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Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
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Monday, August 26, 2013
I know, I know I need to find a different genre, but come on there are so many funny ones that I just cannot seem to help myself.There was no word search this week, because no one sent me words or commented this week. *Sigh* I felt so unloved!
Wait! Have you stumbled here by mistake or your friend sent you the link ( oh man I hope) and have absolutely no idea what I am talking about? Well just a brief intro to what Monday WTF! editions are all about.
I love books and while trolling for books on Amazon's free list, I came across some shocking titles and thought WTF! Then I told my friend and she said I should make a list of them and post them on my blog. This is what I have been doing the past several weeks, just for laughs. I don't include author names or links because it is not meant to harm them. Just a bit of a most needed laughs for Monday mornings!
Hope you enjoy!
This weeks list:
1) Breaking Down ( Really??? My first thought was that the title was too much like Breaking Dawn ugh!)
2) Short Smut! ( okay so why couldn't this be Tall Smut or what if I like my smut to be Purple? Why short? I mean it just leaves all the other possibilities out and well makes those other smuts feel bad. Meanies!)
3) Darling, I Just Got Laid ( freaking braggarts. I mean you can't talk about it if I am not getting any. It's not nice!)
4) Turbo Tampon ( This sounds like a weapon and not something sexual. I mean no one really enjoys tampon's right? So I am picturing a tampon with spikes and she pulls it out of her vagina and it is a sword or something. Or maybe it is a tampon that works so fast that one application pulls all the period out of you and poof, your week of the dreaded curse is gone in 3.2 seconds! )
5) Her Very Special Robot ( Does it clean? Will it text for me? Does it get netflix? Can it pay my bills? Because if it can't do anything like that, it's just not worth the batteries that I would have to put into it. )
So those are titles for this week, I am sure I will find more and next weeks will be on time. ( I hope)
If you would like to contribute to my search shoot me an email at leanneherrera@gmail.com or leave a comment. I also review and beta read if you would like help with that. I just really like mail and comments, it makes me feel less like I am talking to myself.
Hugs have an absolutely awesome Monday!
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Meet Dorothy Jarrow: devotedly unsexy librarian
Buttoned-up book lover DJ is all sensible shoes, drab skirts and studious glasses. After an ill-advised spring-break-fueled fling left her mortified, she's committed to her prim and proper look. When she's hired by a rural library in middle-of-nowhere Kansas, she finally has the lifestyle to match—and she can't wait to get her admin on.
But it's clear from day one that the small-town library is more interested in circulating rumors than books. DJ has to organize her unloved library, win over oddball employees and avoid her flamboyant landlady's attempts to set her up with the town pharmacist. Especially that last part—because it turns out handsome Scott Sanderson is her old vacation fling! She is not sure whether to be relieved or offended when he doesn't seem to recognize her. But with every meeting, DJ finds herself secretly wondering what it would be like to take off her glasses, unpin her bun and reveal the inner vixen she's been hiding from everyone—including herself.
My review:
This book was so good! I got to learn things and join in on the struggle as Dorothy finally opened up and let the world see who she really was. Okay so not the world but the tiny community that she moved into at least. I love the characters and how they all were there for each other. The story line was easy to follow and kept me turning the page. I loved this, sure it is a sappy romance and has an a typical storyline but there were unique aspects to this book. It was written very well, making it realistic. I recommend this to all my friends who love to read about love and making big changes.
About the author:
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Presents
Buy links
Synopsis:
A Montana town where no one is who they seem....
Everything about runaway heiress Ainsley McLeon
screamed trouble—from her luscious midnight locks to her
Louboutin-clad toes. Yet sexy, stoic bar owner Luc couldn’t
deny the instant connection he felt to the tempting stranger…or the
long-dead feelings she evoked. She could work in his pub until
her truck was fixed but after that she had to leave town for good.
Ainsley traveled with her own emotional baggage and
there was no way she'd fall for the bear-tempered Luc...no matter how
many passionate nights she spent in his bed or how safe she felt in
his muscular arms. Can these two opposites find love in the middle of
a blizzard, or will Luc's darker side and Ainsley's past catch up
with them?
My review:
I loved that this had an actual storyline and wasn't a wham bam thank you ma'am novel. I want to read more! It had it's hot and sexy erotic moments to it, that brought out the fan. I loved the paranormal aspects of it. The title gave me the giggles, the story intrigued me and fulfilled my shifter need for the week. The author did a good job at pulling you in right from the beginning and stringing you along the entire book. If you love shifter romance, and want something more that werewolves, then this is the book for you!
About the author:
Bestselling
author Candace Havens has written twelve novels for Berkley,
Entangled and Harlequin. She is also in the anthology Spirited,
the proceeds of which help a literacy organization.
Her
books have received nominations for the RITA's, Holt Medallion and
Write Touch Reader Awards.
She
is the author of the biography Joss Whedon: The Genius Behind
Buffy and a contributor to several anthologies. She is also one
of the nation's leading entertainment journalists and has interviewed
countless celebrities including Tom Hanks, Nicolas Cage, Tom Cruise,
George Clooney and many more. Her entertainment columns can be read
in more than 600 newspapers across the country.
Candace
also runs a free online writing workshop for more than 2000 writers,
and teaches comprehensive writing class. She does film reviews with
the Dorsey Gang on New Country 96.3, and is the President of the
Television Critics Association.
If you would like me to review or beta
read your work please email me at leanneherrera@gmail.com
.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Mr. Crossmon asked me to read and review two of his books and as I read his query I was enthralled by his words. Little did I know that not only does he have a great intellectual speech pattern when conversing with others, he writes that way too.
As a speed reader, I fly through books, very easily grasping their content and forming an opinion quickly. The two books this author sent me to read, were not meant for a speed reader. These books are amazing pieces of intellectual, thought provoking literature. I had to slow my pace down and read the ins and outs of every thought, every sentence and every scene. These two books would be something I would recommend to someone who has the time to sit and get into a book. Someone that read it would have to also have the ability to dig deep inside not only the books content but themselves as well and decipher what they have read.
I corresponded with him while I was slowly reading and digesting his work and found him to be witty and funny. I also found that personality inside the pages of his books. The genre is not something I normally would pick up but I found myself engulfed for the first time in a long time within the pages that forced me to stop and inhale knowledge and exhale understanding, when my lifestyle often forces me to rush through things in order to get to other things. (ah the life of a mom with teenagers lol)
About the author:
White Rock Extant
White Rock Foundations
As always if you would like for me to read and review your book or beta read for you, just send me an email at leanneherrera@gmail.com.
Have an awesome day!
As a speed reader, I fly through books, very easily grasping their content and forming an opinion quickly. The two books this author sent me to read, were not meant for a speed reader. These books are amazing pieces of intellectual, thought provoking literature. I had to slow my pace down and read the ins and outs of every thought, every sentence and every scene. These two books would be something I would recommend to someone who has the time to sit and get into a book. Someone that read it would have to also have the ability to dig deep inside not only the books content but themselves as well and decipher what they have read.
I corresponded with him while I was slowly reading and digesting his work and found him to be witty and funny. I also found that personality inside the pages of his books. The genre is not something I normally would pick up but I found myself engulfed for the first time in a long time within the pages that forced me to stop and inhale knowledge and exhale understanding, when my lifestyle often forces me to rush through things in order to get to other things. (ah the life of a mom with teenagers lol)
About the author:
Ʀae Crossmon was
born in 1965 in Jackson, Mississippi. Perhaps because he is the son
of a Czechoslovakian mother and a Chechen father, Rae learned at a
young age how to recognize universal themes that consistently emerge
in all cultural tales and myths, regardless of the country of origin.
Rae was lucky enough to make a career of this passion, and traveled
the world as a visiting professor for two decades. In 2010, Rae took
early retirement to pursue the question of what his favorite legend
(Vlasta and the Founding of Prague) would look like if it was
set in modern day America. He began the White Rock series, of which
two novels are completed
(❶Foundations and
❷Extant).
He currently resides in upstate New York. Rae is at work on White Rock
❸
(working title: Avaunt), as well as “spinoff” novellas
focusing on secondary characters in the White Rock books. These
novellas will vary in style from the core series. For example,
Finding Vassily will pay homage to pulp detective fiction from
the 1940’s and Four Untruths will be a coming-of-age
first-person account told by a young girl caught in events which
precipitate the final White Rock conflict. Both novellas will be
available later in 2013.
Rae does not like prologues, trilogies,
or dream sequences, and refuses to indulge in creating any of the
three. Therefore, the White Rock series will span a minimum of four
books and a maximum of ten.
Rae can be reached via email
(Rae.Crossmon@gmail.com). He also enjoys playing around with his
Pinterest board, pinning possible movie leads
for the White Rock series (RaeCrossmon).
White Rock Extant
White Rock Foundations
As always if you would like for me to read and review your book or beta read for you, just send me an email at leanneherrera@gmail.com.
Have an awesome day!
Monday, July 15, 2013
Welcome to another Monday addition of the top 5 books that I won't be reviewing.
Drum roll please!!!!!!!!!
1- A Matter of Simplicity: Minimalistic Living for Beginners (Home, Life, Work and Money)-{this needs a simpler title}
2- What Color Is Your Parachute? 2014 A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers- {it's a freaking rainbow now what?}
3- Skinnygirl Solutions: Your Straight-Up Guide to Home, Health, Family, Career, Style, and Sex - {I want to read the fatgirl solutions! Skinny girls don't corner the market on problems in these areas!}
4- Born To Be Rich -{not when your book's free!}
5- Shit that Pisses Me Off- {yeah me to but opinions are like assholes everyone has one!}
Now the last two weeks I have featured erotica titles that had me giggling, but I had to find a different genre this week. I was terrified my fifteen year old daughter would look in the history and start giving me funny looks. You know how teenagers are these days, parents are not supposed to know anything about sex. Anyway I chose the self help genre. Next week maybe some of you can help me pick another genre?? Maybe??? Please???? I am begging now!!!!!
Drum roll please!!!!!!!!!
1- A Matter of Simplicity: Minimalistic Living for Beginners (Home, Life, Work and Money)-{this needs a simpler title}
2- What Color Is Your Parachute? 2014 A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers- {it's a freaking rainbow now what?}
3- Skinnygirl Solutions: Your Straight-Up Guide to Home, Health, Family, Career, Style, and Sex - {I want to read the fatgirl solutions! Skinny girls don't corner the market on problems in these areas!}
4- Born To Be Rich -{not when your book's free!}
5- Shit that Pisses Me Off- {yeah me to but opinions are like assholes everyone has one!}
Now not everyone of course will agree with me and I don't expect them too. Just remember that this list is all in fun. Take a moment and laugh a little.
If you would like to help me pick a genre to find these funny or strange titles leave a comment!
Have a wonderful day and smile it is only Monday! {Monday is already bad, let's not be cranky too}
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