Random Acts of Kindness: September Wrap-up!

{Please click on the RAK button above to be re-directed to our Book Soulmates Store on Amazon. You can find all your favorite titles there and add them to your shopping cart.}

We sent:
Blood Magic by Tessa Gratton TO Lindsay from The Violet Hour
Blood Red Road by Moira Young TO Carrie from Stalking The Bookshelves
Lover Mine by JR Ward TO Mariya from Mystifying Paranormal Reviews
Anna & The French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins TO Jessie from Remarkable Reads
The Monster Book of Zombies TO Ashley the Bookish Brunette

We received:

 Thank you Brenna from Esther's Ever After for Bloodlines by Richelle Mead
Thank you Jen from Fictitious Musings for the ARCs of Afterlife by Claudia Gray & Die For Me by Amy Plum
Thank you Jennifer the RainMaiden for Touched By An Alien, Breaking Point, Sweetest Little Sin, & The Truth About Lord Stoneville

Wow!! What an amazing month...so much bookish love!!
Thank you ALL who participated by sharing the love of reading with others.  We couldn't have asked for better bloggy friends!

Now who's ready to do it all again in October? ;-)

PS: Don't forget to leave the links to your R.A.K. September Wrap-Up! posts so we can stop by and check out your loot!!

Random Act of Kindness September Sign-Up!

IMPORTANT UPDATE!
Due to the demands of keeping up with RAK, we have established a new email address dedicated to all RAK related inquiries.  With the help of The Bookish Brunette, we will be using this address ONLY to address everyone's quespsons and comments concerning RAK.  We find that it is too difficult to have questions spread out amongst 3 email addresses & Twitter accounts.  To eliminate confusion or anything slipping through the cracks, we've come up with this solution. Starting immediatly, please send ALL RAK related messages to:rakbybooksoulamates @ gmail . com {Please click on the RAK button above to be re-directed to our Book Soulmates Store on Amazon. You can find all your favorite titles there and add them to your shopping cart.} Wow! September is finally here and bringing with it a new month of RAKs! August was an amazing month full of gift giving and incredible generosity. Isalys and I are both so proud of everyone for participating and passing on some kindness. We all know how tough this economy has become so imagine how much it means to someone to be able receive that one book they've been longing for but couldn't afford. Yeah, you guys rock. You should all totally pat yourselves on the back! You're all inspirations and make us proud to be a part of such an incredible community.

Now with that said, we have received a few emails with people saying they cannot afford to buy a book for others but would be willing to create something, such as a handmade bookmark or something of that nature.
We'll be adding an extra column for people who would not mind accepting handmade goodies.
The winner of the RAK giveaway will be posted tomorrow {or Saturday} so stay tuned for that!If you are new to RAK, welcome aboard!
RULES RE-CAP:
*NEW INFO ADDED*
Sign up each month that you'd like to participate. 

• Show off your participation by grabbing our RAK button :)
• Create a wish list (on Amazon, Goodreads, or your blog etc) and post it in the Google Doc located in each R.A.K post for the month. 
• If you choose to do a R.A.K for someone, check out their wish list and contact that blogger for their address.
• *NEW* Please, once you receive a RAK, send us an our new email to [rakbybooksoulmates @ gmail . com] dedicated to RAK so that the Google Doc can be updated. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU SEND EMAILS TO THIS ADDRESS.
• *NEW* E-book participation is limited to files being gifted directly to a person from the e-book store. Amazon's Kindle Store is set up to allow this, as well as the Kobo store and we believe Barnes & Noble as well.
• At the end of the month, SHOW US YOUR R.A.K! Make a post saying 'Thank You' to whoever granted one of your wishes and share it with us :)

OPEN TO EVERYONE!

Let's keep our International bloggers in mind and in our hearts.

Remember, there's always the Book Depository and they offer FREE shipping!

Easy peezy!!

Links you will need:

• Sign up for September [HERE]
• See who else is participating [HERE]
• If you have any questions regarding RAK, please contact us via the following: rakbybooksoulamates @ gmail . com Good luck to all the giveaway participants and thanks for joining and passing on the kindness!
  
  You guys ROCK!!

Tips:

1. When talking about RAK on Twitter, please use the hastag (#RAK). It makes it much easier to keep track of the conversations, answer questions and/or tweet back! =)

2. When submitting your wish list, please make sure that it is set to PUBLIC viewing. Some people have run into trouble with wish lists that were set to private. We want to be sure that no one is left out of getting great RAKs.

3. Some of you seem to have gotten frustrated because you can't get your links to appear active. This is a very easy fix :) Just make sure that when you enter your link, do NOT hit the Enter key. Instead, hit the TAB key which will send you to the next field on the form. Additional spaces entered after the link will leave the link inactive. However, if this does happen to you...no worries, we'll fix it for you :)

Friday Blog Hop 8.26.11

TGIF! It's finally Friday! I hope the weekend lasts forever! lol
We're not sure what we'll be doing this weekend yet. We may just keep a low profile and try and relax.
What are you guys up to? Reading anything interesting?
Isalys is reading the latest Night Huntress book and I may be starting it too!
Love it!

This week's Book Blogger Hop question is:

“Non-book-related this week!! Do you have pets?”
{This question is soooo right up Isaly's alley!}

I have three munchkins that are like my kids. Toby and Cassie are Teacup Chihuahuas and Ladybug, who we found on the street, we think is part-Chi/part-Italian Greyhound.  Cassie is the tiniest, the oldest and our Diva; she totally rules the roost! Toby is second oldest and a total Mama's Boy and Ladybug is the youngin' and the brains of the bunch.  I love how they each have such distinct personalities yet get along so well.  I am a HUGE dog lover, but my limit is three...as set by my husband because frankly, if it were up to me, we'd have puppies coming out our ears, LOL!

{{Cassie (left), Toby (left of 2nd pic) and Ladybug, the blonde}}

I own a Rotty named Spikey-bear and an African Gray named Ashes. When naming my rotty I couldn't choose between Spike or Bear {b/c he looked like a bear} so I just went with both! Ashes is grey so uh... yeah.. not pretty creative there huh? lol It's funny when I hear Ashes talk because he sounds just like my stepfather! He even tells the dog "Bad boy!"

We hope everyone has a fantabulous weekend!!!

Tune in Tuesdays: 90s Edition 8.23.11

Tune in Tuesday's is a weekly meme hosted by the super cool Ginger of GReads. It's a meme that showcases the musical side of our interests and hey, who doesn't love music right?! For the next few weeks Tune in Tuesday will have a 90's Edition twist which we're SUPER excited about since we ARE children of the 80's and 90's. So if you want to help her spread the music love head on over to her fabulous blog and join in on the fun!

Vanessa's 1st Pick:

I always feel like going back to the Bahamas whenever I hear this song. Margaritas, anyone?


Isalys's 1st Pick:
Because you know I have to have my ROCK pick :}


Vanessa's 2nd Pick:
Gotta represent Miami!!
If any of you visit us, expect to be greeted by this song at the airport ;-)


Isalys's 2nd Pick:
I loved this song as a kid...before my high school rock years, lol.


We really are having the best time with this feature!!
The 90's Rule[d]! lol

What are YOUR favorites?

Isa took 1 too many Debbie Downers

Hi everyone!

I wanted to take a minute to sorta just "chat" with you. I do chat with a lot of you via Twitter but that 140 character limit is just not cutting it, lol.

I am trying so hard to get back on the horse here and life has not been kind lately :(
I have always tried to be "glass half full" gal. Try to find the reason and positivity in things and frankly, that's getting harder & harder to do. I'm realizing that my Facebook statuses and my tweets lately have just been so negative and even angry! I really don't like that! I don't want to be that girl that everyone's like, "Oh, there she goes again with all her complaining".

I feel like I owe you all apologies because it's not who I am and you know this about me. I'm writing this not just to explain myself to you but for myself as well because it feels good to get things off my chest.

Since June, I had in-laws visiting and staying in my house, my grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer, one brother lost his girlfriend and job, my husband & I went through a difficult experience in trying to start a family, work has been INSANELY STRESSFUL and now my other brother isn't getting along with my parents so I have to play referee. I may be over-sharing but I feel like telling you all this will help you understand why I've been the way I've been lately.
 I want to thank you all for your support and jokes on Twitter! Laughter is the BEST medicine and it helps more than I can say! I really do have some pretty rockin' friends - even if most of them are in my computer, LOL! And finally I want to thank my bestie Vanessa for being there. She's done a great job helping take care of the blog while I'm on my "blogcation" and she's also helped get me excited about coming up with new ideas for this Fall. And if that's not enough, she's been there for me to vent to and that in itself is invaluable :)
So again, sorry for the negativity, thanks for the positivity and pray that things settle down for me because I really just want to feel NORMAL again!
XoXo