Music Monday

Hi, bookish peeps and happy Memorial Day.  Again I have been MIA on the blog.  Sorry but I can't help it. Work has been kicking my ass.  I've been too tired to blog or tweet, but I have continued reading and will update the blog with some reviews this week.  I'm currently enjoying my three days off work and just thought I'd share some music with you.  Love this song and my lil boyfriend can dance his ass off.  Enjoy!

To Be Read Tuesday

Here is what I will be reading this week.  I think I'm ready for some real good drama and this book looks like it's going to give me that and then some. 

Armchair BEA: Romance Giveaway

It's day two of my armchairing.   Today is giveaway day at Armchair BEA (not sure what this is, click HERE). For my giveaway,  I have two romance books up for grabs.  Both books are ARCs that  I have read and reviewed on the blog.  If you'd like to read my reviews just click on each book title.  One winner will receive both books and some surprise swag.

Armchair BEA: Who R U and How Do U Armchair

Welcome to Diva's Bookcase and my first day of armchairing!  Armchair BEA is an online conference for bloggers that wanted to go to Book Expo America in NYC but for some reason couldn't.  

To find out more about this event, visit Armchair Central HERE

To find out all the blogs participating, go HERE

To find the week's agenda, go HERE

Review: Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later by Francine Pascal

Genre:   YA

Release Date:  March 2011

Series:  Sweet Valley 

Publisher:  St. Martin’s Press

Author Website:   http://www.sweetvalleytenyearslater.com

Format Read:  ebook

Pages:  304

Source:  Borrowed, but will put a copy on my bookshelf 

Rating: Three stars

Review: Sex And The City by Candace Bushnell

Genre:   Fiction

Release Date:  September 1997

Publisher:  Grand Central Publishing

Author Website:  http://www.candacebushnell.com

Format Read:  Paperback

Pages:  304

Source:  Purchased

Rating:  One flower of love-did not finish this one

Book Blurb

In this chronicle of the mating habits of New York's cultural elite, Bushnell infiltrates celebrity affairs, sex clubs, and posh suburbs to introduce us to "bicycle boys," "modelizers," and "toxic bachelors" — powerful and successful men who bed single and married women as if it were a contest. Often funny and occasionally bleak, this is an inside account of the quintessential '90s romance and the never-ending search for the perfect marriage partner in high society.

My Thoughts

This was the first book that I’ve read by Candace Bushnell and I did not love it.  I can’t say that the book was a total waste of time because some parts were funny and it included some very interesting opinions on sex and relationships. 

Although the story started out promising, somewhere along the way, I got lost in the randomness and just lost interest.  Thus the one flower rating. 

I had all intentions of getting into the original story without comparing it to the show, but it just didn’t happen.  I guess I just kept looking for Carrie’s point of view and all the craziness of her three besties.  I was not prepared for the “real” Carrie, who turned out to be very forgettable because she was a drunken hot mess.  Big was not all that grand either so there was no epic love to get engrossed in. The other characters were just as forgettable because they changed every other paragraph.  I tried my best to latch onto a character or two, but it just didn’t work for me.

Overall, it wasn’t that bad.  Like I said, I loved the in your face dialogue from the characters, but in the end, it just wasn’t enough.  Perhaps if I had read the book before seeing the show, my review would have been more favorable.  Despite my less than fabulous review, I still have a few of the author’s books on my TBR and can’t wait to read them. 

Other Reviews Of This Book:

Goodreads

Shelfari

New Winners: The Pastor's Wife and Showers 2 Flowers Book Hop

  

Well, I posted the winners for these two giveaways last week and only one winner responded (thanx, Martha) so let's try this again. The new winners are

The Pastor's Wife by Reshonda Tate Billingsley is ... 

Last Nerve

Showers 2 Flowers Book Hop Giveaway is...

Judy Cox

Ladies, please contact me by Friday @ thedivasbookcase@gmail.com with your mailing addresses.

Winner: The Pastor's Wife and Showers 2 Flowers Book Hop

Winners revised, click HERE for new winners

 

Thanks to all of my lovely followers that stop by and enter my giveaways.  Also thanx to Renee at Simon and Schuster  for providing the two copies of The Pastor's Wife for giveaway.  The winners of that giveaway are

Rants and Raves: Review Funk

Rants And Raves is just something that I'll be doing whenever the mood strikes me.  Either I'll be ranting about something that I don't like or I'll be raving about something that I thought was just too great for me to shut up about.