Fic rec
I an currently binging on sabaceanbabe's amazing Treading Water fic. It's in the Hunger Games universe, set during the Quarter Quell and is Finnick/Annie. And is also making me totally obsessed. I am...
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After reading a bunch of thoroughly mediocre romance novels, which aren't even worth bothering to savage, I have finally stumbled on one I utterly adore - Lisa Kleypas'Love In the Afternoon. I am so so...
View ArticleI find myself obsessed with this one. Hmmm....
No, this hasn't turned into a book-centric LJ, for those wondering - we have been traveling and thus no opportunity to watch anything (Cheonamdong Alice! I need you in my life!) but plenty of time for...
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We are still on vacation, so no dramas for me until the new year. But I have been reading more romance novels. This one is a mixed batch...A Beginner's Guide to Rakes, Suzanne Enoch - heroine plans to...
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First off, is anyone else as psyched for IRIS 2 as I am? EEEE!In romance novel news, the latest batch included:Addicted, Charlotte Featherstone - get a proofreader! Please! If this book did have a...
View ArticleYup, more romance novel reads
Both of these are by Courtney Milan and are the part of the same series that the awesome Unclaimed was part of.Unveiled - involves Ash Turner, a man who rose from poverty to immense wealth and now is...
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From worst to best...Lust, Charlotte Featherstone - time to accept Sinful was a fluke as other CF books don't do it for me at all. This one is all about the cursed fey who represent various sins who...
View ArticleYup, another book list
This time it's not all romance novels though mostly it still is (what can I say, on a beach vacation, my brain is on a downtime as well).Secrets of a Summer Night, Lisa Kleypas - first in her...
View ArticleAt last, a Kleypas book I didn't like
Tempt Me At Twilight, third in the Hathaways' series. It's well-written as per usual and I loved all the Hathaways, also as per usual we got to see more Winifred/Merripen yes yes yes but the book was...
View ArticleI am finally back home
Which, of course, means dramas! Yet, instead of watching my considerable backlog, I am rewatching this trailer again and again and again:Jo In Sung Jo In Sung Jo In Sung Jo In Sung!!!!!!You have NO...
View ArticleOne of the things I must catch up on is Can We Get Married
Because screwed up yet sweet rich kids FTW!!!Heeee, it's the church from Baker King and Gloria :) Clearly it has a long and illustrious tradition for rich people with evil families marriage-related...
View ArticleSo, another book list
From least liked to most.Liz Carlyle, Never Lie to a Lady - I honestly don't feel like bothering to recap the plot. I've really liked the other two Carlyle books I read but this was just a boring slog,...
View ArticleKenshin Kenshin Kenshin!!!!
I have just started on the Rurouni Kenshin movie and I adore it to bits! I used to be obsessed with the anime years ago and it's bringing all the memories back. More importantly, the actors just feel...
View ArticleComputer woes!
My laptop's power cord is dead and won't charge anything, which makes my computer unusable. While we have 4 laptops in the household of two adults and a munchkin (long story), my laptop is the only...
View ArticleOMFG so good!
I was going to post about something else but I've just started reading The Serpent Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt and EEEEEEE!!!!! So good! I simply had to share!!!! cleobulle, you were so right!!!!! Posted...
View ArticleYet more romance books
Am typing this on reserve laptop with the keyboard I am not used to any more. Ugh. So, even more time to read as my usual laptop needs to be fixed and until that happens, my dramas are...
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Umm, the marriage proposal in The Serpent Prince totally made me cry. And the hero is so fucked up - the heroine pretty much enables him to breathe, I think he'd end up in the loony bin without her. He...
View ArticleThe Serpent Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt
My Top 10 Romance Novels list is getting modified - there is a new arrival, and that arrival is Elizabeth Hoyt's The Serpent Prince. I've enjoyed all of Hoyt's books that I've read, but none came close...
View ArticleLes Miserables (2012)
I just got back from watching Les Miserables and I loved it. Which, seeing that I have loved both the book and the musical based on it forever, is quite a compliment. It was colorful, emotional (I...
View ArticleMedieval peasants (?) in love - I am so so sold!
Les Miserables left me with a wicked crush on Eddie Redmayne, who I have never watched in anything before but who totally stole my heart as Marius. So I went looking for what else I could watch him in...
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