March Favourites (Monthly favs #3)

March oh March where have you gone?

This has been a very very strange month indeed. Hope April will be better!
According to Goodreads I've read 14 books during March. Whis is one more than I've read in February even though February was a few days shorter! Anyway, the books I've read this month haven't exactly blown me away. Different from earlier months I only have two books in my favourite-folder and both of them are chick-lit (I've read four chick-lit books out of fourteen books in total!).

My two favourite books in March 2011 were:

The Girl's Guide to Homemaking by Amy Bratley

This book really took me by surprise. It was not at all what I'd expected. I enjoyed it mucho and couldn't put it down.

You can find my review-recommendation-thingy here.

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I Love the 80's by Megan Crane

I'm a big, no huge, fan of Megan Crane. I just love her writing, the quirkiness, the humour, the warmth, everything.

This book is so much fun, it has it all. Music, the 80's!!!!, the fun fashion, the hot hunk, the adorable heroine, romance, mystery, time-travel, murder....and so on. 

I hope to find time to write a review soon :)

Loved it!                                                                                                                  

In My Mailbox # 12

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren , find out more about it on her IMM-page.

So, I wasn't sure if I was going to post an IMM this week, mainly because of lack of time. I've had a really bad week (not a bad book-week though) and I'm not really feeling all that great. But I was staying up late watching tennis, seeing my fave lose (made me sad), too much energy in my body now to sleep..so I decided to write this post.

I've finally gotten around to buy the Wicked Lovely - series, Yay me..can't wait to read them!

Wicked Lovely - Melissa Marr

Ink Exchange - Melissa Marr

Fragile Eternity - Melissa Marr

Radiant Shadows - Melissa Marr

Darkest Mercy - Melissa Marr

How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf - Molly Harper.

After falling in love with Molly Harpers writing while reading And One Last Thing... (I've written about it here), I just had to get this one. I've read it in one sitting, it's hilariously funny :D

Stitches and Scars - Elizabeth A. Vincent. My first book bought and read on my Kindle. Loved the reading-experience, didn't like the book, at all :(

I Love the 80s - Megan Crane. Feels like I've been waiting for ever and ever for this one. Will be reading this one ASAP!

Swept Off Her Feet - Hester Browne. Liked this one, a nice fluffy read, featuring a ball in a Scottish Castle.

Everybody Jam - Ali Lewis

The Scarlet Kimono - Christina Courtenay. Gorgeous Cover!!

So, that's it from me this week, what did you all get?

Happy Reading!

Återupptäcka...

Jag har precis, efter att ha läst 3 timmar i An Echo In the Bone, kommit fram till att jag ska läsa om gamla böcker. Förut gjorde jag det hela tiden, men sen så slutade jag bara med det, utan någon anledning som helst. Konstigt. Varje gång jag står framför bokhyllan och vill läsa om någon gammal bok så tar det stopp. Jag vill inte. Känslan av olust. Men jag måste, och nu har jag bestämt mig, så det så. ( I brist på annat att berätta..haha)

Ska läsa igen:

• The Best Day of Someone Else's Life - Kerry Reichs
• Life's Too Short to Frost a Cupcake - Rosie Wilde
• Desperately Seeking - Evelyn Cosgrave
• Cafe Tropicana - Belinda Jones
• Conversations With the Fat Girl - Liza Palmer
• Seeing Me Naked - Liza Palmer
• The Nanny - Melissa Nathan
• Flirting in Cars - Alisa Kwitney
• Where have all the Boys gone? - Jenny Colgan
• The Boy I loved Before - Jenny Colgan
• English as a Second Language - Megan Crane

Så, det borde räcka ett tag. I'll let you know how it goes..haha.

Nu borde jag gå och göra mig i ordning...dags för ännu en 30-års fest, den sista I hope.

Chick-lit, my favorites

Well, I read a lot, and it's mostly chick-lit I read, so I thought I start off with a list of my favorite chick-lit books. Because I don't read just any book, I really don't. And I don't read the typical chick-lit. I hate everything that has to do with shopping, make-up and shoes! Shoes in particular. I hate shoes (oops, maybe I shouldn't out myself like that). And I don't particular care for books with titles such as "A Singles Guide to...", and I really don't want to read about women working at glossy magazines and so on. So, even though I'm a girl and read chick-lit, I'm not so girly after all.
Books I read have to have something, that difficult to define it, most of the time it's something that is personal to me, and other readers just don't understand why I liked a particular book, because for them there was nothing special about it.
I like reading as an entertainment on lazy afternoons when there's nothing much to do. I like to read on a break from my studies, to get my mind to think about something else. I use reading when I'm angry or sad, because all my negative emotions disappear when I read, and I use reading when I'm happy because reading just makes all my positive emotions so much stronger.

Reading for me is a constant quest for that special feeling in my stomach/heart, some call it butterflies, but I'm not sure if it is that what it is, but it certainly makes life worth living!!!

It's difficult for me to say just exactly why I like a certain book, sometimes it has nothing to do with the book or the plot, but with how the book makes me feel!

My favorite chick-lit books: (Without any particular order!!!)

1. Conversations With The Fat Girl - Liza Palmer This is a favorite, not because of the weight issue but because Liza Palmer is an exceptionally good writer. I wasn't a fan of the "I" style before this book, but now I just can't get enough of it. I love the suspense I get when I don't know what everyone else is thinking, when I know exactly as much as the main-person in the book. When the author isn't playing God, and when you don't read phrases like " She didn't know that this wasn't the worst thing happening to her this day, more was to come..."
2. Be Careful What You Wish For - Alexandra Potter Well, the title says it all. The book really makes you start thinking about the small and big things in everyday-life. Wonderfully written.
3. Life's too Short to Frost a Cupcake - Rosie Wilde
   
4. Out Of The Blue - Belinda Jones Perfect Summer Read! You can litterally smell the ocean!
5. English As A Second Language - Megan Crane There's a lot of drinking in this book, which could cause a problem for some readers, but it's about college/graduate school, and which student doesn't drink?
   
6. Best Day Of Someone Else's Life - Kerry Reichs It's about weddings, a lot of them, which's normally not my thing, too girly. But this is a smart book, very entertaining, many deep insights, it has everything I look for in a book!!
7. One Night Stand - Julie Cohen
8. Flirting in Cars - Alisa Kwitney It was a warm sunny day, when I was reading this book on the balcony. I got so immersed in the story that when I finally was interrupted several hours later, I was very red and sun-burnt.
   
9. The Nearly-Weds - Jane Costello
10. Desperately Seeking - Evelyn Cosgrave
11. Playing James - Sarah Mason
12. The Nanny - Melissa Nathan
13. The Boy I Loved Before - Jenny Colgan
14. I Heart New York - Lindsey Kelk I actually didn't care much for the plot. It has too much shopping, too many clothes and make-up and a few fairy-taily things in it, but the writing, the writing is wonderful! Once picked up, I couldn't put it down again, the emotions were so real. Heavenly :)
    
15. Knitting under the Influence - Claire LaZebnik
16. Truly Madly Yorus - Rachel Gibson
17. It Should Have Been Me - Phillippa Ashley
18. Smart Casual - Niamh Shaw
19. One Thing Led to Another - Katy Regan
20. Farmer Needs a Wife - Janet Gover