TBR Piles and Other Bloggers

My birthday's in a week, but I've already used some of my gift money to buy more books for my TBR pile, which is swelling to gargantuan proportions since I just found out that the Book Smugglers' Smugglivus pole wuvs me very much. Yippee!

As it is, I still went out and bought new books, because I am a bookwhore. One of the books is at the suggestion of the aforementioned Book Smugglers, who have invited me to do a Guest Dare on their site in the upcoming months. Basically, I tell them a romance genre with which I am either a) uncomfortable with or b) unfamiliar with and they suggest the best possible example of it, and then I review it on their site. I'm not going to spoil it by saying the title of the book they suggested, but I'll give a hint - the hero thinks:




Also, I caved, Kristie J! DO YOU HEAR ME? UNCLE UNCLE UNCLE! I finally went out and got it:


I'll be reviewing that later, too. I also thought I'd add a bit of a warning - I'll still be reviewing romance novels as soon as I'm finishing reading them, but my output might be a little slower for a while. I got a package of fantasy novels from The Green Man Review to review for their site, so I'm going to be doing a "one for me, one for them" reading order for the next month or so.