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September 1st, 2010
Books Read and Reviewed:
Bunny Tales: Behind the Closed Doors to the Playboy Mansion by Izabella St. James
Something, Maybe by Elizabeth Scott
Wicked Intentions [Maiden Lane series book 1] by Elizabeth Hoyt
Talk of the Town by Sherrill Bodine
Pages Read: 1232
Books From My TBR List: 2
Bunny Tales: Behind the Closed Doors to the Playboy Mansion by Izabella St. James
Something, Maybe by Elizabeth Scott
Books Not Finished:0
Tell me, how was your month?
August 16th, 2010
The reason for my hiatus:
That amazing dude up there in the picture.  He’ll be home on leave for a couple of weeks and I want to make sure I spend as much time with him as possible. That means that some of my reading will get put on the back burner until he leaves again. So until then, take care guys I’ll make sure to check in every so often.
-Jess
August 16th, 2010
 Talk of the Town
Author: Sherrill Bodine
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Forever (December 1, 2008)
Full Disclosure: Checked out from Library
My Rating:  
Summary
Rebecca Covington’s life is over. She’s a 40 something gossip coloumnist who after 15 years has now been moved to the Home and Food section of her Chicago based paper. The new head boss and CEO wants someone younger, hipper and more in touch with reality tv to do the job.
There are so many problems cropping up in Rebecca’s life, that she’s sure she’s going to have a mental breakdown. But with a little help from her friends, Rebecca finds out that it’s never too late to teach an old dog new tricks … or to find romance with your hunky boss.
Talk of the Town, was a cute read. Something very much so out of what I normally read. Yes, it’s contempary and yes it’s romance. But I don’t normally read books with heroines that are much older than I am. Or if I do it’s easy to forget that they’re supposed to be older.
Sherrill Bodine did an excellent job with Rebecca’s character. Rebecca acted the way I believe a woman of her age would act. She didn’t act all wild and crazy, yes she had wild and crazy moments but for the most part her actions were very refined and spoke of the wisdom she had gathered through the ages.
The romance between Rebecca and the new CEO was cute, and the rivalry between her and the new gossip columnist was vicious. Although the reason for the rivalry blindsided me, and really had no bearing with the rest of the story.
I would recommend this to older readers. This is a book I could for sure hand my grandma and tell her that while I liked it I didn’t love it.
August 12th, 2010
 Wicked Intentions (Maiden Lane book 1)
Author: Elizabeth Hoyt
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (August 1, 2010)
Full Disclosure: Received from publisher for review
My Rating:
Summary:
Temperance Dews runs what is essentially a home for orphans. She runs her home on a very tiny budget and when her patron passes, she is hard pressed to find another. So of course when Lord Caire comes knocking … well more like sneaking around her door, and offers to help her find a new patron if she helps him navigate the harsh streets of St. Giles, she agrees. Lord Caire, hides a deep secret. One that everyone knows about, everyone that is except for Temperance.
The ride that Wicked Intentions takes you on is extremely charged. From the get go there is a sexual undertone between Temperance and Caire. It takes a lot for them to get into it though. The first couple of chapters were horribly boring and were what gave me the hardest time getting through. Once I hit chapter 5 though, I was hooked. I wanted to know what Lord Caire’s deep dark secret was. I wanted to know who was gutting the prostitutes of St. Giles, I wanted to know it all.
Watching Caire go from someone who is cold and untouchable, because the phyiscal human touch hurt him, to someone who can someone stand a persons touch was extremely heartbreaking. I’m still not sure why he can’t stand touch, or why he harbors such ill will towards his family but with Temperance by his side I’m sure he’ll do just fine.
The only thing that I really didn’t like about this book were all the different names that Temperance’s family had. Silence, Winter, Asa,Concord … just no. And the naming of the children that they had either Joseph something or Mary something, really made it hard to keep track of some of the characters. Othe than that, Wicked Intentions was an interesting, yet slow read. I cannot wait to read the next book in this series.
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August 10th, 2010
TEASER TUESDAYS is a weekly event, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading, where you ‘tease’ others with a little bit from the book you’re currently reading, making them want to read it, too! How to participate:
- Grab your current book and open to a random page
- Share two ‘teaser’ sentences from somewhere on that page
- Make sure what you share is NOT a spoiler
- Include the title, author and page number so that others can read the book if they like the ‘teaser’
- Head on over to Should Be Reading and leave a comment on the Teaser Tuesday post there
This weeks teaser:
“The murdered woman, the one gutted like a pig at the butchers. She was my mistress of three years.”
Found on page 45 of Wicked Intentions by Elizabeth Hoyt
**NOTE: This is from an ARC quote may be different in the final book**
August 9th, 2010
 Something, Maybe
Author: Elizabeth Scott
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Simon Pulse (March 24, 2009)
Full Disclosure: Checked out from Library
My Rating:
Summary:
Hannah’s dad is a fictional version of Hugh Hefner, and her mom is a web cam star who parades around in skimpy underwear all the time. All Hannah wants is to be normal. However with parents like that how can you be?
Hannah takes orders for a drive thru burger joint, taking orders with her crush, Josh, and annoying friend, Finn. Of course Finn has a crush on Hannah, but Hannah refuses to see it. Instead preferring to spend her time obsessing over the little things that Josh does. Such as remembering that she likes animal crackers and having deep meaningful conversations about saving the world and such. However, Hannah soon learns that nobody is perfect and everything comes with a price.
One thing I noticed about Something, Maybe is that it took the ‘absent parent’ thing and flipped it a little bit. Because Hannah’s mom was in her life and aware of what was going on, but was also trying to maintain the life that she was used too. Where as Hannah’s dad hadn’t really paid any attention to her at all, except for when it suited him.
Something, Maybe was a cute read. I had thought that maybe everything would work out perfectly for Hannah, really I was rooting for her. But I can’t lie, I like the way everything did work out. I think in the end though everything worked out for the best for Hannah.
August 4th, 2010
 Bunny Tales: Behind the Closed Doors to the Playboy Mansion
Author: Izabella St. James
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Running Press (August 21, 2006)
Full Disclosure: Checked out from Library
My Rating:
Summary:
Everybody wants to know what it’s like inside the Playboy Mansion. I mean, that’s why the show Girls Next Door is so popular. There is something about wanting to see all the intimate details of what is going on in what is one of the most widely known houses in America.
So of course, when I saw that this was an uncensored view of what happens at the Playboy Mansion, I knew I just had to read it. Sadly, reading through Bunny Tales, really disappointed me and let me down. I wasn’t disappointed and let down because it didn’t live up to the rosy image that I had in my head of what really happens in the mansion. More so I was let down by the jumbled story that I read through in order to get my tasty tid bits of trash on the mansion.
Bunny Tales started out really slow, talking about how Izabella had grown up and her life up to getting into the mansion. Interesting, but honestly not what I was reading the book for. I didn’t care to know that she had gone to law school, although I was really proud of her for doing so. Even though I don’t know her.
And really it didn’t pick up much from there. Outside of finding out how weird Hugh Hefner is, and how some of the things in the mansion haven’t been changed in 80 years. It just wasn’t what I was looking for. Thinking back on it now, I’m not too sure what I was expecting from this book, but I do know that what I read wasn’t it.
The story was jumbled and jumped around a lot. And the author repeated the same phrases over and over, and after awhile it began to feel like a broken record.
While Bunny Tales wasn’t my cup of tea, it might be good for someone else. If you’ve read it please, tell me what you thought about it. Maybe there is something I over looked.
July 30th, 2010
 White Cat (Curse Workers book 1)
Author: Holly Black
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry (May 4, 2010)
Full Disclosure: Checked out from Library
My Rating:
Summary:
Cassel isn’t like the rest of his family. He comes from a family of workers, but he isn’t one. He doesn’t have any of the family talent. He does have a deeper and darker secret though, he killed his best friend.
Even though that fact haunts Cassel in his daily life, he still has to go on with his normal daily life. However, his normal life is disturbed when he wakes up to find that he had sleep walked onto the roof of his school.
From there on out it’s a whirl wind of crazy activity. He gets medically relieved from school and has to find a way to get back into school that doesn’t involve him going to see a doctor.
When he over hears his brothers plotting something, he starts to worry. Maybe there’s more to him than meets the eye. When it turns out that his best friend might be alive, poor Cassel is worried that he might really be having a mental break down.
Filled with a wonderful cast of characters, Black’s Worker series is going to be a huge hit. It’s gritty and yet still maintains that bit of reality and fun that comes with being a more paranormal novel. Seriously, I spent the first half of this book going “What the heck is going on?”, and the second half going, “NO NO NO this can’t be it.” By the time the book ended I felt as if I had been on a roller coaster, and I didn’t want it to stop.
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