Here is what I am currently watching, as a heads-up about what the LJ will be about for a bit:
WESTERN TV:
Arrow - I am way behind, and plan to catch up as soon as my Spartacus binge is over.
Burn Notice - season 6. I enjoy it and watch it with Mr. Mousie but am unlikely to posa about it, tbh.
Chuck - am on season 5. I won't be posting much about it because while it's enjoyable and a great together time for me and Mr. Mousie, there is not really much to say about it.
Spartacus - as you can tell, my current obsession.
DRAMAS
Incarnation of Money - I find myself disinterested in dramas lately (I tried Flower Boy Next Door and felt like I vomited a rainbow), but darkly funny and starring Kang Ji Hwan? I am in.
BOOKS
Haven't read as much over the weekend due to Spartacus obsession, but here is what I did read:
Sarah MacLean, A Rogue By Any Other Name - very very enjoyable Victorian. When he was barely older than a boy, hero has lost everything he owned to his supposed guardian in a game of cards, and now a decade later has rebuilt himself as an owner of a gambling club (seems a popular occupation in romancedom). He is bitter and emotionally locked up and deeply cynical. He is also about to attempt marriage with his childhood best friend in order to recover his former lands with which she, due to complicated plotty stuff, ended up as a dowry. At 28, Lady Penelope is long past marriageable age but...
Anyway, this one was awesome, managing to give me an 'angsty/badboy/jerk' hero who I actually liked and Lady Penelope was incredibly ladylike yet super-strong-willed. How he slowly melted under her influence was pretty perfect.
Susanna Medeiros, Loving the Marquess - this fairly slim romance isn't going to set the world on fire, but it was a pleasant read. Hero believes he has an inherited deadly illness and needs a wife and heir ASAP, so as not to have his estate go to his evil cousin. Only he doesn't want his heir to actually be his due to fear of inherited illness. So he wants to marry a woman and then convince her and his best friend to sleep together. Clearly he has never seen Frozen Flower. Also, as clearly, he didn't figure on falling in love with his own wife. I actually like the hero of this, who is sweet and decent and, despite coming up with the lunatic plan, never really does get close to carrying it out. And the heroine is pragmatic and awesome.
Anna Campbell, Seven Nights in a Rogue's Bed - heroine's sister, who is married to an abuser and loves gambling, loses a giant sum to her husband's notorious illegitimate cousin. He tells her he will redeem her vowels if she spends a week with him (to be fair, he has no idea she is abused and just wants to stick it to her husband, who stole his birthright and also mutilated him). Spunky, awesome heroine shows up in her sister's stead. Thankfully, since Campbell seems to have gotten her rapey fun out of her system with Claiming the Courtesan, there is no rapeyness in this - hero offers heroine a bargain. She stays in his house for a week, and if he seduces her, they have sex, and if not, not. Either way, she gets the vowels back at the end of the week. Shippiness and mondo mondo delicious angst ensue.
Gena Showalter, Wicked Nights - thanks,![]()
cleobulle, this was a ton of fun! A paranormal romance, the heroine is someone who spent the last few years in the asylum for the criminally insane, because she was convicted of the murder of her parents that was done by a demon. Hero is an angel (well, sort of angel) warrior, whose emotions are shutting down to such a degree he will die soon, is also a virgin (!!!) and finds himself thawing once he rescues her from the demons and the loony bin. If, like me, you love fucked up pasts and h/c and all that, this is like irresistible catnip. I want a book about one of the 'three musketeer' soldiers next, pls, Ms. Showalter!
WESTERN TV:
Arrow - I am way behind, and plan to catch up as soon as my Spartacus binge is over.
Burn Notice - season 6. I enjoy it and watch it with Mr. Mousie but am unlikely to posa about it, tbh.
Chuck - am on season 5. I won't be posting much about it because while it's enjoyable and a great together time for me and Mr. Mousie, there is not really much to say about it.
Spartacus - as you can tell, my current obsession.
DRAMAS
Incarnation of Money - I find myself disinterested in dramas lately (I tried Flower Boy Next Door and felt like I vomited a rainbow), but darkly funny and starring Kang Ji Hwan? I am in.
BOOKS
Haven't read as much over the weekend due to Spartacus obsession, but here is what I did read:
Sarah MacLean, A Rogue By Any Other Name - very very enjoyable Victorian. When he was barely older than a boy, hero has lost everything he owned to his supposed guardian in a game of cards, and now a decade later has rebuilt himself as an owner of a gambling club (seems a popular occupation in romancedom). He is bitter and emotionally locked up and deeply cynical. He is also about to attempt marriage with his childhood best friend in order to recover his former lands with which she, due to complicated plotty stuff, ended up as a dowry. At 28, Lady Penelope is long past marriageable age but...
Anyway, this one was awesome, managing to give me an 'angsty/badboy/jerk' hero who I actually liked and Lady Penelope was incredibly ladylike yet super-strong-willed. How he slowly melted under her influence was pretty perfect.
Susanna Medeiros, Loving the Marquess - this fairly slim romance isn't going to set the world on fire, but it was a pleasant read. Hero believes he has an inherited deadly illness and needs a wife and heir ASAP, so as not to have his estate go to his evil cousin. Only he doesn't want his heir to actually be his due to fear of inherited illness. So he wants to marry a woman and then convince her and his best friend to sleep together. Clearly he has never seen Frozen Flower. Also, as clearly, he didn't figure on falling in love with his own wife. I actually like the hero of this, who is sweet and decent and, despite coming up with the lunatic plan, never really does get close to carrying it out. And the heroine is pragmatic and awesome.
Anna Campbell, Seven Nights in a Rogue's Bed - heroine's sister, who is married to an abuser and loves gambling, loses a giant sum to her husband's notorious illegitimate cousin. He tells her he will redeem her vowels if she spends a week with him (to be fair, he has no idea she is abused and just wants to stick it to her husband, who stole his birthright and also mutilated him). Spunky, awesome heroine shows up in her sister's stead. Thankfully, since Campbell seems to have gotten her rapey fun out of her system with Claiming the Courtesan, there is no rapeyness in this - hero offers heroine a bargain. She stays in his house for a week, and if he seduces her, they have sex, and if not, not. Either way, she gets the vowels back at the end of the week. Shippiness and mondo mondo delicious angst ensue.
Gena Showalter, Wicked Nights - thanks,
cleobulle, this was a ton of fun! A paranormal romance, the heroine is someone who spent the last few years in the asylum for the criminally insane, because she was convicted of the murder of her parents that was done by a demon. Hero is an angel (well, sort of angel) warrior, whose emotions are shutting down to such a degree he will die soon, is also a virgin (!!!) and finds himself thawing once he rescues her from the demons and the loony bin. If, like me, you love fucked up pasts and h/c and all that, this is like irresistible catnip. I want a book about one of the 'three musketeer' soldiers next, pls, Ms. Showalter!