The Romance Bookie

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...

I have had this week off for President's Week from my work, so I thought it would be a good time to at least get a little reading done, when I'm not having to do homework or go to the Dentist!  So after finally being able to download it onto my Kindle (no internet!), I have been able to read Meg Cabot's novella that is the predecessor to Meg's latest edition to the Mediator Series , Remembrance.   This one is called  The Proposal  and it is a short, fun story giving us readers (adult readers!) the proposal that we didn't get to hear the story about in Remembrance ! When I met Meg last week, she mentioned to us listeners that what is great about this two new editions to the Mediator  series, is that they can stand along from the original young adult series, that accompanies these two new books.  However, I do recommend you read the original series, either before or after, preferably before, because let's not spoil the story! Now to the review of The Prop...

Hey Everyone! Sorry it's been a while again, since my last book review.  Unfortunately, life has hit its crazy point again.  Both school and my other job have started again, so I'm working Monday through Saturdays, with late days during the week.  I'm trying to find some time here and there to read, but since homework has been piled on since Day 1, and work is taking up A LOT of my time, the book reviews will be further and further apart again for at least a while. Anyway I've finished Lauren Clark's latest release... Pie Girls !! From Goodreads : Princess, Southern belle, and spoiled-rotten social climber Searcy Roberts swore on a stack of Bibles she’d never return home to Fairhope, Alabama. After marrying her high school sweetheart and moving to Atlanta, Searcy embraces big-city life—Carrie Bradshaw style. But now, Searcy has a teeny, tiny problem. Her husband’s had a mid-life crisis. He’s quit his job, cancelled her credit cards, and left her for anot...

***WARNING!!! This Book Contains Graphic Material Not Suitable for anyone under the age of 17!!!!***  ADULT NOVEL, means not for you children!! Good Morning Everyone! (Or if you live somewhere where it is not morning...Happy Thursday Everyone! :)) I just finished an exciting release that will hit stores this coming Tuesday!  I'm so excited to share it with you!! From Goodreads: One-night stands are supposed to be with someone convenient, or wickedly persuasive, or regrettable. They aren’t supposed to be with someone like him. But after a crazy Vegas weekend celebrating her college graduation—and terrified of the future path she knows is a cop-out—Mia Holland makes the wildest decision of her life: follow Ansel Guillaume—her sweet, filthy fling—to France for the summer and just…play. When feelings begin to develop behind the provocative roles they take on, and their temporary masquerade adventures begin to feel real, Mia will have to decide if she belongs in the ...

Hey Everyone!! So Jamie McGuire made a super awesome announcement a couple of weeks ago, that had me squealing like a serious fan-girl! Fans of Travis Maddox, from the Beautiful Disaster  series will be thrilled to know that on December 10th (next Tuesday! One Week from today!!), the story of Abby and Travis's wedding will be revealed when Beautiful Wedding is released! Well, thanks to the wonderful publishers at Atria I was lucky enough to get an advanced finished copy of the book last week, so of course, me being the squealing fan-girl started to devour it right away! From Goodreads: You know that Abby Abernathy unexpectedly became Mrs. Maddox. But what do you really know? Why did Abby pop the question? What secrets were shared before the ceremony? Where did they spend their wedding night? Who else knew about it . . . and didn’t tell? Everything about Abby and Travis’s elopement was top-secret . . . until now. Fans of Beautiful Disaster and Walking Disaster will get...

***WARNING***ADULT CONTENT INVOLVING INAPPROPRIATE SUBJECTS FOR ANYONE UNDER THE AGE OF 18!!!*** Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!! This is a bittersweet moment...in one sense it's exciting to read the conclusion of a series, just because it's nice to add that final book to your collection on your bookshelf; but at the same time it's sad to say goodbye to characters you've slowly begun to know as friends...maybe that's just me though! I love getting to know characters, and Christina Lauren's Beautiful Bastard series was no exception! From Goodreads : Love that Cover! Back when not being able to stand each other also meant not being able to keep their hands off each other in  Beautiful Bastard , neither Bennett nor Chloe could have seen this day coming. An exasperated bride who just wants to elope. A determined groom whose only focus is getting to the wedding night. And—of course—a whole lot of name calling. My Thoughts: This series ...

***May Contain SPOILERS from previous novels in the series!!*** The Fate of the Muse is the third book in The Marina Tales by Derrolyn Anderson.  Between the Land and the Sea was the first in the series which started off Marina's tales as she moved to Aptos, California to live with her aunt and cousin. She meets Ethan, a handsome boy her age, who she finds herself falling for faster than she could have ever imagined.  Along the way she learns her mother, who passed away while giving birth to Marina, had a secret that no one ever knew, except her father.  She was a mermaid. When Marina learns to surf, she soon finds that she has these powers.  She can talk to mermaids in their native tongue, and becomes friends with a couple of them. In The Tide and the Moon , the sequel to Between the Land and the Sea Marina learns more about her mermaid heritage, including some secrets that come to surprise, pertaining to people in her lives.  She learns more about hers...

Happy Sunday everyone! So I don't think I've done this in the past, but from now on I have decided to make a review on movies where I have read the books.  It will most likely not happen very often, but once in a while, there will be a movie review up! ***WARNING!!! May Contain SPOILERS*** So today, I FINALLY saw One Day with Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess.  I read the book last year in September and Reviewed it, and absolutely adored it!  It is one of the most tragic love stories I have ever read!  So realistic, lovely, and moments of "I hate you so much right now" and "Oh I love you too!".  I just adored it! Well, anyway, so today I watched the movie...FINALLY!!  And even though I liked it, I couldn't help feeling a bit disappointed throughout sometimes. Let me begin by saying that the book was very detailed.  It skipped from year to year, starting off in 1988, when Emma and Dex first met and their friendship began, all the way up until ...

So I have spent the past two days, huddled over my Kindle, reading like crazy...and all because I just couldn't stop! Thanks to Library Thing and Sibel Hodge I won a e-book copy of The Baby Trap .  And let me just tell you...if I would have known about this book before, I would have bought it and read it! I loved it so much! The Baby Trap is the story of Gina and her husband, Karl, trying to conceive a baby.  Unfortunately, it becomes extremely difficult, and Gina soon finds out it might not be as simple as they had anticipated it to be.  After going through gruesome tests, research, yoga, acupuncture, crystal spiritual healings, and Feng-shui (hahahaha), still no luck! As I mentioned a few entries ago in my review for Withering Tights by Louise Rennison , I love Love LOVE British humor! But what makes British humor even better??  Adult British Humor!  The Baby Trap had it all...my favorite British Humor (with words like fufu, willy, and bloody), great ...