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Black Friday Book Deals at Entangled Publishing
The holidays have officially kicked off now that Thanksgiving is over! So who out there is looking for some great bookish stocking sutffers of gifts this Black Friday? Well why not stop over at Entangled Publishing and check out their Black Friday deals? Sales run from 11/25 through 12/6. They have TONS of titles on sale for only 99 cents, and this is the perfect way to stock up those e-readers. You can even gift them to anyone, for awesome early holiday stocking stuffers that won’t break the bank! https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1QNX7pUakh6X3ZoVFJBNVlWLUE/
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Special Feature: Series Review STARZ OUTLANDER
Dinna fash Outlander and Lit Bitch fans, I am posting my review of the series for you! I toyed with the idea of reviewing each episode in great detail but then decided that a collective review would be better suited to my writing style. So here you have it, after eight weeks I feel as though I have seen enough to write a review of the series. Outlander has hands down been one of the most satisfying book series that I have read. And many of you know that I have hosted the Outlander Reading Challenge for a couple of years now…..though I did take this year off I will be bringing…
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Special Feature: Guest Outlander Review
For those of you who have followed this blog for a lengthy time, you will know how much I LOVE the Outlander series! It is one of the best series I’ve read and I recommend it to almost everyone I meet who like historic fiction. So it goes without saying that I have been glued to my TV every Saturday night watching the Starz Outlander series which is based on the books. I have been meaning to write a review of the series for quite some time. I originally planned on writing a review for reach episode, but decided that might be too ambitious for this season….so I think I will write…
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Special Feature: Free on Amazon Kindle The Bone Church by Victoria Dougherty
We all know that summer is prime reading time! Spy novels make the perfect beach read! Right now on Amazon Kindle, you can get The Bone Church by Victoria Dougherty for free! This thrilling debut novel is free for a limited time only, 5/21-5/25! I will be reviewing this novel this summer and I can’t wait! It sounds so captivating and full of intrigue! If you are interested in historic thrillers or spy novels then this might be a new one to try! And really, you can’t go wrong with free! Click here to purchase your copy today! About The Bone Church In the surreal and paranoid underworld of wartime Prague, fugitive lovers Felix Andel…
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Announcement: Elizabeth Gilbert lets fans choose the cover of her new novel THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS!
I have some exciting news to share with all of my readers….Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love, is letting her fans choose the US cover of her new novel THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS—an epic novel of love, ambition and 19th century botanical exploration, coming out from Viking on October 1st. Voting on three potential book covers begins today 3/21/13 at 8am on Gilbert’s Facebook page and runs through Sunday night 3/24/13. I hope you’ll consider voting in this contest and helping spread the word about this exciting opprotunity! See here for USA Today’s coverage including quotes from Gilbert. To my knowledge, Gilbert is one of the first…
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Top 12 in 2012: Rockin’ Book Bitches
It’s only fair that I post a list of my fav heroines of the year…or in this case I shall call them the Rockin’ Book Bitches of 2012! I saw a post on one of my blogger friend’s site (K Books) about Book Boyfriends and I of course added of own little list of Book Boyfriends and now I have added my list of favorite book heroines of 2012. So here you have it, The Lit Bitch’s top 12 in 2012: Rockin’ Book Bitches my list is compiled from all of my 71 books I’ve read in 2012 and they are more or less in order Anna Karenina (Anna Karenina) Mary Alsworthy (Seduction…
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Top 12 in 2012: Book Boyfriends
I saw this post on one of my blogger friend’s site and I couldn’t resist the temptation to post my own Book Boyfriends list for the year! So here you have it, The Lit Bitch’s top 12 in 2012: Book Boyfriends my list is compiled from all of the 71 books I’ve read in 2012 and they are more or less in order: Count Vronsky (Anna Karenina) Sebastian Vaughn (The Seduction of the Crimson Rose) Jon Snow (A Game of Thrones) Marco Alisdair (The Night Circus) Four (Divergent) Henry Weston (The Tutor’s Daughter) Po (Graceling) Graham (The Winter Sea) T.J. Callahan (On the Island) Travis Maddox (Beautiful Disaster) Richard Cypher (Stone of Tears) Peeta Mellark (The…
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Film Review: Les Misérables
The unfortunate ones. The miserable ones. The poor ones. Les Misérables is the story of the people….the downtrodden and the oppressed all searching for one thing: freedom. As I have said before, I normally don’t do file reviews on this blog though I am going to make an exception for some of the up and coming books into films due out this year and Les Misérables is one of those exceptions. Victor Hugo’s master piece came to life on the silver screen this holiday season and I went to see it on its release day. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect as I have not read the novel or…
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Special Feature: Morality and Chaos: The Dark Knight
A fellow English major friend of mine and I were talking about the complexity of the Batman movies directed by Christopher Nolan and she was kind enough to share her write up on The Dark Knight with me. Check it out here. I love many of her thoughts on the film and characters! Totally worth a read through!
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Special Feature: Giving the Gift of an E-Book
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 thelitbitch.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…