conversations at a bar…
April 30, 2006
click for odd possibly offending conversation…
conversations at a bar…
April 30, 2006
click for odd possibly offending conversation…
My friend, we shall call him D. is talking about his penis. His friend looks at him so some what agog and is like I can’t believe you are talking about that, we shall call him J.
D is somewhat taken aback and sees J is pointing to me. And D says, after he stops laughing, ‘You don’t really think Sybil can be offended do you?’
J was like, ‘Yes! She is a girl’ (did I mention this was a gay bar?)
D. goes on to say something along the lines of yes but it is sybil… to which he draws in a deep breath and I shrug, sit back and expect some horridly embarrassing, amoral thing I have done to be brought up.
What does D. say you ask… can you guess? Cuz honestly I was some what shocked and surprised because there is no limit to the crap D. could have brought up to prove his point.
He says, ‘Hell you should see the stuff she reviews. Like on line, she has a website and everything. She even does reviews for some other site.’
I am giggling at this point (only had one vodka tonic to their 10 so I was sober) and while he was struggling to come up with the word, I said yes.
J. was like you get paid? To which I answered no, I review Romance, Erotica and Erotic Romance because I like it. D, the man who owns enough porn to go into a video business, is nodding and saying yes it is like a hobby.
LOL J. was like cool, but you should get paid. And then talk returned to the important topic of the penis. I didn’t try to explain the point of a hobby and doing something for fun not profit.
Now I wasn’t offended or upset in any way mind you, 1. D. loveseses me and would support just about any hobby, career or oddness I wanted to come up with. And has. 2. He didn’t mean it in a bad way at all. 3. Even if he had been trying to offend me, you can’t offend me. Words certainly don’t offend me, smut, porn, trash whatever name your poison, they are just words that only have the power to hurt if I let them.
But out of alllllllllllll the things D could have brought up to point out my lack of shockatude it still makes me giggle that it was ‘those books she reads’. And drunk people are NEVER fun when one is sober. But that is another story all together.
books, books and more books
April 30, 2006
YAY for the mail!
Texas Gold Books arrived today! Book 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6…
Hell on Wheels - out in june
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys - out now now
Ask For It and My Bounty are current read for reviews.
I have Secrets In The Marriage Bed that I really want to read.
I have a book due now, coming from AAR and two due in June (alllll want to read now anyway)
I am swimming in books! Print and E! So what do I want you ask… His Wicked Kiss, One Night with a Spy and Duke of Scandal! Why is my brain wired like that? I swear it is a compulsion. I can’t read them right now. I don’t have the time. BUT I WANT THEM.
really… so not well… I took my three packages to work in a bag so I could squueee and pet the new books. I amuse far too easy. It should scare us all.
On that note… BB and Aphrodisia week are shaping up well. I have added a Samhain week and an Avon Red one. I was thinking about adding another line. Any suggestions? I am thinking Blaze. I pretty much killed the Secrets idea because fuck if I can find info on upcoming Secrets novellas where as I think we know about Avon Red books far into 2007. That appeals to the book whore in me.
NOTE to authors… Coming Soon or Up Coming or even What’s Next pages are GOOD things on your website. And music… is not. Just saying, that could be just me.
EBUZZ: Virgin Seeks Bad-Ass Boy By Ruth D. Kerce
April 30, 2006
I think this gets a nod for worst title evah… and yes I do sometimes wonder about the things I read…
Virgin Seeks Bad-Ass Boy
Alice Sutherland is tired of being a virgin. At twenty-four, she wants to experience wild and passionate sex. And she wants a real bad boy between her legs, preferably one with a heart deep down.
Caleb Sawyer doesn’t know how to react when his sexy neighbor confesses that she wants him to de-virgin her. He’s shocked. He’s also intrigued. But he’s not sure Ali has any idea what sex with him entails. Caleb is used to no-holds-barred, dirty, sweaty, try anything sex.
Alice is not naive, just inexperienced. What Caleb doesn’t know is that she has seen him in action… and he’s her man. Oh, is he ever. The answer to all her needs, her deepest desires, her darkest fantasies. What starts as one weekend of raw passion, soon surpasses anything that either of them ever expected.
Oh she may not be naive but boy oh boy does she have crappy dialogue. LOOK and his is just as bad… I think this is proof that some ‘free’ stories should stay free and not be pulled and ‘expanded’ to be sold. I would pass and try something else of Ruth D. Kerce or go check out her site for the still free stories. Quick before they are sold!
Next Ruth Kerce: Xylon Warriors
Her Scandalous Marriage by Leslie LaFoy
April 30, 2006
I think I have posted about this before but am too lazy to go search…
summary of Her Scandalous Marriage by Leslie LaFoy
The illegitimate daughter of a decadent Lord, the lovely Caroline Dutton has worked hard to become a successful London dressmaker and is content to answer to no man. That is until a devastatingly handsome Duke walks into her shop with the most outrageous demand.
The new Duke of Ryland cursed his fate and his philandering great uncle. To collect his inheritance, he must turn the old Duke’s three by-blow offspring into proper ladies and marry them off. Two are mere children, but Caroline Dutton is all woman - a headstrong beauty he can’t help wanting to seduce.
Now ensconced in Ryland’s country estate, Caroline is being called a Lady and readied for the marriage mart during the next London season. Her dowry is large, her past overlooked, and her prospects bright… except she is breathlessly, madly drawn to the one man who is sweeping her toward scandal - and the sweet satisfaction her heart demands.
excellent review at AAR, and this sounds great…
I have been wanting to try Leslie LaFoy it is great to see her with a new historical! YAY historical! It is a trilogy but hey give it a shot maili ;). Her Wicked Wedding Night is the second title and it wraps up with His Reluctant Bride.
EBUZZ: Sealed With a Wish By Lora Leigh
April 30, 2006
Sealed With a Wish By Lora Leigh
For Cara Montgomery, Christmas is just like any other time of year. She’ll still be alone…and lonely. And her greatest wish—to have someone to call her own, someone to love—will remain just that, a wish. She’s learned the hard way not to ask for things she can’t have. And that includes a seemingly persistent sex god in leather who just won’t leave her alone. But this is one man who is determined to change her mind. One man who won’t take no for an answer.
Kheelan Mattero, most trusted warrior of a First Earth prince in exile, is sent to gift Cara for rescuing the prince’s son in a brave and selfless move that could have resulted in her own death. But instead, Kheelan finds his own gift—the mate he has searched two planets and a lifetime for. While the hunger rages through him for the pixie-ish Cara, her need must join with his, must equal his, or the bonding will not happen. Now he has to make Cara see that some wishes are worth reaching for…that some wishes can come true.
Summary pretty much explains it all… yes the cover is the same on all the White Hot Holiday EC stories. I am thinking that saves time and money?
If you are a LL fan you will like this, if you are looking to see what the buzz with Lora Leigh is all about, this isn’t a story to read. No penis barbs appear and not a cousin or brother is fucked… hey so if that squicks you with a Leigh story - THIS might be the for you ;). ::sorry again google search guys::
Pretty tame, virgin finding her warrior mate plot where true lurve must include anal sex. Short story, so no real character build up or background. nice flow to the story and a quick read. Hey a quickie ;). Do tell if you read or have read! Give some LL rec’s or tell us all you know about barbed cocks oh wait that would be here.
DNF: Masquerade by Melissa Jackson
April 30, 2006
Note to self… stop reading excerpts
Ritawhat?
April 29, 2006
Wendy proves once again that she is the smartest
go read… very good post
sez I, then go check out Jamie Sobrato. Her blog is a blast. As Helenkay said, if you aren’t reading it, why not? ::off to see what JS books I have to read, I think I recall ordering one in my last harl order::
EBUZZ: A Muse Me by S.L. Carpenter
April 29, 2006
He lost his inspiration but found his muse in the Caribbean in the arms of a woman.
It’s a slow death for a writer when the only key getting used on his keyboard is “Delete”. His writer’s block is firmly in place like a wall. All there is to do is bang his head against it.
What to do? A change of scenery might help - say a week in the tropics. If nothing else, it will warm his idle fingers and ease his worried mind. A getaway for the mind and soul.
Reservations made, Eugene flies to Aruba in search of answers to his problems. What he finds is more than a couple of fruit drinks with umbrellas in them. On the white sandy beaches, wrapped in almost nothing but a tan is someone who sparks his imagination and ignites his creative flow. He finds his Muse!
Carpenter has some great one-liners and fun, could happen dialogue. Love the plot and the characters are good but the whole story didn’t mesh together as well as it could have. The style is choppy, POV switches in odd places and the story slow to start. And it can get very repetitive and could use some tightening up. There are quite a few places he says the same thing over and over when you get the point the in the first sentence.
But the writing it very amusing (pun intended) and the read is worth it for the one liners alone, of course I am a sarcastic lil bitch so you know what sandbox my idea of humor plays in. And you can tell this is written by a man, a man who wants you to know the story is by a man. At least it seems that way… It almost goes too far trying to make the point that romance novels tend to write men more flowery than they are by making Eugene a ‘real’ man.
Nice idea but really are romance hero’s suppose to be real men? What do you guys think? And yes, romance novels must have a happy ever after! I did like how the story ends, very creative and ‘keeps with the rules’ while Eugene breaks ‘em. But I wouldn’t haven’t read ‘Eugene’s book *g*. Jane, I would love your take on this story if you get a chance to read it!
I would rate it a D but would rec it for the funny. Well that and the elevator sex. Love to hear from other readers… did you like it? Do you agree? Disagree? Have other rec’s from this author?
Next S.L. Carpenter: Detour written with Sahara Kelly
smartquotes are the devil
April 29, 2006
ok I have figured out how to reformat to make most of the crap format that crap blogger won’t take… but the accent thing, still giving me grief
Anyone know how to fix that without deleting it? see the HE excerpt for what I am talking about… typing triple-shot grandé skinny vanilla latté the E in grande and latte make blogger go screwy. Any ideas? Thanks!
Or better yet, how can I make blogger use smartquotes? And if you say switch to wordpress I will scream, or maili will :).
My friend, we shall call him D. is talking about his penis. His friend looks at him so some what agog and is like I can’t believe you are talking about that, we shall call him J.
D is somewhat taken aback and sees J is pointing to me. And D says, after he stops laughing, ‘You don’t really think Sybil can be offended do you?’
J was like, ‘Yes! She is a girl’ (did I mention this was a gay bar?)
D. goes on to say something along the lines of yes but it is sybil… to which he draws in a deep breath and I shrug, sit back and expect some horridly embarrassing, amoral thing I have done to be brought up.
What does D. say you ask… can you guess? Cuz honestly I was some what shocked and surprised because there is no limit to the crap D. could have brought up to prove his point.
He says, ‘Hell you should see the stuff she reviews. Like on line, she has a website and everything. She even does reviews for some other site.’
I am giggling at this point (only had one vodka tonic to their 10 so I was sober) and while he was struggling to come up with the word, I said yes.
J. was like you get paid? To which I answered no, I review Romance, Erotica and Erotic Romance because I like it. D, the man who owns enough porn to go into a video business, is nodding and saying yes it is like a hobby.
LOL J. was like cool, but you should get paid. And then talk returned to the important topic of the penis. I didn’t try to explain the point of a hobby and doing something for fun not profit.
Now I wasn’t offended or upset in any way mind you, 1. D. loveseses me and would support just about any hobby, career or oddness I wanted to come up with. And has. 2. He didn’t mean it in a bad way at all. 3. Even if he had been trying to offend me, you can’t offend me. Words certainly don’t offend me, smut, porn, trash whatever name your poison, they are just words that only have the power to hurt if I let them.
But out of alllllllllllll the things D could have brought up to point out my lack of shockatude it still makes me giggle that it was ‘those books she reads’. And drunk people are NEVER fun when one is sober. But that is another story all together.