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Friday Blog Hop!

 

So I know there's the Blogomania today (hosted by Between the Pages)... But I didn't want to not join in on Friday Blog Hop!

Last week, I found some real fun blogs!

Check them out :D

Book of Secrets (She's got a really great looking blog!)

Tori from Book Faery found me! I've been following her for a while, so she's obviously good :D

And, I found Christina from Randomness and Reading by Christina!

Okaaay.. actually they all found me, but I added them! I'm hoping to be a more active member this week!

"It's Friday! Time for another Book Blogger HOP!!  

This is for ALL BOOK BLOGGERS (NEW AND OLD) and READERS! Let's make some new friends and have fun! It's FRIDAY!!!"

Check out Crazy-for-Books who is the host of the Friday blog hop! Thanks for letting me join Crazy! :D

Thanks for stopping by! I look forward to seeing your blog :D

Check out the blogs below! Some great blogs out there [some I found and follow through this blog hop opportunity :D]

Thursday Throwdown!

To see the rules, check this page for the detailed rules.

Short explanation:

4 categories: Characters, Covers, Authors, Books

Choose your favorites based on your own criteria (read/like/enjoy/met/signed copy of them)

Winners from last week's Throwdown are first in each category.

Characters:

<---  Faithe from Rachel Vincent's Shifter Series

(Tough Werecat enforcer who's not afraid to throw a punch to get her way.)

vs.

Detective Lindsay Boxer from Jame's Patterson's Women's Murder Club Series. (She chases a Jewel thief, a murderous movie star, and a killer with a vendetta against women and children.)  --->

Covers:

 

 Promise Me Tonight by Sara Lindsay

vs.

A Tapestry of Spells by Lynn Kurland

Authors:

Nora Roberts

bio

vs.

Joshua Cooper Ramo

bio

Books:

On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah
[B&N Synopsis: Annie Colwater’s husband has just confessed that he’s in love with a younger woman. Devastated, Annie retreats to the small town where she grew up. There, she is reunited with her first love, Nick Delacroix, a recent widower who is unable to cope with his silent, emotionally scarred young daughter. Together, the three of them begin to heal. But just when Annie believes she’s been given a second chance at happiness, her world is turned upside down again, and she is forced to make a choice that no woman in love should ever have to make.]

vs.

The Runaway Princess by Christina Dodd   

[B&N Synopsis: The Runaway Princess, is a royal treat. When Miss Evangeline Scoffield comes into her inheritance after a lowly life as an orphan in England, she's able to live the big life. Expensive gowns, pricey trips abroad, and suddenly Evangeline is a fine lady of indeterminate background. But she finds that acquiring a new identity can lead to trouble when a handsome stranger comes into her life and tells her that not only is he a prince, but they are to be married. Don't miss this one!] 

Voting ends 11:59pm on Tuesday May 4th. Please  be sure to post your vote below or a link to your blog where your vote can be found. I can only count those on my blog for practical purposes.

Let the Battle Begin!!!

FrEAk OUt!!

Ah! so in case you didn't know... I work at a book distribution company (we stock grocery and department stores with books... I do the computer/desk work behind the scenes)... and I was walking by someone's desk and saw they were working with a book that I ... I would probably sell my first born for. They always are the hardest to deal with anyway, right? You get it better the second time around. ;). (I may be a little biased.. since I'm the second child.. hehe)


So I walk by and about have a heart attack. I've joked around that I needed to go into our warehouse and search every box until I find this book and take it home with me. I wouldn't be able to sleep, I'd just keep reading. Work would take a distant second in my "need-to-definitely-take-care-of" list. #1? Who's #1.. that kind of thing... Buuut... I never checked to see if we received it in, since the temptation would be too great.

Well, walking by that desk, I saw it. Wrapped in a rubberband with 2 other absolutely insignificant books in my tunnel vision... Vampire Academy's Spirit Bound. I almost... I don't know... grabbed it, stuffed it under my sweatshirt, and ran outside with it. Or bite the person holding it and take the other two books in the rubber band to knock them out. I even contemplated using ground coffee beans to rub in their eyes so they would be blinded until I stole it, claiming stress overcame me and I blacked out for the past couple minutes.... But I didn't. No, I definitely did caress it.

Now that I know it's in... I don't know if I'm going to make it until May 18th.. Hell, I don't think I can make it until May! I may go insane. Stop eating. Stop exercising. (okaaay, so the last one I want to do anyway... but can't do that with the wedding coming up.. in 129 days..). I just, I dunno.. the book looked like the biggest so far. Blood Promise was pretty big, but this was larger than expected. I've always <3 Rose and Dimitri and Adrian so much!!! And I NEED to know what happens! aaagh!

Updates

So, I temporarily stopped reading One Bite With A Stranger by Christine Warren since I was lucky enough to win MORE by Sloan Parker from Janna's contest at Erotic Romance Reader. Sloan sent me the e-book and I'm sooo... torn. I want to finish it. Not only because I feel like I have an obligation since I won and I don't want people to think I don't appreciate the winning, but because it's so freaking good. BUT!! I also don't want to finish it. Because then... it'd be done... and I don't know if I can handle that. (hehe) I will post my review the moment I can make myself finish their lives. I think I know where it's going in the story, buuut, I don't know. AAAHHH!! Sloan!!!!!! You're torturing me! haha. I have become the worst worker in the history of time... everytime I have to open a file or look up books online (work for a book distribution company and I'm looking up books ALL the time), I pull up MORE and read for longer than it takes to do any of my work to catch up with me... In other words, I've hardly worked for the past 2 days.. oops!!


K! Next update... DemonLover posted chapter 2 in her book she's posting on her blog! I'm also reading that after I post this. I had dreams about her characters and then realized how lucky I am that I never had to do the online dating thing.


Chapter 1
Chapter 2


All I can think, is that DemonLover is extremely brave! She's been getting fantastic reviews from fellow bloggers and her followers! READ it :D Chapter 2 get's you simmering to a great place... beware! DemonLover is sadistic and makes you want more... then yanks it from you at a pivotal moment. ugh!


Thursday Throwdown! is today!! Come back and vote for your favorite!!

Thursday Throwdown! Results

RESULTS of last week's Thursday Throwdown!:


Characters:

Covers:

Authors:

Books:

Tomorrow they'll go out to battle again! Come back to see who they battle against tomorrow!!:D

Thursday Throwdown!

Make sure you vote for your Thursday Throwdown choices! It ends tonight at 11:59pm [PST].


Thanks guys!