I’m Only Happy When It Rains…. EXCERPTS
April 19, 2008
Ok I am going to work toward getting all the nifty prizes logged today and we will start giving them out. Some of them will go to random comment in a post with these icons. WHAT icons? Read more
Tags: Bonnie Edwards, Caroline Linden, Charlene Sands, Cheryl St.John, DeWanna Pace, E.C. Sheedy, HelenKay Dimon, Hope Tarr, Jenna Petersen, Jennifer Estep, Jill Shalvis, Jodi Thomas, Julie Leto, Karen Templeton, Laura Drewry, Linda Broday, Lisa Kleypas, Liz Carlyle, Lora Leigh, Lynne Connolly, Madeline Hunter, Michelle Styles, pamela clare, Phyliss Miranda, Raining Excerpts, Roxanne St. Claire, Sabrina Jeffries, Stephanie Tyler, Sydney CroftEXCLUSIVE EXCERPT: Never Romance a Rake by Liz Carlyle **JULY 2008**
April 18, 2008
Never Romance a Rake by Liz Carlyle
This is THE book. Yes THE book. The one that I have wanted since Thanksgiving when I closed The School for Heiresses (see my review) and thought OMG I MUST have his book.
I had no clue I would have to wait this long. Now I am sure you haven’t noticed, but I am not a patient person. I know, I know, you don’t believe it… but it is true. THE WAIT - is almost over. The Excerpt… just might explain why you need this book. Why you want this book. Yes this is the historical of the summer, the one you didn’t even know you needed to be counting down the minutes too.
You are most welcome.
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Absolutely Soaking Wet…
April 9, 2008
EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT: Secrets of Surrender by Madeline Hunter
EXCERPT Part I: Thigh High: Parlor Games by Bonnie Edwards
EXCERPT: Phantom Pleasures by Julie Leto
EXCERPT Part I: Unlawful Contact
EXCERPT Part II: Unlawful Contact
EXCERPT Part III: Unlawful Contact
EXCERPT Part IV: Unlawful Contact
SSE EXCERPT: Dear Santa by Karen Templeton
EXCERPT Part II: Thigh High: Thigh High by Bonnie Edwards
EXCERPT: Give Me a Texan: The Love Letter by Linda Broday
EXCERPT: Give Me a Texan: No Time for Love by Phyliss Miranda
EXCERPT: Give Me a Texan: A Shade of Sunrise by DeWanna Pace
EXCERPT: Give Me a Texan: Amarillo By Morning by Jodi Thomas
EXCERPT Part III: Thigh High: Twinkle Twinkle Little Thong by Bonnie Edwards
Excerpt from Viking Warrior, Unwilling Wife by Michelle Styles
new historical release from Mills & Boone with a UK release in June 2008
Yours, Mine…or Ours is book two in Karen Templeton’s Guys & Daughters series (Dear Santa, Yours, Mine…or Ours? and Baby, I’m Yours)
Excerpt of Taken by the Viking by Michelle Styles, coming 1 May!!
Historical romance released by Harlequin 1 May 2008
Excerpt Unlawful Contact by Pamela Clare aka the one to steam the screen
I am missing some and will add them tomorrow (I see Kresley Cole’s aren’t here). More excerpts to come from Lisa Kleypas, Jill Shalvis, Lynne Connolly, Stephanie Tyler, Caroline Linden, HelenKay Dimon, EC Sheedy, Liz Carlyle, Hope Tarr, Lora Leigh, Sabrina Jeffries, Jenna Petersen, Laura Drewry, Sydney Croft, Roxanne St. Claire, Jennifer Estep, Cheryl St.John and many more….
As well as some nifty prizes from t-shirts and books *g*. Some you will have to answer questions from the excerpts and other will be random drawings from the comments.
Tags: Bonnie Edwards, Caroline Linden, Cheryl St.John, DeWanna Pace, E.C. Sheedy, HelenKay Dimon, Hope Tarr, Jenna Petersen, Jennifer Estep, Jill Shalvis, Jodi Thomas, Julie Leto, Karen Templeton, Laura Drewry, Linda Broday, Lisa Kleypas, Liz Carlyle, Lora Leigh, Lynne Connolly, Madeline Hunter, Michelle Styles, pamela clare, Phyliss Miranda, Raining Excerpts, Roxanne St. Claire, Sabrina Jeffries, Stephanie Tyler, Sydney CroftNever Romance a Rake by Liz Carlyle **June 17, 2008**
January 15, 2008
The book I have been looking forward to reading since Thanksgiving 2006 and the final installment of Liz Carlyle’s latest trilogy.
Doesn’t the cover go wonderfully with the blog?
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I have been in something of a funk
July 21, 2005
Which means I spent the weekend rereading book… two I didn’t even remember reading. And that sort of spilled over to the week.
Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas was my first reread last Friday. Derek and Sarah… what more do you have to say. I love this book. It is just wonderful.
Which lead me to read Tiger’s Eye by Karen Robards since people tend to say it is like DoY. I must have skimmed it the first time I read it because I didn’t remember reading it until the very end with the bathtub scene, which that scene still annoys me.
Go figure… I can see how it gets compared to DoY but DoY blows it away. A good read I would rate about a C.
I then moved onto Forbidden Love by Karen Robards and poof read that too. And sorry maili, I liked it. I would rate it about a C-, it is way flawed but a nifty guilty pleasure read.
The next on the hit list aka randomly picked off the shelf was The Seducer and The Sinner by Madeline Hunter.
I still love both of these books. Madeline Hunter is one of my favorites and she has a way with an old plot. She can take it and make it new, fresh, fun and exciting. I wish we could get another Medieval out of her but I am still in love with this series and so need to read LoS. I dont think I ever really read it, more like skimmed and marked it as a want to read later.
Beauty Like the Night and The Devil You Know by Liz Carlyle came next.
I adore Liz Carlyle and am looking forward to her new series. The funny thing is The Devil You Know is the first book by her I read and I hated it. I didn’t pick up another one of her books until AWoV was recently rereleased and after falling in love with her short story in Big Guns Out of Uniform Let’s Talk About Sex.
Now I have no idea if it has to do with reading BLtN first and having read AWoV so I understood Bentley more than I did the first time but I just fell in love with this story. Rosario has a great review for the story and it pretty much sums up what I love about it. I would say to enjoy Carlyle you need to read her earlier works. So it is a good thing she is having them reprinted and at GREAT prices. What a great way to get new fans.
So what is my point in all this? I have been reading, just not the 10+ books I am suppose to read for AAR reviews. But I think I have found my groove again. So off I go to try my hand at new books. I also have company this weekend, so I really need to kick my ass into gear.
Tags: Dreaming of You, Karen Robards, Lisa Kleypas, Liz Carlyle, Madeline Hunter, rereading for healing, The Devil You Know, The Seducer, The Sinner, Tiger's EyeThe days take
May 20, 2005
geeze wasn’t someone suppose to be watching me or something? next thing you know, I am gonna have to be responsible for my own actions…
But hey I could drink my money away or have a shoe habit or whatever
hi my name is sybil and I am a bookaholic
Trade:
Men of August - Marly’s Choice By Lora Leigh
Thanks nicole! I really need to set up a trade list or something.
Used:
Southern Comfort by Karen Kelley
I have never heard of this book or this author. Anyone have an opinion?
Widow’s Little Secret by Judith Stacy
I am a Harlequin Historical whore, what can I say.
Letters From a Stranger, Forever and a Day and Unspoken Vows by Connie Rinehold
Kristie J made me do it. Well she rec’ed Letters and I am easy.
New:
Jamie by Lori Foster
This is the end of the Visitation series. I really didn’t think I would like this and had Just Say No to Joe forever before I read it. For whatever reason it completely caught my interest. Lori Foster is a hit or miss author for me. I hope this ends the series well.
Beach Blanket Bad Boys by Linda Lael Miller, Alison Kent, Lucy Monroe, Jill Shalvis, Susanna Carr, Morgan Leigh
note to self: order trade size books from amazon or bamm. I just paid 15.00 bucks for this. The line up of authors is great so I am hoping it was worth it and it is the second of the bad boy books I have bought new. So all in all it is worth the price. But the next one, will be purchased online.
Bad in Boots - Colt’s Choice by Patrice Michelle
I love a good western, make it a hot western and I am in heaven. I have only read one story by Patrice Michelle Hearts Are Wild with Cheyenne McCray , Patrice Michelle , Nelissa Donovan and I enjoyed her story. This is the second in the Bad in Boots series and in sybilfashion I don’t have the first one yet. oops I do have Dragon’s Heart, A Taste for Passion (vamps) and A Taste for Revenge (vamps) to read. She does say there will be more BiB books coming as well as the vamps.
Beauty Like the Night by Liz Carlyle
New to me author, I am really enjoying her backlist.
Marry the Man Today by Linda Needham
I am not really sure why the hell I bought this. I have only read two books by Needham and didn’t like either. I am trying to cut back on my ’spy’ books. And she is a dreaded avon author (looks at kristiej). I didn’t even know about this book and honestly, ::hangs head:: the cover caught my eye. It is purple with a carriage and really pretty font. I picked it up and was in a rush (got there 20 mins before they closed). I am going to look up what I can on the book and I MIGHT go back and exchange it tomorrow for something else. Ten to one I throw it in the tbr pile and use it for that avon post I am going to someday do.
Hero, Come Back by Stephanie Laurens, Christina Dodd, Elizabeth Boyle - talked a lil about this one earlier
Master of Pleasure by Jessica Trapp - talked a lil about this one earlier
hee and the library sale is tomorrow at 11 
Then I think I am set for the week. The thing that really sucks ass, is I am going into work in the morning. le sigh I would have had more time tonight to read the shit load of books I have but real life got in the way.
