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Well heard back from book-publishing friend on novel..."We'll give this a read and see what we can do - I'll keep pulling for your talent."
So good news eh?
A couple of things about Kindles. 1) The damn things need re-charging. Unlike an actual book. I worried today that I wouldn't be able to read on the way home, because the battery was low and worked hard to conserve it. 2) Would never have read these books or picked them up if not for the Kindle. There's no way in hell, I'd buy this in paperback or hardback. Have enough frigging pulp novels that I've no clue what to do with. Binge reading is all well and good...except when you start to run out of space.
On the 50 Shades Book? Have decided the dang thing is a gothic mystery romance thriller, with a lot of sex, although disappointingly not all that much or that kinky. (Nauti's Crave had more.) So far. Reminds me a little of Dauphne Du Maurier's Rebecca, Bronte's Jane Eyre, and those novels...except, no evil ex-wife in the attic. Very similar to Nauti's Crave, yet not nearly as dark or insane. Both star egnimatic, insanely attractive men, who are sex-gods, and have a thing for BDSM due to harrowing child-hoods. Also both men are insanely wealthy. To the point that they could buy and sell countries. (This reminds me a lot of the 19th Century Gothics. And to a degree the stuff by Victoria Holt. In historicals, they are princes or kings or Lords.)
Took a gander at the notorious NY Times Best-seller list and it never changes. Same people.
Fifty Shades is at the top of the paperback and e-book fiction and combined. But we also have David Baldacci (I've read three of his books, can't remember any of them), Nora Roberts (I remember the jewel thief one), James Patterson (god, read him too although not this book, thank heavens), and there's The Tiger's Wife (which I might try at some point since it looks interesting) and something called Lifeboat, which just looks harrowing.
Hmmm...I'm doing a meme - books I've read on past NY Times Best-Seller Lists:
( NY Times Number One Best-Sellers from 1950-2000 )
So good news eh?
A couple of things about Kindles. 1) The damn things need re-charging. Unlike an actual book. I worried today that I wouldn't be able to read on the way home, because the battery was low and worked hard to conserve it. 2) Would never have read these books or picked them up if not for the Kindle. There's no way in hell, I'd buy this in paperback or hardback. Have enough frigging pulp novels that I've no clue what to do with. Binge reading is all well and good...except when you start to run out of space.
On the 50 Shades Book? Have decided the dang thing is a gothic mystery romance thriller, with a lot of sex, although disappointingly not all that much or that kinky. (Nauti's Crave had more.) So far. Reminds me a little of Dauphne Du Maurier's Rebecca, Bronte's Jane Eyre, and those novels...except, no evil ex-wife in the attic. Very similar to Nauti's Crave, yet not nearly as dark or insane. Both star egnimatic, insanely attractive men, who are sex-gods, and have a thing for BDSM due to harrowing child-hoods. Also both men are insanely wealthy. To the point that they could buy and sell countries. (This reminds me a lot of the 19th Century Gothics. And to a degree the stuff by Victoria Holt. In historicals, they are princes or kings or Lords.)
Took a gander at the notorious NY Times Best-seller list and it never changes. Same people.
Fifty Shades is at the top of the paperback and e-book fiction and combined. But we also have David Baldacci (I've read three of his books, can't remember any of them), Nora Roberts (I remember the jewel thief one), James Patterson (god, read him too although not this book, thank heavens), and there's The Tiger's Wife (which I might try at some point since it looks interesting) and something called Lifeboat, which just looks harrowing.
Hmmm...I'm doing a meme - books I've read on past NY Times Best-Seller Lists:
( NY Times Number One Best-Sellers from 1950-2000 )