The Romance Bookie

 Hey! I finally finished an actual novel this month!  It's been a rather odd month.  I'm feeling off at the moment, can't really explain it, but my head has been in the clouds so to say.   But anyway, finished an actual book in July, instead of another graphic novel. The Girl Least Likely by Katy Loutzenhiser was released on June 29th, so a new release! From Goodreads: To All the Boys meets The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (with a dash of Dumplin' ) in this funny, romantic, and heartfelt coming of age story about a teen stand-up comic learning how to be her truest self, from the author of If You're Out There . Gretchen has always been more of a "least likely" than a "most likely" kind of girl. So how does she somehow find herself living out every trope from her favorite rom-coms...? The Best Friend Crush: Why is it suddenly so hard to act normal around her childhood BFF, Samuel? Must be time for a -- Makeover(!): Black leather pants and some red lipstic...

So I finally saw it!!! Yes!!! I just couldn't stand the wait anymore, so I bit the bullet and rented for the first time ever a movie over iTunes!! Janet Evanovich's first Stephanie Plum book, One for the Money was made into a movie and came into theaters earlier this year...like WAY EARLIER this year!  I actually read the book back in February ( Review can be found HERE!) and thought it was one of the funniest things ever!! Since then I've only only read the first and second, but enjoying every minute of it!  Katherine Heigl portrays Stephanie in the movie, and even though I've heard many complaints about the casting choice, for me it was great, because I actually read the book after I already knew she was portraying the role, so I imagined her as Stephanie while reading. I also actually really liked her brunette hair in the role! Overall, Katherine's portrayal was pretty good!  I will admit I did feel she had a tough time keeping up the Jersey accent at...

Ten Girls to Watch by Charity Shumway will be hitting shelves tomorrow, through Atria Publications, a branch from Simon Schuster.  I was lucky enough to get a finished copy last week in the mail from Simon and Schuster, so I was jumping up and down with excitement!! :) Dawn West is a rut.  She moved to New York hoping to become a big shot published writer, and living in a great apartment, but instead is writing for a Lawn Care company, giving advice to people on a subject she doesn't even know about, and has to borrow tons of library books to answer; plus she's living in a run down apartment in Brooklyn, with a roommate who has decided to stop paying her rent, because her plans changed after she quit her job and was supposed to move to Toledo to be with her, now, ex-boyfriend! While all this is going on, she's also got an ex-boyfriend that somehow continues to pop up in her life...okay, so partially that one's Dawn's own fault.  When her ex and his new girlfrien...