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1. Happy Thanksgiving - see video below:
Have lots to be Thankful this year. And I'm sort of happy to be spending the holiday chillin' in my new digs, by myself. I don't mind spending the holiday alone - have in the past. It's very starchy food and football oriented, neither I enjoy all that much. It's actually better alone - I can make whatever I please, watch the parade and tv shows, and veg. I may make pumpkin bread or pumpkin cookies instead of pumpkin pie...already doing rock cornish game hen in lieu of Turkey (not a Turkey fan), acorn squash (roasted with cinnamin), green beans or maybe a sweet potatoe with cinnamin and butter. Nice and simple.
2. Reading Meme:
* What you just finished reading?
Unraveled by Courtney Milan - it's a romance, but there's more going on in this novel. It's really a character centric novel - about a man who has dealt with his Post Traumatic Stress by shutting himself off from others, and how through his interactions with the heroine...begins to let his brothers and family and others in. Also, it's a bit subversive in that the hero gets captured and the heroine rides off to his rescue.
*What are you reading now?
Bound to Your Touch by Meredith Duran - seriously, where do they come up with these titles? Almost as bad as the covers. Anyhow...the book takes place in the 1800s, or during the Victorian Age. The heroine is an Egyptologist who handles her fathers trading business, helps him raise funds for excavations, and occasionally goes on them herself. She's rather bookish or so she thinks. And her sister basically stole her beau from under her nose when she was 20 or thereabouts. Now at 26, she's firmly on the shelf. (Jeeze, makes me feel relatively ancient. But I ignore the ages in these books.) Anyhow...the hero is a bit of dilettant, and a wild socialite, who lives to make his father crazy. Turns out that his father committed his sister to an asylum, after she stabbed her abusive husband to death. Her hubby had been beating her, the hero attempted to save her - but couldn't. Now he punishes himself and dear old Dad for what happened to his sister. He meets the heroine when he attempts to embarrass his father with a rare Egypt antiquity, which the heroine immediately tells all present is a fake. Much chaos ensues. The hero discovers later that this forgery was provided by her father, and sent to him by mistake - indicating her father may be involved in a antiquities smuggling ring. The two set off to uncover the truth.
Duran is rather wordy, and the characters do a lot navel gazing. If you don't like that sort of thing...I rather enjoy her, because she digs deep into her characters psychological make up and well, her descriptions are rather poetical.
What I'm reading next?
Flirting with the next book in this two-part series, Written on Your Skin about a map cartographer who was forced by the government to become a spy, and the ruthless heroine, who has started her own business, and is a bit of a spy herself.
Also flirting with Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover by Sarah McLean which is about the female owner of a gaming den, who deals in secrets, and has multiple disquises, and her relationship with the rich owner of a series of scandal sheets.
Then there's the Lori Brighton series of books about male giglios who hook up with various women.
See? You can find incredibly interesting books in this genre. Actually this is true of most genres. Yes, yes, there's paint-by-numbers pulp (mainly on the best-seller list, which is ironic), but there's also some off-the-beaten path stuff out there.
You just need to be good at reading book reviews.
Off to make dinner, and watch telly. Oh, as an aside, we got an early quit today - so I popped over to Target, picked up one of those neck sweaters, active wear gloves, and
two DVD's which were on sale: Once Upon a Time S3 (I want the commentaries and I find the series works better if you binge), and Doctor Who S4 (the beginning of the River Song arc - which unfortunately is only thing I adored about Doctor Who...placing me in the vast minority.).
Have lots to be Thankful this year. And I'm sort of happy to be spending the holiday chillin' in my new digs, by myself. I don't mind spending the holiday alone - have in the past. It's very starchy food and football oriented, neither I enjoy all that much. It's actually better alone - I can make whatever I please, watch the parade and tv shows, and veg. I may make pumpkin bread or pumpkin cookies instead of pumpkin pie...already doing rock cornish game hen in lieu of Turkey (not a Turkey fan), acorn squash (roasted with cinnamin), green beans or maybe a sweet potatoe with cinnamin and butter. Nice and simple.
2. Reading Meme:
* What you just finished reading?
Unraveled by Courtney Milan - it's a romance, but there's more going on in this novel. It's really a character centric novel - about a man who has dealt with his Post Traumatic Stress by shutting himself off from others, and how through his interactions with the heroine...begins to let his brothers and family and others in. Also, it's a bit subversive in that the hero gets captured and the heroine rides off to his rescue.
*What are you reading now?
Bound to Your Touch by Meredith Duran - seriously, where do they come up with these titles? Almost as bad as the covers. Anyhow...the book takes place in the 1800s, or during the Victorian Age. The heroine is an Egyptologist who handles her fathers trading business, helps him raise funds for excavations, and occasionally goes on them herself. She's rather bookish or so she thinks. And her sister basically stole her beau from under her nose when she was 20 or thereabouts. Now at 26, she's firmly on the shelf. (Jeeze, makes me feel relatively ancient. But I ignore the ages in these books.) Anyhow...the hero is a bit of dilettant, and a wild socialite, who lives to make his father crazy. Turns out that his father committed his sister to an asylum, after she stabbed her abusive husband to death. Her hubby had been beating her, the hero attempted to save her - but couldn't. Now he punishes himself and dear old Dad for what happened to his sister. He meets the heroine when he attempts to embarrass his father with a rare Egypt antiquity, which the heroine immediately tells all present is a fake. Much chaos ensues. The hero discovers later that this forgery was provided by her father, and sent to him by mistake - indicating her father may be involved in a antiquities smuggling ring. The two set off to uncover the truth.
Duran is rather wordy, and the characters do a lot navel gazing. If you don't like that sort of thing...I rather enjoy her, because she digs deep into her characters psychological make up and well, her descriptions are rather poetical.
What I'm reading next?
Flirting with the next book in this two-part series, Written on Your Skin about a map cartographer who was forced by the government to become a spy, and the ruthless heroine, who has started her own business, and is a bit of a spy herself.
Also flirting with Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover by Sarah McLean which is about the female owner of a gaming den, who deals in secrets, and has multiple disquises, and her relationship with the rich owner of a series of scandal sheets.
Then there's the Lori Brighton series of books about male giglios who hook up with various women.
See? You can find incredibly interesting books in this genre. Actually this is true of most genres. Yes, yes, there's paint-by-numbers pulp (mainly on the best-seller list, which is ironic), but there's also some off-the-beaten path stuff out there.
You just need to be good at reading book reviews.
Off to make dinner, and watch telly. Oh, as an aside, we got an early quit today - so I popped over to Target, picked up one of those neck sweaters, active wear gloves, and
two DVD's which were on sale: Once Upon a Time S3 (I want the commentaries and I find the series works better if you binge), and Doctor Who S4 (the beginning of the River Song arc - which unfortunately is only thing I adored about Doctor Who...placing me in the vast minority.).