Is it wrong of me…
November 21, 2006
To be soooooo excited that I am gonna get this soon?
le sigh and me without my sqqqeee button
The wait… it kills… slowly….
Holiday… Celebrate…
November 21, 2006
Got anything planned to for the holidays? yeah yeah yeah I know family and food and stuff…
But what cha gonna read?
Me? I am not sure yet since I will have to be at the ‘rents for a day or so. So I need to plan ahead so I can take them with me. I do know for sure I will be reading Lessons in Love since it landed in my mail box yesterday! YAY!
And something else is there… waiting… captive in the office…
I have hope to finish two others I was lucky enough to get early but are on the computer. Really need to get an ereader for Christmas or something.
Anywho, what about you? Who in the hell is buying all of those reissued holiday antho’s they reprint each year? I mean they are all over the place! And oy, they had a butt load of reissued Harl. Why? They aren’t the hard to find ones! They are the ones that cover five shelves in the ubs.
Why! They should ask us what we want reissued. oooooohhhhhh there is a question for you… if you could have ANY book reissued for your Christmas present what would it be? And why?
Is it because you want to read it and can’t find it? Love it so much want others to be able to read it? Or yours is falling apart and you need a new one for under the discount used price of $100 on Ebay *g*.
Holiday… Celebrate…
November 21, 2006
Got anything planned to for the holidays? yeah yeah yeah I know family and food and stuff…
But what cha gonna read?
Me? I am not sure yet since I will have to be at the ‘rents for a day or so. So I need to plan ahead so I can take them with me. I do know for sure I will be reading Lessons in Love since it landed in my mail box yesterday! YAY!
And something else is there… waiting… captive in the office…
I have hope to finish two others I was lucky enough to get early but are on the computer. Really need to get an ereader for Christmas or something.
Anywho, what about you? Who in the hell is buying all of those reissued holiday antho’s they reprint each year? I mean they are all over the place! And oy, they had a butt load of reissued Harl. Why? They aren’t the hard to find ones! They are the ones that cover five shelves in the ubs.
Why! They should ask us what we want reissued. oooooohhhhhh there is a question for you… if you could have ANY book reissued for your Christmas present what would it be? And why?
Is it because you want to read it and can’t find it? Love it so much want others to be able to read it? Or yours is falling apart and you need a new one for under the discount used price of $100 on Ebay *g*.
Dear Self: The Texas Ranger
November 19, 2006
Dear Self,
You have read The Texas Ranger.
You did not like The Texas Ranger.
In fact you didn’t even blog about this book because no one had annoyed you enough that week to make them read about your dislike of this book.
For the love of all that is holy - stop buying this fucking book.
Otherwise you will be forced to keep said book because somewhere deep inside you must really love a book you rebuy four times. And there will be an essay required regarding surgical procedures needed to remove a hyman.
Love,
Me
p.s. really might want to rethink the buying diana palmer thing…
okay…. this completely pisses me off
November 16, 2006
The pitfalls of receiving free books…
Simon & Schuster is so not sending me free books! That is sooooooo rude!
hmph and double hmph… I am the first person to say I love free books. Most of all I love free EARLY books. They make me happy, very very happy. I even will sqqquuueee! (well not for inspirations)
But it doesn’t mean I will like the book. I go with a few very simple ideas. Good or bad a review is a great thing, having your book mentioned is a good thing, a link to a book is a good thing. Because everyone likes different things and what I hate, someone might read and go omg I love that plot. So I tend to agree with Miss Snark (anyone even find out if she is really an agent?) that the idea of all free books will get GOOD reviews isn’t true. But I could be wrong…
As for publishers only sending books to people who give glowing reviews, I tend to disagree but hey we will see if my next batch of Avon Red shows up or not.
okay…. this completely pisses me off
November 16, 2006
The pitfalls of receiving free books…
Simon & Schuster is so not sending me free books! That is sooooooo rude!
hmph and double hmph… I am the first person to say I love free books. Most of all I love free EARLY books. They make me happy, very very happy. I even will sqqquuueee! (well not for inspirations)
But it doesn’t mean I will like the book. I go with a few very simple ideas. Good or bad a review is a great thing, having your book mentioned is a good thing, a link to a book is a good thing. Because everyone likes different things and what I hate, someone might read and go omg I love that plot. So I tend to agree with Miss Snark (anyone even find out if she is really an agent?) that the idea of all free books will get GOOD reviews isn’t true. But I could be wrong…
As for publishers only sending books to people who give glowing reviews, I tend to disagree but hey we will see if my next batch of Avon Red shows up or not.
That is cool
November 16, 2006
It would be cooler I am sure if I knew what the ‘keynote’ speaker did.
But hey it sounds like a great honor so good for Lisa Kleypas!
Should it make me smile so every time I see one of these?
November 16, 2006
ok I have to be ahead now… right?
can I get a WoOT!
Review: Sugar and Spice by Leda Swann
November 16, 2006
Leda Swann was one of the authors who joined us for Avon Red Week. I completely fell in love with the cover for Sugar and Spice. Sadly this turned out to be one of those times where the cover was the best part.
Genre: Erotic Romance (I think… could be Erotica)
Grade: D-
Sensuality: Burning
Jane Meter: SKIP
This an ever popular anthology, although it is a single title. It has an interesting set up and is somewhat different. Each of the stories involve an already married couple struggling to find their HEA. They all end up at a ‘naughty house’ in Cornwall that caters to married couples and is ran by a Mrs. Bertram.
Next: The Price of Desire is the next book by Leda Swann. I still have no clue what this is about other than it has something to do with a workhouse.
Currently I am reading Pleasure Control by Cathryn Fox and liking it. Have you tried an Avon Red yet?
Am I the only one who thinks this blows?
November 14, 2006
I admit I have a hard time remembering titles but good night, just about every title Charlotte Boyett-Compo has uses the word wind. Her website url is even Windledgends.
I am guessing this is an attempt at branding but it is so not working for me. How about you guys?
Are you able to keep her stories straight? How do you remember what you have read and what you haven’t? But most important… is she any good and what would you recommend reading?
I loved the set up and the first scene with the Turkish slave girl setup is great. Adam is very much the man as he lays there thinking a hand job isn’t ‘really cheating’ until it dawns on him if he is there… where is his wife. The two play out a list of fantasy and find their way to sharing their true feelings. The stories biggest downside is it is too long and the very played out ending. Obsessed gets a C.
Lillian and Felix have a very Mary Balogh tradition regency plot. They got married. A few months later he gets bored thinking his wife is cold and doesn’t want him. Felix starts to fuck around and Lillian tries her best to ignore it. After Felix takes off to Mrs. Bertram’s with his newest ’soon to be mistress’, Lillian is blackmailed by the Mr. of ’soon to be mistress’. After a chorus of ‘Hail, Hail the Gangs All Here’ there is a great scene where Lillian give Felix a piece of her mind.
And after he figures out how badly he screwed up with his virgin bride - SIX YEARS ago - Felix does the only thing any good regency hero would do. He decided it is a good time to teach his wife to blow him and stick his fingers up her ass. I was never able to get over the thought that she would have been better off leaving with Gareth. Enslaved gets a F.
Speaking of Gareth the hero of the last story and over all good guy. I liked him except for he spends most of the story being a doormat for Cora. In case you forgot, Cora was the woman who went off for a week with Felix. She is… hell really I am not sure what Cora is suppose to be. At one point she is mad because he married her to have door opened for him in socially At another point she is mad because she married him because he is in trade, so she figured she would never care for him but does. At another point it seems she thinks she can never make him happy and has a secret that would hurt him. Or some such thing, really by this point I just wanted the book over.
I guessed the end pretty early then decided I was wrong (turns out I wasn’t). I think Exposed is the shortest of the three and the most sexually adventurous. They confront the big bad thing, learn they can deal with it together and Cora figures out Gareth will stick by her no matter what. Exposed gets a D.
I think the biggest disappointment I had with Sugar and Spice is it could have been so much better. It had a different plot than you normally get in today’s historicals and I was willing to go along for the ride when I normally run from anything that deal with adultery.
Maybe that is why I got hung up on Felix’s character and his actions. He has this big ‘ah ha’ moment and handles it so stupidly. I would have just closed the book and walked away, if I was the type to not finish books. And Cora was such a horrible character. I understand we are suppose to excuse her actions because of her big bad secret but Gareth was just too good. So over all the first story was the only I could say I liked and really not that much.
Anyone else read this yet? Like it? Have any other thoughts on Sugar and Spice?