Archive for January, 2006

Amazon… being all you want it to be and more

Tuesday, January 31, 2006 23:37 No Comments

Am I the only one that gets a feeling that one days Amazon will be like MTV? Instead of wondering why they never play music videos we will wonder where the books are. It shocks me how many different types of things you can get on amazon and how many people they have as [...]

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Smooch Ya

Monday, January 30, 2006 15:07 4 Comments

Have you or your kiddos read any books from the Smooch line? It says in the guidelines: As our primary audience is girls ages 12-16, there should be no sex scenes. I am wondering if they are ok for a just turned 12 year old. Sis’s birthday is the 9th and I [...]

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the girl who doesn’t like trades

Monday, January 30, 2006 14:20 No Comments

has 75 of them (76 if you count the one I have twice)
But the big news…. the trades are off the livingroom floor and the contemporary novels are shelved. Sort of. The Bad Boy books are still here, along with the secrets, wicked women and EC’s. So I guess they stay in [...]

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Things You Learn While Playing With Your Book Part I.

Sunday, January 29, 2006 22:07 9 Comments

collected while trying to get the books off the floor and things I should prolly not admit too and would only amuse me but hey you know where you back button is
I own:
1. two Anne Stuart novels: A Rose at Midnight (thanks cindy and Lord of Danger (tbr)
2. over 40 Diana Palmer… but [...]

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file under too cool

Sunday, January 29, 2006 20:45 2 Comments

one of my fave things about author websites are the extra’s about the books…
like Jo Goodman’s tidbits or Susan Kay Law’s The Story’s Story or Madeline Hunter’s cut scenes…
Well up at Dorchester’s site they have a deleted scene from Shadow Touch by Marjorie M. Liu. It might be at her site too but I [...]

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Random Questions II.

Sunday, January 29, 2006 19:47 5 Comments

1. Are there any changes in the reissue of Laura Kinsale’s Dream Hunter? I have the book already, one of my tbr Kinsale’s. So I am really hoping it is the same book.
2. If Romance Junkies gives you a low review (keeping in mind the lowest you can get is a 2 = [...]

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Random Questions I.

Saturday, January 28, 2006 21:04 3 Comments

1. Who is Cait Logan? Any clue why I have four of her books? Is she any good?
2. Authors with more than one name… together or in alpha order? Like Dana Ransom/Rosalyn West or Deborah Martin/Sabrina Jeffries both women went under each name and they are both historicals. I am leaning [...]

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another early review for Devil In Winter

Saturday, January 28, 2006 14:51 7 Comments

I be all jealous these people have read it…
Damned Scribbling Women
And I am not sure which is right… RS or WF but Karen Fox has on her page:
NYT bestelling author Lisa Kleypass three novels, contemporary women’s fiction, to Jennifer Enderlin at St. Martin’s, by Mel Berger at William Morris Agency (NA). – Publisher’s Marketplace [...]

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What you waiting for

Saturday, January 28, 2006 14:15 No Comments

What You Waiting For?
by Gwen Stefani
Song lyrics
What an amazing time
What a family
How did the years go by
Now it’s only me
Tick-tock, tick-tock
Tick-tock, tick-tock
Tick-tock, tick-tock
Tick-tock, tick-tock
La, la, la, la, la, la, la (ah, ah, ah, ah, ah)
Like a cat in heat, stuck in a moving car
A scary conversation, shut my eyes, can’t find the brake
What [...]

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new for me!

Saturday, January 28, 2006 13:41 7 Comments

So pre omg I am going to die… I bought new books!
I think I posted these but I forget since I tried to post many things while the computer was screwy (which it did again just now and I turned off the firewall and poof).
The Highlander’s Stolen Bride – Melanie George
Hers to Command – Margaret [...]

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It’s My Party …..

Saturday, January 28, 2006 13:09 No Comments

whine whine whine

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How many readers does it take…

Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:21 4 Comments

to keep all these people in business…
I mean you have:
Readerware
suggested by bev and looks a lot like Collectorz but for a penny more has a free scanner. No clue which came first or what is different.
Collectorz
being pimped by angiew which runs 39.99.
Byron
which I have seen mentioned in many places and know AAR [...]

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What do you do with….

Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:28 10 Comments

your Romantic Times BOOKclub magazine
I have a huge stack of them! I hate to throw them away because uh I have no idea why. But… but what if I throw them out and then I NEED them! Then what? But I can’t come up with a reason to keep them, everything [...]

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Has anyone read…

Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:04 No Comments

Once in a Blue Moon by Celia Stuart?
Good? Bad? It is set in texas and the author is a texan . It is funny, I am very protexas writers but such a bad texan myself.
But really have I ever claimed to make sense?
It is an ebook, in case you are sitting there [...]

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Judging a Book By Its Cover

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 21:34 2 Comments

damn damn damn
I should so KnoW better than to do this by now but sometimes it is hard to not roll your eyes and put the book back. Way easy to do when you don’t know of the author and have never read anything by her.
I just read AAR’s review of Hope’s Captive by [...]

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