Crazy book addict, too!

I wish I can find someone as crazy as I am when it comes to reading. Someone just as crazy in her reactions to the books she's read, just like me!

I have friends who read. I have friends who like the same books as mine. I have two sisters who read a lot like me. But there's no one in my life just as crazy. I need someone as crazy or crazier than me!

Alas, the one person who was just as crazy is no longer in my life...

:(

Fifty Shades of Hotness!!!

The following photos are for those who are so self-righteous and closet Fifty Shades fans!

You like? Wait! There's more hotness after the jump...

What a package!

Yummo!

You can find more on the Fifty Shades Film Facebook page!

;)

My very own Travis Maddox! ♥♥♥

When I was reading Beautiful Disaster, there were two guys alternating in playing the role of Travis Maddox in my mind. One was Josh Kloss, that guy with Katy Perry in her Teenage Dreams video, and the other one was Adam Levine.

For the past few days, though, Adam's the one constantly in my mind when I think of Travis. His tattoos helped in gaining him the upper hand...

And I mean, come on! Look at the guy! He is soooo hot!!!

Sigh.

I used to think he's so full of himself due to Maroon 5's songs always being the girls so desperate to catch his attention. But, of course, I was wrong and it's just scripted. When I saw one episode of The Voice and how he's so kind, warm and generous to the contestants, well, he got me. I fell head over heels for the guy!

And now he's my very own Travis Maddox!

Ahihihi!

:P

Want: Fallen Too Far

OMG! That cover is hot!!!

I want Fallen Too Far by Abbi Glines!

This is Abbi's first new adult book and from the blurb I've read in Goodreads, I just know I need to get my hands on a copy as soon as it becomes available!

To want what you’re not supposed to have…

She is only nineteen.

She is his new stepfather’s daughter.

She is still naïve and innocent due to spending the last three years taking care of her sick mother.

But for twenty-four year old Rush Finlay, she is the only thing that has ever been off limits. His famous father’s guilt money, his mother’s desperation to win his love, and his charm are the three reasons he has never been told no.

Blaire Wynn left her small farmhouse in Alabama, after her mother passed away, to move in with her father and his new wife in their sprawling beach house along the Florida gulf coast. She isn’t prepared for the lifestyle change and she knows she’ll never fit into this world. Then there is her sexy stepbrother who her father leaves her with for the summer while he runs off to Paris with his wife. Rush is as spoiled as he is gorgeous. He is also getting under her skin. She knows he is anything but good for her and that he’ll never be faithful to anyone. He is jaded and has secrets Blaire knows she may never uncover but even knowing all of that…

Blaire just may have fallen too far.

Ayayay! I love it!

;)

After reading a really great book...

The thing with reading is this when you finish a really good book you tend to compare all the succeeding books to the joy you got from that good one. Instead of being inspired to read some more, what happens is that you tend to go on a plateau and would stop reading for a while. At least that's what it is with me. After Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire, I read Bared to You by Sylvia Day. It was not as good as Beautiful Disaster but I still loved it! So what I did after reading Bared to You was I read Beautiful Disaster again. I just had to have that high from reading Travis Maddox and Abby Abernathy's love story again.

Then I got into discussion about Bared to You with my best friend Tim who was able to read it first. We discussed Gideon Cross and Eva Tramell's love story and I got excited with the next book Reflected in You by Sylvia Day. Now that book was really good! I read it thrice already because I just love how the story unfolded and ended. There's a third (and possible fourth) book coming out in December. I can't wait for that one!

Meanwhile, I was stuck in a reading funk. I don't know what to read next that will give me the same high as the last book. So I read Beautiful Disaster again and I went back to reading Every Day by David Levithan. It was not as thrilling as the last three books I read but I've been hearing raves about the book so I have to read it now.

And good thing I now have Ceaseless by Abbi Glines, the last book in the Existence series. I've been waiting for this book to come out and I am excited to read it. I will make sure to finish it in one seating!

Self-righteous people!

Please spare me from self-righteous people! They think they are too good to be associated with the Fifty Shades Trilogy by E.L. James but I am sure they are secretly enjoying the books! They easily condemn the books as trash just so they can say that they are better than those who enjoyed and are now fans of the kinky trilogy. Ha!

You are not fooling anybody but yourself! Get the fuck off your high pedestal and just come out and say you are a closet fan as well!

I will post some photos from the Fifty Shades Facebook pages for you to secretly enjoy, hypocrites! Come back and check it out. I know you will.

Anne Rice and Me

I used to be a huge fan of Anne Rice and her dark novels. Interview with the Vampire and the rest of the vampire books, Cry to Heaven (which is my favorite of all her books!), the Beauty trilogy, The Witching Hour and the rest of the Mayfair Witches books. All those books I've read when I was younger and I loved all of it! Anne Rice has a very intriguing way of writing her books that even though all her books are dark in concept, there are enough twists and turns to keep you reading it until the last page. That's how it was for me, anyway.

But then after going through so much in life, I realized I don't need more darkness around me by reading too much dark-themed novels. And Anne Rice's books are dark. I slowly veered away from reading her books into lighter ones and, well, I got over my crazy love for whatever Anne Rice wrote.

It's her birthday today. I read in Twitter via Lucy of Fully Booked's tweet that she's 71 now. I remember reading about her husband's death and how she began seeing the light after. She stopped writing dark novels and is now focusing on her renewed faith in the Lord. Good for her!

Happy birthday, Anne Rice!

I still think you're one of the best writers of your generation!

;)

*photo credit: Fully Booked

Travis Tuesday!!!

Sorry I'm late in posting this one. But let me tell you now...

Yesterday was Travis Tuesday!!!

What am I talking about here?

Well, on Monday night author Jamie McGuire posted an update on her Facebook account that ATRIA, her publishing house, issued a challenge to her fans. In four (4) days her Facebook page likes should reach 13,000 and they would release the whole Prologue to Walking Disaster, Travis Maddox POV of Beautiful Disaster. Do you know what happened? In a matter of hours fans surpassed the 13,000 benchmark! Likes of Author Jamie McGuire Facebook page reached past it!

So ATRIA and Jamie had to revise their promise. Instead of releasing the entire Prologue on Friday, they released it yesterday! Thereby making yesterday Travis Tuesday among us fans!

Here's the link to the entire 9-page Prologue of Walking Disaster by Jamie McGuire.

Happy reading!

I surely did.

;)

Want: Through to You

Another book that I am waiting to get my hands on is Through to You by Emily Hainsworth. Goodreads has the following about it...

Camden Pike has been grief-stricken since his girlfriend, Viv, died. Viv was the last good thing in his life: helping him rebuild his identity after a career-ending football injury, picking up the pieces when his home life shattered, and healing his pain long after the meds wore off. And now, he’d give anything for one more glimpse of her. But when Cam makes a visit to the site of Viv’s deadly car accident, he sees some kind of apparition. And it isn’t Viv.

The apparition’s name is Nina, and she’s not a ghost. She’s a girl from a parallel world, and in this world, Viv is still alive. Cam can’t believe his wildest dreams have come true. All he can focus on is getting his girlfriend back, no matter the cost. But things are different in this other world: Viv and Cam have both made very different choices, things between them have changed in unexpected ways, and Viv isn’t the same girl he remembers. Nina is keeping some dangerous secrets, too, and the window between the worlds is shrinking every day. As Cam comes to terms with who this Viv has become and the part Nina played in his parallel story, he’s forced to choose—stay with Viv or let her go—before the window closes between them once and for all.

I learned about this book a couple of months ago. I wanted to read it right away but, well, release date was yesterday. So I waited and waited and I do hope when I go check tomorrow the book is already available in bookstores.

Can't wait to read this one! Intriguing plot!

;)

Want: The Shining

I've been hearing about The Shining by Stephen King and I am intrigued. So I checked the blurb from Goodreads and here's what it says...

Danny was only five years old but in the words of old Mr Halloran he was a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father became caretaker of an the Overlook Hotel his visions grew frighteningly out of control.

As winter closed in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seemed to develop a life of it's own. It was meant to be empty, but who was the lady in Room 217, and who were the masked guests going up and down in the elevator? And why did the hedges shaped like animals seem so alive?

Somewhere, somehow there was an evil force in the hotel - and that too had begun to shine...

I am a Stephen King fan and some of his books I've read are faves of mine. But what really made me want to read this was a comment I read somewhere saying that when he read this book, he had nightmares for weeks! Yay! I love horror stories!

I will check this out tomorrow when I go to the mall.

;)

Book quotes for today

True. With books all our dreams could come to life, even if for just those few precious minutes or hours that we are holding it. Also...

Through our reading we can travel to other times and other places, into other people’s minds and hearts and souls: it is a transcendent experience. - Louise DeSalvo

A book is so diverse that we often travel to the world inhabited by the very characters we are reading about. It's actually pretty cool to be able to go undercover with the protagonist or explore different countries through the eyes of the author.

Read. You will know what these quotes mean and what I am raving about here.

My Prince

Cinderella and her prince are truly out now. Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey, my prince and yours and hers, are in!

The infographic above had me laughing! Can you imagine being given such by your man with a good amount of spanking to boot?

Hahaha!

:P

Currently Reading: Dante's Girl

I am currently reading Dante's Girl by Courtney Cole. I forgot where I saw this book but I was instantly intrigued! The following is a blurb from Goodreads...

I have spent every summer since I was ten years old with my father in London. Every summer, since I was ten years old, has been uneventful and boring.
Until this year.

And this year, after a freak volcanic eruption strands me far from home, I have learned these things:

1. I can make do with one outfit for three days before I buy new clothes.
2. If I hear the phrase, “You’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto,” even one more time, I might become a homicidal maniac.
3. I am horribly and embarrassingly allergic to jellyfish.
4. I am in love with Dante Giliberti, who just happens to be the beautiful, sophisticated son of the Prime Minister of a Mediterranean paradise.
5. See number four above. Because it brings with it a whole slew of problems and I’ve learned something from every one of them.

Let’s start with the fact that Dante’s world is five light-years away from mine. He goes to black-tie functions and knows the Prime Minister of England on a first name basis. I was born and raised on a farm in Kansas and wear cut-off jeans paired with cowboy boots. See the difference?

But hearts don’t care about differences. Hearts want what they want. And mine just wants to be Dante’s girl.

My heart just might be crazy.

Sounds interesting, right?

Will post a review as soon as I finish reading it.

;)

I am bookworm!

I have two addictions in life: food and books. I am trying to cut down on the former so I am pumping up the latter!

BOOKS. It's my escape from reality. It's my therapy. It's a way of life for me. This may sound pathetic for some non-reading people but my life is lived around books. It makes me happy!

So, yeah, I am bookworm! I am and will die this way. LOL

Anyway, this blog is GUARANTEED to contain all my raves and rants about the books I have on hand, have read, have stopped reading, and those that I've been hearing about. I will customize/personalize the domain later on but for now this will be it.

The next couple of posts will be about my love for Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire and Travis Maddox. Also, I am still in the process of choosing a template so changes will be made here and there. And there will be tons of stuff to look at that I want you to see at the sidebar.

So bear with me for now, okay?

Kisses!
xoxo
;)