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Spartacus: Vengeance - ep 2
It was great to get Oenomaus backstory. He is perhaps the character I am invested least in out of all the main good guys, because his loyalty to the system goes against my beliefs, but the backstory...
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Spartacus: Vengeance - ep 3
I think I officially ship this.Oh God, Crixus’ face when he is told Naevia is dead. His face. Maybe I am just tired but I am seriously tearing up. She isn’t dead, she isn’t - I’ve seen clips! Don’t...
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Spartacus: Vengeance, ep 4 - If I were any more Team Crixus, I'd have to get...
Not sure who I love more - Spartacus for being so fierce and protecting Naevia without a second’s hesitation because he promised Crixus, Mira for taking care of her, or Nasir for existing. But it...
View ArticleFirst Man in Rome - Colleen McCullough
My Spartacus binge has reawakened my interest in all things Ancient Rome, so I dug out Colleen McCullough's First Man in Rome, the first volume of her behemoth series of novels about the end of the...
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Spartacus: Vengeance - eps 5-8
They are getting Gannicus to kill them?!?!!!!!! Oenomaus’ best friend and Crixus’ sorta-mentor?!?! Also, 1. I missed you, Gannicus and ILY, unless you do go through with it! Please don’t do it! And, 2....
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Spartacus: Vengeance - eps 9-10
I love Spartacus' speeches about justice and freedome being better than the Romans. Because it is about vengeance for him, sure, but not just about that.I probably should have known it was coming, but...
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That Winter the Wind Blows - ep 1 thoughts and caps
My two-month old kdrama slump is over, courtesy of the intense and artistic That Winter the Wind Blows. One ep in, and it owns my hearJo In Sung is back on my screen! I am hyperventilating here!!!!!!...
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That Winter the Winds Blows - ep 2
I continue to love this, especially due to Jo In Sung's searing performance. His eyes! His eyes whenever he looks at Song Hye Kyo!His desperation drags me into the story with him and finds me rooting...
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Spartacus: War of the Damned - ep 1
First things, first. Ummm, I think I have a crush on Crassus. Heeeelp! But he is the first Roman we meet who actually has brains and balls and honor all at once. He is ruthless as hell, but he does...
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Spartacus: War of the Damned - ep 2
Surely, it is wrong that my main feeling through this episode was: "Crassus, do me!" What are you doing to me, show?Caesar!!! I don't even care why he looks like a Celtic sheepherder! Caesar!!! Insert...
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Spartacus: Vengeance - ep 3
Have some hotness:My heart breaks for Crixus and Naevia - these two are so so so far from well (I don’t mean ‘well together,’ because they are each other’s port in any storm, but I mean well...
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That Winter the Wind Blows - ep 3
I continue to love the desperation, the chemistry, the broken connections and the games. I think Soo's con is working so well precisely because his heart is involved.
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Pamela Clare, Ride the Fire - this certainly may be the most unusual romance setting and characters I have ever come across. This is set in the Ohio Valley during the 1760s, and our protagonists are a...
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That Winter the Wind Blows - ep 4
I confess I think largely abandoned this LJ in favor of tumblr, where I have been hanging out a lot. But this is still a good place for ep posts, so here goes.For the pretty...You know what is killing...
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I want to post about Spartacus and That Winter the Wind Blows, but photobucket is being troublesome, so instead I am going to recommend a book - Shana Abe's The Secret Swan. It's pretty much a...
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Spartacus: War of the Damned ep 4
So, let’s talk about Naevia/Crixus first, because - well, because I am me.Right off the bat, I think that what they did in this episode was unforgivable yet completely understandable. History is going...
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Hero is an upper-class gentleman still grieving for his dead wife who ends up in arranged marriage to young woman grieving for her fiancee. And then there are bad people enslaving little girls to make...
View ArticleA Mary Jo Putney book I actually love! Will wonders never cease?
Mary Jo Putney is quite the name in period romance (I knew who she was years before I ever read romances), but I confess her books never truly wowed me - they were all very solid, very well-written but...
View ArticleI have found a romance novel that made me bawl for half the book
Seriously. Ugly, gross crying that requires a box of kleenex and hiding from your family. The book in question is One Perfect Rose by Mary Jo Putney. I think it might end up displacing Laura Kinsale's...
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Two very different yet fun romances...
These two books have nothing in common other than I enjoyed them.Gena Showalter, Beauty Awakened - thanks, cleobulle, you have never steered me wrong! The latest in GS''they are sorta like angels but...
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