Rant or Rave Monday

Good morning!

Book ♥ Soulmates is back and we're starting the year and the week with a new meme called 'Rant or Rave Monday'. We can all pretty much agree that Monday isn't our favorite day of the week so we thought that we'd use this day to let off a little steam - good or bad!

Let's get started...

♥ Vanessa's Rave ♥

Hello my fellow book lovers!! I've missed you all sooo much! As you all know Isa and I have taken a "winter hiatus" and we haven't done any actual blogging whatsoever. We have, however, sat down and thought about how can we improve our blog. We also asked ourselves "what are our weaknesses and strengths?" One of my weaknesses is not having enough time! I feel there's always so much to do and so little time.

Some of my New Year's Blog resolutions are:
*To improve the blog with Isa.
We have a lot of goodies to share with you all!!

*Pick the contest winners faster.
I, Vanessa, promise to choose our winners in a timely manner. This has definitely been a problem for me. I honestly feel horrible for not posting them on time. So, I promise, this year will be different! Cross my ♥

*Write more reviews.
I found myself reading a whole bunch of books but delaying the actual review part. Hello! We're book reviewers! I NEED to write reviews. I, Vanessa, also promise to write more reviews and will try to write them as detailed as possible without spoilers and without being too lengthy!

*Read more books
I feel I didn't read as many books as I would have liked. I'd like to change that this year.

*Actually participate in challenges
I noticed I signed up for challenges last year, and even though I DID actually read the books for the challenges, I would forget to include them as part of the challenges. DOH *Hangs head in shame*

I'm sure there's more... I'll keep adding as I go remembering! lol

On a different note: I'm soooo super excited that we're starting this new Monday Meme. I love that we can all now Rant and Rave about whatever we want and share our stories with each other. (I'm sure Isa and I will be ranting a lot about South Florida traffic! Grrr!) My first Rave is going to be about our new and improved site! As I'm sure many of you will notice, we are now officially www.booksoulmates.com! How exciting! We figured we should do this so that it's easier for people to a) Remember us and b) not have to type so much! lol. Also, since we're always meeting new book lovers all the time at our local Author Events and at our weekly B&N getaways, we figured it'd be soooo much easier to just say booksoulmates.com and avoid having to confuse people with the "blogspot.com" portion of it. Anyhoo, we have all sorts of new goodies for the upcoming year that we'll be sharing with you all! I really hope you love our new site as much as we do!

Happy New Year!!

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♥ Isalys's Rave ♥

I just found out that Richelle Mead author of the Vampire Academy series is coming to town this weekend! I cannot tell you how excited I am about this.

I had seen the first Vampire Academy #1 at Barnes & Noble and I would pick it up & put it down, pick it up & put it down, until one day I said the heck with it. I picked it up and never put it down again! I loveee this series. Each book got better and better...and when book four ended, I thought my heart was going to stop! LOL

Book 5, Spirit Bound will be hitting stores on May 18th and you better believe that I'm counting down.

Here's the scoop on Richelle Mead's visit for those of you are in South Florida or will be in town this weekend:

Sunday, January 17 @ 5pm - Miami, FL
Coral Gables Congregational Church
3010 De Soto Blvd.
Miami, FL
*Event is being run by Books and Books but is being held at the church because of space. The store will be there selling books, and questions should be directed to them: (305) 442-4408

You can also visit Richelle's Calendar to see her other stops.

I will definitely be doing an author spotlight for this event next week so stayed tuned for details, pics and more :)

How exciting!