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Hey Everyone! So I FINALLY read it!! I've been wanting to read this book FOREVER, but have been almost trying not to, just so I don't have to wait too long for Stephanie Perkins next book! NOW, I have to wait until September!!! UGH!!! I read Stephanie Perkins Anna and the French Kiss last year, shortly after I met Stephanie at a signing here in my area! I absolutely fell in love with that book!!  I actually had bought Lola and the Boy Next Door (which is a companion novel to Anna and the French Kiss !) there as well, and had gotten it signed, knowing I would devour that book by the time I got to it! Well I did! From Goodreads :   Budding designer Lola Nolan doesn’t believe in fashion...she believes in costume. The more expressive the outfit--more sparkly, more fun, more wild--the better. But even though Lola’s style is outrageous, she’s a devoted daughter and friend with some big plans for the future. And everything is pretty perfect (right dow...

Hey Everyone!! It's giveaway time!!!! I am participating in the Young Adult Giveaway Hop hosted by I am a Reader, Not a Writer & BookLove101! Super excited, especially since Young Adult is my favorite genre!! This giveaway will be US Only, SORRY!!!, shipping is ridiculously expensive, but the US winner will have the choice of one of these fabulous books I'm giving away!!! Your choices are: Life in the Fat Lane by Cherie Bennett Jersey Angel by Beth Ann Bauman Flavor of the Week by Tucker Shaw Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen The Earth, My Butt, and Other Round Things by Carolyn Mackler You get to get choose only ONE if you're chosen as the winner!! So just fill out this Rafflecopter form!!! :) The contest will be open February 4th! a Rafflecopter giveaway Thanks Everyone! The Romance Bookie

Image from imdb So I FINALLY saw the movie for The Perks of Being a Wallflower today!! First off, let me just say that I was very skeptical walking into that theater today.  Honestly, I enjoyed the book, but had a somewhat tough time getting through it, because Charlie was pretty complex person.   I read The Perks of Being a Wallflower back in October, and ended up giving it 3 stars...I know, a lot of you who read it are probably having their jaws drop.  Why did I give only 3 stars? Well, honestly, because at the time I thought it just wasn't my type of story. However, now I know why! It's because this book needed to be seen come alive! The movie was absolutely beautiful!  The story came to life with the actors that Stephen Chbosky, who not only wrote POBAW, but ALSO produced, directed, wrote the screenplay, AND cast the entire production! I was thoroughly and pleasantly surprised by how many stars were featured in t...

***WARNING*** Mature Eyes Only!!! No body under the age of 17!!*** I was recommended Sylvia Day's Crossfire series, by one of my blogging friends, Liz, over at Books I Think You Should Read and Yes/No Films . Liz ended up trading with me the first two books of the series, with two of my old books; so I was definitely looking forward to checking them out! Well I finished Bared to You last night, and let me just say I'm glad it got recommended to me!! From Goodreads:   Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness… He was beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white-hot. I was drawn to him as I’d never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily… Gideon knew. He had demons of his own. And we would become the mirrors that reflected each other’s most private wounds…and desires.The bonds of his love transformed ...

Just one day...sometimes that's all it takes. From Goodreads : A breathtaking journey toward self-discovery and true love, from the author of If I Stay When sheltered American good girl Allyson "LuLu" Healey first meets laid-back Dutch actor Willem De Ruiter at an underground performance of Twelfth Night in England, there’s an undeniable spark. After just one day together, that spark bursts into a flame, or so it seems to Allyson, until the following morning, when she wakes up after a whirlwind day in Paris to discover that Willem has left. Over the next year, Allyson embarks on a journey to come to terms with the narrow confines of her life, and through Shakespeare, travel, and a quest for her almost-true-love, to break free of those confines. Just One Day is the first in a sweepingly romantic duet of novels. Willem’s story— Just One Year —is coming soon! My Thoughts: Wow! Just wow!  Gayle Forman has hands down done it again!  I know I have ...

So I know everyone is scrambling to get Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl read before the movie hits theaters on the 13th of February! And I am no exception haha :) I love reading the books before I see the movie!  From Goodreads :   "There were no surprises in Gatlin County. We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere. At least, that's what I thought. Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong. There was a curse. There was a girl. And in the end, there was a grave. Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever. Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has ...

Hey everyone! In honor of my finishing Beautiful Creatures , here's a song to get us all pumped for the movie! :) Happy Tuesday! :) The Romance Bookie :)

Let me just begin by saying that I have looking forward to Scarlet by Marissa Meyer since reading Cinder last February! So when I received my paperback version of Cinder last week, and found Marissa's short story Glitches, I was thrilled to say the least! :) About Glitches : Picture from Goodreads   Glitches is pretty much Cinder 0.5.  By that the half, I mean it is the story BEFORE Cinder's story in Cinder begins! It's the story of when Cinder first joins her adopted family.  Of her coming home to meet her not-so-friendly step-mother, Adri, her also not-so-nice stepsister, Pearl, and her actual loving other step sister, Peony; while also still having her loving step-father around. That is before her world is even further ripped apart, when her stepfather is taken from her and his family from the terrible disease, called letumosis, aka the plague of the future. My thoughts: If you've read and loved Cinder, and, like me, have been wai...

Hey Everyone! So I have a special announcement to make! Pretty Exciting right??!! :) Here's what the page looks like: And here's what my name looks like on it! I guess my computer edited the photo nicely! yay! :) Pretty awesome right?! And I'm right at the top!! :) Just wanted to share with you all this exciting news! :) The Romance Bookie :)

Hey Everyone! Happy Tuesday!! Today's song is... Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys! I heard it this morning on the news! :) The Romance Bookie :)

So I finally got my Macbook back, which pretty much is my lifeline when it comes to my Romance Bookie stuff! :) Here's the new In My Mailbox picture that I'll be using from now on! 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. SO I realized last week, after I posted my monthly IMM , I realized that I didn't share what Ebooks I got over the past month!! So for this month only there is going to be a Part 2! The Ebook Christmas Edition! For Review: From Author: Audrey's Guide to Black Magic by Jody Gehrman (the FIRST-First edition! Before the ARCs even come out!) (Cover not available yet!) From Netgalley:       Warm Bodies: Isaac Marion The Fetish Box...

Wow, WOw, WOW!!!! I can NOT believe that it has taken me this long to read Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver ! Honestly, can't believe I have waited THIS LONG!!! From Goodreads :   For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf--her wolf--is a chilling presence she can't seem to live without. Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human . . . until the cold makes him shift back again. Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It's her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human--or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever. My Thoughts: Wow, just Wow!  I can't even tell you how much I loved this book!  Everything about this book!  I loved the characters, the story, the writing (oh the writing! So go...

Hey Everyone! I'm SO SO excited right now!!! Why? Because I got an interview with ANTHEA SHARP!!! Who is Anthea Sharp? you may be asking? Well, she is only the author of this TOTALLY AWESOME trilogy, called Feyland !!! I've reviewed all three of the books here on The Romance Bookie! Here are the links to those: Feyland: The Dark Realm Feyland: The Bright Court and Feyland: The Twilight Kingdom ! The Romance Bookie:  Would you please tell the readers a bit about your "Feyland" trilogy?   Anthea Sharp: Set in an imagined near future with immersive gaming technology, the Feyland trilogy is the story of two teens who discover that a new prototype computer game is actually a gateway to the dangerous Realm of Faerie – and the fey folk have plans for the mortal world. The hero, Tam, and heroine, Jennet, must overcome their differences and trust issues and learn to work together. Throughout the three books, their relationship undergoes some change...

Today I'm so excited to have for all of you an excerpt from a new book called The K Street Affair !  Excerpt: Every soul employed in the fancy glass office building at 1050 Connecticut Avenue swarms the exits well before the alarm system finishes blaring its robotic instructions. We march slowly and deliberately down a stairwell plunged into blackness, illuminated only by emergency bulbs at each landing. I’m grateful nobody has panicked, but I can’t help silently urging my colleagues to pick up the pace. The alarm shrieks deep inside my head, even with my hands pressed over my ears. How many minutes since the floor rocked under our feet? Can aftershocks take down buildings? Crush the people in them? I try to estimate our progress, but lose count of the steps before we reach the pavement. I pause and blink at the shock of sunlight before realizing that every person who stops for a moment to regroup slows the evacuation. A detail cop yells at us to move north along Con...

The List is one of those books that I have been looking forward to reading since its release last April (2012).  I almost traded it with someone a couple of weeks ago, but that ended up not working out.  So when I went to the library last week, and found it in the Teen Section, I was excited and checked it out without even thinking about it. Let me just start by saying that for the fact this book has been on my to-be-read list since last April, I was disappointed. From Goodreads :   An intense look at the rules of high school attraction -- and the price that's paid for them. It happens every year. A list is posted, and one girl from each grade is chosen as the prettiest, and another is chosen as the ugliest. Nobody knows who makes the list. It almost doesn't matter. The damage is done the minute it goes up. This is the story of eight girls, freshman to senior, "pretty" and "ugly." And it's also the story of how we see oursel...

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Goodnight Everyone! Where ever you are! :) My first Music Tuesday of 2013 is officially going up!!  I've completely spaced, but it's time now!! :) So this first song, I've been listening to for weeks on the radio!  I absolutely love it! "Home" by Phillip Phillips! And this next band just has this awesome sound, a little similar to Phillip Phillips (above)! Mumford and Sons, "I Will Wait"! The Romance Bookie :)

    Good Day everyone!   Today I'm featuring Steven Manchester on The Romance Bookie!  His new book Goodnight Brian is out tomorrow!                                                        Goodnight Brian diagnosis excerpt Brian was eleven months old when Doctor Alexander summoned the Mauretti family into his office to deliver the final verdict. Mama insisted that she be there. No one objected. It was a late winter afternoon, a howling wind knocking on blocks of ice that were once windows. Doctor Alexander sat behind his tidy desk, looking distressed. Joan nearly cried when she saw his demeanor and immediately leaned on Frank for support. Avoiding initial eye contact, the young doctor was clearly having trouble offering his prognosis. He cleared his throat and finally reported, “We’ve discovered th...

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. Hey Everyone!! First IMM of 2013!!! :) I got some amazing things over the past month that I'm very excited to share with all of you!! I was actually planning on making a video post, however, my Macbook is currently in the shop with some difficulties (my dog chewed on the cable, which caused it to Short out ;(), but I will be hopefully getting it back next week, and then next month I'll be able to make my first video IMM! So here's what I got over the past month! So I did my second ever trading this month! I actually traded quite a few books! :) So I traded: Bared to You (Crossfire #1) by Sylvia Day Reflected in You (Crossfire #2) by Sylv...