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We have very few actors today that are seen as iconic in the old Hollywood tradition. I’m not sure I see Patrick Swayze as that but there are a couple of his movies that definitely stick in one’s mind and won’t let go and, man, could he dance. Several of his films are real romances, too, in our genre definition of the term, which is an important distinction for me. To this day, I can’t pass by a viewing of Dirty Dancing on TV without watching the ending dance number even though I don’t count it as one of my favorite movie. There is just something aboutRead More →

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Oh, there you are. Or were. Last night. In a new live action movie on the Cartoon Network entitled Scooby-Doo: The Mystery Begins. So admit it. How many of the rest of you watched it, too? 😉 If you missed it and like the Scooby gang, you might want to try to catch it during one of the many reruns/replays they’ll be doing because they did a pretty good job of capturing the characters. I’d even stack it up against the two theatrical live action movies and say it might even be a better story than both of them. Maybe not as well-acted because the stars weren’tRead More →

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Well, unofficially anyway. My computer is in the shop being debugged. The tech guy thinks it has a worm or something because it keeps shutting down/locking up on me. Which could definitely be the problem but since it’s been having display problems for months, I’m not totally convinced that’s actually the issue. I was finally able to transfer the important stuff to a to mobile drive so I could work off another computer in the meantime and now I can give my full attention to being back online again. And just in time, too, because after I got my normal herbal coffee fix this morning andRead More →

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Just a quick post to let you know that I’m currently having some computer problems so I’m probably going to be lurking a little until I can figure out if it’s going to the shop or not. Technically, I will still have Internet access even so, I’m just preoccupied at the moment with doing triage on the machine at the moment, if you get my drift. 🙁 If that doesn’t work and it does have to go to the shop, then I’ll switch to plan B and another computer in the house temporarily. So, if I haven’t responded to any comments or stopped in the middleRead More →

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I’m trying to be more diligent about giving heads up for any good discussions I run across and/or join into on the web. Most of the time, I figure new book finds can wait until Friday but what’s the point of waiting to tell you about the posts I’m already commenting on? That makes no sense. And sometimes those are about books. It’s a confusing conundrum so the confusion stops here. (At least for me. You could very well still be scratching you head. 😀 ) Anyway, just to catch you up, here’s what I’ve been up to lately. Book 1: Heather over @ The Galaxy Express postedRead More →

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Currently reading It doesn’t happen often but occasionally I get in the mood to read a biography or an autobiography. Normally, they’re just not on my non-fiction to look for. I tend more towards arts and crafts with a smattering of self-help type books. Recently, though, I’ve become interested in the story and life of Teddy Roosevelt. It’s not simply the political climate in the country but oddly enough I’ve run across several romances over the years that have him in them. Yeah, they do exist. 😉 And he’s almost always portrayed as a “character” to say the least. An interesting one but definitely a larger than lifeRead More →

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I was thinking the other day that I hadn’t updated my list of top favorite romances in quite a while. At least not since before I started reading more ebooks than print anyways. So, it was probably time to take a look and see what was what. This is the “Top Ten” list I finally settled on, in alpha order for now because I haven’t figured out any particular ranking for them. Yet. 😀 D’Arc, Bianca: The Ice Dragon Fletcher, Donna: Tame My Wild Touch Foster, Lori: Too Much Temptation Greene, Tilly: Zandia Krentz, Jayne Ann: Shield’s Lady Laurens, Stephanie: The Perfect Lover Laurenston, Shelly:Read More →

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I decided to do some behinds the scene housekeeping on the blog today before everything gets back into full swing around here and I’ve definitely reached the point of “I’ve got to get of this #$%$%# computer and do something else!” Even housework will do at this point. Or at least for the next few hours. (Wouldn’t want to get too carried away there. ;))    On the good side I did get most of what I wanted to do accomplished even if I still haven’t found a truly new themes – the one now installed is a recycled old one because I got tired of the darkRead More →

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Several years ago we went to the Hummingbird Festival/Weekend that falls on or around the last weekend in July at the Land Between the Lakes Nature Station near us in western Kentucky and were so fascinated by the little critters we immediately came back home and got a feeder to hang on our front porch. Since we’d never actually seen any hummingbirds around our house – it’s not so much a matter of having binoculars as being fast enough to focus them in the right place at the right time, you know 😉 – we didn’t have much expectation of any appearing. Imagine our surprise when we wereRead More →

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Between a bad, or rather intermittant, Internet connection as well as life in general this week and the fact that I’m leaving in just a little while for a root canal, I haven’t had a chance to get as many posts together as I would’ve liked. I don’t care how many times they tell you that a root canal isn’t oral surgery it stll sounds horrible. That’s not even counting how it’s already feeling. 🙁 On the bright side, I do have several future posts already planned and in the works. Stay turned.Read More →

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There are few TV series that I feel truly deserve the honor of being collected in their entirety. Stargate SG1 is one of them. Truth to tell, I’ve only recorded two other start to finish in my entire life – Star Trek: The Next Generation and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. I still haven’t gotten the DVD version of ST:TNG – eleven years worth is damn expensive, you know. I have upgraded to the DVDs of L&C. We didn’t record SG1 ourselves either. Not sure why, but this was simply a series that one knew was going to be merchandized so weRead More →

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Somehow it just doesn’t look like a romantic treehouse to me Maybe more like something out of a sci-fi novel. Or a horror movie. Seriously. I can’t figure out if the picture creeps me out or intrigues me to no end but it definitely caught my attention and made me want to read the article about architects who are experimenting with “growing” buidings using trees grown around metals. And tree houses it definitely is. This is truly wild. Who would have thought willows of all the trees could be used to create towers like that? Then again, maybe that does make sense. Gothic goings on inRead More →

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I thought it somehow fitting to find a beginning point for the industry I’m rather devoted to buying, consuming, devouring–well, you get the idea. 😉 One of them anyway. Originally published as A John Crowther Publication in London in 1946, The Manatee by Nancy Bruff was republished in paperback as Harlequin #1 in 1949. So far the only description I’ve found is from an ad on eBay that says it’s taken from the back cover: This robust, powerful novel is the story of Jabez Folger, savage, romantic man of the sea, with a sinister secret in his past. Against the colourful background of Nantucket in its great whaling days, NancyRead More →