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Book Blogger Hop; Department Store Vs. Bookstore

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It's Friday, which means it's time for a new Book Blogger Hop post, thanks to  Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer . The question of the week was "What's your immediate feeling when entering a bookstore, as compared to how you feel when entering a department store?". Book Blogger Hop Those who knows me well enough knows that for me, bookstores are among my happy places. One of my favourite bookstores happen to be a secondhand bookstore called Løvås and is situated in Stavanger. It's almost like being on a treasure hunt and I ALWAYS find something to buy. By the way, here's a few Twitter posts that sums up how I feel about bookstores in general. I can never leave a #bookstore without buying a #book . I #read four or five at a time. #MireilleGuiliano #bookstores #candyshop #readingart pic.twitter.com/vgo35WflFP — Paperbacks Plus (@Paperbacks_Plus) September 9, 2017 Totally me! #books #reading #bookstore #l...

Book Tour and Giveaway; Fairy Wishes 1-2-3 by Michele Barrow-Belisle

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Fairy Wishes 1-2-3 by Michele Barrow-Belisle Genre: Children's Fantasy Picture Book  A tale of two little fairies of different ethnicities, backgrounds and environments, who are envious of the things the other gets to do…from catching shooting stars to playing the guitar.  They decide to trade places, but soon realize that being someone else isn't as much fun as they thought. The girls quickly discover the importance of just being themselves.  **.99 on Amazon!! Goodreads * Amazon A dreamer at heart, Michele Barrow-Belisle has always lived with one foot in this reality and one foot in another, one of her own imagining. So it follows that she would grow up to write about and sculpt the characters from those enchanting worlds she knows and loves so well. As a fan of everything romantic, her young adult novels are populated with witches and vampires and faeries. Michele resides in southern Canada with her hubby and son who i...

Book Tour & Giveaway: An Unconventional Mr. Peadlebody by D. L. Gardner

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An Unconventional Mr. Peadlebody by D.L. Gardner Genre: Paranormal Humor  Rockford Peadlebody dies in a train wreck while traveling with his family, (a rather dysfunctional lot of half-blood vampires) after a flood in Mississippi washes their home away. Once his brother Gerald, his wife Ginger, and son Raymond reach grandpa's estate in Ohio, they are surprised by the news that grandaddy Benjamin Peadlebody has also died. They are now heirs to the infamous Peadlebody manor and all its peculiarities, including the butler, a reserved, tattooed, muscle-man named Richard Cottlebone,  It seems fishy to Gerald that two untimely deaths in the family happened within a week. Yes, Rockford's demise was of his own doing, but Benjamin's? Perhaps the butler, knows more than he's letting on? To prove himself worthy, since he failed to live up to old Benjamin's standards when he was alive, Gerald goes about to unravel the thread of Papa's death...

Book Tour & Giveaway; The Dear Departed by Anne Roebuck

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The Dear Departed by Anne Roebuck Genre: Historical Paranormal Romance The widows of Victorian era San Francisco are dying of decidedly unnatural causes, and to expose the culprit Virginia Paley must partner with the darkly mysterious Jonathan Bradshaw, entering a world of occult rituals and unexplainable phenomena—and magical love.  BEYOND THE VEIL Young widow Virginia Paley has no interest in attending the séances at The Society for Eternal Love, but the women of the society are dying mysteriously in their sleep, leaving their fortunes to Professor Arthur Chadwick, its charismatic medium. As her aunt might very well become the next victim, Virginia will do whatever she must to ensure that doesn’t happen. She will even join forces with the darkly mysterious Jonathan Bradshaw. From the moment he spies her, Jonathan is smitten. But romance is impossible. Mrs. Paley is a respectable woman, and he himself is outside of society, an orphan, an ex-thi...

My Favourite... Romance Story

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It's Wednesday and time for a new My Favourite... post, thanks to the blogger behind  Maureen's Books  and the theme of the week is favourite romance story. For those who know me well enough, I doubt it will be no shocker that my answer is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, because sometimes all one need is a certain Mr. Darcy. #myfirstTweet #janeausten200 #PrideandPrejudice #ElisabethBennet #MrDarcy #feelings #Literature #englishculture #BestBooksontheWorld pic.twitter.com/0ipJifudgZ — Ivett Korcz (@IvettKorcz) August 9, 2017 It's been a while since we had Mr Darcy as our #MondayMotivation . So here we are; the wonderful Firth as #MrDarcy ! @VisitBath @MuseumMonday pic.twitter.com/TVrLJaJSR2 — Jane Austen Centre (@JaneAustenBath) August 7, 2017

Top Ten Tuesday; Ten Books I'm Thankful For

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(This post contains affiliate links) It's Tuesday again, which means it's time for another Top Ten Tuesday post, thanks to  The Broke and the Bookish  and the theme of the week is ten books I'm thankful for (as it is Thanksgiving week in the US). My picks are; This Is About You: Amazing, Weird, Beautiful You  by Mary England Weetzie Bat  by Francesca Lia Block Dracula  by Bram Stoker A Street Cat Named Bob  by James Bowen The Bell Jar  by Sylvia Plath Odd One Out by Jennifer Koretsky The Twistrose Key  by Tone Almhjell The Complete MAUS  by Art Spiegelman The Freedom Writers Diary  by The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell The Diary of a Young Girl  by Anne Frank

Book Tour; The Beautifuk Dead; A Tale of K-Pop, Ghosts and Nine-Tailed Fox Women by Jun Prince

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The Beautiful Dead:  A Tale of K-Pop, Ghosts, and Nine-Tailed Fox Women Jun Prince Genre:  Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Publisher: Apollo and Nyx Publishing Date of Publication:   September 22, 2017 ISBN:   978-0999491300 ASIN: B075VXNMDD Number of pages:  346 (Print) Word Count:  97k Words Cover Artist:  Damonza A lonely Korean pop star learns her high school classmate died five years ago. So why are they still texting? Book Description: Yubin knows she’s different than the other girls in the pop group SIITY. Yes, they all got sucked into the same machine, giving up schooling and signing ridiculously long contracts before anyone knew if they'd be successful, but that's how pop stars are made in Korea. Yubin is supposed to be thankful for that, but she isn't. She doesn't even like the girls she performs with.  She’s more connected to her former schoolmate Jieun, even though all th...