May Nominations Are Open

April 8, 2013 by Mocha Girl Alysia 12 Comments

The theme for May is Newbie Author (New author for 2012 or 2013). Any book that fits the theme, in any genre is up for nomination.

Nominations are from 4/8/13 – 4/15/13

For selecting our book of the month Mocha Girls Read uses a democratic system for monthly selections. What do I need to do? In the comments section below, tell us what you want to read next. How many books can I nominate? Just pick 1 title off your TBR (to be read) list. Then what? We will put the list of nominations up for everyone to vote on. Once the voting is over the winner will be selected as the book for May. What if there is a tie? We will put the two books to a head to head competition. The two books will be re-posted and everyone will be able to vote again but only in a 48 hour window of time. When do the nominations start and end? The nominations start today and will close on April 15, 2013 at midnight. Voting will start the next day.

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Filed Under: Books Tagged With: book club, Books, new authors, nomination

Mocha Girls Read Welcomes Monda Raquel Webb

April 8, 2013 by Mocha Girl Alysia Leave a Comment

Monda Raquel Webb’s Website

Monda Raquel Webb’s Books

Click here to RSVP
We would love to see you there.

Filed Under: Books, Chit Chat Tagged With: book signing, Books, fiction, women

Gone Reading for April

March 27, 2013 by Mocha Girl Alysia Leave a Comment

Mocha Girls Read Perk from Gone Reading International

Yes you read that right! Gone Reading is hooking us bookish ladies up with a perk. I know you all have questions, like what is Gone Reading and what is the perk? Keep reading.

About Gone Reading

Founded in 2011, our long-term goal is to provide significant financial assistance to our preferred charities, allowing them to achieve greater scale and impact. We invite you to join us in this work by making a purchase of our gifts for readers.

Equally important, we ask you to share our story with the book lovers and readers in your life (feel free to use the “share” icons in the bottom right of this page).

Happy Reading!

Bradley S. Wirz – Founder & CEO Gone REading International, LLC.

Gone Reading is an amazing company that not just supports charities but goes out and builds libraries giving hundreds of people access to books. All of this amazing work they do comes from people helping out by doing what we know how to do. Shop! That’s right just buy something from their cool site and a percentage goes to helping charities in various city, states and countries. Great! Right?

What kind of cool things can you buy? Check this out!

Pride & Prejudice Trivia Game – Great Jane Austen Gift!Introducing Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice Trivia Game! Earn bragging rights over your bookish friends by showing off your working knowledge of Pride & Prejudice.The game includes a wide range of questions to make it interesting for the casual fan or the expert. The questions even use authentic old English spelling for added fun! No Jane Austen fan should go without one of the great games about books!

Bookstore Gift: “Paradise Found” T-Shirt for Women - If you’re looking for bookstore gifts, look no further than our “Paradise Found” t-shirts. Does anything quite match the joy of stumbling across a little bookstore you’ve never seen before? Express your love of the bookstore with this cute bookstore t-shirt. “Paradise Found” t-shirts make great bookstore gifts for your bookish friends!

Cake Charm Bookmark - Who wants cake? Satisfy your craving with this adorable Cake Charm Bookmark! Handmade from polymer clay in stunning detail. The shepherds hook marks your page, while the charm dangles outside along the spine, adorning your book with style and flair. Each charm adds character to your books, just as books add character to our lives! Give your books the special treatment they deserve, with our designer bookmark charms! Treat the book lovers (and cake lovers) in your life to a gift today. White plate not included.

“The Reading Woman” Boxed Notecards – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Reading Woman series features useful products for the modern woman, each adorned with classic paintings of women reading. This beautiful notecard set of 20 cards features the artwork of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and includes those by Mary Stevenson Cassatt, John George Brown, Laura Coombs Hills and William Worcester Churchill.

“Peace Love Books” Bookmark Peace, Love & Books.

Says it all, right? This classy book bookmark features an elegant, stylish design with a simple, universal message. And as with all products from GoneReading, your purchase furthers our philanthropic mission to fund libraries!

GoneReading markets a unique collection of merchandise and gifts for readers, pledging 100% of after-tax profits to reading-related charities. Buy our products and spread the magic of reading!

As a member of Mocha Girls Read Book Club, Gone Reading is offering 15% off all purchases on their website.

How do they redeem it?

Simply enter that code MOCHAGIRL15 at checkout.

Thank you Mocha Girl Rosanne – New Lennox Chapter Organizer for hooking us up like this.

Let’s Go Shopping!

Filed Under: Chit Chat Tagged With: book club, bookmarkers, discount, Gone Reading, sponsors

April’s Book of the Month: Can You Keep A Secret?

March 25, 2013 by Mocha Girl Alysia Leave a Comment

It took seven days of nominations and 160 votes to cast…Mocha Girls Read April’s book selection winner is Can You Keep A Secret?. This was the closes voting session ever. Take a minute to see what this book and the author are all about.

Backstabbing office shenanigans, competition, scandal, love and sex…. Kinsella’s down-to-earth protagonist is sure to have readers sympathizing and doubled over in laughter. – Publishers Weekly

Synopsis

Emma is sitting on a turbulent plane. She’s always been a v. nervous flyer. She really thinks that this could be her last moment. So, naturally enough, she starts telling the man sitting next to her – quite a dishy American, but she’s too frightened to notice -all her innermost secrets. How she scans the backs of intellectual books and pretends she’s read them. How she does her hair up like Princess Leia in her bedroom. How she’s not sure if she has a G-spot, and whether her boyfriend could find it anyway. How she feels like a fraud at work – everyone uses the word ‘operational’ all the time but she hasn’t a clue what it means. How the coffee at work is horrible. How she once threw a troublesome client file in the bin. If ever there was a bare soul, it’s hers.

She survives the flight, of course, and the next morning the famous founding boss of the whole mega corporation she works for is coming for a look at the UK branch. As he walks around, Emma looks up and realises…

It’s the man from the plane.

What will he do with her secrets? He knows them all – but she doesn’t know a single one of his. Or… does she?

Author Bio

Sophie Kinsella raced into the UK bestseller lists in September 2000 with her first novel in the Shopaholic series – The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic (also published as Confessions of a Shopaholic). The book’s heroine, Becky Bloomwood – a fun and feisty financial journalist who loves shopping but is hopeless with money – captured the hearts of readers worldwide and she has since featured in five further adventures in Shopaholic Abroad (also published as Shopaholic Takes Manhattan), Shopaholic Ties the Knot, Shopaholic & Sister and Shopaholic & Baby. Becky Bloomwood came to the big screen in 2009 with the hit Disney movie Confessions of a Shopaholic.

Sophie Kinsella has also written four standalone novels which have all been number one bestsellers: Can You Keep A Secret?, The Undomestic Goddess, Remember Me? and Twenties Girl.

Sophie wrote her first novel under her real name, Madeleine Wickham, at the tender age of 24, whilst she was working as a financial journalist. The Tennis Party was immediately hailed as a success by critics and the public alike and became a top ten bestseller. She went on to publish six more novels as Madeleine Wickham: A Desirable Residence, Swimming Pool Sunday, The Gatecrasher, The Wedding Girl, Cocktails for Three and Sleeping Arrangements.

She submitted her first ‘Sophie Kinsella’ novel anonymously to her existing publishers and it was snapped up without her editors knowing that she was already one of their authors. It wasn’t until the appropriately titled Can You Keep a Secret? was published that Sophie revealed her true identity for the first time.

Sophie Kinsella was born in London. She studied music at New College, Oxford, but after a year switched to Politics, Philosophy and Economics. She now lives in London, UK, with her husband and family.

Author’s Website

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Congratulations to Sophie Kinsella for becoming Mocha Girls Read book for the month for April 2013.

Feel free to leave comments and thoughts here as you are reading the book. I’m looking forward to reading this book and hearing what everyone thinks of it.

Keep the pages turning!

♥Mocha Girl Alysia♥

Filed Under: Book of the Month Tagged With: April, book club, book of the month, humor

Time to Rock Your Vote for Aprils’ Book of the Month

March 18, 2013 by Mocha Girl Alysia 1 Comment

Laugh Out Loud!

It’s that time ladies. Time to Rock the Vote! For the month of April we are going to read a Laugh Out Loud Book (Humor).

There are some great titles up for vote this time. Here are the Rules for Voting.

1. You may vote for three (3) books.

2. All members get to vote only once.

3. Last Day to vote will be March 24, 2013. (Midnight Los Angeles time)

4. The book with the most votes wins. But if there is a tie there will be a 48 hour death match. The two or three books will go into a head to head competition for only 48 hours. Whichever book is left standing (with the most votes) wins!

Below the poll you will find the title of the books linked to a brief description. Now… may the best book win!!

Bossy Pants by Tina Fey

Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophia Kinsella

Holy Mayhem by Pat G’Orge-Walker

In Stitches by Anthony Youn

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jennifer Lawson

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Peaches and the Gambler by A. T. Hicks

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: April's book of the month, book, book club, Humorous Reads