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My Year in Books 2018 & Ankündigungen für 2019!

Diamond93 | Montag, 31. Dezember 2018 | 3 Kommentare

Goodbye, 2018!

Kaum zu glauben, dass schon wieder ein Jahr um ist und 2019 vor der Tür steht.

Lesetechnisch war 2018 überhaupt nicht mein Jahr.

Obwohl ich zu Anfang des Jahres noch hoch motiviert war, hat meine Motivation zum Lesen und auch zum Bloggen über das Jahr hinweg drastisch abgenommen.

Leseflauten waren mein ständiger Begleiter dieses Jahr und ich hoffe sehr, dass ich im neuen Jahr wieder in meinen Lesefluss komme.

Außerdem habe ich mir viele Gedanken gemacht und beschlossen eine kleine Bloggerpause einzulegen.

Ich habe gemerkt, dass mich die Motivation zum Bloggen und zum rezensieren,

langsam im Stich lässt und ich glaube es wird mir gut tun, eine Pause einzulegen.

Ich werde mir von nun an nicht mehr den Stress machen, Bücher lesen zu müssen, um Rezensionen zu schreiben.

Ich habe einfach gemerkt, dass ich besonders in diesem Jahr Bücher gelesen habe, nur um sie zu rezensieren und nicht, weil ich unbedingt lesen wollte.

Ich habe zum Beispiel ein Buch begonnen und mir während des Lesens schon Gedanken gemacht, was ich in die Rezension schreiben könnte, welche Zitate gut wären etc. und das hat mir ziemlich schnell den Spaß am Lesen verdorben.

Früher war das nicht so.

Diese Lust, Bücher zu verschlingen und in neue Welten einzutauchen, hat mir in diesem Jahr besonders gefehlt und ich glaube, ich werde wieder meine Liebe für Bücher und fürs Lesen entdecken, wenn ich etwas Abstand nehme und mir selbst nicht mehr den Druck mache, Bücher zu lesen, damit ich sie rezensieren kann.

Natürlich werden trotzdem noch Beiträge wie Waiting on Wednesday, Neuerscheinungen & Co. folgen, denn diese machen mir noch immer Spaß und helfen auch mir dabei, den Überblick in der Welt der Bücher zu behalten.

(Außerdem werden die Rezensionen meiner Rezensionsexemplare, die noch ausstehen, ebenfalls folgen.)

Ich hoffe, du hast Verständnis.

Vielleicht ging es dir ja auch mal so?

Mich würde deine Meinung zu dem Thema sehr interessieren...

Aber nun zu meinem eigentlichen Beitrag: Mein Jahresrückblick 2018!

Die letzten Neuzugänge in diesem Jahr...

Diamond93 | Freitag, 28. Dezember 2018 | Kommentieren

Heute möchte ich dir meine Neuzugänge der letzten 3 Monate zeigen,

die letzten Neuzugänge in diesem Jahr...

Release Day Blitz: Something to Prove by Shannyn Schroeder

Diamond93 | Donnerstag, 27. Dezember 2018 | Kommentieren

It’s the release blitz for Shannyn Schroeder’s Something to Prove! Check it out and grab your copy of this sexy new contemporary romance today!

Title: SOMETHING TO PROVE

Author: Shannyn Schroeder

Genre: Contemporary Romance

 
About SOMETHING TO PROVE:

More than business... Determined to show her father she's capable of running the family business, Elizabeth Brannigan sets out to save his struggling Chicago bar. But she'll need a little help dealing with the rough crowd. When she encounters the handsome co-owner of a thriving Irish pub, she's more than ready to take on those late night shenanigans. Colin O’Leary’s father passed away before he could prove to him that he wasn’t a screw-up. Now he wants to show his brother he’s responsible enough to own a bar of his own. And Elizabeth just might be the saving grace he's always needed. Can they mix a little business and pleasure or will the merger destroy everything?

EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT: 

This bar was doing something right.

The bartender came over as she was reading the menu. “Hi. What can I get you tonight?”

She looked up and swallowed hard. The man in front of herwas mouthwateringly gorgeous. His mussed black hair framed a face dominated by a happy-go-lucky smile. She lost her ability to form coherent sentences. “Uh…”

He tilted his head and studied her face. “You look beat. Tough day?”

She nodded. What was wrong with her? She didn’t do this around men. She’d had no fewer than eight different men try to pick her up tonight. This one was just doing his job, and she had to fight for focus.

“How about an Irish coffee?” Dark brows arched over navy eyes.

She cleared her throat. “Sounds good.”

He walked away. She studied the menu. It wasn’t fancy. Like the rest of the bars, it offered burgers and hot wings, but they had more traditional pub fare, like fish and chips and shepherd’s pie. Her mouth watered at the thought of real food. The drink menu was plain as well, but at least displayed a list of drinks with the basic ingredients. Pictures and descriptions would’ve been better, but this bar had already exceeded the competition from the other Chicago neighborhood pubs she’d visited.

The bartender returned with her Irish coffee. She sipped and found it perfect. The whipped cream puffed and floated on top and she used her straw to scoop some up. She ran her tongue over the cream-laden straw and heard a groan.

She looked up to find the bartender looking at her. Replacing the straw, she waited for an explanation.

His mouth quirked up at the corner. “Sorry. I couldn’t help it. That was downright sinful.”

Her cheeks flamed. She was blushing? No. The alcohol from earlier in the evening was catching up with her and colliding with her exhaustion. He broke eye contact and mumbled, “Give me a holler if you need anything else.”

He walked away and picked up a conversation with other customers. She tried not to be obvious in studying him and the way he interacted with people. This was something the other bars had been missing as well. A personal touch.

She finished her drink, tossed cash on the bar, and took a few moments to wander toward the back of the bar. There was a small stage, a jukebox, and dartboards. Down a dimly lit hallway were the bathrooms. Too tired to think, she opted to leave. Part of her wanted to talk to some of the patrons, get their perspective as to why they came here, but it would have to wait.

By morning, hopefully Meg would have information about The Irish Pub and, with any luck, the books wouldn’t be as bad as she imagined. As she wound her way back toward the front, raucous laughter exploded at the bar. The sexy bartender was enjoying something.

He caught her eye as she passed. His laughter made his eyes twinkle with mischief, his smile lighting his face, like he had the best life in the world. She wondered what it would be like to feel that even for a night. It wasn’t that she was unhappy; she liked her life very much, in fact, but it had been too long since she’d experienced a laugh that shook her whole body.

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About the Author:

Shannyn Schroeder is the author of the O’Leary series and the For Your Love series, contemporary romances centered around large Irish-American families in Chicago and the Hot & Nerdy series about nerdy friends finding love. Look for her new series – The Dating Challenge in 2019. When she’s not wrangling her three kids or writing, she watches a ton of TV and loves to bake cookies.  