The Romance Bookie

Back in the Fall of 2011, while I was taking first Early Child Development Class we were given an assignment...pick a movie from a list and discuss it.  Among that list was Speak . I'm going to be honest here...I had honestly never heard of the book before, let alone a movie!  But when I saw it featured Kristen Stewart (the star of one of my favorite book movie adaptations) I knew it was the movie I wanted to see. And dang, let me just say how GLAD I am that I did! It was almost a year later, when in July I was talking to Kody Keplinger (the author of The DUFF ) when she mentioned she LOVED this book called Speak .  At the time, I honestly hadn't been thinking about the movie, but after the video chat I went on Goodreads and looked it up and that was when I found out! As soon as I knew Speak (the movie) was based on a book, I KNEW I had to read that book! A few weeks ago I found Speak (the book) sitting on one of my friend's bookshelves, and pretty much hijacked...

I've had The Perks of Being a Wallflower sitting on my bookshelf since late last year (when I received it for FREE!! ), and since then I've told myself to pick it up and read it many times, but I just haven't had the chance...plus I knew it would be a tough to get through because of the tough topics it discusses. Anyway, I finally did it!! So as some of you may know the movie was just released based on this novel, and from what I've heard it's a good one!  Stephen Chbosky, who also wrote the book, made the movie, so I think it's pretty much a guarantee that it will be true to his novel!  At least we can only hope!! Anyway, now to the review... Description from Goodreads : Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The...

***WARNING!!!! MATURE EYES ONLY!! CONTAINS SEMI-GRAPHIC ADULT SCENES!!!*** Okay so I'm just going to come out and say it... Lip Service ??  That sounds pretty gross right?? Well, what a surprise I was in for!! And let me just tell you I'm SOOOO glad it wasn't what I thought it meant!! So anyway, Lip Service by MJ Rose was originally released in 1999, and while it has been compared to the NYT Bestselling series Fifty Shades of Grey EL James, let us all do the math...If Lip Service was originally released in 1999 and Fifty Shades in 2011, shouldn't we be comparing Fifty Shades to Lip Service , not the other way around??? Anyhow, to be honest I don't actually know why they have been compared, because other than similarity in genre... Erotica, they are both completely different novels! Description from Goodreads : Lip Service is the prequel to M.J. Rose's Bestselling Butterfield Institute Series which includes three novels - The Halo Eff...