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Sometime last year I realized how tired I was of endlessly discussing romance novels online. Yeah, there I said it. Okay, to be fair, it wasn’t so much talking about them altogether as the repetitive way we romance fans tend to beat some topics surrounding them to death at times. That may or may not sound like a strange, rather contradictory thing to say, but it’s a true one, nonetheless. Then again, I also considered that maybe it had more to do with personal perspective than actual topic repetition. What I mean is simply this, as both a longtime reader of romances and someone whoRead More →

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Vampires Guess Who made me chuckle. Seems like most people are ROTFL at Blade appearing ready to attack the “sparkly one”. Could it be that most think Sparkles is not a true vampire and needs to be smacked around a bit?  The poster does seems to be missing several good ones though. Where the heck is Angel? P.S. Do Lolcat image embeds work on Tumblr? Because I seem to be missing something in getting them to work properly.Read More →

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November 4, 2010: Update on Noel Neill’s Health Noel Neill’s friend and biographer Larry Thomas Ward sent out the following open letter to let Noel’s fans know how she’s coming along after fracturing her hip in recent months. Dear Friends, As an update regarding Noel’s health, I am happy to report that her hip fracture has healed. She can now gingerly walk with assistance – mostly with a walker – but continues to be in constant danger of falling. She does walk with a noticeable limp. She has, however, developed other serious health concerns – most notably severe arthritis in both hips – that willRead More →

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Yeah, ain’t that the truth. 😉 I’ve been quiet lately, real life and all, which I really need to tell you all about, but yesterday something rather humorous happened that I wanted to share. Cathy from TN contacted me wanting some help finding a book. She was hoping I knew of it. Well, I did.At least I thought I did. I just needed my memory tweaked a bit. Okay, more than just a bit, but nobody is perfect. o.O First here’s her initial question: I found your website when I was researching Emilie Loring book titles. I am hoping that you can help me rememberRead More →

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I hate season finales on television. Not series finales where they wrap up the whole thing, although those can be seriously hit-and-miss in terms of satisfaction level. Season finales, though, year-to-year, are almost torture for me nowadays. I have a strong suspicion it has to do with the obsession with cliffhangers endings for season endings, in particular in broadcast American TV, and I never really noticed this until I started watching stuff like Doctor Who on BBCA which doesn’t end in cliffhangers each year. But there’s two of my favorites this year that I can’t yet bring myself to watch the season finales on because I just know they’re goingRead More →

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Well, it was either that or my eyes popping out of my head. 😉 Vintage Tupperware — Lock in Freshness with Retro Flair Tupperware (r) is an American institution, both because it epitomizes the promise of “plastics” and because the company created the Tupperware Party. At Tupperware parties, the “Tupperware Ladies” (remember the song?) demonstrated the latest and greatest new bowls, kitchen tools and even toys (like the Zoo-It-Yourself toy pictured.) Guaranteed to last forever and ever without chipping, cracking, peeling or breaking, vintage and new Tupperware is still in use in kitchens across America. via Vintage Tupperware Collecting. It’s not so much the conceptRead More →

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And just because I need a break from the weather :-): The Harlequin lovebirds are going to be parents. Quest — one half of a pair of rare peregrine falcons, who fell in love on a ledge across from the headquarters of the largest producer of romance novels in the world — laid her first egg Tuesday afternoon. Burnt orange and speckled, it was spotted by the executive assistant to Harlequin’s CEO. Employees at their offices in North York set up telescopes to watch over the birds last week. “Delight and hysteria!” said CEO Donna Hayes of the mood. The avid bird watcher was theRead More →

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Because I want to focus more on the older books in my collection here on the site plus play around with some other collectible not-necessarily book stuff, I’ve decided to use Goodreads to keep track of what I’m currently reading on a day-to-day basis.  Yeah, I know, it sounds counter-intuitive but, trust me, it’s not. One of the reasons I took such a long break from blogging this last year was that I honestly hate, um, blogging. Well, actually, anything resembling keeping a diary and I’d been attempting to maintain a site like this for over ten years, well before blogging even existed. It wasn’tRead More →

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I found this today on the blog of the man who basically wrote the definition of what fan fiction is: And yes, I know what Fillion’s worried about — he’s worried about seeing something like what has happened to House this season. But the problem with House is not that House and Cuddy are in a relationship. The problem is that the writers do not have a clue how to depict a relationship between House and Cuddy in a way which shows any kind of emotional maturity, any kind of psychological depth, and any kind of personal growth. I often suspect that Hollywood’s inability toRead More →

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I had some time today and decided to do some work on the site. I think I like the new theme. A lot. It’s soothing soft focus and, oh, yeah, the background picture is a snapshot of “my books” or at least a section of my bookshelves in my bedroom. 😉 I’ve been wanting to do that for a long time and amazingly it didn’t take me all that long to find a theme I could insert it easily into. I would’ve done this a week or so ago but ran into a slight problem. Nothing major, just an annoying time drain that kept distractingRead More →

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He’s the newest addition to our family, a smallish-sized pit bull mix we fondly call Bruno. (More on the significance of the name in a bit.) It’s possible he may be a future guest contributor to the blog if all goes well. Hey, he likes a good yarn, particularly if they’re action-oriented but he also has a soft spot for the mushy stuff, too, so we’re a good match. ;-). Here’s the thing, last year, we lost not one, but three long-time pets, two cats and a dog, all from old age. We still had two cats in the house both in their prime, so we weren’t activelyRead More →

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One of the things I’ve been giving a lot of thought to lately is the fact that so many longtime readers/collectors don’t get a voice on the web and if we don’t talk to them we may lose what they know and remember about the books. Couple that with authors who have disappeared from the scene and there’s a lot of stuff out there that’s going to disappear. So, I’ve been thinking about how to contact people who aren’t necessarily on the web and talk to them. Then something unreal happened just this weekend. Out of the blue, I got an email from one ofRead More →