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We are Isalys & Vanessa and we are Book ♥ Soulmates! We met through a mutual friend and instantly bonded through our common love of books, reading & history!

We are employees by day and bookworms by night. Thankfully, our respective jobs earn us enough dough to support our weekly trips to Barnes & Noble and Starbucks!

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PostHeaderIcon Tuesday Teasers & New Releases 2.9.10





Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading and it asks us to...
  • Grab your current read
  • Open to a random page
  • Share a couple of “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
  • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
  • Share the title & author, too, so that other Teaser Tuesday participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers!
Vanessa's Teaser:
"King Nolan was still on top of his spirit-dane when a figure in a scarlet cloak passed through the fighting, untouched, and stabbed him through the heart with her pointed scepter. "My queen...' he moaned, slumping into death, blood leaking from the corners of his mouth. "My queen..."
~p. 27 from "The Looking Glass Wars" by Frank Beddor

Isalys's Teaser:
"Pixie Tip: A pixie's true skin color is blue. Cookie Monster, Grover and other lovable Muppets are also blue. Do NOT confuse the two. Muppets don't kill you - usually."
~p. 71 from "Captivate" by Carrie Jones

PostHeaderIcon Rant or Rave Monday 2.8.10

♥ Vanessa's Rave ♥


We are all about Alice in Wonderland lately! I just finished reading Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin and boy was it awesome!! I cannot stop Raving about this book. I will be posting the review for this awesome book in March, which is when we will be having an Alice in Wonderland challenge (The challenge will only last through the month of March. There WILL be a winner!)
I highly recommend this book! Isn't the cover great?

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Isalys's Rave

A few weeks ago, Vane did an awesome POST featuring the new cover art for this special edition of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". You can read all about the artist that designed this cover on the post.

Well, looky what I found =)

Barnes & Noble currently has a section reserved for Alice In Wonderland and during our last weekly excursion, we found it....yayyyy!

It is a hard cover book and if you remove the sleeve, the cover is black with a really nice metallic magenta "A" on the front. The paper is also higher density (photo-type) paper. It was worth paying $16.99 just to have this awesome book on my shelf.



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PostHeaderIcon Fresh Friday Recipe Swap 2.5.10

Vanessa's Choice:
Fettucini Alfredo w/ Chicken
Prep Time: 10 min | Total Time: 25 min | Makes: 4 servings

What You Need:
1/2 lb. fettuccine, uncooked
1 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into strips
1-1/4 cups fat-free reduced-sodium chicken broth
4 tsp. flour
4 oz. (1/2 of 8-oz.) PHILADELPHIA Neufchatel Cheese, cubed
3 Tbsp. KRAFT Grated Parmesan Cheese, divided
1/4 tsp. garlic powder
1/4 tsp. pepper

Make It!
COOK pasta as directed on package.

MEANWHILE, heat large nonstick skillet sprayed with cooking spray on medium-high heat. Add chicken; cook 5 to 7 min. or until chicken is done, stirring occasionally. Remove from skillet. Mix broth and flour in same skillet. Stir in Neufchatel, 2 Tbsp. Parmesan, garlic powder and pepper; cook 2 min. or until mixture boils and thickens, stirring constantly with whisk. Stir in chicken.

DRAIN pasta; place in large bowl. Add chicken mixture; toss to coat. Sprinkle with remaining Parmesan.

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Isalys's Choice:
A ultra yummy recipe just purrrrrfect for Valentine's day =)~

Molten Chocolate Cakes
Prep Time: 15 min | Total Time: 30 min | Makes: 8 servings

What You Need!

4 squares BAKER'S Semi-Sweet Chocolate
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
1 cup powdered sugar
2 eggs
2 egg yolks
6 Tbsp. flour
1/2 cup thawed COOL WHIP Whipped Topping

Make It!
PREHEAT
oven to 425°F. Butter four 3/4-cup custard cups or soufflé dishes. Place on baking sheet.

MICROWAVE chocolate and butter in large microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1 min. or until butter is melted. Stir with wire whisk until chocolate is completely melted. Stir in sugar until well blended. Blend in eggs and egg yolks with wire whisk. Stir in flour. Divide batter among prepared custard cups.

BAKE 13 to 14 min. or until sides are firm but centers are soft. Let stand 1 min. Carefully run small knife around cakes to loosen. Invert cakes

ENJOY!

PostHeaderIcon iHeart Thursday 2.4.10

On Wednesday, I posted the ever so delicious & tantalizing new cover art for LOTU: Darkest Passion (Aeron's story). Well yesterday, Gena revealed the cover art for LOTU: Darkest Lie (Gideon's story). Unfortunately, he's not rockin' the blue hair that he does in the book but those muscles seem like a fair trade ;o)

I decided to make this my iHeart post because I truly iHeart these covers! They are to sigh for!


July 2010 - Just have to wait for a little longer!

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This weeks iHeart for me is my lovely NyQuil bottle. I have a terrible cold and this beautiful little nugget takes away all the sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever, so that I can get my "best-sleep-you-ever-got-with-a-cold".

Ahhhhh gotta love it :)


Daily Word Candy

Words that don't exist
but should!

Word of the Week:

SANDBAG

Noun. A woman's unbelievably large "purse" that may or may not be holding cinder blocks. Chiropractors are the real winners here! lol

[EX: "Isalys has a gorgeous Coach bag that she calls ' the one big expenditure of my life'. It goes with everything which is good because it costs more than her rent and she might have to live in it one day. On any given day, its contents may include: a mini pharmacy, her chihuahua, two airplane-sized bottles of Skyy, a Blackberry, and the first season of I Love Lucy among various office and cosmetic products."]

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