I just recieved an email that Sherrilyn Kenyon (and I am sure Dianna Love) will be in Toronto on August 10th at 7pm. No location other than Chapters/Indigo was given. I’ll update when I have the location.

If you haven’t met these two wonderful ladies, you are missing out.

Back in highschool, I didn’t read a quarter of what I read now. I was handed a copy of Angela’s Ashes and it was the first biography that I had ever read. Though I don’t review much biographies, I do know had I not been handed that book I wouldn’t have started to read as much as I do.

Thank you Mr. McCourt and may you rest in peace.

Hey All. Just came across this on another blog.

Last year over 400 blogs came together to celebrate the art of book blogging during the first ever Book Blogger Appreciation Week!  I am so pleased to announce that the second annual Book Blogger Appreciation Week will be taking place September 14-18.

WHO Anyone who blogs about books is invited to participate.  In fact, we want everyone who blogs about books and reading to be a part of this week!
WHAT A week where we come together,  celebrate the contribution and hard work of book bloggers in promoting a culture of literacy, connecting readers to books and authors, and recogonizing the best among us with the Second Annual BBAW Awards.  There will be special guest posts, daily blogging themes, and giveaways.
WHEN September 14-18, 2009
WHERE Here at the new Book Blogger Appreciation Week Blog!  (Please note that this year there are three separate blogs and feeds—one for the main event, one for giveaways, and one for awards.)
WHY Because books matter.  In a world full of options, the people talking about books pour hard work, time, energy, and money into creating a community around the written word.  I, Amy, the founder of Book Blogger Appreciation Week love this community of bloggers and want to shower my appreciation on you!

WANT TO PARTICIPATE?
Please help us spread the word about Book Blogger Appreciation Week by posting about it on your blog, stumbling this post, twittering about it, and telling everyone you know that it’s time to have a party and celebrate book bloggers!

Jenna Maclaine has a contest running on her website, click the link to check it out! Goodluck!

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Christine Warren ”Devil’s Bargain” Supernatural bounty hunter Lilli Corbin made a pact with the Prince of Hell: She agreed to recover a book of prophecies. When she learns it could trigger the apocalypse, Lilli is forced to make the ultimate choice: save her soul, or the man she loves?

Marjorie M. Liu ”The Robber Bride” Welcome to a post-apocalyptic world where women are fed on for their life forces. Now it’’s up to Maggie, one of the last female survivors, to hunt down and destroy an army of darkness…

Caitlin Kittredge ”Down in the Ground Where the Dead Men Go” Ava is a demon slayer who needs help from mage Jack Winter to reach the demon underworld-a place of dark seduction…and, maybe, one of no return.

Jenna Maclaine ”Sin Slayer” London 1889. Jack the Ripper is killing off the city’’s vampire population, and now it’’s up to Cin Craven to hunt him down-and save the infected Michael, the love of her undead life. (more…)

I’ve been using my new found unemployment as a time to not only apply to every job in Canada, but as a time to catch up on my big old TBR pile.  I also have some exciting news!

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Cop and conjurer of demons, she’s a woman in danger of losing control-to a power that could kill….

Why me? Why now? That’s what Beaulac, Louisiana, detective Kara Gillian was asking herself when an angelic creature named Rhyzkahl unexpectedly appeared during a routine summoning. Kara was hoping to use her occult skills to catch a serial killer, but never had she conjured anything like this unearthly beautiful and unspeakably powerful being whose very touch set off exquisite new dimensions of pleasure. But can she enlist his aid in helping her stop a killer who’s already claimed the lives-and souls-of thirteen people? And should she? The Symbol Man is a nightmare that the city thought had ended three years ago. Now he’s back for an encore and leaving every indication on the flesh of his victims that he, too, is well versed in demonic lore.

Kara may be the only cop on Beaulac’s small force able to stop the killer, but it is her first homicide case. Yet with Rhyzkahl haunting her dreams, and a handsome yet disapproving FBI agent dogging her waking footsteps, she may be in way over her head… (more…)

The basic premise of the book is centered on Abra  Barrow, a Veterinarian Technician.  When her journalist husband (Hunter) returns from a research trip to Romania, he starts being an ass (for lack of a better term, trust me) and to try and save her marriage they move to a rural mansion  upstate. Then she finds out her husband is a werewolf. (more…)

I knew it!  Pixie may be back now, and she MAY have pictures and stories of her cottaging vacay, but I’m here to tell you, don’t you fall for that crap!!!

After MUCH investigation, phone calls, googling, credit card traces …

I found her.

You’re not going to be happy with this.  Pixie, for all her advanced tastes in music and the like, well … she’s been feeding us a line of bull, to put it simply.  She wasn’t at the cottage.  Oh no she was not.  She took off to indulge her secret passion …

Pixie outside the Grand Ol' Opry in Nashville

She’s a closet COUNTRY MUSIC LOVAH!!!!

Oh the shame, Pixie.  Oh the lies.  Oh the utter disillusionment …

And on that note, I shall gracefully hand her back her blog and let her try to wiggle her way out of this one.  Good luck with that girl.  Hope you have something believable to say for your county-lovin’ self.
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Thanks to Pixie for letting me babysit her blog … even though I’m a lazy blogger who managed to get only three posts up, including this late breaking (scandalous) news post.  Heh.  I had posts planned, honestly I did.  Even a book review!

Next time.

Love ya chicklet!

~Jan~

I made it through 10 days of rain/black flies/deer flies/mosquitos, in tact and exhausted let me tell you.

150 pictures taken. 1 mild heart attack, which included me running across the deck whilst the guys watched a hawk land 3 feet behind me.

Once I check all of my 10000000 emails and upload all of those pictures I shall do a proper post.

A big huge Thanks goes to Jan, who had me giggling when I finally had a brief internet connection.