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shadowkat1. The problem with having too many books on my Kindle, is it really hard to find books on the dang thing, unless you know the title. Also, a lot of these books have variations on the same title -- making me wonder about some ahem, writers, ability to come up with innovative titles. (I'm looking at you, romance novelists. It's not that hard. I've come up with three titles that very few people have used. Clue? The words: Duke, Earl, Marquess, Her, His, Raven, Tower, Highlander, Love, Heart, Wicked, Temptation, Desire, Secret, Bride, Wedding, Gift -- have all been OVERUSED!)
The book that I was looking for and finally found by hunting down Smartbitches Kindle Deals? Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen.
Nettie Lonesome dreams of a greater life than toiling as a slave in the sandy desert. But when a stranger attacks her, Nettie wins more than the fight.
Now she's got friends, a good horse, and a better gun. But if she can't kill the thing haunting her nightmares and stealing children across the prairie, she'll lose it all -- and never find out what happened to her real family.
It's basically Buffy meets Winona Earp in the Old West.
I've decided I have burned out on romance finally. The last one? Midsummer Moon by Laura Kinsale -- did not work for me. I finished it, but I also skimmed over half of it. The sex scenes were atrocious. And the heroine was a self-absorbed infantile twit, with the annoying habit of touching her lip every fifteen minutes. Oh and she kept a hedgehog in her pocket. The hedgehog got on my nerves. I liked the hero, although he made no sense to me, nor did the plot. The set-up? A Duke is assigned to take an inventor under his protection by the War Department. The Inventor is female, and obsessed with creating a flying machine, while the Duke is terrified of heights. What makes no sense in the book is that no one appears to realize that the Duke is terrified of heights. Nor that the Inventor is an absent-minded twit who requires constant surveillance, or that holding her at the Duke's estate probably isn't the safest place for her. Actually the plot was grating and made no sense at all.
And well, I despised the heroine and by the end of the book -- I wished the Duke would just leave her.
I think I'm tired of flighty heroines who need men to rescue them. Why. Just Why. So off to read a book about a heroine who slays demons in the old west.
2. Hee, after much searching, I found a decent site that rates television sets in a logical manner without ads or subscription fees.
Consumer Reports -- while useful, is a subscription service and expensive, if you are planning on using it only once and just to buy a tv. In order to get any information -- you have to become a member. It has no ads, because it makes everyone who obtains information from it -- PAY FOR IT. It's just like HBO or Netflix.
Which is fine, if you don't just want to find a tv for one year and won't use it again for another say thirteen years. They do provide a useful buying guide -- which Amazon linked to. It's mostly a salespitch for their service. (Note, I refuse to subscribe to any website on the internet for information. I subscribe to the New York Times -- mainly in an attempt to support a free press. Also, I want to check out what I'm getting before I pay for it. They should provide free access a couple of times, then make you subscribe.)
I'm somewhat pissed off at them. I'd rather they had ads, then charged subscription fees. Even the NY Times allows you to try a few articles out first. It doesn't help that I licensed their content in the 1990s for evil reference company, and looked through their guide (when they were still free of charge online) to buy the last tv. Because they were the only game in town back in 2006. There was nothing else. Now, they have really stiff competition. Tee Hee.
Ratings.Com - No ads. And provide links to prices.
CNET.Com
Sometimes I love capitalism and the internet -- lots of choices.
The book that I was looking for and finally found by hunting down Smartbitches Kindle Deals? Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen.
Nettie Lonesome dreams of a greater life than toiling as a slave in the sandy desert. But when a stranger attacks her, Nettie wins more than the fight.
Now she's got friends, a good horse, and a better gun. But if she can't kill the thing haunting her nightmares and stealing children across the prairie, she'll lose it all -- and never find out what happened to her real family.
It's basically Buffy meets Winona Earp in the Old West.
I've decided I have burned out on romance finally. The last one? Midsummer Moon by Laura Kinsale -- did not work for me. I finished it, but I also skimmed over half of it. The sex scenes were atrocious. And the heroine was a self-absorbed infantile twit, with the annoying habit of touching her lip every fifteen minutes. Oh and she kept a hedgehog in her pocket. The hedgehog got on my nerves. I liked the hero, although he made no sense to me, nor did the plot. The set-up? A Duke is assigned to take an inventor under his protection by the War Department. The Inventor is female, and obsessed with creating a flying machine, while the Duke is terrified of heights. What makes no sense in the book is that no one appears to realize that the Duke is terrified of heights. Nor that the Inventor is an absent-minded twit who requires constant surveillance, or that holding her at the Duke's estate probably isn't the safest place for her. Actually the plot was grating and made no sense at all.
And well, I despised the heroine and by the end of the book -- I wished the Duke would just leave her.
I think I'm tired of flighty heroines who need men to rescue them. Why. Just Why. So off to read a book about a heroine who slays demons in the old west.
2. Hee, after much searching, I found a decent site that rates television sets in a logical manner without ads or subscription fees.
Consumer Reports -- while useful, is a subscription service and expensive, if you are planning on using it only once and just to buy a tv. In order to get any information -- you have to become a member. It has no ads, because it makes everyone who obtains information from it -- PAY FOR IT. It's just like HBO or Netflix.
Which is fine, if you don't just want to find a tv for one year and won't use it again for another say thirteen years. They do provide a useful buying guide -- which Amazon linked to. It's mostly a salespitch for their service. (Note, I refuse to subscribe to any website on the internet for information. I subscribe to the New York Times -- mainly in an attempt to support a free press. Also, I want to check out what I'm getting before I pay for it. They should provide free access a couple of times, then make you subscribe.)
I'm somewhat pissed off at them. I'd rather they had ads, then charged subscription fees. Even the NY Times allows you to try a few articles out first. It doesn't help that I licensed their content in the 1990s for evil reference company, and looked through their guide (when they were still free of charge online) to buy the last tv. Because they were the only game in town back in 2006. There was nothing else. Now, they have really stiff competition. Tee Hee.
Ratings.Com - No ads. And provide links to prices.
CNET.Com
Sometimes I love capitalism and the internet -- lots of choices.
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Date: 2019-04-27 02:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-04-27 03:24 am (UTC)And with kindles and e-books? Most people forget the title of the book they are reading anyhow.
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Date: 2019-04-27 03:31 am (UTC)