! I will be changing the format slightly from last years style. Last year I just read and…
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Review: A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire #5) by George R. R. Martin
Not all men were meant to dance with dragons…but Daenerys Targaryen can!In the fifth book of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, we find ourselves across the Narrow Sea waiting to see if Daenerys Targaryen will ever make it back to Westeros and reclaim her birthright! In A Feast for Crows, we met a lot of new characters along with a few familiar favorites. Since AFFC and ADWD were supposed to be one long book, I expected to see some overlap in the timeline and more of our fav characters in this book….and I was right, many of my fav characters were back! I will try to make…