Friendship in Books by Simona
All books we read all full of magic of all different sorts. There are stories about love, stories surrounding a lot of mystery or stories set in a fantasy world. FRIENDSHIP plays an important in a lot of books, so I though I’d write a little post about it.
Next to the family, friends are the most important people in a character’s life. The main characters seek advice and hang out with their friends. This time is really valuable and the deep bonds in some friendships make the books special and unique. Friends understand each other without words and they know exactly what the other person needs.
The first friendship in books I’d like to talk about is our golden trio from the Harry Potter books. Harry, Ron and Hermione had a special connection and bond from the start. Fighting together and always being there for each other. I was always so happy Harry had his two best friends and they were perfect together.
In Giovanna Fletcher’s second novel You’re The One That I Want to main focus is on friendship. It tells the story of Maddy, Ben and Robert, how their friendship developed and how it all grew into deeper feelings, feelings of love. Maddy being ton between her two best friends and then also one of the guys not getting her and still just wanted her to be happy. Their connection and chemistry was unique and special.
Name: Poppy Does Paris (Girls on Tour Book 1)
Author: Nicola Doherty
Format: kindle edition
Pages: 65 pages
Release date: 17th July 2014
Publisher: Headline
Teaser
It takes two to tango in the City of Love...
Paris. City of love, city of romance. The last place you want to go to on a work trip when you're in the middle of an epic dry spell. But that's where Poppy is headed, along with her colleague Charlie, who's shallow and annoying but very, very good-looking. During a white-wine-fuelled Skype session with her friend Alice in LA, Poppy concocts the perfect plan: work by day, and have some no-strings fun with Charlie by night. Of course, it might prove a little more complicated than that, but it's nothing Poppy can't handle - or is it?
Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered
A Kind of Magic.
Part-time witch, full-time glamorous high-flyer Esme Mcleod rubs shoulders with celebrities for a living, has a sort-of-boyfriend …and just enough magic in her fingertips to solve life’s little irritations; why shouldn’t she cast a little spell to catch the busy barman’s attention, or to summon a latte to aid her all-nighters?
Called back to her small Scottish home town and meddling family, stiletto-clad Esme is way out of her comfort zone… But Esme must embrace her abilities as a witch, or watch her family lose their beloved café.
Except Esme has never claimed to be a whizz at witchcraft, and her charms are starting to go awry - she certainly never meant to cast a love spell on her ex-boyfriend Jamie! It’s time for urgent lessons in magic as well as love – it seems there’s only so much that muttering a few words over cupcake batter will fix…
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Name: You Had Me at Merlot
Author: Lisa Dickenson
Format: kindle edition
Pages: 45 pages
Release date: 14th July 2014
Publisher: Sphere
Teaser
Elle and Laurie are the last ones standing: they're
single, they're not having babies any time soon and their weekends
aren't filled with joyful meetings about mortgages. For Elle, this is
fine - she likes her independent life, she loves her job, and she has no
desire to walk down the aisle anytime soon. But Laurie wants love and
she wants it now.
So when Laurie begs Elle to come with her on a
singles holiday to a beautiful vineyard in Tuscany, Elle is reluctant.
You Had Me at Merlot Holidays promises crisp sunshine, fun and a chance
to stir up some sizzling romance. Elle has no intention of swapping her
perfectly lovely life for someone else's idea of her Mr Perfect, but ten
days under the Italian sun with her best friend and lashings of wine?
How bad could that be?
Name: Behind the Glass
Author: Kristen Morgen
Format: kindle edition
Pages: 184 pages
Release date: 30th July 2014
Publisher: self-published
Teaser
Rebecca Jordan’s life
is simple, disciplined, and uncomplicated, at least on the surface. Then
she meets a handsome stranger/secret admirer named Michael Vale one
fateful late night at a bookstore café. As a focused but struggling
photographer with a passion for art, her outwardly happy world is turned
upside down during this life-changing encounter when she quickly
realizes she has met her soul mate. The undeniable attraction between
them and their intense, immediate connection seem picture perfect as
they discuss the shop’s local artwork, until Rebecca abruptly ends the
chance meeting with no explanation.
Betraying Brett, her loyal,
loving boyfriend, is something Rebecca can never bring herself to do.
Driven by a strong moral code and molded by divorced parents and a
tumultuous childhood, she struggles to stay away from Michael, but fate
and circumstance intervene, bringing them back together time and time
again. As much as she resists, there is no denying her true feelings for
him and the simple fact that Michael understands her in a way Brett
never has. Michael proves to be everything she’s ever wanted, but
remains just out of her reach.
Behind the Glass tells the story
of Michael and Rebecca’s extraordinary love and the many unconventional
stages their relationship must go through. Their morals and their faith
in true love and in each other will be put to the test as they learn
that meeting one’s soul mate does not come without obstacles.
Welcome to my birthday giveaway!
Today, on the 16th July I turn 24. It has been a quite eventful year so far.
I'm happy to celebrate is with you with a massive giveaway!
Thank you so much to the authors who supported me! Jill Steeples, Aven Ellis
Rachel L. Hamm, T.S. Krupa, Gale Martin, Juliet Madison, Whitney K.E.
Jennifer Gilby Roberts and ...
The giveaway runs from 16th July to 27th July 2014.
I will give away five bundles of ebooks and one bundle of a paperback copy with some bits and boobs. The giveaway for all ebook copies is worldwide! The giveaway for the paperback of The Best Thing That Never Happened To Me by Jimmy Rice and Laura Tait is EU only. There will be one lucky winner each bundle.
I've read all of the books I am giving away. They are all fantastic in their own way.
To get more information about the book just click on the name and it will lead you to Goodreads.
Name: Love and Shenanigans
Author: Zara Kean
Format: kindle edition
Pages: 376 pages
Release date: 1st June 2014
Publisher: Beaverstone Press LLC
Teaser
Vows in Vegas...True Love in Ireland.
Three days before leaving Ireland on the adventure of a lifetime, Fiona Byrne returns to her small Irish hometown to attend the family wedding from hell. When she discovers the drunken vows she exchanged with the groom during a wild Las Vegas trip eight years previously mean they're legally married, her future plans ricochet out of control. Can she untangle herself from the man who broke her heart so long ago? Does she even want to?
Gavin Maguire's life is low on drama, high on stability, and free of pets. But Gavin hadn't reckoned on Fiona blasting back into his life and crashing his wedding. In the space of twenty-four hours, he loses a fiancée and a job, and gains a wife and a labradoodle. Can he salvage his bland-but-stable life? More importantly, can he resist losing his heart to Fiona all over again?
Name: Between a Rockstar and a Hard Place
Author: Portia MacIntosh
Format: kindle edition
Pages: 71 pages
Release date: 20th February2014
Publisher: Carina UK
Teaser
Behind the music…
Being best friends with a mega-star has its perks and Nicole Wilde, music journalist, laps them up. But when said friend, Dylan King, gorgeous lead singer of The Burnouts, has zero sense of self-preservation – once a drop of alcohol hits his blood stream ‒ and an inability to keep ‘little Dylan’ in his pants, it also comes with responsibilities.
Now, Nicole has to track down Dylan in time to play a charity gig tomorrow. Half a dozen groupies, a haunted hotel, a tattoo parlour, a reality show runner-up and a crazy bed-hopping, sleepless night later – will she find him before the tour bus leaves town? And when she does, is it time to head home? Or to jump on the tour bus and go along for the ride!
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Rebecca Raisin |
Thank you to Isabell who has kindly invited
me to the Dreaming With Open Eyes blog today!
I’ve just released The Bookshop on the
Corner, a novella set in the town of Ashford, which is the same town Christmas
at the Gingerbread Café and Chocolate Dreams at the Gingerbread Café is set in. While The Bookshop on the Corner features
some of the same characters it’s a stand-alone book.
It was as though the girls
from the café weren’t through with me and kept butting themselves into the new
story! I thought I’d share the dream cast with
you, if The Bookshop were to be a movie!
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Audrey Tautou |
So for my main character, Sarah Smith –
owner of the secondhand bookshop and bookworm extraordinaire I pictured Audrey
Tautou, the actress from the movie Amelie. She’s whimsical and quirky like
Sarah!
Missy is Sarah’s best friend and owner of
The Sassy Salon. She’s a real sweetheart and as Sarah says in the book, “Missy
had a tendency to speak loudly, and peppered her dialogue with
compliments.” And Sarah describes
Missy’s appearance like this, “She was all bouffant auburn curls, and thick Hollywood-esque
make-up, and the type of person that made you smile just by setting eyes on
her.” So I pictured a sassy, big haired Helena
Bonham-Carter.
Name: Carry You
Author: Beth Thomas
Format: kindle edition
Pages: 400 pages
Release date: 24th April 2014
Publisher: Avon
Teaser
“For you Mum. This is all for you”
Daisy has lost her mum to breast cancer. She’s at rock bottom and doesn’t think she’ll ever get back up again. Her best friend Abi has other ideas – she tells it like it is and she’s determined to make Daisy remember the person she used to be.
What Daisy doesn’t know is that, thanks to Abi, her life is about to take an unexpected turn, when she signs them up to do a charity walk. Added to which, someone is about to burst into Daisy’s world in a riot of colour reminding her that life can be full of surprises.
I started blogging back in December 2013. Almost 7 months later, I am still here, blogging. This is my 103rd blog post. I want to say thank you to all of you. You made this journey so special for me. Thank you to everyone who's been reading my blog posts over the last couple of months, gave me feedback and praised my work. Thank you so much for all your support and love. You have no idea how much this means to me.
How did it all began? I started this blog because of Paige Toon and Simona. Let me tell you why. A small group of girls and I runed a very successful Paige Toon Fanpage on Facebook. I did the most work for this page. Contacted hundreds of people to like our page, created graphics, book quotes and posted on a regular basis. You know how it is, two's company, three's a crowd. At one point we had too many different opinions about the page and I was kind of bullied out until I gave up and I left. I loved running the page and it was very important to me but sometimes you just have to leave it be. I had to find another way to show my love for Paige. Now seeing what has become of the page makes me so angry. It’s toally runned down. No more updates, just nothing. Shame on them!
Luckily there was Simona. I met her through the Toonies. She became a true friend and is a wonderful human being. She listed to me when nobody else was. With Simona's help I set up my blog. Thank you for all your help, support and encouragement. It’s been one of my best decisions I have ever made. Even though I didn't knew what I was getting myself into. I had no idea how the book blogging world works. The book blogger community made it very easy for me. They welcomed me with open arms. I’ve never seen such a fantastic community as the book blogging community. They are all so welcoming, caring and supportive.
At the moment many book bloggers on Twitter are talking a lot about two read-a-thons which are held in July. I'm just not happy that they are hosted on nearly the exact dates because I want to take part in woth of them. I think they are both fantastic ideas and projects and are worth a blog post. The read-a-thons are organised by some great bloggers. I'm very happy to be involed in both read-a-thons. I'm looking forward to chat with other bloggers about the books they are reading. This sould not be a competition. Read the books you want to read dosen't matter what genre they are.
Let's start with the #sunathon.
The sunathon is running from 21st July - 27th July.