The Romance Bookie

Still on My Mind is a weekly meme, featured on Thursday, started by Haley over at Ya-Aholic , where you discuss a book you've either recently read, or read over the past few years, that's still on your mind. This week's book I read back in February, right before I headed to Long Beach for the Passion & Prose Conference.   I actually ate lunch right next to this author on the day, and got to talk to her about amazing book, shortly after I had read it! She was really sweet, and even wrote a super sweet message into my beautiful Hardcover copy of the book... Cinder ( Review HERE ) by Marissa Meyer is 100% one of my favorite novels released this year!  It was original (when it comes to a Cinderella story), had great characters, kept me hooked throughout the entire thing, and was an all around great read! If you're one of the few people whose missed this great page turner, here's the description from Goodreads: Humans and androids crowd the raucous...

In honor of school being over and grades coming out (I got As and Bs!!!), here's the perfect song to kick of this beautiful summer!! It's time for reading, tanning, and turning 21 (in my case!!) :). Happy Tuesday Everyone! The Romance Bookie :)

Happy Monday Everyone! In this case I can't even say "Just another Manic Monday" because technically today nothing is open due to Memorial Day.  So before I keep going, let me just say a HUGE thank you to all veterans, and current soldiers who have served! So I know most of you already know how much I love books, but what you may not know is that I am a HUGE movie junkie!  In fact, here is a picture of my movie collection: I do admit I am pretty darn proud of my collection! And yes, on the stand with "Smallville" that is "Lizzie McGuire" you see there! :) Well anyway, I was watching an episode of Grey's Anatomy yesterday (which by the way, is yet ANOTHER show my mom is possibly getting me hooked on!!!) and Christina Ricci was a guest star on it.  And every time I see Christina I think of one of my all time favorite movies, which she starred in, Penelope , and it made me think about something...is Penelope based on a book? I checked it out,...

In My Mailbox was originally started by The Story Siren and it's where anyone can participate and let everyone know what they got in books, and other book related things, throughout a given time.  Anyone with a blog can join in, and you can post once a week, once a month, or whenever you choose to. I got some SUPER amazing things this month!! Including a REALLY AWESOME early-birthday present which I will be sure to put to good use this summer!! Oh yeah, did I mention I am turning 21 on July 2nd??  Yeah, me...moi...ich...I am turning the big 2-1!!! Anyway, I'm sure it won't be the last time I'll mention my 21st, so to get on with this post, here are the FABULOUS things I got this month! :) Let me start with the paper books I got: For FREE!!!!: Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt   (the library I volunteer at was giving away a TON of great books, so I picked out a few of my favorites) (I remember reading this book in 6th grade with my class, an...

Hey Everyone!! So Week 2 has come and gone already! :) We had some exciting posts again this week!! We had an awesome review from Kati over at Victorian Wonderland of the Mediator series and lovely California.  And Alex over A Girl, Books, and Other Things named her five favorite Meg Cabot characters (which by the way contains some SUPER awesome characters!!). Oh and Diana over at Little Miss Drama Queen is giving away a signed copy of Abandon !! Recap Links: Alex's Top Five Favorite Meg Cabot characters Kati's A Trip to Ghostly California and Mediator Review Diana's Giveaway of Abandon   The Mythology Challenge!! for Meg-A Readers! Music Tuesday featuring Meg Cabot inspired songs So for this week, in honor of Meg-A Readers I've also decided to do a review on Code Name Cassandra (#3 in the 1-800-Where-R-You Series): The 1-800-Where-R-You series is literally the only series I have not read by Meg Cabot!  I've had my eyes on them for forever, but...

Still on My Mind is a weekly meme, featured on Thursday, started by Haley over at Ya-Aholic , where you discuss a book you've either recently read, or read over the past few years, that's still on your mind. This week I've decided to choose a book I read a few weeks ago... Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins was just one of those books I couldn't get out my head!  I just absolutely adored it! Here's the  Goodreads description: Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris - until she meets Etienne St. Clair: perfect, Parisian (and English and American, which makes for a swoon-worthy accent), and utterly irresistible. The only problem is that he's taken, and Anna might be, too, if anything comes of her almost-relationship back home. As ...

So I was nominated for my first ever blog award!! How cute is that??!! Alysia over at Little Pocket Books , whom I met back in February at Passion and Prose , has nominated me for this small super cute blog award! It's called the Liebster Blog Love Award!  Translated, being a German myself, "Liebster" means "Favorite" :). I was super excited to have someone say they truly enjoy looking at my blog sometimes! It's one of the reasons I do this, because I want to share my love of books with you. :) Alysia had the sweetest thing to say about my blog and me: "I met this young blogger at the Passion and Prose Conference in February.  And she is a Meg Cabot fan.  Like soon to be President of the Meg Cabot fan club.  I love it!  I love her post about music too!" Thanks Alysia!! I WISH I could be President of the Official Meg Cabot fan club!! ;) Anyway, so now it's my turn to nominate my Top Five Favorite Blogs!! Aside from...

Hey Everyone!! So I almost completely forgot, THANK GOODNESS I have Diana over at Little Miss Drama Queen working with me on Meg-A Readers, because she was the one to remind me the other day! :) As mentioned in the first official post introducing Meg-A Readers Blog Hop! we will be having a mythology challenge in honor of the release of Underworld ! The Mythology Challenge will be lasting June 16th, and afterwards we will be starting the Mystery Challenge, honoring the release of Size 12 and Ready to Rock (July 10th) , on June 17th! Anyway, from now until June 16th, the Mythology Challenge is open to EVERYONE! :) I personally haven't that many mythology books, the only ones I can think are Abandon and Underworld, and the first two Percy Jackson books.  However, I have always been fascinated by mythology, so I'm hopefully planning on reading on or two books! :) Here are the Challenge Levels:             ...

Hey Everyone! So I pretty much forgot Music Tuesday last week, and also didn't really want it to interfere with the kick-off of Meg-A Readers, so this week I will be featuring two songs!! :) In honor of Meg-A Readers, I've got two Meg Cabot related songs... The first is completely in honor of Meg Cabot.  I was extremely lucky enough to be able to get an interview with Meg (!!!), and in it she tells me her guilty pleasure when it comes to music while writing... I don't know if you guys will believe when I say this, but here is one of his songs... Yup! PITBULL!!!!! How awesome is that??!! And now to the second song! This one was featured on the Princess Diaries Soundtrack... That is such a cute song! :) Happy Tuesday everyone! The Romance Bookie :)

I LOVED Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson!! Amy lost her father three months ago, and after her twin brother gets sent to rehab and her mother moves to Connecticut, leaving Amy alone for a month and having to deal with everything by herself.  She has no one to talk to, all she wants to do is talk to her mom or brother, but instead she's stuck alone, and now has found out that she has to get her mother's car to Connecticut, while driving with someone who she apparently played "Spuds" with, but she can't remember him at all. What Amy didn't expect was how cute Roger would be.  However, that doesn't change matters.  Amy has changed and all she can think about is what happened, and she can't help but thinking about the old Amy, or "Amy!" as she thinks of her. Amy's dealing with some serious pain, including holding in a secret about the accident that only her mother and brother know about. And along the way, she find...

OMG I almost forgot!! So I was contacted a few months ago by Aaron Patterson, the author of Airel , and asked to be a part of the Michael Blog Tour! ONE DAY BLOG TOUR!  MAY 17th! Michael, book two in the Airel Saga, is live on Amazon TODAY ONLY for a discounted price!!  To take advantage of this awesome deal, head to Amazon and check out the eBook version of Michael at its promotional price, then see below to enter the contest. Also, leave me a comment on this post. The blogger with the most comments will win the Kindle Fire! If I win, I’ll also get the chance to be part of a special giveaway in the next few months. Praise for Michael "Move over Twilight! Here comes Aaron Patterson!" --Joshua Graham, bestselling author of Beyond Justice and Darkroom "I was surprised by how much I really, really liked this book. I have not jumped on the whole "fallen angel" bandwagon, just as I didn't jump on all of the vampire stories that came out after Tw...

I got an email from Anthea Sharp about two weeks ago, telling me her second novel in the Feyland Trilogy was being released and she wanted ME to read it!! I absolutely loved Feyland: The Dark Realm (Review HERE! ), and so of course jumped on the chance to read the sequel Feyland: The Bright Court immediately! The Bright Court takes off right where The Dark Realm left off.  Jennet and Tam continue to look for a way to stop the prototype of Feyland to be released out in the world.  Here's the problem though...what if the company owner's son is playing it and doesn't seem to be having any problems playing the game? Well that's what happened when Roy Lassiter comes to join Tam and Jennet at their high school.  And according to Jennet's father, who is in charge of Feyland's production, Roy has been playing the game for months and nothing has happened...or so he says... Jennet and Tam soon realize something is up. Why is Roy attracting all these women wit...