tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78445529875350771732024-03-12T19:47:09.396-07:00BookgasmBecause I am a sucker for paperbacksAizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900320846839982533noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844552987535077173.post-8031597105887899762014-10-29T22:41:00.000-07:002014-10-29T22:41:08.602-07:00The Death Cure: A Book Blurb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">THE DEATH CURE</span></b></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">The time for lies is over. </span></blockquote>
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<i>by Fleur Reynolds</i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Blurb </span></b><br />
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<i>It’s the end of the line. </i><br />
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WICKED has taken everything from Thomas: his life, his memories, and now his only friends—the Gladers. But it’s finally over. The trials are complete, after one final test.<br />
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<i>Will anyone survive? </i><br />
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What WICKED doesn’t know is that Thomas remembers far more than they think. And it’s enough to prove that he can’t believe a word of what they say.<br />
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<i>The truth will be terrifying. </i><br />
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Thomas beat the Maze. He survived the Scorch. He’ll risk anything to save his friends. But the truth might be what ends it all.<br />
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<i>The time for lies is over.
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The First Line </span></b><br />
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It was the smell that began to drive Thomas slightly mad.</blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Why I Decided to Take on the Read
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So, The Scorch Trials kept me awake at night. I stopped sleeping on bus on the way to work because I have to read. I wanted to know what happened to Teresa and that she needed to act that way. I want to know how it would all end!!! Or continue.. Or whatever. I just want to know how this trilogy ends.</div>
Aizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900320846839982533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844552987535077173.post-30253484239748772892014-10-29T21:38:00.000-07:002014-10-29T21:38:03.448-07:00The Scorch Trials: A Book Blurb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385738765/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385738765&linkCode=as2&tag=eaonwimic-20&linkId=F5HY4KZZD5MYUMFT"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0385738765&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=eaonwimic-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=eaonwimic-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0385738765" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">THE SCORCH TRIALS</span></b><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">Friendships will be tested. Loyalties will be broken. All bets are off. </span><br />
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<i>by James Dashner</i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Blurb </span></b><br />
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<i>Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. </i><br />
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Thomas was sure that escape from the Maze would mean freedom for him and the Gladers. But WICKED isn’t done yet. Phase Two has just begun. The Scorch.<br />
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<i>There are no rules. There is no help. You either make it or you die. </i><br />
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The Gladers have two weeks to cross through the Scorch—the most burned-out section of the world. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.<br />
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<i>Friendships will be tested. Loyalties will be broken. All bets are off. </i><br />
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There are others now. Their survival depends on the Gladers’ destruction—and they’re determined to survive.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-size: large;">The First Line </span></b><br />
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She spoke to him before the world fell apart. </blockquote>
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<i>Hey, are you still asleep?</i> </blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Why I Decided to Take on the Read
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was compelled to read The Scorch Trials and The Death Cure because I liked The Maze Runner when we watched it in the cinema. The story reminded me of The Hunger Games.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There were a lot of questions and a that urged me to go read the second book. I mean, Chuck died and the Gladers managed to get out of the Maze. To think that the world is already on the verge of its existence, I wondered how the Gladers will move on with their lives. </span></div>
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Aizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900320846839982533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844552987535077173.post-87802875066886439372014-10-29T21:26:00.001-07:002014-10-29T21:29:04.958-07:00The Maze Runner: A Book Blurb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385737955/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385737955&linkCode=as2&tag=eaonwimic-20&linkId=56XSU76DVPAGOQ4X"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0385737955&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=eaonwimic-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=eaonwimic-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0385737955" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">THE MAZE RUNNER</span></b></div>
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<i>by James Dashner</i></blockquote>
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<i>If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human. </i><br />
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When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone.<br />
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<i>Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade. </i><br />
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Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive.<br />
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<i>Everything is going to change. </i><br />
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Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying.<br />
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Remember. Survive. Run.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The First Line(s)</span></b><br />
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He began his new life standing up, surrounded by cold darkness and<br />
stale, dusty air.</blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Why I Decided to Take on the Read
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Actually, I did not. I just watched the movie.</div>
Aizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900320846839982533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844552987535077173.post-55275223588014321892013-06-28T04:39:00.001-07:002013-06-28T05:58:42.105-07:00Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: A Book Blurb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004FGMDOQ/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B004FGMDOQ&linkCode=as2&tag=eaonwimic-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B004FGMDOQ&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=eaonwimic-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=eaonwimic-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B004FGMDOQ" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">MISS PEREGRINE'S</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">HOME FOR</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">PECULIAR CHILDREN</span></b></div>
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<i>by Ransom Riggs</i></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Blurb </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><span style="background-color: none; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. </span><br style="line-height: 19px;" /><br style="line-height: 19px;" /><span style="line-height: 19px;">As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children who once lived here - one of whom was his own grandfather - were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a desolate island for good reason.</span><br style="line-height: 19px;" /><br style="line-height: 19px;" /><span style="line-height: 19px;">And somehow - impossible though it seems - they may still be alive.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The First Line(s) </span></b><br />
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I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After. Like many of the extraordinary things to come, it involved my grandfather, Abraham Portman.</blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Why I Decided to Take on the Read
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The black-and-white cover of the book and the eeriness it brings allured me into reading the blurb at the back. (Again, my usual scrutinizing if a book is worth buying.) A couple of sentences from the blurb and leafing through the pages later, I already found myself smiling sheepishly over to the counter. I instantly loved it, although I have been a little bit scared of how my dreams might turn out when I already start to read the book. I heard those reading Stephen King always had nightmares. Okay, so what convinced me to buy the book is that: a.) It is odd. b.) It has vintage and creepy pictures in between the covers and c.) The blurb appealed to me. So lalalala, nightmares or no mightmares, I am buying this book.<br />
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Aizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900320846839982533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844552987535077173.post-42813810919599754412012-12-28T21:04:00.000-08:002012-12-28T21:07:31.610-08:00Stories: A Book Blurb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0755336615/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&tag=eaonwimic-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0755336615"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0755336615&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=eaonwimic-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=eaonwimic-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0755336615" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">STORIES</span></b></div>
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The joy of fiction is the joy of the imagination. All new tales edited</blockquote>
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<i>by Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio</i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><span style="text-align: center;">The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to find the answer to the question, 'And then what happened?' As Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><i>Stories</i> is a groundbreaking anthology that reinvigorates, expands, and redefines imaginative fiction with contributions from some of the best writers in the world. This extraordinary volume will ignite a new appreciation for the limitless realm of exceptional storytelling. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The First Line(s)</span></b><br />
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BLOOD <i>by Roddy Doyle </i>He grew up in Dracula's City. He'd walked past Bram Stoker's house everyday on his way to school. But it had meant nothing to him. He'd never felt a thing, not the hand of a ghost or a shiver, not a lick on his neck as he passed. </blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Why I Decided to Take on the Read
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Permit me to say it again, but wordsy surfaces capture me instantly. Since this book is covered with words and some clip arts with a very catchy and somewhat pale color palette, then I was drawn to read its blurb on the back. Sounds good. It seems that buying this book would be similar to winning the local lottery. I get to read different authors at a time. I am only familiar with Neil Gaiman, Joanne Harris and Chuck Palahniuk. Yes, limited reading. I need to work on that I guess. I am more than willing to know other authors though. And some short story titles did caught my attention. For instance, <i>Polka Dots and Moonbeams. </i>I am peachy like that.<br />
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Aizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900320846839982533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844552987535077173.post-14509912316393945892012-10-13T22:04:00.000-07:002012-12-16T17:23:41.027-08:00The Great Gatsby: A Book Blurb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1849434816/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1849434816&linkCode=as2&tag=eaonwimic-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1849434816&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=eaonwimic-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=eaonwimic-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1849434816" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<b style="font-size: xx-large;">THE GREAT GATSBY</b></div>
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<i>by F. Scott Fitzgerald</i></blockquote>
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<span style="text-align: center;">The parties at Gatsby's Long Island mansion were legendarily glamorous affairs. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Yet amid the long throng of guests, starlets and champagne waiters, their host would appear oddly aloof. For there was only one person Jay Gatsby sought to impress. She was Daisy Buchanan: married, elegant, seducing men with a silken charisma and 'a voice... full of money'.</span><br />
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As Gatsby pursues shady deals and his doomed obsession with Daisy, F. Scott Fitzgerald distills the essence of the Jazz Age, and probes to the empty heart of the American Dream.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The First Line </span></b><br />
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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticising anyone,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.'</blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Why I Decided to Take on the Read
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It's F. Scott Fitzgerald -- need I say more? I fell in love with Fitzgerald (his very surname takes me to a literary euphoria I can cherish only savor with nobody else but myself) when woven words that I have read in tumblr moved me deeply, only to find towards the end of the quote or phrase or paragraph, his lovely surname. That's the thing with me. I am attracted to a quote then read the name. I am attracted to another quote and read the same name. That writer will be marked by me. And so, I wanted to know more about Fitzgerald that I have read his and her writer lover intense and tragic story on Wiki. Since then, I was dying to read <strike>his</strike> their works. Fitzgerald was also one of the celebrated writers in <a href="http://bookgasmic.blogspot.com/2012/08/under-covers-and-between-sheets-book.html">Under the Covers and Beneath the Sheets</a>. It was thought that The Great Gatsby was his greatest <i>finished </i>work. Finished. His latest work which was unfinished was thought to have surpassed The Great Gatsby if only it was written until the end. Tragic. Even in real life.</div>
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Aizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900320846839982533noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844552987535077173.post-86707548710194805722012-09-03T08:42:00.000-07:002012-09-03T08:42:02.128-07:00Passion Creek: A Book Blurb & Tour<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00947WLUC/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00947WLUC&linkCode=as2&tag=taktimformom-20"><span style="font-size: large;">Passion Creek by Avery Flynn</span></a></blockquote>
<a href="http://www.promotionalbooktours.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Passion-Creek.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-731" height="300" src="http://www.promotionalbooktours.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Passion-Creek-200x300.jpg" title="Passion-Creek" width="200" /></a>Uptight history professor Sam Layton may have the abs of a movie action hero, but he stopped believing in the joy of adventure a long time ago. However, when a one-night stand with a tattooed bombshell leads to a treasure map for the long-buried Rebecca’s Bounty, the call to action is too strong to ignore.
All Las Vegas cocktail waitress Josie Winarsky wants to do is paint. But when she lands smack dab in the middle in a mob plot, she has to push aside her dreams to find a treasure in Dry Creek, Nebraska and save her family from harm. With Sam at her side and a Vegas loan shark on her tail, the treasure she finds turn out to be much more valuable than emeralds and rubies.
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Aizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900320846839982533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844552987535077173.post-30158931777839642842012-08-25T05:57:00.001-07:002012-08-25T06:04:39.834-07:00Zane's Trace: A Book Blurb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Zane Guesswind is running from one death straight toward another -- his own. Taking off in a stolen 1969 Plymouth Barracuda, armed with his brother's driver's license, a six-pack of Mountain Dew, a jumbo pack of Sharpies, and a loaded gun in the trunk, he's headed for Zanesville, Ohio -- to kill himself at his mother's gravesite. He's got no rearview mirror and no more worries.</div>
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But when Zane picks up Libba, a hitchhiker also on her way to Zanesville, he gets a lot more than a girl who wants the last word in any argument. With each mile marker that he passes, Zane gets farther from the life he knows and closer to figuring out who he is. This suspenseful novel is a fast-moving read with a supernatural twist -- and an insightful look at families and how we can only escape them when we accept the way they are.</div>
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I-70 West: Mile Marker 82<br />
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When I die <br />
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Present to me a book with handwriting scribbles on its cover and I wouldn't take a second chance in grabbing it. That's what happened to Zane's Trace. I love seeing handwritten scribbles on books. On torn pieces of paper. On receipts. Anywhere. There's something personal about them -- they're like the remnants of the soul, like the faint white smoke that lingers when you blow the fire from the candlewick. This book has an air of eerieness in it and this draw me onto reading on the front cover. The story seems interesting a boy who was about to abandon his suicide plan. This book ought to have some good lessons about life. And.. This book is unique as it doesn't have chapters only summary of thoughts on each mile marker. Handwritten notes and unique way of storytelling. Got me.</div>
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Did you know that Stephen King's wife rescued the manuscript for the best seller <i>Carrie </i>from the trash? Or that journalist Dorothy Parker left her entire estate to Martin Luther King Jr.? Hundreds of surprising little-known flaws, foibles, and feuds of the literary world will draw you into the pages of <i>Under the Covers and between the Sheets...</i></div>
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DOWN AND OUT</div>
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Long before she became Bill Clinton's inaugural poet, Maya Angelou had stints working as a fry cook, a nightclub "shake dancer", and the first black streetcar conductor in San Francisco. </div>
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Mark Twain wasn't a lover of all literature. He once wrote of Jane Austen, "Every time I read <i>Pride and Prejudice </i>I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."</div>
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A MONSTER IN THE FAMILY</div>
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Maurice Sendak's <i>Where the Wild Things Are </i>was meant to feature wild horses -- but when they proved too difficult to draw, he replaced them with monsters modeled on his aunts and uncles. </div>
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Admit it: Even though you're a ravenous reader today, you probably still wince and shudder when someone mentions <i>The Scarlet Letter, </i>and you are overcome by memories of that high school English teacher who slowly squeezed the life out of what <i>technically </i>should have been a fun read for a 16-year-old. Seriously: It's got sin, adultery, revenge, self-flagellation, mysterious astronomical portents... what's not to like?</div>
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If you have been stalking me, you would've known that I am a ravenous reader poser. At least I think so. Though I have the thick and sticky desire and lust to read on books the whole afternoon, I cannot do so. Blame my work, frisbee, alcohol, the internet and him. But, I swear, if my God permits me, I would read all the important classics, especially those written by Fitzgerald. When I came upon this book, imagine my ecstasy. This would be my ultimate weapon against my literary friends. This would make me sound like a genius who seem to have touched all the pages of the books that are mentioned in this book. Aside from the juicy trivia that this book will feed me, this would guide me on what books to pick up. I really need a Kindle Fire this time. Also, I am overjoyed everytime I can relate to what the authors are pointing out or when they quote lines from books that I have already read. I'm like, <i>Oh, I know that already</i> with matching hand drop gesture. And it's really contemporary. They talk about the latest authors and books like Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling so it's timely and that makes this book enjoyable. This is not my review by the way, but it sounds like a review since I am halfway through the read so I am just gonna stop here.</div>
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Before the time of the great pyramids, there was a place like none other, a city of glass and metal rising from the depths of the ocean. Shrouded in mist, the island of Hy-Brasil and its capital Atlantis lay hidden from the rest of the world by its people, a race of long lived, interstellar nomads.
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All she wanted was a vacation - but Dumnos offered a new life.
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">COFFEE WITH OSCAR WILDE</span></b></div>
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A fictional dialogue based on biographical facts</blockquote>
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<i>by Merlin Holland</i></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Buy Oscar a coffee and he'll inspire you to brilliance with his worldly wit...</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">The most illustrious figures of the past would have much to tell us if only we could borrow an hour or so of their time. The <b>COFFEE WITH... </b>series of dramatized biographies enables us to do just that. A relazed chat with Oscar Wilde turns into an eyebrow-raising journey through the extraordinary life and opinions of one of our most eminent and colorful literary figures... and we can even ask questions!</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Renowned for his memorable <i>bons mots, </i>Oscar Wilde cut a dashing figure in late Victorian London... until his tragic downfall resulting from an ill-judged libel action. We remember him not only for his famous trial and imprisonment, but also for a "devil's dictionary" of timeless aphorisms and for the enduring brilliance of plays such as <i>The Importance of Being Earnest.</i></span><br />
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A meeting with Oscar Wilde over several cups of coffee one rainy afternoon in Paris has been a delight.</blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Why I Decided to Take on the Read
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I first saw the book in a Coffee Table Book Section of a prestigious bookshop in the Metro. I was thrilled upon seeing the title for Oscar Wilde is one of my favorite writers. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is something that I haven't read though. I first encountered Oscar Wilde through my notebook; his quote was plastered on the cover. It was about passion. Shame that I have forgotten the exact quote. That single line and the name was tattooed in my mind. I've came across his quotes and the exaltation that I felt afterwards is wonderfully enigmatic. I fell in love with his every word. That started my love affair with Oscar Wilde. <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">♥</span></div>
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<i>by Nina de Gramont</i></blockquote>
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<span style="text-align: center;">When Catherine Morrow is admitted to the Esther Percy School for Girls, it's on the condition that she reform her ways. But that's before the beautiful and charismatic Skype Butterfield, chooses Catherine for her best friend. Skye is in love with danger and the thrill of taking risks, breaking rules, and crossing boundaries, no matter the stakes. The problem is, the stakes keep getting higher and Catherine can neither resist Skype nor stop her from taking down everyone around her. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">De Gramont's chilling novel is a portrait of adolescent seductions in all their beauty and terror. Caught in a world that is both alluring and astonishing, the girls of Esther Percy are optimistic and willful, loving and selfish, daring and cruel -- all the while believing they're utterly indestructible. </span><br />
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Now, when I see teenage girls laughing.</blockquote>
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The almost metallic book cover sheet, the monochromatic bird silhouettes and the sparkling title drew me to this book. The reviews sealed the deal. The corrugated and irregular edges made me love the book even more. Another reason is that I think my youth has slowly eluded me and I wan to taste it again through the Esther Percy girls journey.</div>Aizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900320846839982533noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844552987535077173.post-3441477874009813962012-05-01T07:28:00.000-07:002012-05-01T07:28:04.357-07:00Odalisque: A Book Blurb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This book is a work of fiction. In real life, make sure you practice safe, sane and consensual sex.</blockquote>
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<i>by Fleur Reynolds</i></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Set against a backdrop of sophisticated elegance, a tale of family intrigue, forbidden passions and depraved secrets unfolds. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Beautiful but scheming, successful designer Auralie plots to bring about the downfall of her virtuous cousin, Jeanine. Recently widowed, but still young and glamorous, Jeanine finds her passions being rekindled by Auralie's husband. But she is playing into Auralie's hands -- vindictive hands that drag Jeanine into a world of erotic depravity. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Why are the cousins locked into this sexual feud? And what is the purpose of Jeanine's mysterious Confessor, and his sordid underground seet?</span><br />
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'How wicked I am', thought Jeanine, as she removed the severe black band that held her thick blonde hair securely in place.</blockquote>
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Me knowing me, the book cover would have swept me off my pumps. Nope, I wasn't wearing pumps when I took this controversial paperback upon my frail hands. Just to add glamour, I suppose. The title spells sophistication and so does the image on the cover. And, when I turned on the first page, I figured out I can tolerate the words and so off did the book from the shelf. It has chosen an owner. Odalisque, by the way, is a current slave, a concubine in training. Yes, there's a warning that this book ought to be sold to adults <i>only </i>because it has sensual parts. I always wanted to write sensually, but not in an audacious way. I want innocent sensuality dabbed all over my future work. Yes, I am serious.</div>Aizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900320846839982533noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844552987535077173.post-7771220020263320742012-02-22T05:50:00.000-08:002012-02-22T05:50:39.273-08:00The Man Who Ate the World: A Book Blurb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In Search of the Perfect Dinner</blockquote>
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<i>by </i>Jay Rayner</div>
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Nobody goes to restaurants for nutritional reasons. They go for the experience. And what price a really top experience?</blockquote>
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So asks Jay Rayner, award-winning restaurant critic and one of the inimitable judges of the show <i>Top Chef Masters.</i> Fearlessly, and with great wit and verve, he takes up the search for the perfect meal: From the Tokyo sushi chef who offers a toast of snake-infused liquor to close a spectacular meal, to Joël Robuchon in Las Vegas where Robuchon himself eagerly watches his guest's every mouthful, to seven three-star Michelin restaurants in seven days in Paris, Rayner conducts a whirlwind tour of high-eng gastronomy that will thrill the heart-- and stomach -- of any armchair gourmand. Along the way, he uses his entrée into the restaurant world to probe the larger issues behind the globalization of dinner.<br />
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Reading this book will make you hungry.</blockquote>
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I have a dire need to divert my appetite into masticating food through reading. That way, I kill time, cozy up myself so that I wouldn't bother to get up and grab some junk food and burn some calories by turning left or tight on my bed every other ten minutes or so.<br />
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Aside from this shallow thought, I have a very good explanation on why I buy food books (except recipe books, that would be when I have mouths to feed already). See, I have this food blog, Gastronomicca and I don't want to bore my readers to death with my limited gastronomical vocabulary and writing style. So, I wanna learn by reading. And, there's always something stimulating about reading descriptive sentences that arouses all five senses.<br />
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And Jay has me after I finished reading the Warning page, sort of the book's Prologue.</div>
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100 Years of Breaking the Rules -- a Social History of Living Single</blockquote>
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<i>by </i>Betsy Israel<br />
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Journalist Betsy Israel paints remarkably vivid portraits of single women -- and how they have been perceived -- throughout the decades using primary sources, including private journals, newspapers, and other materials from popular media. From the nineteenth-century spinsters of New England to the Bowery girls of New York City, to the career girls of the 1950s and 1960s, single women have fought to find, and feel comfortable in, that room of their own. One need only look at Bridget Jones and the <i>Sex and the City </i>gang so see that single women still maintain an uneasy relationship with the rest of the society -- and yet radiate glamour and mystery.<br />
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<i>Bachelor Girl </i>shines a light on the stereotypes that have stigmatized single women and celebrates their resourceful sense of spirit, enterprise, and unlimited success in a world where it is no longer unusual or unlikely to be unwed.<br />
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We all grow up with images of single life.</blockquote>
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The booksale was one of my sanctuaries during my single days late last year. I saw this and I was immediately attracted, empowered and relieved. I was determined to remain single for life until a hot man walks in front of me -- a hot man who can write me witty love letters, cook, pull out surprises, give me blue roses, engage in a stimulating conversation, have fun with me, ride with my crazy antics and one who is taller than me even though I'm wearing four-inch pumps. Impossible, I know. That's why I turn to books for company. I buy books that tell about how I feel for that certain moment. I may read them, I may not.</div>Aizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900320846839982533noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844552987535077173.post-87264171865053645002011-12-18T08:46:00.000-08:002012-02-19T05:24:08.697-08:00Observatory Mansions: A Book Blurb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004H28UHM/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&tag=eaonwimic-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B004H28UHM"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B004H28UHM&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=eaonwimic-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=eaonwimic-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B004H28UHM" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">OBSERVATORY MANSIONS</span></b></div>
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by Edward Carey</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Blurb </span></b><br />
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With his parents and other equally maladjusted misfits and eccentrics, Francis Orme lives in Observatory Mansions, once a magnificent ancestral home with beautiful grounds, now a crumbling apartment block. In a blocked off corridor of the basement if Francis's Exhibition: a carefully catalogues and private display of the hundreds of items he has ever stolen, all of them precious to their original owners. But the arrival of a new tenant upsets the delicate balance of Observatory Mansions and Francis finds himself taking drastic measures to protect the secrets of his past and the sanctity of his collection.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The First Line </span></b><br />
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I wore white gloves.</blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Why I Decided to Take on the Read</span></b><br />
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The bizarre cover made me grab it. I like the handwriting font used at the back of the book. The front cover displays the things that Francis is collecting. The drawing is weird. The handwriting is weird. The objects are weird. And I thought to myself, I must read it.<br />
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Post Script. The copy that I have obtained has a different look. Take a look at it <a href="http://www.loveisamutt.com/2011/12/some-things-weird.html"><b>here</b></a>. </div>
</div>Aizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900320846839982533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844552987535077173.post-20594189829891129162011-12-08T05:13:00.001-08:002012-02-19T05:26:19.732-08:00Five Quarters of the Orange: A Book Blurb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0028N72VW/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&tag=eaonwimic-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0028N72VW"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B0028N72VW&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=eaonwimic-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=eaonwimic-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0028N72VW" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The Blurb</span></b></div>
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When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous woman they hold responsible for a tragedy during the German occupation years ago. But the past and present are inextricably entwined, particularly in a scrapbook of recipes and memories that Framboise has inherited from her mother. And soon Framboise will realize that the journal also contains the key to ther tragedy that indelibly marked that summer of her ninth year....
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The First Line</span></b><br />
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When my mother died she left the farm to my brother, Cassis, the fortune in the wine cellar to my sister, Reine-Claude, and to me, the youngest, her album and a two-liter jar containing a single black Périgord truffle, large as a tennis ball, suspended in sunflower oil, that, when uncorked, still releases the rich dank perfume of the forest floor.
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Why I Decided to Take on the Read</span></b></div>
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I was instantly owned by this book upon my eyes laid upon it. The cover has a finely grainy texture. The wicked black font and orange peel on the cover made me want to go home and read it. The first line was breathtaking. Long sentences with carefully picked dainty words are love to me.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812968972/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&tag=eaonwimic-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=0812968972"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0812968972&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=eaonwimic-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=eaonwimic-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0812968972&camp=217145&creative=399369" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The blurb</span></b></div>
Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florence palazzo. A child of Renaissance with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the artist's abilities. But Alessandra's parents have made plans for their daughter, and she is soon married off to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, the reign of the Medicis, with their love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, is being threatened by the hellfire preaching and increasing brutality of the fundamentalist monk Savonarola and his reactionary followers. As the city shudders with violence and change, Alessandra must find her own way -- and finally explore the passions she's kept so long at bay.
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Why I decided to take on the read</span></b><br />
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First, I love the cover. The pages' thinness and color takes me to book heaven. And I like the way the blurb is written. And I share a thing with Alessandra -- I'm fighting for one of the passions. And the first line (of the novel) was so intriguing. It got me.<br />
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<a href="http://www.loveisamutt.com/2011/11/when-happiness-strikes.html">Take a look at the first page here.</a> </div>Aizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900320846839982533noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844552987535077173.post-10627701747871103752011-10-03T04:30:00.000-07:002011-10-03T04:35:35.781-07:00The Piano Tuner: A Book Blurb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400030382/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&tag=eaonwimic-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=1400030382"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1400030382&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=eaonwimic-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=eaonwimic-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1400030382&camp=217145&creative=399369" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The blurb</span></b><br />
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In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War Office: to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon who has proven mysteriously indispensable to the imperial design. From this irresistible beginning, The Piano Tuner launches readers into a world of seductive, vibrantly rendered characters, and enmeshes them in an unbreakable spell of stroytelling.</blockquote>
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First of all, I love and miss playing the piano. I figured if I could somehow connect with my passion even through reading all about it, then maybe I'd be happier. I have to say the reviews made me seal the Php60 deal.<br />
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Aizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900320846839982533noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844552987535077173.post-20965298307781722972011-10-01T05:19:00.000-07:002011-10-03T04:31:44.519-07:00The Darwin Awards Next Evolution: A Book Blurb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0035G028Q/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&tag=eaonwimic-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=B0035G028Q"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B0035G028Q&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=eaonwimic-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=eaonwimic-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0035G028Q&camp=217145&creative=399369" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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AN ALL-NEW COLLECTION OF </div>
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GENE POOL BELLY FLOPS</div>
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It doesn't require a Ph.D. to know that doing pull-ups off the edge of a seventh-floor balcony is a recipe for disaster. Or that it's a bad idea to put a paintball gun into your mouth and pull the trigger. Or to think twice before joyriding in a shopping cart strapped to an SUV. Darwin Award winners lack this basic sound judgment.</blockquote>
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Named for Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, The Darwin Awards celebrates those who have dived headfirst into the shallow end of the gene pool. From offering a bear a beer to self-testing a Taser to jumping a drawbridge on a bike, <b>The Darwin Awards Next Evolution </b>honors these macabre and entertaining feats of hapless misjudgment. </blockquote>
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Fully illustrated and with over a hundred new awe-inspiring tales, including science essays from guest writers and answers to FAQs about evolution in action, <b>The Darwin Awards Next Evolution </b>demonstrates how uncommon common sense still is. </blockquote>
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Aizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900320846839982533noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844552987535077173.post-90585570528661929502011-09-27T21:06:00.000-07:002011-09-27T21:07:05.064-07:00Dreamland: A Book Blurb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312563752/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&tag=eaonwimic-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=0312563752"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0312563752&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=eaonwimic-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=eaonwimic-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0312563752&camp=217145&creative=399373" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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Riley’s finding that the afterlife can be a lonely place when all you do is focus on work. So she goes to the place where dreams happen, hoping to find a way to contact her sister, Ever. She meets the director, who tells her about the two ways to send dreams. As a Dream Jumper, a person can jump into a dreamer’s dream, share a message, and participate. As a Dreamweaver, an entire dream can be created in a studio and sent to the dreamer. But Dreamweaving was outlawed decades ago, and the studio was boarded up. Thinking it’s her only way to reach out to her sister, Riley goes in search of the old studio. There she finds a ghost boy, who’s been creating and sending nightmares to people for years. In order to stop him and reach out to Ever, Riley is going to have to confront and overcome her own fears.
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<b>Why I Decided to Take on the Read</b><br />
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I won this book from <a href="http://www.coffeetablereviews.net/2011/09/giveaway-dreamland-by-alyson-noel.html">Coffee Table Reviews</a>! So, yeah, I'm lucky. :} </div>
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Aizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900320846839982533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844552987535077173.post-38653781325057006482011-09-19T07:19:00.001-07:002011-09-22T20:02:56.335-07:00The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories: A Book Blurb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0747592403/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&tag=eaonwimic-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=0747592403"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0747592403&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=eaonwimic-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=eaonwimic-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0747592403&camp=217145&creative=399369" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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Faerie is never as far away as you think. Sometimes you find you have crossed an invisible line and must cope, as best you can, with petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates or with endless paths in deep, dark woods and houses that never appear the same way twice. The heroines and heroes bedeviled by such problems in these fairy tales include a conceited Regency clergyman, an eighteenth-century Jewish doctor and Mary, Queen of Scots, as well as two characters from <i>Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: </i>Strange himself and the Raven King. </blockquote>
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<b>Why I Decided to Take on the Read</b></div>
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The blurb made me buy it. I love how Clarke crocheted fragile words and turned my imagination into a fairytale setting.</div>
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Stay tuned for my book review.</div>
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Aizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900320846839982533noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844552987535077173.post-3959087679674452982011-09-18T08:01:00.000-07:002011-09-19T07:28:48.913-07:00Inviting More Book Lovers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.onlinebizandresources.info/weekend-blog-follower-caravan-23/#comment-1348"><img border="0" src="http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff375/sahmako/wbfcbutton.png" /></a></div><br />
I am totally excited with this week's task: Liking Facebook Blog Fan Pages!! :} So, without, further ado, let me proceed with this blog entry.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks for this week's blog sponsors: <a href="http://hazeljlabado.com/">Pink Memoirs</a> and <a href="http://www.postcardenthusiast.com/">Postcard Enthusiast</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Aizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900320846839982533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844552987535077173.post-82624277244077272982011-09-06T06:46:00.000-07:002011-10-01T05:00:14.904-07:00The Chocolate Diaries: A Book Review<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400074029/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&tag=eaonwimic-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=1400074029"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1400074029&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=eaonwimic-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" width="130" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=eaonwimic-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1400074029&camp=217145&creative=399373" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></div>
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The Chocolate Diaries is not a recipe book. It's a book that contains sweet life stories, tips and quotes that could make a tough battle with life bearable. </div>
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I got inspired by the drive through lane story. I would love to do that once in a while, but in my own little way. {I wouldn't want to be a spoiler and re-tell the whole story. You have to find out yourself.} It taught me on how one person can be good when everything is just a mess. The morale of the story will hold you back to do miserable and pathetic things that seems too easy (or stupid) to do when our life seems to suck.</div>
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The author also gets to talk about scientific processes that occur when we feel down or happy. Like how stress causes adrenaline, and in the process, fats are released into the bloodstream. So, we have all the reasons to be happy. Everyone doesn't like to be called fat, right?</div>
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And, I love Top 10 Reasons to be a Writer. Once again, I am disclosing those reasons. The article inspired me more to become a writer. I want to be a writer, even though it means only writing for myself. It is my passion. Even though I may suck at it, I still want to be a writer. But, if it's infinitely possible, I would write for my readers. </div>
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However, I found reading the book to be dragging and redundant at times. That doesn't erase the great stories and thoughts that one could derive from the book though. </div>
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To end the review, let me share to you some of the quotes I love in this book:</div>
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The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.</blockquote>
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When you need a quicker picker-upper, you can reach for a paper towel or some chocolate. Chocolate may taste better, but paper towels provide more dietary fiber. Tough choice, I know </blockquote>
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