I can hardly believe it – two years have gone by in an eye blink. For the last month or two, things have been quiet around here but I am slowly but surely getting back to reading and reviewing and pretty soon things should be back to their normal self.
So what a great way to celebrate getting back to my blogging by having a giveaway for my blog’s birthday. Here is how this will work.
I'm giving away an order from The Book Depository up to the value of $15. You can give me three choices of books and I will pick (one) for you. I love surprise gifts, don’t you!
This is open internationally to where The Book Depository ships.
You must be a Google Friend Connect friend (I will check).
You must be 13 or older to enter.
That is all – just leave me a comment below. Please be sure to also leave your email address so that I can give you the good news.
It’s Sunday again and I am joining another week of In My Mailbox, hosted by Kristi over at The Story Siren. In My Mailbox is a weekly meme that lets everyone see what books you have received or bought that week.
This week, I did not receive or buy any books as I have been away for a few days in the holiday town of Mossel Bay. We had a WONDERFUL time. Well okay, I admit I couldn’t resist not buying ANYTHING . . . I got few beading books. I am having such a wonderful time with my new beading hobby. :)
On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by Book Chick City and runs every Saturday. It's where you can list all the books you desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming. It's also an event that you can join in with too - Mr Linky is always at the ready on Carolyn’s blog.
Just look at this cover – isn’t it gorgeous!
Not sure if we can also post movies here but I just can't wait for Scream 4. I loved the previous in the series and I have read that this one is more like the first in the series which means funny and scary . . . :)
I just saw this on a blog this morning! Another Nightwalkers book!
Book 6 will be here in November – yay! Adam: The Nightwalkers by Jacquelyn Frank (release date
01 November 2011)
This is my picks for this week, what is yours?
It’s Sunday again and after a long absence, I am joining another week of In My Mailbox, hosted by Kristi over at The Story Siren. In My Mailbox is a weekly meme that lets everyone see what books you have received or bought that week. Just for fun and some book love.
I saw this book spoken about on another blog and though I would give it a go and then discovered it is free on SMASHWORDS. Don’t you just love when that happens? :)
The Charmer by Autumn Dawn
This book sounds like a lot of cutesy fun :) Can’t wait to escape one Saturday afternoon.
Thank you so much, Marshall Cavendish Children's Books! I received a HUGE envelope with three books including Nora. I have already started reading this book and am enjoying it very much.
Thank you so much for sending me Raziel (The Fallen) by Kristina Douglas, Danielle. What a wonderful “Pick-me-up” gift. I can’t wait to start reading.
On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by Book Chick City and runs every Saturday. It's where you can list all the books you desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming. It's also an event that you can join in with too - Mr Linky is always at the ready on Carolyn’s blog.
This week I only have one book on my list and it is this.
Marcie from To Read or Not to Read hosts this weekly meme with fun ways for us to get to know one another.
Today’s question is:
Have you ever been to a book signing?
I live in South Africa, so no, I have not met any international authors or even South African authors for that matter. I have never had the opportunity and I imagine that I won’t in the near future.
I would love to be able to be in the audience of one of my favourite authors though – Nalini Singh, Shelly Laurenston or Sam Cheever – but I would be too nervous to talk to them. I am one of those people that like to blend into the masses. :) But I would love to hear them speak about how they got the ideas for some of my favourite books.
This past week I have been reading some book blogs again and I am overwelmed with all the great books I have been missing. But I decided to stick my toes in the water again and these are the two books that have caught my attention.
On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by Book Chick City and runs every Saturday. It's where you can list all the books you desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming. It's also an event that you can join in with too - Mr Linky is always at the ready on Carolyn’s blog. This is the books I am wishing for after I saw it in the blogosphere this week.
I just love angel books and when I saw this cover, I had to take a closer look . . .
Ascension (Guardians of Ascension) by Caris Roane Kerrick is a vampire warrior on a mission—to protect powerful mortal Alison Wells as she goes through the rite of ascension, or transformation into a vampire. But along the way, Kerrick gets caught in a feirce, forbidden attraction to the woman he been assigned to watch over. After his beloved wife was murdered by evil blood vampires, Kerrick took vows never to get involved with a woman again, for he knows that he’ll risk her life if he gets too close. But when a powerful army of blood vampires learns about Alison's extraordinary powers, they're determined to take her down. Now Kerrick has no choice but shadow her where ever she goes--even if it means losing his heart for eternity.
I don’t usually read books about pixies but this one sounds too good to pass on.
A DETERMINED GIRL... Dindi can't do anything right, maybe because she spends more time dancing with pixies than doing her chores. Her clan hopes to marry her off and settle her down, but she dreams of becoming a Tavaedi, one of the powerful warrior-dancers whose secret magics are revealed only to those who pass a mysterious Test during the Initiation ceremony. The problem? No-one in Dindi's clan has ever passed the Test. Her grandmother died trying. But Dindi has a plan. AN EXILED WARRIOR... Kavio is the most powerful warrior-dancer in Faearth, but when he is exiled from the tribehold for a crime he didn't commit, he decides to shed his old life. If roving cannibals and hexers don't kill him first, this is his chance to escape the shadow of his father's wars and his mother's curse. But when he rescues a young Initiate girl, he finds himself drawn into as deadly a plot as any he left behind. He must decide whether to walk away or fight for her... assuming she would even accept the help of an exile.
by Elizabeth Scott 
by Maureen Johnson 
by Angie Smibert 
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by Michelle Hodkin 
by Caris Roane
