Two things..

[shadowkat]

1. Good Reads is insanely addictive site. I spent hours last night rating books I'd read in various categories via Facebook. And I entertain myself at work reading the book reviews (although I should probably pick work safe books not erotica books to read book reviews on).

2. How do you look up at someone through or beneath your lashes? Seems to be a common description in romance novels. "I looked up at him through my lashes."or rather "I looked at him from beneath my lashes." Sounds sexy, but impossible.

I keep trying to figure out how people do that. I have figured out how to raise or quirk one eyebrow, but you sort of have twist your face a bit to accomplish it. But the whole looking up at someone through or from beneath my lashes bit is lost on me. Possibly would help if I had longer lashes?

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[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

How do you look up at someone through or beneath your lashes?

I picture something like this:



Of course, it helps to be a cartoon mouse.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Ah...thank you. It driving me crazy.

You would not believe the purple prose in these books or perhaps you would - highly entertaining though. I love pulp.

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Big ol' false eyelashes also help.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Very true. Plus heavy mascara. How do women wear those things...mascara gives me racoon eyes (sort of like Buffy in S3, actually), and I'm not sure I could see with false eyelashers.

I envy men, they don't have to dress like the human equivalent of a peacock to get noticed.

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

Goodreads is highly addictive. Sometimes I think I spend more time playing with my Goodreads shelves than actually reading the books on those shelves :D

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

It's certainly a great way to keep track of what you've read. (Of course I can't always remember if I read a book or not...) And apparently you can write reviews too! And respond to others reviews.
Oh, I'm going to have fun with this site I can tell.

The recs are certainly more interesting than Amazon's, and the reviews are slightly better - although Amazon also has entertaining reviews.

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

Either heavy mascara as you said or squinting through the lashes... Not very sexy that! ;o)

I was just reading Jane Eyre. Bronte continually writes characters doing something with one eye as in - She looked at her with an icy eye. It wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't constantly "a (fill in the blank) eye." I kept wondering, where was the other eye looking? Was it any warmer?

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

LOL!

A lot of writers do that..."her eyes looked at him from across the room",
"his eyes frosted at the sight of him." His eyes filled with an icy glare. Or her eye followed him as he walked across the room.

So what did her eye do, jump out of its socket and follow?

Apparently people feel it is repetitive or not descriptive enough to say, "he looked at him with a frosty glare." Or "they stared at each other from across the room." Certainly not as poetic.

[owenthurman.livejournal.com]

Well, I often look at things through my eyelashes and it's darn annoying. My eyelashes are unusually long and thick and they can get in a position so that I need to blink and separate the upper and lower lashes to get a clean look at things. I'm pretty sure nobody finds the blinking and squinting sexy, though.

Of course they're blond so they don't give me naturally enticing eyes either.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Having long eyelashes in novels is apparently a very good thing, a very attractive. Oddly I don't notice lashes very much in reality. LOL!

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I think you are too tall to look at anyone through your lashes (although if they walk up while you are sitting down you could probably do it)....
And I inherited my ability to raise my (right only) eyebrow from my Father... but he did it in such a critical/threatening way that I've never made it part of my repertoire of facial expressions....

Anyway I'm enjoying Good Reads too, they will notify me when John Green or Terry Pratchett or other authors I like have a blog or interview or anything I might enjoy. And of course that is where Felicia Day's Vaginal Fantasy Book Club is: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/62938-vaginal-fantasy-hangout
Although last night they were streaming online via youtube.