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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 →

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I recently discovered The Mystery File, a site that reviews vintage mysteries, both book and movies. Today, they posted a schedule of movies that will be showing overnight on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel. The first half of the list showing tonight are Stewart Granger flicks while the second half are The Saint movies and show tomorrow morning and afternoon into evening. Check it out if you love those old black and whites.Read More →

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Okay, so this week I found out my several year shapeshifter binge wasn’t over when I splurged on several titles as Samhain that have that theme. Do you see me worried? No, you do not. 😉 One set of stories I picked up is introduced thusly, according to a post entitled Dreamy Steamy Shape-shifters: What if you had a shot at just one wild night with the man of your dreams, the one you always thought was out of reach? What would happen if a dream lover you thought was nothing more than a nocturnal fantasy showed up in real life? What if you foundRead More →

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see more Lolcats and funny pictures Recently I realized I had collected several things related to Garfield and it got me curious enough to check for how long the, um, happy cat has been around. Did you know he’s been gracing our lives since June 19, 1978? I didn’t. Wow. I knew I’d loved that cantankerous cat for along time but, still, wow.  So, what do I have in my personal Garfield stash? Metallic picture that looks more like it belongs in a tavern than anywhere else – I’m honestly not sure how long I’ve had this one. Or where exactly I got it. ButRead More →

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So, I’m laughing over my son’s sharing of losing a book only to discover it inside the bookcover he was supposedly reading when my daughter admits she’s recently done the same thing. Made me realize two things at once. One, I immediately stop worrying about my own memory. 😉 Two, I’ve definitely passed on that reading gene to the next generation. Although, I did gently suggest that they might both want to consider broadening their reading tastes to include more authors/books to rotate through in order to avoid the problem in the future. They have a long way to go to catch up, you know.Read More →