9:53 AM
Best-laid plans beget sizzling passion in the second book in New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan's delectable Forgotten P...
Best-laid plans beget
sizzling passion in the second book in New York Times bestselling author
Sophie Jordan's delectable Forgotten Princesses series. A sweeping and
breathtakingly dramatic historical romance, Lessons from a Scandalous
Bride features a haunted hero, a Scottish viscount, who hopes to snare a
wealthy wife in Victorian England--only to have an inappropriately
independent heiress catch his eye and steal his heart. Sophie Jordan is
well-known and well-loved for her dark, brooding heroes and sexy
heroines--and her fans will not be disappointed by these Lessons...nor
will readers of the bestselling love stories of Lisa Kleypas and Sabrina
Jeffries. When it comes to Ms. Jordan and her extraordinary historical
romance novels, Kirkus Reviews offers the best advice: "Just surrender
to the sizzle."
This book was what I wanted from the second in the Forgotten Princess series and more!
First off I didn't realize it was directly connected to "Wicked in Your Arms" (
review here) until it mentioned in the first few pages about Grier, but I should have known better because as an after thought I remembered that Cleo, the lovely subject of this one, was in the first book when Grier was introduced to her towards the end when their father found out about her.
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12:00 PM
Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a rec...
Before Liz Lemon,
before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young
girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased
through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a
dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV.
She has seen both these dreams come true.
At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live;
from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her
life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college
romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon—from the beginning of this
paragraph to this final sentence.
Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy.
(Includes
Special, Never-Before-Solicited Opinions on Breastfeeding, Princesses,
Photoshop, the Electoral Process, and Italian Rum Cake!)
(Synopsis from Goodreads)
If I said I don't like Tina Fey, that would be a freaking outright lie! I love this woman with all my heart and listening to her read her book, Bossypants made me sooooo happy the whole time.
I finished it awhile ago and totally thought I put up a review for it and then I check on here and see it's not so!
Bossypants is exactly what you want in a memoir: life lessons, awesome anecdotes, how to survive fires on a cruise boat, and how to be awesome (She doesn't explain that last one, the whole book is basically that because she is. Can you tell yet that I'm a Tina Fey fangirl? Can you?) She even goes into that whole Sarah Palin thing that happened. Which I found very enlightening!
I would go on about this book, but I'd be basically reciting the book verbatum. So I will leave you saying get the book (Audio version is awesome because she reads it to you!!!!) and dive in.
Or I could just fill this whole post with a TON of Tina Fey = Love. =)
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3:41 PM
This was supposed to be the best summer of Maggie's life. Now it's the one she'd do anything to forget. Maggie remembers h...
This was supposed to be the best summer of Maggie's life. Now it's the one she'd do anything to forget.
Maggie
remembers hanging out at the gorge with her closest friends after a
blowout party. She remembers climbing the trail with her perfect
boyfriend, Joey. She remembers that last kiss, soft, lingering, and
meant to reassure her. So why can't she remember what happened in the
moment before they were supposed to dive? Why was she left cowering at
the top of the cliff, while Joey floated in the water below-dead?
As
Maggie's memories return in snatches, nothing seems to make sense. Why
was Joey acting so strangely at the party? Where did he go after taking
her home? And if Joey was keeping these secrets, what else was he
hiding?
The latest novel from the author of "The Tension of
Opposites," "One Moment" is a mysterious, searing look at how an instant
can change everything you believe about the world around you
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4:28 PM
Tony Hooper stands in shadow across the street, one amongst many in the crowd of curiosity-hounds gathered to watch a monster's...
Tony Hooper stands in
shadow across the street, one amongst many in the crowd of
curiosity-hounds gathered to watch a monster's release. Seventeen years
after Mitchell Norton, "the devil," terrorized Algonquin, Illinois on a
spree of kidnapping, torture and murder, the authorities release the
butcher from psychiatric prison.
Tony longs to charge across the
street to destroy Norton—no remorse—as if stepping on a cockroach. Only
sheer force of will prevents his doing so.
"The devil" walks the world again. What shall Tony do about it? Aye, what indeed.
After
all, this is what Tony does. It's who he is. "The devil" himself long
ago made Tony into this hunter of monsters. What a sweet twist of fate
this is, that he may still, finally, administer justice.
Will FBI Special Agent Linda Monroe stop him? She owes him her life, so how can she possibly put an end to his?
Tony
Hooper and Mitchell Norton battle for supremacy, with law enforcement
always a step away, in this story of justice and vengeance, evil and
redemption, fear and courage, love and loss.
(Synopsis from Goodreads)
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7:00 AM
The always lovely Stephen Colbert has done it again! His first dive into the world that is children’s books I AM A POLE (AND SO CA...
The always lovely Stephen Colbert has done it again! His first
dive into the world that is children’s books I AM A POLE (AND SO CAN YOU) is a wondrous,
sweet, and simple tale of a pole trying to find his purpose in life.
Now I listened to the audio book version where Colbert and
TOM HANKS read you the tale of this sweet little pole. It lasted about eight
minutes but it was full of awesome.
So the short sweet story is this: The pole doesn’t know what
his purpose is. Is he a firefighter pole? Is he a stripper pole? What kind of
pole is he supposed to be? That is his journey and if you think of the
character that is Stephen Colbert I think you can guess what this young pole
ends up being? (Hint: It’s very patriotic.)
One hundred percent of the proceeds of the audio book go to
the awesome US Veterans Initiation that helps our Vets out. Which I think is
pretty cool!
Definitely go out and get both versions of the book because
the illustrations (that I saw online because I only had enough to get the audio
book ($1.95 on Audible!) this month) are soooo adorable!
Also just a side note to my fellow Colbert fans: If you
don’t know about his second real book with all the words and what not, AMERICA
AGAIN: RE-BECOMING THE GREATNESS WE NEVER WEREN’T is hitting the stores in
October!!
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7:00 AM
Running away brings Rhine and Gabriel right into a trap, in the form of a twisted carnival whose ringmistress keeps watch over a m...
Running away brings
Rhine and Gabriel right into a trap, in the form of a twisted carnival
whose ringmistress keeps watch over a menagerie of girls. Just as Rhine
uncovers what plans await her, her fortune turns again. With Gabriel at
her side, Rhine travels through an environment as grim as the one she
left a year ago - surroundings that mirror her own feelings of fear and
hopelessness.
The two are determined to get to Manhattan, to
relative safety with Rhine’s twin brother, Rowan. But the road there is
long and perilous - and in a world where young women only live to age
twenty and young men die at twenty-five, time is precious. Worse still,
they can’t seem to elude Rhine’s father-in-law, Vaughn, who is
determined to bring Rhine back to the mansion...by any means necessary.
In the sequel to Lauren DeStefano’s harrowing Wither, Rhine must decide if freedom is worth the price - now that she has more to lose than ever
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2:48 PM
That Kevin Smith? The guy who did “Clerks” a million years ago? Didn’t they bounce his fat ass off a plane once? What could you possibl...
That Kevin
Smith? The guy who did “Clerks” a million years ago? Didn’t they bounce
his fat ass off a plane once? What could you possibly learn from the
director of “Cop Out”? How about this: he changed filmmaking forever
when he was twenty-three, and since then, he’s done whatever the hell he
wants. He makes movies, writes comics, owns a store, and now he’s built
a podcasting empire with his friends and family, including a wife who’s
way out of his league. So here’s some tough shit: Kevin Smith has
cracked the code. Or, he’s just cracked.
Tough Sh*t is the dirty business that Kevin has been digesting for 41 years and now, he’s ready to put it in your
hands. Smear this shit all over yourself, because this is your
blueprint (or brownprint) for success. Kev takes you through some big
moments in his life to help you live your days in as Gretzky a fashion as you can: going where the puck is gonna
be. Read all about how a zero like Smith managed to make ten movies
with no discernible talent, and how when he had everything he thought
he’d ever want, he decided to blow up his own career. Along the way, Kev
shares stories about folks who inspired him (like George Carlin), folks
who befuddled him (like Bruce Willis), and folks who let him jerk off
onto their legs (like his beloved wife, Jen). So make this your daily
reader. Hell, read it on the toilet if you want. Just make sure you grab
the bowl and push, because you’re about to take one Tough Sh*t
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