The good news: There's going to be one (1) winner. The prize: A book of your choice from the Book depository up to $10 The awesome news: It's, as always, INTERNATIONAL! What you need to do: Fill the Rafflecopter form. It's very simple (works perfectly well in Safari, Chrome and Mozilla. Internet Explorer I'm not really sure...).
And, if you have a little time, leave me a comment telling me if you like the fact that I let the winner choose the book or if it's easier to know what book is being offered. I'm really curious.
Good luck! :D
P.S: Right now I'm away enjoying Paris (woohoo!) and this post was scheduled so if there's any problem just let me know and I'll try to solve it ASAP.
Today I'm really happy and excited... in a few hours I'm going to Paris to meet up with of my best Brasilian friend: Paulo Roberto... woohoo!!! As far as I know we will be staying in a simple but nice, and most important, centric hotel that I believe has internet available too but, since it's going to be my holidays I won't be posting too much (or nothing at all) until Thursday night, which is when I'm coming back.
In the meantime there's going to be an scheduled post on Wednesday night/Thursday morning... the Back to the Books Giveaway Hop! So yeah, don't miss it xD As always is going to be international as long as TBD ships to your country. And the winner will get one book up to $10.
Hum... what else, what else... Oh yeah! My wedding and my holidays in Spain. Well, to make things short, I'm preparing my wedding in Switzerland since it takes less time than doing it in Spain (figures...) therefor we won't have too many guests (economy is really bad back in Spain for most of our friends...). But at least my parents, who are currently living in Peru, are coming and Juanma's parents too. Then 4 friends will be here to help us to arrange everything.
It's been difficult to prepare a wedding when I don't know how to speak German but at least I have a few friends who helped me a LOT. Believe me, they've been amazing.
But before our wedding we are going to Spain for 8 days (9th-17th, September) to have a little fun ;) And then our wedding is going to be the 19th of September.
A small picture of Malaga, Spain
Anywho, I just wanted to tell you all that I'm not posting as much as I would love to because I don't really have too much time in my hands right now. The good news? At least I can read a lot (it's the only thing that makes me relax) so after all this madness is over there's going to be a lot of reviews, hahahaha.
And, if you read all this then you definitely deserve a bear hug :D
In My Mailbox is a meme created by Kristi at The Story Siren that features books I've received/purchased/won during the current week.
Last week I didn't receive or bought any books for a very good reason: weddings are freaking expensive!!! And very time consuming... and if you happen to live in a place that is not your country and where people speak a very difficult language like German, yeah... try to arrange a wedding... Anyway, I'll tell you more about that later.
For Review:
- The Butterfly Clues
- Every other day
- The Mephisto Covenant
And, that's pretty much it :D In a few hours I will post one review and a few news ;)
Feature & Follow Friday is a weekly meme created by Parajunkee and co-hosted by Alison Can Read where bloggers hop around meeting and following other bloggers.
To join the fun and make new book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:
Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your comments
Follow Follow Follow as many as you can, as many as you want, or just follow a few. The whole point is to make new friends and find new blogs. Also, don't just follow, comment and say hi. Another blogger might not know you are a new follower if you don't say "HI"
If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followers
If you're new to the follow friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!
Q. In books like the Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood) series the paranormal creature in question "comes out of the closet" and makes itself known to the world. Which mythical creature do you wish would come out of the closet, for real?
That's so easy. Vampires, of course. Sorry, I know there's been a lot of books about vampires in the last few years and somehow it's been tiring but the first paranormal book I read was "Interview with the vampire" and then the second book "Lestat the vampire" and I fell in love with the guy, who couldn't?! And then I didn't read the other books... I ATE the whole "Vampire Chronicles" series. Therefore, yeah, vampires are my secret (and no-so-secret) crush ;)
Speaking of Lestat, just in case you are curious, I prefer a LOT more Stuart Townsend's Lestat than Tom Cruise's Lestat. Not only Stuart's interpretation was terrific but the OST of "The Queen of the Damned" was awesome. And Aaliyah's interpretation of Akasha was amazing... I was devastated when I heard she died shortly after the movie.
What about you, guys? :D Since I'm in a rush just live me your comments and I promise I will follow you back when I come home ;)
by Angeline Kace Series: Vampire Born #1 Release date: 26th August, 2011 Publisher: Accendo Press Pages: 263 (ARC sent by the author in exchange of an honest review) Second book expected publication: 2012
Summary from Goodreads:
Brooke Keller is a high school junior who has never spent much time living in one place. She is finally in a town long enough to almost snag the boy of her dreams, until her life is threatened after killing a fanged man in his attempt to kidnap her. Brooke begins a dangerous journey in an effort to find out who is after her and how to stop them. In a world with powerful and prejudiced vampires, Brooke must tap into the side of her that she never knew existed at the risk of losing her life in order to save it.
Welcome to my new feature: Video Sharing Thursday!
Yes, I know, it has nothing to do with books so why am I creating it? Well, let me tell you why:
- I love music. I use it to express myself and to help me when I'm feeling down, you know? If I'm sad then I put some crazy-funny songs. If I'm feeling happy I choose something to dance around the house (I learnt that with my mom, hahaha). If I need something to chill out then some classical music helps me a lot and if I'm feeling dark (yeah, dark xD) then I listen some rock bands and by doing so my friends and family know that is not the best moment to mess up with me, muahaha *evil laugh*.
- Helps me to read. Not always but sometimes I like to have a soft background music when sitting by myself with a good book, I think it improves the setting of the book if you know what I mean.
- I like different genres, no kidding. Classical, Pop, Rock, Hip-Hop, R&B, Heavy Metal, Hindi, J-Pop, Samba, Forró, Reggaeton, etc etc... I think it has something to do with my blood, hahaha. My mom is latina and we feel the music in our blood but I'm a terrible dancer when it comes to salsa (I blame it on my dad's side, he is Spanish and hates to dance) unless, of course, you give me a glass of rum and coke - which we call cubata-, if you give me one of those then somehow I'm a terrific salsa dancer xD Weird, huh? I know. The same happens with samba and forró, I lived in Brasil for a few years and I kind of learn to dance both of them.
- Then we have Hindi music, the reason I love it is funny. Everywhere I go nobody believes that I'm from Spain nor from Peru, most people think I'm from the India. Their reason? My eyes and the color of my skin. Even Indian people come and talk to me in the middle of the street, in Indian!!! And I'm like "sorry, sorry, I don't understand you..." and then they stop and talk to me in English. It's hilarious, hahaha. So one day I decided to watch some Indian movies, to see if I could find some resemblance... and I'm not still sure if there's any but I fell in love with the movies, the songs and the choreographies. They are AMAZING!
- J-Pop comes from "Japanese-Pop". I'm a huge fan of manga and anime so listening to japanese music was obvious. And I enjoy it a lot.
- I've been discovering... mmm... what do you call them? Indie bands? Indie singers? Hum... feel free to help me here, my English sometimes is limited, sigh... Anyway, yeah, Youtube is a really good way to find new voices out there and, I'm telling you, some of them are awesome. True story.
I'm sure I could find more reasons but I don't want to bore you to death so I'm going to stop here, hehe. So, without further ado... my first two videos that will be featuring an Indian movie: "Dil Bole Hadippa" The story is utterly funny: Veera travels the whole country with a theater company owned by her uncle but her dream is to play cricket in a big league. The only problem is that, being in India, only males are able to participate in big leagues (the women leagues are barely known).
One day the team of the town they are performing open their gates to meet and accept new players... so she decides to disguise herself. Now she is Veer, her "twin brother". Finally she is accepted and her dream is about to come true... until Veera falls in love with the captain of the team, Rohan, who was raised in England.
Rohan's dad asks Veera to show his son that India is actually a country full of nice people and lovely sightseeings. And then Rohan falls in love with her too...
Enjoy!
And, BTW, if any of you want to share with me videos feel free to leave me a comment or, if you want to participate and share your love for music just copy my badge, create your post and leave a comment with your link so I can pass by and have a look :D
