Someone on Team MJ (actually, more than one person) is reading Fifty Shades of Grey.
Book description: When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind – until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time.
Someone in Team MangoJuiced is reading The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides right now.
Book description: It’s the early 1980s—the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafés on College Hill, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. (Continue reading on Goodreads.)
A recommendation by the same friend who got me into The Hunger Games, Everneath is one of those books that hooked me early into the story.
It tells the story of Nikki Beckett, who, in a fit of desperation, goes off with gorgeous guitar player Cole who “feeds” off people’s emotions – like an emotional vampire. Cole is an Everliving, a creature of the underworld called Everneath.
Given her heartbreak over her mom’s accidental death and the drunk driver’s subsequent parole, plus the belief her boyfriend Jack was cheating on her, she agrees to be Cole’s “forfeit” or sacrifice for the Feed. For a century (or 6 months of time in the real world), she will be in the underworld, while Cole siphons off her feelings and emotions. After the time is up, the sacrifice should have no memory of life on the Surface, and should just move on to be part of the Tunnels, that dark shadowy place in the Everneath.
A Recipe for Disaster?
Ingredients:
1 college junior, fired from summer internship
1 secret crush, the cute and flirty type
1 crush’s best bud, with a secret of his own
1. In large bowl, mix together college junior and secret crush.
2. Gradually add in crush’s best bud.
3. Stir until best bud’s secret is revealed.
4. Let mixture rest in a sleepy provincial town.
5. Bake under the blazing summer sun until golden brown (be careful, batter might burn).
Author Mina V. Esguerra is giving a talk called “Publishing in Pajamas: How I successfully released my books to the world” on 21 January 2012. She will talk about how she self-published her first e-book “Fairy Tale Fail” on Amazon, which sold over 5,000 copies in a year alone and was reviewed by readers in the U.S., Australia, Japan and the Philippines. Mina will also discuss what she learned about e-books, self-publishing, and finding readers at home and abroad.
It’s hard not to admire the person who introduced ‘1,000 songs in your pocket’, or ‘the world’s thinnest notebook’. He came up with the coolest gadgets, and remade the way we use phones. When he died last October, everybody grieved at the loss of one of the world’s greatest visionaries.
After reading his biography, I realized how apt the description was – he wasn’t a programmer or a designer, nor was he an artist. He didn’t really invent anything, but instead, had this amazing foresight that could connect the dots and come up with products that would sell. For example, the idea for the iPod wasn’t new. There had been music players before then, with a very limited capacity. Being a music lover himself, he wanted to improve the listening experience. As luck would have it, one of his people came across a very small hard drive capable of storing more than 20 songs. Thus, the iPod was born.
We were pleased to discover that Popped Too
Description from Amazon.com:
Destination: Seoul, Korea (where dreams come true)
Purpose of Travel: Protect BFF from fan woman who wants to destroy all competition for the biggest K-Hip-Hop band’s lead vocalist (and maybe hang out with hot Korean guy who looks like K-Pop crush).
Yay MangoJuiced for supporting readers with your ebook contest! I was thrilled when I won because I’ve been meaning to read The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry. This book has been recommended for fans of Sarah Addison Allen, who is one of my favorite writers. I’m on the lookout for novels similar to her kind of work. The Kitchen Daughter is a magic realism novel – mostly contemporary fiction with just a touch of whimsy. In this novel, that little bit of magic is how Ginny momentarily brings to life ghosts by cooking their recipes.
In New York to Dallas, part of JD Robb’s (Nora Roberts) hugely popular In Death series, Lieutenant Eve Dallas finds herself facing Isaac McQueen, a blast from her past in more ways than one.
The perp is one of Dallas’ first busts as a young detective. Responsible for putting the serial pedophile in prison, McQueen escapes after 12 years of incarceration. He then sets up an elaborate game to extract revenge on Dallas, the first step of which is luring her away from her beloved New York City to Dallas, Texas. Out of her element and in an unfamiliar territory, Dallas must also deal with her violent past while keeping ahead of McQueen.
One of my (many) guilty reading pleasures, I remain hooked because of several factors: Eve’s back story, Roarke, and a very strong supporting cast.
It’s my fault, of course. No one put a gun to my head and ordered me to read Twilight and its sequel New Moon. I picked up copies of my own volition after watching the film with no expectations, and coming out of the cinema catatonic, my whole supposedly grown-up psyche run over and totally mangled by the juvenile love train. Wha—! What just happened there, I thought.
I had been sufficiently warned by friends who have read the phenomenally popular four-book vampire romance series by Stephenie Meyer. “It’s going to suck you in,” my friend Kat said. And, when I started complaining about Bella’s over-the-topness in book one, my sister Jof said, “Naku, wala pa ‘yan.”
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