Oh yeah. Happy New Year!

I'm been taking a break (2 weeks?) from reading to play my much neglected video games. I'm a video games bitch too but not so much as a romance novel bitch I think. Anyway, it's 2009 and I guess the new year is a good time to start afresh, do something new, and change bad habits etc..

What I hoped for the new year is to only read good books. Only read books that I will like. But can one only read books they only like? How would you know you would like a book when you haven't read it?

Blah blah. I'm not really back on the reading track yet, I'm still in a play-video-games mood (playing Resistance 2 for the Sony PS3 if anyone is interested to know). But I'm really looking forward to reading Elizabeth Boyle's Love Letters from a Duke, which has a nice review at Rip My Bodice. Actually I started on it a little, but got sidetracked by video games.

Anyway again, my purpose of starting this post is to say I've got a nice end to 2008, with me winning free (free! free!) books from author's blogs, and the even better part is that I already love those authors whom I received free (free! free!) books from: Karen Kelley, Susanna Carr, & Sasha White, whose books I've just received. And Meljean Brook too, but she wasn't my favourite author yet when I won the anthology First Blood. And an honorable mention to Lucinda Betts for sending me Moon Shadow (my first free book) back in 2007. ♥ ♥ Thank you thank you thank you.

I got My Prerogative (yea I know I've got the eBook format already but-) and Sexy Devil on the 30th of Dec '08 (an almost 2 months wait!) , and thought WOW. What a way to start my new year. Thanks Ms White! I'd post photos like I did with the other free books I've got, as soon as I can stop thinking about Resistance 2..

Jack Harrington.

Not John Harrington the Third. Just Jack Harrington. And he got me at "As soon as I'm not half-drunk, I plan to kiss the hell out of you." ♥ Well I do like him a hell lot already before this. (He broke his bra? Haha!) And he's Meljean Brook's hero in the novella Thicker Than Blood (from the anthology FIRST BLOOD).

I LOVE the things Jack says. ALL the right things. I could list them here. But it would be more enjoyable to read the book and find them all out though.

Jack is just perfect for Annie. There isn't a moment when I want to smack him. I wanna cuddle him. "Hurrah for me. Another nap." Heee. I'm really happy for Annie that she's got Jack now. I'm glad that she readily accepts him back to be around her instead of being difficult much. It's hard to find a guy who doesn't straight-forward push you to learn what he wants. Jack just does it sneakily. ☺ "I'm high on love, Annie." Aww, he makes me smile. Annie is lucky lucky lucky. I'm happy for myself too. Back to finding new good stuff.

I will definately check out the other books in the series. I'm sooo curious about Milton! She's in the book, Demon Angel. Hmm, she's called Lilith there. Anyway, thank you to Meljean Brook (again and again and again) for holding a giveaway contest that allows me to win this book. ☺

In my mail.. from Meljean Brooks!

I won a book over at Meljean Brook's blog, and it's just so awesome. Meljean Brook is awesome ♥.

The envelope that had me screaming and dancing around my living room:


The book inside: First Blood by Susan Sizemore, Erin McCarthy, Chris Marie Green, and ♥ Meljean Brook!


The extra goodies from Meljean Brook:


The back of the bookmarks:


And the best part:


Thank you so much Ms Brook! ☺