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My “Desperate to Read” list… (my latest TBR list)

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Going over the fun “TBR list” quizzes that I’ll be posting in the next few weeks, I realized, mine was in sore need of an overhaul. Or at least an update. ;) From what I can tell, I haven’t posted an official one since October 2015! I’ve been meaning to make a new list for some time now. I have many unfinished TBR lists, but I hear many of you do, too, so I don’t feel so bad. Tee hee!

But come on!! How can anyone blame us? Considering all of these new releases coming out, or when we’re in the mood for a little genre-change, or when our best book-addict friends INSIST they’ve read one they know we’ll love like crazy, it’s impossible for a book-addict to stick to just one. read more

Currently Reading… The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

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I’m reading The Kind Worth Killing! I’m halfway through the book and really enjoying this psych-thriller and I have NO idea where it’s going. NONE. I thought I did, and then TWO twists knocked me for a loop right at the halfway point, and now anything goes. 😉

Maryse: Now I’m reading “The Kind Worth Killing” – it’s another that Sadie and Tracie went crazy for, and Sadie has been INSISTING. This one is full-on adults, and his wife is cheating on him (he’s super rich), and he meets a woman on a plane and they “bond” and she tells him that she’ll help him get rid of her. *gasp* That’s crazy enough as it is, but not necessarily what would have attracted me to the book. Murder plot books and detective-type books are rarely my thing but because it’s a psych-thriller, I have the impression (by what I’ve heard from others) that this thing is going to twist in a way that I won’t see coming. read more

Currently Reading… Illuminae (The Illuminae Files) by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

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I was trying to choose between five different books to start tonight (and that’d doesn’t even include my actual TBR lists)!! LOL! My choices are mostly the latest brand new releases (Kristen Ashley, Jamie McGuire, just to give you a couple). 😉 And I just can’t choose because they are ALL calling me. My favorite authors!!!

But there is one… one that is not my normal genre, nor did it call to me much. —> Illuminae (The Illuminae Files) <— Oh sure the blurb is good (end of world, and a plague etc etc… I LOVE THOSE!!) yet there was something about this one that was holding me back from the book-love train. A bit too… technical/sci-fi-y in the blurb? I dunno. At first I was all… YES MINE!!! read more

Currently Reading… Hollywood Dirt by Alessandra Torre (and I’m loving it!!)

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 <— Happy Labor Day AND… it’s LIVE!!!! HOLLYWOOD DIRT is what I’m currently reading (I had an early copy and started yesterday) and I LOVE IT!! *whooooo* Cole is TOTAL book-boyfriend material and I am crushing HARD. Tee hee!!! 😀

Click here to watch my video reactions while I was reading Hollywood Dirt

You guys… I was loving it so much that I made a silly reaction video (even though I’m not even done the book yet). I just felt the need to EXPLAIN to you guys why I love it so much (even though the “trope” is one that we’ve read before… famous hollywood heartthrob meets “normal” girl in her hometown). Mind you… I’m drawn to that theme no matter how many times I’ve read one like it, however what makes this one an “I LOVE IT” book, is the writing. How well the author brings these characters to life, how they interact, the hilarious things that they think when they don’t realize that WE are in their heads. Tee hee!!!! I feel like I’m just like her! Or so I wish…  😉 read more

A few books on my TBR List that got smothered by my one-clicking, but I’m bringing back up to the top…

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Yep… my TBR list is outta control. And for awhile I had a “book-Dom” (you know… the imaginary kind) that kept me in line with my reading. Tried to keep my whole crew in line with their reading. But apparently, he’s only so much “Dom” and we all… well. We were a bunch of bratty readers. He couldn’t handle the whole bunch of us, and while we WERE sticking to our TBR list for a week or so… a month? He (they – we had multiples taking shifts 😛 )… left us to our own devices. 😉 read more