Book rec - an awesome romance just for meeeeee!
Victoria Dahl, One Week As Lovers - I. Loved. This. Book! Set in the Victorian era, Nick, our hero, is a charming, titled fortune-hunter (I'd have loved the book for that already - how often do we have...
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Mr. Mousie and I have decided to go to Chile in March. We've been meaning to go on and off for years, but things always came up and we went elsewhere. But now!!!!I wish I had a month and could go down...
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Liz Carlyle, Beauty Like the Night - I probably would have liked this more if I haven't read every other book in the series before this one - since this is the first book in the series, I was pretty...
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Guess what I am excited about?
It starts this coming weekend and seems like a really dark comedy and Kang Ji Hwan is back on my screen!!! It's been years since Capital Scandal, Hong Gil Dong and Coffee House, but my love burns as...
View ArticleBaker-themed romances. I didn't pick them on purpose, I swear.
Inez Kelly, Sweet as Sin - I don't read many contemporary romances (not my bag) but this one wasn't bad. Heroine is a spunky baker who hooks up with the bad boy next door for a summer fling, only it...
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Lots of Swedish people running around with swords and angst
I am enjoying the hell out of the Swedish movie/mini-series (not sure which) Arn the Knight Templar, based on a trilogy by Jan Guillou. Set in the 12th-century, our protagonist Arn is a son of a noble...
View ArticleClearly, I am morally deficient
Because I am enjoying Kresley Cole's Shadow's Claim entirely too much, even though the hero is spending 75% of his time so far in fights to the death.But the set-up is pretty much tailor-made to my...
View ArticleOnly With Your (Rapey, Creepy, Adulterous) Love
Oh, Lisa Kleypas, why?I am fast coming to the conclusion that I don't care for any of Kleypas' stuff outside of her Hathaways and Wallflowers series. How one woman can write two series so good and the...
View ArticleYup - more romance novels. A mixed bag, but then when aren't they?
Suzanne Enoch, Something Sinful - Charlemagne Griffin and Sarala Carlyle (yes, I realize, these are the worst Regency first names ever) start out as business rivals but their interactions are more a...
View ArticleWhat I Did for a Duke - a lovely shocking surprise...
I think I have a new favorite to add to the romance novels list - Julie Anne Long's What I Did for a Duke.First off, I normally run away the second anyone mentions Dukes in the title of the novel (only...
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I have a new show and a new OTP
I never could resist blood, cheese, and gorgeous people in Roman outfits. Hence my obtaining the entirety of currently existing eps of Spartacus, the STARZ blood and nude extravaganza about the...
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"His battle-scarred fingers stroked the smooth head of his pet tiger."I believe this just might be the best sentence ever written in a romance novel (or any other novel, for that...
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My deeply intellectual reasons for enjoying Spartacus: Gods of the Arena
Meet our protagonist, Gannicus. I feel deeply, deeply intellectual...I decided it would make more sense to start with the prequel to the series proper, so here I am, about to mainline Spartacus: Gods...
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Spartacus: Gods of the Arena - eps 1 and 2
Now that I am two (well, one-and-a-half) episodes in, I can say that I definitely love this! It's not for the squeamish or modest - everybody needs their mouth washed out with soap, there are galons of...
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OK, well, that small sliver of sanity went to hell pretty quickly...
I was watching ep 2 of Spartacus: Gods of the Area and then we got to this sequence in ep 2 and my jaw hit the floor. I cannot believe a show went there! This just might be the most fucked up thing...
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Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, ep 3
By now, my crush on Crixus is raging utterly out of control. But those looks and that intensity are pretty much a killer combo. I would happily watch a Crixus show, actually. I find his fierce, almost...
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Spartacus: Gods of the Arena - ep 4
My dysfunctional OTP moves further down its path, Team Evil loses a member (yay!), and I end up wondering why Batiatus and Lucrezia don't just set up a brothel instead of a gladiatorial school? They...
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Spartacus: Gods of the Arena - ep 5
Well, that was more kdrama than any kdrama I've ever seen! This thing is written by my deepest id. Yes, this is only Melitta's fantasy, but it's ridiculously hot, so here it is...I ship those two so...
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Spartacus: Gods of the Arena - ep 6, i.e., the end
This was excellent and I cannot wait to watch Spartacus: Blood and Sand (which actually makes me think of a Blasco Ibanez novel of the same name, about bullfighting). I haven't had a TV obsession in a...
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Books, TV, etc...
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...
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