The Sunday Post #38 (8.31.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.   I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in August 29

  #BookBlogWalkers is being hosted by Jen @ That’s What I’m Talking About for the month of August Last weekend we went to the beach and had a great time. I even convinced my hubby to take a walk with me Sunday morning – it was so nice!!! The rest of the week consisted of me taking lots of short walks with a sick dog…luckily she’s finally feeling better!   Here’s…

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Blog Tour & Author Q&A: Lori Foster – With Giveaway!!! (CLOSED)

Today, I am pleased to welcome Lori Foster to Always With a Book. Her latest book, No Limits, is the first book in her Ultimate series. It is now available. You can read my review of the book here. Please enjoy this Q&A and be sure to enter the giveaway for a chance to win a copy of No Limits below! Can you tell us a little bit about your…

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Blog Tour, Review & Excerpt: No Limits by Lori Foster

Title: No Limits   Author: Lori Foster     Series: Ultimate, #1      Published: August 2014, Harlequin HQN    Format: ARC Paperback, 432 pages    Source: Publisher   A surprise inheritance reunites a mixed martial arts fighter with the woman he’s never forgotten in the first in a smoldering new series from New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster… Cannon Colter is quintessential hero material: chiseled jawline, shredded body—the…

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Review: Hard Knocks by Lori Foster

Title: Hard Knocks     Author: Lori Foster     Series: Ultimate, #0.5       Published: August 2014, Harlequin HQN    Format: E-book, 60 pages    Source: Personal copy   In the stunning prequel novella to her new mixed martial arts series, New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster brings together an elite fighter and the woman he’s determined to win. Power. Brute strength. Unforgettable moves. It’s no wonder Harper…

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Review: Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich (audio)

Title: Top Secret Twenty-One     Author: Janet Evanovich    Series: Stephanie Plum, #21     Narrator: Lorelei King   Published: June 2014, Random House Audio   Length: 6 hours 16 minutes   Source: Personal copy via Audible  Catch a professional assassin: top priority. Find a failure-to-appear and collect big bucks: top score. How she’ll pull it all off: top secret. Trenton, New Jersey’s favorite used-car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was…

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Blog Tour & Review: Three Story House by Courtney Miller Santo

Title: Three Story House    Author: Courtney Miller Santo     Published: August 2014, William Morrow & Co   Format: ARC Paperback, 416 pages     Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours   Renovating an historic Memphis house together, three cousins discover that their spectacular failures in love, career, and family provide the foundation for their future happiness in this warm and poignant novel from the author of The Roots of…

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The Sunday Post #37 (8.24.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.   I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in August 22

#BookBlogWalkers is being hosted by Jen @ That’s What I’m Talking About for the month of August This week was a bit of an off week for me. I ended up having a headache that lasted 5 days…nothing seemed to make it go away so exercising was the last thing on my mind. I did manage to get in some easy walks, but nothing strenuous. Luckily, the headache has subsided, and…

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Blog Tour, Review & Giveaway: After I’m Gone by Laura Lippman (CLOSED)

Title: After I’m Gone    Author: Laura Lippman     Published: August 2014 (Reprint); William Morrow Paperbacks    Format: Paperback, 384 pages     Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours   Dead is dead. Missing is gone. When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette “Bambi” Gottschalk at a Valentine’s Day dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative—if not all legal—businesses,…

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Book Blast & Giveaway: The Typewriter Girl by Alison Atlee

Author Alison Atlee’s The Typewriter Girl is now an audio­book, nar­rated by Audie win­ner Ros­alyn Lan­dor, and in celebration she’ll be touring the blogosphere from August 4-29 with Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours! Enter to win a copy at the end of this post! I read this book last year when it first came out in print edition and you can read my review here. Audible Audio Book Edition Release…

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Review: The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

Title: The Good Girl    Author: Mary Kubica     Published: July 2014, Harlequin MIRA   Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages    Source: Publisher   “I’ve been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she has her dry cleaning done, where she works. I don’t know the color of her eyes or what they look like when she’s scared. But I will.”…

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The Sunday Post #36 (8.17.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.   I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in August 15

#BookBlogWalkers is being hosted by Jen @ That’s What I’m Talking About for the month of August Another week has come and gone! It wasn’t quite as busy as last week and I was able to get in my walks each day. I also decided to do some inside walking while catching up on my DVR instead of just sitting on the couch – might as well be productive while watching…

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Review: The Collector by Nora Roberts (audio)

Title: The Collector    Author: Nora Roberts    Narrator: Julia Whelan   Published:  April 2014, Brilliance Audio  Length: 15 hours 44 minutes   Source: Personal copy via Audible  From #1 New York Times-bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a novel of a woman who needs nothing, a man who sees everything, and the web of deceit, greed, and danger that brings them together—and could tear them apart . . . When…

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Blog Tour & Review: Season of the Dragonflies by Sarah Creech

Title: Season of the Dragonflies    Author: Sarah Creech      Published: August 2014, William Morrow    Format: ARC Paperback, 224 pages    Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours   As beguiling as the novels of Alice Hoffman, Adriana Trigiani, Aimee Bender, and Sarah Addison Allen, Season of the Dragonflies is a story of flowers, sisters, practical magic, old secrets, and new love, set in the Blue Ridge Mountains For…

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Review: Butternut Summer by Mary McNear

Title: Butternut Summer    Author: Mary McNear     Series: The Butternut Lake Trilogy, #2 Published: August 2014, William Morrow Paperbacks    Format: ARC Paperback, 400 pages    Source: Publisher   Return to the golden beauty of Minnesota’s Butternut Lake in this emotional story that vividly captures the joy and pain of first love, as a mother and daughter each come to terms with the desires of her heart. Summer…

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The Sunday Post #35 (8.10.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.   I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…

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Review: The Perfect Score by Beth Albright

Title: The Perfect Score    Author: Beth Albright      Published: May 2014, Tule Publishing Group   Format: E-book, 138 pages    Source: Personal copy   Ginny Bloom Hunnicutt is crawling back home to Cottonwood Cove Alabama, her promising CNN news-reporting career in shambles when an on-air flub cost her the job and cost CNN a lawsuit. Putting ego aside, she takes a position at the Chatterbox, the local weekly…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in August 8

#BookBlogWalkers is being hosted by Jen @ That’s What I’m Talking About for the month of August This week work was super busy and my schedule was jammed packed. I ended up working nights this week, which totally throws my schedule off track. I did manage to get some walks in each morning, but they were quick ones – mainly just to get the dogs out for a bit. Next week,…

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Review: Wedding Night by Sophie Kinsella (audio)

Title: Wedding Night    Author: Sophie Kinsella    Narrator: Jayne Entwistle, Fiona Hardingham, Mark Bramhall   Published: April 2013, Random House Audio   Length: 13 hours   Source: Library  Lottie just knows that her boyfriend is going to propose during lunch at one of London’s fanciest restaurants. But when his big question involves a trip abroad, not a trip down the aisle, she’s completely crushed. So when Ben, an old…

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Review: Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

Title: Big Little Lies    Author: Liane Moriarty     Published: July 2014, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam   Format: ARC Paperback, 480 pages    Source: Publisher   A murder . . . a tragic accident . . . or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead. But who did what? Big Little Lies follows three women, each at a crossroads: Madeline is a force to be reckoned…

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The Sunday Post #34 (8.3.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.   I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…

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Month in Review: July 2014

Hello August! Summer is flying by and work has crazy busy which means I’m not getting in as much reading time as I would like. I’m hoping that I can sneak in some more reading time here and there during these upcoming weeks as summer winds down before the fall is upon us as – there as so many good books that have just come out and I want to…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in August 1

#BookBlogWalkers is being hosted by Jen @ That’s What I’m Talking About for the month of August I did it!!! I walked my second 1/2 marathon and had a great time doing it! Walking a half marathon in NYC at night with my mom, my sister and about 3,000 other women and some men in our bras was quite an experience…and I cannot wait to do it again. It’s always been…

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