Today I read that Laini Taylor’s Lips Touch: Three Times was nominated for the 2009 National Book Awards for Young People’s Literature. I haven’t read this one, but I loved both of her Dreamdark books (Blackbringer and Silksinger) so I was rather happy to see this. Congratulations to Laini Taylor!

Doubleblindby Ann Aguirre320pp (Paperback)My Rating: 8/10Amazon Rating: 5/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.3/5Goodreads Rating: 4.38/5 Doubleblind is the third book in the Jax series by Ann Aguirre. This romantic space opera series should definitely be read in order – Grimspace, then Wanderlust, and finally this book. The fourth book, Killbox, is scheduled for release in October 2010, and there are supposed to be six books total. Note: There are spoilers for the previous book in the plot description. If you haven’t read the […]

After I had a delightful time reading Soulless, I contacted Gail Carriger to see if she would be a guest on the blog. She kindly agreed to an interview and I am pleased to have her answers today to share with all of you. About Gail Carriger (from her website): Ms. Carriger began writing in order to cope with being raised in obscurity by an expatriate Brit and an incurable curmudgeon. She escaped small town life and inadvertently acquired several […]

As this affects a great deal of bloggers, you’ve probably already read a post somewhere on the new FTC guidelines. Just in case you haven’t, here’s the basic scoop. Today the FTC published their guidelines pertaining to testimonial advertisements, bloggers and celebrity endorsements. As of December 1, 2009 it is required that bloggers fully disclose any types of payment, which includes products received for free for review purposes. Violation of this could result in paying a fine amounting up to […]

Is anyone reading any special books for Halloween this October? I realized what month it was and decided I want to read one or two books that are fitting, but it’s hard to pick those types of books when you’re too much of an easily creeped-out wuss to be much of a horror fan (as a kid, just hearing the spooky Unsolved Mysteries music on TV kept me awake at night – and I saw the movie Aliens on TV […]