E-mail Subscription Change

E-mail Subscription Change Unless you come to my blog (un)Conventional Bookviews  to sign up to receive e-mails for all my posts, this will be the last e-mail you receive from me. I have signed up with a newsletter / e-mail plugin instead of using Jetpack as I have so far, both because it will be easier for me to personalize my e-mails this way so they will look more like my blog, and also because I may want to use Jetpack for less things than I have so far. If you don’t want to receive any e-mails from me anymore, you don’t need to do anything, this will be the last one through Jetpack. I hope you’ll sign up and […]

Posted 11 January, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Uncategorized / 10 Comments
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Sunday Post #14 – #COYER, COYER, COYER

Sunday Post #14 – #COYER, COYER, COYER

The Sunday Post #1 – Weekly Wrap-up Welcome to my weekly wrap-up post. I am signing up with Kimba over at The Caffeinated Reviewer, who is hosting this weekly event. This week’s posts: This week’s reviews: COYER and other challenge updates: I have reviewed quite a few COYER books so far, you can find a list on my COYER Challenge page. So far, I have read 17 books for COYER, well, almost – one was a DNF. I have also started to make a dent in both my LGBT 2015 Challenge and in my 2015 TBR Pile Challenge. And for my 2015 Bookish Resolution Challenge, I can report that I have read quite a few of the books I already […]

Posted 11 January, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Memes, Wrap-up Posts / 36 Comments
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Review: Dancing with the Duke – Suzanna Medeiros

Review: Dancing with the Duke – Suzanna Medeiros

Dancing with the Duke is a short, sweet historical romance that whetted my appetite for more of the Landing a Lord series. My Dancing with the Duke review: With only 60 pages, Dancing with the Duke is a very short and quick read, but it still managed to have some tension, romance and a few misunderstandings over the span of the story. As usual when I read a novella, I really wish this story was a little longer, because it seems to me that both Alex and Charlotte are characters worth getting to know much better than Dancing with the Duke allowed for. The setting was great, the London season, and Charlotte was there to find a husband – but […]

Posted 10 January, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 6 Comments
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STS #66 Bought Borrowed and Bagged #16 – Recommendations Galore

STS #66 Bought Borrowed and Bagged #16 – Recommendations Galore

STS #66 – Bought Borrowed and Bagged #16 Stacking The Shelves, hosted by Tynga’s Reviews is all about the latest additions to your library – virtual or actual, with books that are  bought, borrowed, won or ARCs  you will be reading soon. BB&B is a homage to to Barron’s Books and Baubles from Karen Marie Moning’s amazing Fever series, and is hosted by Braine over at Talk Supe. Netgalley ARCs: This Heart of Mine (Whiskey Creek #8) – Brenda Novak First love. Second chance? As the daughter of a hoarder, Phoenix Fuller had a tough childhood. So when the handsome, popular Riley Stinson became her boyfriend in high school, she finally felt as though she had something to be proud […]

Posted 10 January, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Memes, Stacking the Shelves / 28 Comments
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Review: More than Friends – Aria Grace

Review: More than Friends – Aria Grace

More than Friends is a short story, in which Ryan figures out he might like guys a lot more than he previously thought. My More than Friends review: More than Friends is quite well written, but I had a little trouble with Ryan’s complete turn-about that happened so quickly. At the beginning of the story, he’s a little sad because he and his girlfriend Brooke broke up, so he kind of hooks up with a girl in a bar, and comes with her to her cousin’s, Zach, place. He falls asleep on the coach, while she goes into a bedroom all alone. The next day, he is invited back to Zach’s for a party, and he is a little uneasy […]

Posted 9 January, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 18 Comments
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Up Close and (un)Conventional #12 – Freedom of Speech

Up Close and (un)Conventional #12 – Freedom of Speech

Up Close and (un)Conventional #12 – Freedom of Speech Welcome to this week’s Up Close and (un)Conventional. This is where I discuss both things that have to do with reading and blogging, and things that just have to do with life in general. This week, I just want to talk about freedom of speech, and how fragile it can be. I’m sure most of you have heard about the horrors that happened in Paris yesterday, at the Charlie Hebdo headquarters. Armed men forced themselves inside the Charlie Hebdo headquarters and killed twelve people, including four of the most famous artists making the caricatural drawings the newspaper is well known for. I think the whole of Europe is in a state […]

Posted 8 January, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Discussion Posts / 18 Comments
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Blogtour Review: Four Days – Dannika Dark

Blogtour Review: Four Days – Dannika Dark

Welcome to my stop on the Four Days blogtour, hosted by Enchantress of Books Blogtours. I have my review to share with you, as well as my favorite quotes, an excerpt and there’s also a giveaway! My Four Days review: I’m just going to fangirl about Four Days for a paragraph right now. There will be squeeing, bouncing and much happiness! I loved Ivy and Lorenzo, the writing was really good, and there were epic fights, a horrendous villain and just lots of awesomeness all around. Now that the squeeing is out of the way, let me tell you about all the things that made Four Days a fantastic read. The character development was outstanding. Ivy seemed so very shy […]

Posted 8 January, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Blog Tour, Giveaways, Reviews / 12 Comments
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Review: Dane – Liliana Hart

Review: Dane – Liliana Hart

Dane is extremely hot, but also extremely short, so the story felt a little hurried.  My Dane review: Dane has so much hotness it’s impossible not to feel the heat while reading, and the erotic scenes were very well executed. However, the fact that the story was so short made it less good than it could have been – especially because it involves one of my all-time favorite romance tropes: second chances! Sadly, it also includes one of my top pet peeves, the one where a couple has sex without using a condom. Even if they had been involved before, that was ten years ago, and they had no way to know if the other person had a sexually transmitted […]

Posted 7 January, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 6 Comments
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Waiting on Wednesday #27 – Language Arts

Waiting on Wednesday #27 – Language Arts

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jill of Breaking the Spine. This meme is a place to showcase a book we’re really looking forward to with bated breath! A new release in our favorite series, an exciting new title from a favorite author…  Waiting on Wednesday #27 – Language Arts This week, the book I’m waiting for is by an author I’ve never read before, but the blurb and the title just really made me want to read it. It will be released on June 9th 2015! Language Arts – Stephanie Kallos   Sometimes the most powerful words are the ones you’re still searching for. Charles Marlow teaches his high school English students that language will […]

Posted 7 January, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Memes, Waiting on Wednesday / 30 Comments
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Review: Ruin – C.J. Scott

Review: Ruin – C.J. Scott

Ruin is a quick read, and the characters are quite well done for such a short story. My Ruin review: Kate and Ben met by chance in Winter’s only diner, and all Kate could think about from the start of Ruin was how hot she thought Ben was. Kate’s best friend, Jane, is one of the only people her age who stayed in Winter when everyone else left for college, and she is nervous about strangers in general, and Ben in particular. When it’s obvious that Ben won’t be able to leave their little town that day, Kate decides he should stay with Jane and her grand-mother, work on their crumbled mansion for room and board at least for a […]

Posted 6 January, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 12 Comments
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