Reading Romances March Challenge: My book choices

Here’s the Reading Romances March Challenge. Some complexity has been added this month, providing plenty for us to choose from. So here are the reading prompts and my book choices:

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Reading Romances Challenge: February Completed

29th of February. Already?!?  This month went by in a breeze, and here I am again, doing the monthly status of the Reading Romances Challenge 2012.

February was a challenge at several levels and here I am contemplating this month guidelines and evaluating my reading performance. The February’s book prompts were: read more

Opinião: “Na Sombra do Amor” J.R. Ward

This was one of the books chosen for February’s Reading Romances Challenge. It belongs in the first category (A) Valentine’s day: Read a book that has a predominantly color “red” cover,  that has a kissing/embracing couple on its cover, or whose title has either the following words: kiss, heart or love.

“Na Sombra do Amor” by J.R. Ward, aka “Lover Enshrined” by J.R. Ward (Amor=Love and has a couple embracing on the cover) read more

Reading Romances Challenge: January Completed and February Choices

So here’s my Reading Romances January Challenge status. The prompt was to choose a book that:

A) Is a first of a series, by an author that is “new” to you or a debut novel by an author. read more

‘The Hunger Games’ – Reading Romances Challenge 2012

Adorei “Os Jogos da Fome”, um livro que fala de vidas mais simples que são em simultâneo, tão complicadas. O dia-a-dia no Distrito 12 é tão cheio de dor e medo e, ao mesmo tempo, de amor e laços protectores que são um paralelismo perfeito com a nossa realidade diária.

Adorei as descrições, algumas tão são brutais que nos transportam para um local em que a nossa pele arde, a sede torna-se sufocante e o desespero de proteger aqueles que amamos torna-se quase real. read more

1º dia do 2012 Goodreads Reading Challenge

Hoje começa um novo desafio do Goodreads, o ‘2012 Reading Challenge’.

O desafio de 2011 acabou ontem com um balanço positivo. Apesar de não ter atingido o (segundo) objectivo a que me propus, sinto-me satisfeita com o desfecho deste desafio. read more