Friday Book Confession #2
I love reading about the "bad boy" hero's in books - the "good boys" bore me...
Come on, confess! You know you want to...
Thursday Book Trailer…Sense and Sensibilities and Sea Monsters
Last week I shared the book trailer to Seth Grahame-Smith's Abraham Lincoln's: Vampire Hunter, this week I found Amazon's 2009 Best Book Trailer - Sense and Sensibilities and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen & Ben Winters. Enjoy!
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities. As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon. Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find true love? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles that are forever snapping at their heels? This masterful portrait of Regency England blends Jane Austen’s biting social commentary with ultraviolent depictions of sea monsters biting. It’s survival of the fittest—and only the swiftest swimmers will find true love! - FROM AMAZON.COM
To Conquer Mr. Darcy, Abigail Reynolds – Review
What if...
Instead of disappearing from Elizabeth Bennet's life after she refused his offer of marriage, Mr. Darcy had stayed and tried to change her mind?
What if...
Lizzy, as she gets to know Darcy, finds him undeniably attractive and her impulses win out over her sense of propriety?
What if...
Madly in love and mutually on fire, their passion anticipates their wedding?
In To Conquer Mr. Darcy, instead of avoiding Elizabeth after his ill-fated marriage proposal, Mr. Darcy follows her back to Hertfordshire to prove to her he is a changed man and worthy of her love. And little by little, Elizabeth begins to find the man she thought she despised, irresistible... - FROM AMAZON
ABOUT THE AUTHOR...Abigail Reynolds is a lifelong Jane Austen enthusiast and a physician. In addition to writing, she has a part-time private practice and enjoys spending time with her family. Originally from upstate New York, she studied Russian, theater, and marine biology before deciding to attend medical school. She began writing From Lambton to Longbourn in 2001 to spend more time with her favorite characters from Pride & Prejudice. Encouragement from fellow Austen fans convinced her to continue asking ‘What if…?’, which led to four other Pemberley Variations and her modern novel, Pemberley by the Sea. She is currently at work on another Pemberley Variation and a sequel to Pemberley by the Sea. She lives in Wisconsin with her husband, two teenaged children, and a menagerie of pets. - FROM AUTHOR SITE
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FROM THE BOOK FAERY REVIEWS...I have to be honest, I just couldn't get past the first couple of chapters. I'd try to read, then would put it down, tried to pick it up again, then would put it down. It was rather an annoying cycle. I just couldn't get into this read. Is there a reason I couldn't get into it? I'm not quite sure. I did find the "new" Mr. Darcy a bit annoying as he went after Elizabeth and tried apologizing for his behavior (at least that's what I got from what I did read). He seemed to act like the lost puppy to me. Perhaps because I like the mysterious "bad boy" on the outside, softy on the inside when you get to know him. Am I saying the book was bad? Absolutely not! I just couldn't get through the first part of the book. Someone else might enjoy this adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice.
I DID however, enjoy her other book The Man Who Loved Pride & Prejudice which you can read more about here.
I received a copy of this book for review from SourceBooks.
All opinions are of my own.
TBT…The Truth About Lord Stoneville
He'd always been driven by the fear that a mistress might tempt him to let down his guard and reveal his secrets.
Then even his family would desert him, and he couldn't bear that.
~ The Truth About Lord Stoneville by Sabrina Jeffries ~
Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page. Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. Don't forget to tell us the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from…that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Mailbox Monday…08.30.10
Mailbox Monday is where other bloggers write about the books they received the previous week. The Mailbox Monday is now going on a blog tour with the host this month being Chick Loves Lit. Visit her blog to see what books made it her way and check out the others who are participating like me in the Monday Mailbox Meme.
A Vampire Is Coming To Dinner: 10 Rules to Follow by Pamela Jane (Children's Fiction) - Read along as the narrator of this story comes up with some very practical rules for dealing with a vampire. But rules are meant to be broken, aren’t they? From feeding the vampire garlic to filling the house with mirrors, the narrator is doing just that! With ten full-page gatefolds and a pop at the end of the book, kids will love seeing which rules are being followed and which aren’t!
Friday Book Confession #1
Book covers DO catch my attention first, so I suppose I do judge a book by it's cover (even though I shouldn't)...
Come on, confess! You know you want to...
The Life You’ve Imagined, Kristina Riggle – Review
Is the life you're living all you imagined?
Have you ever asked yourself, "What if??" Here, four women face the decisions of their lifetimes in this stirring and unforgettable novel of love, loss, friendship, and family.
Anna Geneva, a Chicago attorney coping with the death of a cherished friend, returns to her "speck on the map" hometown of Haven to finally come to terms with her mother, the man she left behind, and the road she did not take.
Cami Drayton, Anna's dearest friend from high school, is coming home too, forced by circumstance to move in with her alcoholic father . . . and to confront a dark family secret.
Maeve, Anna's mother, never left Haven, firmly rooted there by her sadness over her abandonment by the husband she desperately loved and the hope that someday he will return to her.
And Amy Rickart—thin, beautiful, and striving for perfection—faces a future with the perfect man . . . but is haunted by the memory of what she used to be.
Kristina Riggle's The Life You've Imagined takes a provocative look at the choices we make—and the courage we must have to change.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR...Kristina Riggle lives and writes in West Michigan.
Kristina has published short stories in the Cimarron Review, Literary Mama, Espresso Fiction, and elsewhere. She is also a freelance journalist writing primarily for The Grand Rapids Press, and co-editor for fiction at Literary Mama. Kristina was a full-time newspaper reporter for seven years before turning her attention to creative writing and freelancing. As well as writing, she enjoys reading, yoga, dabbling in (very) amateur musical theatre, and spending lots of time with her husband, two kids and dog.
Kristina is hard at work on her next novels from Avon/HarperCollins about complex family relationships. - PARTS TAKEN FROM THE AUTHOR'S WEBSITE
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FROM THE BOOK FAERY REVIEWS...The Life You've Imagined is about four women (Amy, Anna, Cami, and Maeve) and how they handled the life they're in. Riggle created real women who are connected with the other one way or another with real issues - abandonment, addiction, weight, and love. Each chapter alternates between each of the women and each voice is different. While reading The Life You've Imagined, one can't help BUT to look back in the past to SOMETHING that you wondered would have been like today if it was different back then. This is the type of book that when you put it down for a bit you wonder what will happen next in a particular character's life. Good women's fiction and one I'd recommend to other women wondering about their own life's circumstances.
Follow the others touring with TLC Books and Kristina Riggle...
- Thursday, August 19th: Sara’s Organized Chaos
- Monday, August 23rd: Lisa’s Yarns
- Thursday, August 26th: Reading at the Beach
- Wednesday, September 1st: Rundpinne
- Thursday, September 2nd: Helen’s Book Blog
- Wednesday, September 8th: Book Club Classics!
- Monday, September 13th: All About {n}
- Wednesday, September 15th: Thoughts From an Evil Overlord
- Tuesday, September 21st: Book Addiction
- Thursday, September 23rd: Confessions of a Bookaholic
Be sure to check out the book club discussion about the book with Jen from Devourer of Books.
Thursday Book Trailer…Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
This week I'm beginning a new weekly post called Thursday Book Trailer which contain a book trailer and links to the book information. This week's book trailer is for the book Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith (one of my new personal book finds that I can't wait to read).
Holly’s Inbox: Scandal in the City, Holly Denham/Bill Surie – Review
Dear Holly, isn't it shocking...?
Things are finally going Holly Denham's way: she's in love, she's getting the recognition she deserves at work, and her friends and family have graciously opted to avoid disaster for the moment.
Just when Holly is starting to settle into her new life, scandal erupts and Holly finds herself-and her in box-at the center of a gossip whirlwind that threatens everything she's worked so hard for.
Written entirely in emails, this follow-up to the UK smash hit Holly's Inbox will keep you glued to its pages as the scandal running rampant in the city threatens to ruin Holly's hard-earned and long-awaited happiness. - FROM THE BOOK BACK
ABOUT THE AUTHOR...Holly Denham is the pen name of Bill Surie, the owner of a placement service for receptionists and secretaries in London. He started the www.HollysInbox.com as a place to serialize his first novel. He currently lives in England and Spain with his wife and daughter. You can also find Holly on facebook and twitter!
FROM THE BOOK FAERY REVIEWS...Don't let this thick book intimidate you - like the first one in the book, it's entertaining and time flies VERY quickly with the e-mail format. If you read the first one Holly's Inbox, you'll be excited to see Tricia, Aisha, Jason, Claire, Toby, and Holly (of course) come back for more. Denham/Surie had me rooting Holly on and wanting to give her hugs, wanting to go out and play with her best friends, smacking the office bitch, and thumping her boyfriend in the head for not thinking, yet ecstatic and hand pumping in the end. Now I'm wondering...will Holly be back???
Last year I was lucky to snag an author guest post. You can read that here.
Thanks to Bill for contacting me to find out if I'd be interested in reading his second book. Thoroughly enjoyed it!
I received a copy of this book for review. All opinions within this post are mine.
TBT…The Life You’ve Imagined
Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page. Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. Don't forget to tell us the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from…that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
I can't abandon her right now.
She's been abandoned quite enough, I'd say.
~ The Life You've Imagined by Kristina Riggle ~
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