It is official

I am so not well and need to join book buyers anonymous or something.

I picked up Lord of Sin by Madeline Hunter. I think for Rosario but I must go check. But it was at the half price store and looked so sad. And really as you can see clearly Rosario needs more books :).

I picked up Lawless by Diana Palmer because I adore this book muchly and kristie needed it. In a cw needed Return of The Warrior sort of way but still…

And I picked up Anne Stuart’s Winter’s Edge. Why, you ask while shaking your head, because it was a $1. I have never even read AS. And I picked up Linda Howard’s Against the Rules and Loving Evangeline for the same $1 reason. I remember liking Against the Rules though.

I also picked up Jo Leigh’s Hush. I have never read her and would like to but fuck me if I know when I will get to read it. Same goes for Warprize by Elizabeth Vaughan.

Add on top of that The Outsiders by Penelope Williamson and oh about 20 other books I have gotten from the trade group. And 3 books to review.

Really I am so not well… I have resorted to buying books for other people they don’t even know they need to get my fix. oooooer

MUST go finish a review. And finish Only for a Knight. Then I really need to read at least one of my Aspen Gold books - must have all four done by the 8th! hmmm so this holiday I plan on reading:

Only for a Knight
Sins of the Night
Haunted
The River Devil
AGB 1
AGB 2
AGB 3
AGB 4 (don’t think I can blog them or their titles until after the 8th)
The Lady Lies
Lady Savage

Oh and I plan on bitching about The Marriage Bed at some point this weekend. Really after two reads of a book you don’t even like it would be a crime to not blog it.

And I am going to start reviewing for an online romance site. I shall talk more about that after my first review goes up. They might come to their senses and decide I am too much trouble :).

doing as I say…

links links links

mix and match:

way back machine
the internet remembers everything, well almost everything - you have a link that is now dead, wayback it. You might find fun and laughs you have long forgotten. Or you may find that thing you did, that you forgot about, is still on the net.

rxlist
Drug Information site. What can we say I am american

The Smoking Gun
They are watching you. Court case files and other interesting and scary things.

George Carlin
He amuses me, I am sure that surprise no one.

Women in Greek Myths
Something else that amuses me.

You are Old Father William
poem out of Carroll’s Alice and Wonderland…

Home page for everyone who loves the Marquis De Sade
hmmm I am thinking this is something I looked up after seeing the movie Quills. I have about two or three DeSade sites marked. Oddly enough I have never read anything by him.

rubbaducks!
I own a few of these as does the lil sister. Go sing with the intro, send a duck-o-gram or just wonder about what the fuck goes through my mind

More fun with DUCKS
puzzles, calendars, screen savers oh my

Good Vibrations Magazine
sex sex and more sex in a very positive way…. when did Violet Blue stop working with GV?
oooooohhhhhhhh I think my blog rating just went NC-17

X-Files Transcripts
read it while you watch… ahhhh or just pick an ep and remember when

The X-Files In-Jokes List
You want to know how many times scully says: “Mulder, it’s me” in an ep - they know

The X-Files Timeline
Conspiracy Timeline (although it prolly still won’t make sense)
X-Files Time… breaking it all down man

DuchovnyNET
got a question on david duchovny or if you just want to look at the pretty - gertie has it. As well as a wide arrangement of other sites on other celebs.

LOOK more X-Files
quotes quotes quotes

Road Runners
general x-files fan site - WHAT jo told me too

Gillian Anderson’s Official Website
uh the title says it all

USA Weekend Mag transcript of GA interviewing DD
by this time in the post, the fact that I have this bookmarked should shock no one…

Gossamer Project
The place to find X-Files fic… old, new, good, bad, long, short - it is here

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
again - title says it all

Are you pondering what I’m pondering
narf!

Tomato Nation
tre funny

The Onion
America’s Finest News Source ™
A farcical newspaper featuring world, national and community news.

DEADWOOD Stage
deadwood message board, with spoilers
sqqqqeeeeeeee

ok I have wasted enough time, it is sad how many broken links I have in my favorties

Keeping Maili Amused

aka sybil’s being nosy

see the title sounds so much better than the truth…

On your blog, paste the following:
Post five (or more if you want) links from your favorites. It can be anything, book related or not. Come on show us something snarky, bitchy, smutty, funny, silly, dirty, or whatever.

Then do it! Post here so I can go be nosy later, I mean maili can find more websites to amuse her!

I must go to work so I shall post some links later and promise not to do more than one X-Files site. Come on you know you wanna.

rate me baby

What rating is your journal?
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Life is so unfair… just because I don’t post images I missed out on being NC-17. I promise to try harder in the future ;).

link borrowed from Jaye

way cool

I just picked up The River Devil from Borders and remembered I had a 30% off coupon. So I got it for around 9 bucks. ssqqeeee coupon

And crimson City is there for 5.99… so it was 4 something. I like saving money! And new books!

Of course I won’t read them any time soon. I have Before Sunrise to finish, then Aspen Gold Book 1, 2, 3, and 4 to read. And two other books to read to send in reviews for.

So what was I reading last night you ask? The Marriage Bed… there were a couple of posts on the AAR Review board that just so don’t match what I remember. So I am checking my facts. Go figure. I have spent more time now on a book I really didn’t like. That is so me. Ms giggles has a great review up on it. I would link but I don’t have it with me at the moment. I will add it later.

anyway lunch is about over so back to work with me…

hhhhheeeeeeeeee

I have started my post on TMB but Before Sunrise has arrived!!!!!!!!

yes everyone ssssssqqqqqqqqqqeeeeeeeee

shush nicole
blog ya laters

There is No Spoon

The more I think about The Marriage Bed, the more I dislike it. It comes down to, I never connected to the H/H. And really half way through, I down right disliked the hero at the point where I should have started to like him. And the heroine, I had moved on from feeling bad for her to just thinking she was a stupid shit and deserved what she got.

I never know where that spoiler line gets drawn with new books. I shall prolly blog about it more tomorrow, trying to keep the post some what spoiler free with a free for all in the comments.

I am off to read One Night with a Prince.

Oh but first… I have more books! I went to pick up a trade book and of course had to look around. I so scored getting a trade copy of Night of Sin by Julia Ross for $3. And could have left with that feeling good.

but oh no…
Having bought Lady’s Choice by Winnie Griggs I decided it needed friends on my tbr pile. So I picked up What Matters Most and Something More. And no I haven’t read or heard jack about winnie griggs.

Hope I like her. The really scary thing is, I recalled the titles. So either it is from looking her up when I blindly bought Lady’s Choice. OR I have managed to buy these already and don’t remember.

Yes I really need a new book shelf, I really need to write down all the books I have, I really need to do lots of shit but I want to read!

The other two books I bought are potential trades, so that is cool. I picked up Forever by Theresa Weir, an author whose name I keep seeing. And Falling Stars by Anita Mills, an author I recently enjoyed reading and a book on someone’s wish list.

So now I just need to read them so I can decide if I keep them or send them on their happy way.

Oh and another thing, people will you give me a break with the new series books? The Lady Lies and Beyond the Pale are sitting in my tbr. Now lets say I like them but in a eh that was fun lets move on kind of way - WHAT DO I DO? Keep them since my memory is shit and I might need them when the next book comes out or pass them on to a happy home and let them enjoy being read again.

le sigh

I mean people I am close to hitting 800 books here. I know to some of you that makes me a beginner and you are sitting there laughing at that low number. But really 800! I feel shame. Well I think I should, or at least I should feel shame over buying MORE while so many just sit there!

I did want to make a post regarding condoms, sex, responsibility and such but I find I really just want to go be one with my couch and read. So let me point you to angie, karens, candy and keishon.

I have to say, this is why I love blogs, live journal and reviews. I love opinion and the thought process that goes into why people think as they do. There is no right. There is no wrong. There is no spoon. It just is what it is, which reminds me I have a post I really wanted to do on reviews after looking up Triple Play. More time in the day please…

Anyway, as for condoms, since the majority of what I read is historical, this doesn’t come up much. ::hee come:: But really it isn’t something I worry about. It isn’t a must in what I read. If they are used, I want to know, if they aren’t, I want that address somewhere. But I do not expect the author to teach me or anyone else about safe sex.

Yes books can be entertaining and educational. Yes you can learn something from any genre of book. But no, we don’t need to worry about the children when writing our romance novels. If I want to raise kids, I will have them. I don’t. If you are worried about what your kids are reading - talk to them. If you want them to have your values - talk to them. My god, we don’t take responsibility for jack shit anymore.

It is always the fault of someone else. Well sometimes it is just stupid and sometimes we do it to ourselves. Maybe it is because I can mark been there done that on far too many things, but at the end of the day if I did something wrong it wasn’t because author x wrote about it in a romance.

I don’t expect or want social responsibility in my novels, tv, movies or whatever. I want to be entertained. I want it to be the done well. I want the creator to have been true to whatever vision he/she saw in his/her head.

And if I don’t like it or agree with it, I want the right to not see or read it again.

ok now I really am off to read One Night with a Prince.

Long story short….

The Marriage Bed was bad. Not horrid. Not throw against the wall…. never read this book… put garlic around your neck to keep it away bad. But not good, it could have been so much better.

I shall blog about it tonight.

Tags: June 2005, The Marriage Bed

I am not sure what is worse

That I just bought The Marriage Bed, when it is on its way to me.

That I felt so badly when the walmart guy told me the cart FULL of books was going to be destroyed and I wanted to cry.

Or that I just bought four new books.

NEW:
The Marriage Bed - Laura Lee Guhrke (yes this is the second copy but really who knows when the first one will get here and maili might want it, if not nicole or someone will take the extra copy)
One Night with a Prince - Sabrina Jeffries
Only For A Knight - Sue Welfonder
The Wedding Night of an English Rogue - Jillian Hunter (yes I need to read the second one first)

books books books!!! More Than a Scandal by Sari Robins was there as well, which I wanted until I saw it is a robin hood type plot. I am so not into that. So I will wait for reviews, or used. Sin of the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon is out as well, but since I haven’t read a darkhunter novel yet I can’t buy it new. So either I need to read one or start looking for it used. They are always a bitch to find.

I would have bought Warrior by Nicole Jordan if I hadn’t just spent so much money on books for my lil sis on sunday. I need The River Devil as well, it is out! I didn’t know this. I thought it was an August release. I really need to balance my check book.

ACK and I must not forget to go pick up The Irish Devil I have on hold for cw.

le sigh I want to read The Marriage Bed now and not work. God it will suck if I hate the book after buying it twice. I am so not well, but we knew this.

books, books and more books

HH:
Reavis, Cheryl - The Bartered Bride (t)
St. John, Cheryl - The Tenderfoot Bride (this was rec’ed I think by wendy)
Wilson, Gayle - The Secret Duchess

HP:
Napier, Susan - Reason of the Heart (rosario)
Williams, Cathy - A Scandalous Engagement (llb)

Red Dress Ink:
Markham, Wendy - Slighty Single (t)
Mlynowski, Sarah - Milkrun (t)

Hsomething- (how many lines have Harlequin had over the years)
Miller, Linda Lael - Glory, Glory (t)
Palmer, Diana - Nelson’s Brand (never even heard of this one)
Stuart, Anne - Housebound (t)

Anthologies:
Wild West Brides - Cathy Maxwell, Ruth Langan, Carolyn Davidson
Out of This World - JD Robb, Laurell K Hamiltion, S Krinard, Maggie Shayne (t)
Men of Courage II - Lori Foster, Donna Kauffman, Jill Shalvis (t)

Bittner, Rosanne, Tender Betrayal
Canham, Marsha - The Last Arrow (don’t recall who mentioned this but I wanted it)
Coulter, Catherine - The Deception (hit or miss author for me, can’t pass up .25)
Criswell, Millie - True Lies
Cruise, Jennifer - Welcome To Temptation (again someone blogged about this recently)
Dodd, Christina - Candle in the Window (someone blogged this was a keeper)
Howard, Linda - A Game of Chance (no clue why I got this with the reprints coming out)
Howard, Linda - White Lies
Ivie, Jackie - Lady of the Knight (t)
Jeffries, Sabrina - In the Prince’s Bed (rosario)
Martin, Kat - Innocence Undone (hit or miss, can’t pass up .25)
Mills, Anita - Autumn Rain
Mills, Anita - Bittersweet
Mills, Anita - Dangerous (I no have 5 of her books but read none… really need to)
Phillips, Susan Elizabeth - Just Imagine (never read her prolly a t)
Quick, Amanda - Desire (not the one I wanted and prolly a t)
Skye, Christina - 2000 Kisses (nicole)
Williamson, Penelope - A Wild Yearning (kristie put it in my head, well the author not the title)

all in all for 10 bucks I didn’t do badly…

I went to two library sales. One was on a side of town I never go to and I get lost in a box. But I didn’t get too lost. They didn’t have all the books out. And the guy running it kept making cracks about the number of romance books they had (most still in boxes and being left in them so they didn’t take over the ‘books’).

I have only been to 4 or 5 library sales now. And I know they are run by volunteers (or at least the ones I have been were) but good lord, have the books OUT. You are trying to sell them, right?

If I hadn’t spent as much time as I had, going through boxes and if it wasn’t for the fact the money was going to the library, I would have left my box there and gone home empty handed.

Ah well, the library closest to me might have had less books, but they were nicer. So I think I will stick to it.

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