Angieville

Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted @ The Broke and the Bookish So it's time tomorrow to head off for parts north. Every other year, DH's family gathers lakeside for a family reunion full of sand, sun, and late-night card games. I for one am eager to get out of town, kick back in a beach chair, and lose myself in some solid summer reads. These are the books I'll be taking with me, and I gotta say—I'm pretty dang excited about my prospects. Have you read any of them already? Yea or nay? Any of these on your TBR as well?   Three days, four nights, eight books. I call that perfection.

Okay, so the title of this post may be a tad misleading. The thing is . . . the thing is: by and large, I do not connect with road trip books. I know. But it's the honest truth. When it comes down to it, transportationally-dependent books in general are a wash for me. Outside of a number of epic quest novels (I mean, The Two Towers is my favorite Lord of the Rings book), if the entire thing is set in a carriage, on a boat, in a van, or astride a horse, I tend to steer clear. Because if I don't, the story and I get mad and start throwing things at each other. Interestingly, spaceships seem to be the exception to this vehicular rule. Perhaps when the characters and I are on a spaceship together, I'm removed enough from my own reality at that point not to be bothered. So bring on the space opera, sentient ships, and warp drive. It has ever been thus. I'm really not sure why I'm immediately put off by road trip narratives. It's not that I don't enjoy it wh...

Happy Memorial Day, guys! School is out this week, baseball practices are underway, swim lessons start soon, and I am definitely ready for summer. And some summer reads. That's why I thought it would be fun to host this fun beach bag giveaway as part of Harlequin's Summer of Love tour celebrating the release of the first three books in Bella Andre's Sullivans series. Don't miss The Look of Love (June 2013), From This Moment On (July 2013), and Can't Help Falling in Love (August 2013). One Angieville winner will receive a fabulous beach bag filled with summertime essentials from hot brands such as  O .P.I. ,  Evian , Not Your Mother’s Hair Care , and  Unisun Eyewear . But that's not all. To further celebrate, Harlequin is hosting the Bella Andre Summer of Love Mixtape Contest over on their Facebook page. Visit  Facebook.com/HarlequinBooks   from   May 22nd – May 31 st   and create your   SUMMER OF LOVE   Mixtape for a chance to win...