Sidekick Showcase #34 – To Bite or Not to Bite…

Sidekick Showcase #34 – To Bite or Not to Bite…

Sidekick Showcase, previously known as Sidekick Saturday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Jaclyn at JC’s Book Haven. There are many secondary characters that are as great as the primaries. In some cases, the sidekicks actually steal the show and you like them better than the heroine or hero. Maybe they didn’t have enough page time for how great they were. Anyone can play along! I will post my Sidekicks on Saturday, and so will Jaclyn, then whichever day during the week that you would like to post yours, you can put your link in on Jaclyn’s page. Just do the following: • Choose a sidekick *or someone other than the hero or heroine* that you would like to […]

Posted 19 January, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Memes, Sidekick Saturday / 16 Comments
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Stacking the Shelves #15

Stacking the Shelves #15

Stacking The Shelves #15 Stacking The Shelves, hosted by Tynga’s Reviews is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks! Participating in Stacking The Shelves has helped me to keep better track of books I’m adding to my huge TBR pile every week, and I think I have gotten a little better at not adding too many books every single week. Participating in this blog-hop has also introduced me to more new blogs, and some weeks, I add more books to my ‘might-read-one-day’ […]

Posted 18 January, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Memes, Stacking the Shelves / 76 Comments
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The Sheriff Catches a Bride (The Cowboys of Chance Creek #5) – Cora Seton

The Sheriff Catches a Bride (The Cowboys of Chance Creek #5) – Cora Seton

*I received a free ARC of The Sheriff Catches a Bride from One Acre Press via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* The Sheriff Catches a Bride is in the same spirit as the other books in the Chance Creek series, but it is a little more complicated and confused because of the sub-plot that takes up a lot of time that I would have rather spent with Cab and Rose. Fila is fleeing from Afghanistan, and arrives in New York with three handlers to bring her to her new husband, a Taliban terrorist, and I felt that this whole part of the story only served the purpose of a resolution for Cab and Rose. I also think that […]

Posted 17 January, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 12 Comments
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Feature and Follow #70 – Blogger BFF

Feature and Follow #70 – Blogger BFF

Feature and Follow #70 Blogger BFF YAY it’s Friday! Gain new followers and make new friends with the Book Blogger Feature and Follow! If this is your first time here, welcome! You are about to make some new friends and gain new followers — but you have to know — the point of this hop is to follow other bloggers also. I follow you, you follow me.The Feature and Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Rachel of Parajunkee’s View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it’ll allow us to meet more new bloggers! What sets this Hop apart from others, is that our hosts feature two blogs. Every week […]

Posted 17 January, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Feature and Follow, Memes / 44 Comments
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2014 TBR Pile Reading Challenge

2014 TBR Pile Reading Challenge

I decided I really needed to do something about my humongous TBR pile. And then I stumbled upon the 2014 TBR Pile Reading Challenge hosted by Bookish. I currently have 457 book on my kindle – books I haven’t read yet. Some of them are kindle freebies, some are cheap books, others are books I was looking forward to, and then kind of forgot about when I finally got them delivered to my kindle. So I really need to do something about all those books I already own. There are several levels in the 2014 TBR Pile Reading Challenge, and for starters, I am going to go with Sweet Summer Fling – my goal is to read 31-40 books that […]

Posted 16 January, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Challenges / 22 Comments
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Review: Panic (Rook and Ronin #3) – J.A. Huss

Review: Panic (Rook and Ronin #3) – J.A. Huss

In Panic, Rook starts her new show with Spencer, and Ford is tagging along as usual. Being away from Ronin is not easy, but she can finally start film school, and she has other people she can count on as friends. Her tutor is showing her some strange newspaper articles as he tries to make her doubt all three men who have become so important to her. When an ex also shows up to tell her she has to talk to an FBI agent to save his mother, she realizes this may very well have something to do with her past, rather with the past of her friends. Even I could feel the Panic at times while reading. Rook puts […]

Posted 16 January, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 21 Comments
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Giveaway, Blogtour Review: The Pack or the Panther – Tara Lain

Giveaway, Blogtour Review: The Pack or the Panther – Tara Lain

*I received a free ARC of The Pack or the Panther from Enchantress of Books Blogtours in exchange of an honest review* The Pack or the Panther is a sexy paranormal romance about a gay future alpha-wolf and a strangely aloof and beautiful panther who both have some important decisions to make about their lives in order to find any kind of happiness at all. When Cole’s parents simply inform him of his impending marriage to the neighboring pack’s daughter who is also a future alpha-wolf, he tries to tell them it’s a really bad idea, it’s not as if they don’t know he’s gay, but saving the pack is more important to them than Cole’s happiness. Cole, too thinks […]

Posted 15 January, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Blog Tour, Giveaways, Reviews / 16 Comments
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Top Ten Tuesday #23 – Top Ten 2014 Debuts

Top Ten Tuesday #23 – Top Ten 2014 Debuts

Top Ten Tuesday #23 – Top Ten 2014 Debuts I look forward to reading This week on Top Ten Tuesday is about the Top Ten 2014 debuts we look forward to reading. My links go to Goodreads on the author name, and Booklikes on the title, to help you add more books to your own TBR in case you haven’t got these on there yet. Top Ten Tuesdays is a fun meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, where we share our excitement for books, and I really like how this meme makes me think about the books I read, why I read them, and who to recommend my favorite reads to. So, here we go, as usual, my […]

Posted 14 January, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Memes, Top Ten Tuesday / 45 Comments
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Teaser Tuesday #15 – All Our Yesterdays – Christin Terrill

Teaser Tuesday #15 – All Our Yesterdays – Christin Terrill

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) Share the title and author, too, so that other Teaser Tuesday participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers. Teaser Tuesday #15 – All Our Yesterdays – Christin Terrill All Our Yesterdays – Christin Terrill The drain is open and exposed, finally. I reach inside of it, […]

Posted 14 January, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Memes, Teaser Tuesday / 31 Comments
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Review: Escaping Reality (The Secret Life of Amy Bensen #1) – Lisa Renee Jones

Review: Escaping Reality (The Secret Life of Amy Bensen #1) – Lisa Renee Jones

*I received a free ARC of Escaping Reality from Julie Patra Publishing via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* I am completely blown away by Escaping Reality! A red-hot thriller/suspense novel with a great main character in Amy. She has no idea if there is anyone she can trust, and a secretive handler has just made her leave New York and her new life behind. At the airport, she finds the right locker, with a small carry-on, new ID and an address in Denver. Shockingly fast paced, there is never a dull moment, as Amy runs, and finds herself next to a very sexy and hot man on the plane. Escaping Reality has Amy on the run, a mysterious […]

Posted 14 January, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 19 Comments
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