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Hey Everyone! I finished another book!  I bought this one along with Shrill , when I found an Amazon Books store in NYC last week! I cannot believe I already finished both in less than a week, when I hadn't finished a single book since last July! From Goodreads : In season four of Darren Star's hit TV Land series Younger , the editors of Empirical Press are shocked and deeply moved when they read Marriage Vacation , an autobiographical novel by the publisher's estranged wife, Pauline Turner Brooks.  Knowing the book will cause a sensation, they decide they must publish it.  Now you can read what the hype is about. To find herself...she might lose everything. By all appearances, Kate Carmichael had the perfect life: two adorable daughters, a pre-war town house on the Upper East Side, and a husband who ran one of the most successful publishing companies in New York.  But when Kate attends the wedding of two of her oldest friends, and reconnect...

Hello Everyone! Please excuse the absence right now...I'm moving!!! :)  So to say things are a little crazy is an understatement... :) Anyway, I've had it, and I'm done keeping my mouth shut! I want to apologize to a certain author, so I have decided to write her a letter here on The Romance Bookie, to show her that not all of us in the book world are like the people who treated her so poorly in the last couple of days. Dear Ericka L. James, I want to apologize to you, and tell you I am so sorry for the way you have been treated in the last days, and even over the past couple of years by some people in this world.   While I know you are strong, I know it can also be tough, to just hear nothing but negativity from the world, who don't appreciate what you do; I want you to know, there are way more people in the world who DO appreciate what you and so many of our favorite authors do for a living. Not only are you a successful published author, but you are one...

Purchased New Releases of the Month: True (#3 in Elixir Trilogy) by Hilary Duff   (you can read my review  HERE !) This is What Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith  (currently reading! Review should go up soon! :)) Purchased from Used Book Shop: If I Stay by Gayle Forman  (already own a copy of this, signed! but I thought this one would make a great giveaway or trade! :)) Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson  (same as If I Stay ) The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell  (only $1!)   Three Plums in One by Janet Evanovich  (#1-3 in Stephanie Plum Series!) (Only $1!!! in HARDCOVER!!) Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich  (#17 in Stephanie Plum Series) (this is still fairly new!  And only $3!) Bought and received from  The Story Siren : So Kristi over at The Story Siren was getting rid of some of her books, and she had this deal if you bought one of the finished copies, she would give you TWO ARCs of you...

***WARNING***May contain spoilers, if you haven't read the previous books in series!!!*** Hey!! So two weeks ago, I got an email from Goodreads letting me know that Hilary Duff's new book True  was available NOW!  I started freaking out! I thought I still have time! I didn't know it was being released in April already! I thought next month or June!  But no, it came out on APRIL 16th!!!! And I missed the preorder!! So I ended up getting my copy last week, and as soon I finished the book I was reading at the time, I immediately picked up my copy of True !! The Third and FINAL book in the Elixir Trilogy !! :) I believe I MAY have mentioned this in my reviews for  Elixir  and  Devoted  that I was and am a HUGEEEEEEEE Hilary Duff fan!! I was especially when I was growing up!! I still am a fan, and support everything Hilary Duff does in her career, because she was my role model growing up! She was just so awesome!! Anyway now to review of True ....

Hey Everyone! This week's song is another song dedicated to Rachel Harris's new novel My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century ! If you want to be a part of the Flirt Squad, all you have to do is go HERE !, and by the way, if you do sign up to do, mention my name in the email to Rachel, and then let me know that you referred me!! :) Anyway today's song is... I grew up on this song! Seriously! I loved this one in middle school!  In fact, on my sixteenth birthday I was secretly hoping that my parents had gotten Hilary Duff to sing it to me for my bday! haha, unfortunately, as you can mention that never happened, however, I did get to see her live in concert the next month!  August 15th, 2007, awesome day!! Anyway enjoy! :) The Romance Bookie :)

Hilary Duff was my absolute childhood idol growing up.  She was my inspiration.  Lizzie McGuire was my absolute favorite show, I cried during that last episode when Lizzie finally kissed Gordo in their class picture; and Metamorphosis, Hilary Duff, and Dignity were my absolute favorite CDs.  I know I'm weird for admitting this, and yes, it is quite embarrassing, but I did cry when I heard her sing Someone's Watching Over Me during her August 15th Dignity Concert Tour Show at Gibson Theater in Los Angeles, California in 2007; and when I got to go to her signing last November for her Elixir book tour.  IT WAS EMBARRASSING!! I had dreamed about talking to Hilary for years and years, and when I finally got to...I burst into tears right in front of her! It was horrible! I had so many questions I wanted to ask her, and I couldn't because I was crying! Anyway...(luckily I will most likely never meet any of you, so I don't feel to bad for telling you that story, because be...