March in review

March was such a BLAH reading month for me, especially after February’s fabulosity: These Old Shades, Georgette Heyer A- The Last Lecture, Dr. Randy Pausch A- Never Seduce a Scoundrel, Sabrina Jefferies B+ Vexing the Viscount, Emily Bryan B+ Twilight, Stephenie Meyer B New Moon, Stephenie Meyer B Foul Play, Janet Evanovich, B Blue Christmas, [...]

Velvet Glove, by Emma Holly

I started reading romance novels in 8th grade, giggling at the mall’s bookstore with my girlfriends in our mini-packpacks full of Claire’s earrings, snickering at the sex scenes. We got kicked out one time actually. Although my introduction to the genre was out of immaturity, they became the mainstay in my reading habits and I [...]

Friday Finds (March 27)

Last night I couldn’t string two words together to form a coherent thought. After I grunted at him, hubby remarked in an observant voice, “The blogs ate your brain.” Is it normal that I’m blogging, tweeting, commenting, wikipedia-ing, and googling three or more hours a day? My brain aren’t working right. But all my internet [...]

What’s with today, today?

While technically these events didn’t happen today, I’m still using that line from Empire Records. Really what I want to say, is what’s with my Universe of Loved Ones? That movie had a happy ending, right? That’s what I need right now… That or my Lisa Frank trapper keeper from 2nd grade! Smiling-bubble-cartoon-neon-colored animals and [...]

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb

Stayed up way too late watching Twilight the movie and the second DVD with all the special features. I just signed up for Twitter and was tweeting as I watched, so instead of re-writing anything, here are my thoughts as they happened (in 140 characters or less of course!): now that i’ve read midnight sun [...]

Twilight and New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer

Don’t you hate it when you’re trying to explain something to a friend and they don’t “get it”? Or when you really hate something, but your friend inexplicably likes it? Why don’t they “get it”??? Or you snigger at some weirdo walking by and tell your friend to look at how odd that person is [...]

We had us a hog-killin’ time

*Note: no hogs were hurt in the writing of this blog High school in the suburbs of Chicago did not prepare me for the culture shock of college in North Carolina (sweet tea and cheerwine what? how do i not have 89324 cavities?). Similarly, Winston-Salem did not prepare me for the Lone Star State. In all my born [...]

YEE HAW Friday Finds (March 20)

HOWDY PARDNERS!  This Lusty Reader is about to giddyup and leave my greenhorn status in the dust for my first trip ever to Texas! I’m visiting the hubby’s grandparents in Houston and am looking forward to TWO BIG EVENTS: Rodeo/Brooks n Dunn - After four years of college in North Carolina we joked constantly about going to [...]

This photo just spoke to me

Do you ever start reading, only intending to skim a paragraph or two, but then you look up and 20 minutes have passed and your neck was cricked in an uncomfortable position and you didn’t even notice since the story had captured your interest so much? Yeah, me too. Sigh. I’m looking for one of [...]

The Secret Heiress, by Judith Gould

Dammit my first guess was right, The Secret Heiress was HORRIBLE. As Scobberlotch commented the title was intriguing and doubled with the innocuous cover and the provocative back-cover summary I picked it right up at the library. EPIC FAIL in that the blurb was totally misleading… In fact the more I read the more I felt like [...]