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Oh, get your minds out of the gutter. I mean I’m literally scratching an itch. Several of them in fact in the form of a widespread rash. It started last night around 9:30 PM at my hairline and slowly spread to cover almost literally from my head to my toes. The doctor called it a systemic allergic reaction to something unknown (at this point, anyway) and started me on steriods and heavy-duty antihistamines. So, expect me to be scarce for the next few days until I can sit at the desk without squirming and scratching. The flip side is that if I’m not asleep most ofRead More →

This little jewel is a sweet romance. No, really, I mean it doesn’t have a single love scene in it. Or rather there is a love scene but it’s “off-screen” as it were. I didn’t remember that from the first time I read it, so it sort of caught me off guard while rereading it again. That said this lack is in no way a problem in this contemporary “fractured fairy tale” romance by Kristine Grayson. I think it actually works in the book’s favor. At the very least, I didn’t miss the love scenes, which is always my benchmark on the issue. Don’t makeRead More →

This is the title of the series finale episode of Charmed that was on last night. All I can say is WOW. That was possibly the best finale I’ve ever seen in my life. Really. It was funny and poignant all at the same time, just like the series at it’s best and it’s been pretty good this last year as they wrapped things up. Were there plot holes? Yeah, probably, but as my son would and will probably gripe, even that was consistent with the series. So there. :p The crucial emotional content for a final goodbye was there and all the necessarily threads wereRead More →

It was bugging me that I hadn’t gotten around to adding the rest of my blog subscriptions to the sidebar so I decided to tackle that this morning after being a couch potato most of yesterday. As a result I ended up with a general Links section for non-blog links and two sections dedicated just to blog divided by Communities & Individuals, both imported from Bloglines. Much easier to maintain. I feel so much better now. 😀 I’ll probably do some puttering around here the rest of the day, both in getting posts ready to publish and in learning more about WordPress. Baby steps.  Read More →

I saw the Library Thing feature on Marg’s blog and had to have it on my sidebar, too. Okay, I probably saw it elsewhere several weeks ago but her blog was the most recent place I ran across it so she gets the credit this time. 😉 I’ll probably only add books to my personal list as I discuss them here or have time to add favorites that I can remember easily but I think it’s a fun way to provide links to books, both to LibraryThing and to Amazon, so have fun.Read More →

I read the Kinsale essay over on Smart Bitches and thought it was beautiful. It truly is a beautiful piece of writing but as I was reading it through again my left eyebrow started twitching and I thought “What the-?” Because there’s only one topic that brings about that reaction and I’d swear she never used the word review. Yes, I actually typed the word. That should tell you something. What I don’t know. I even did a search. Not there. Only it is. When one gets right down to it, beautifully written or not, it’s all a thinly disguised variation on who can talkRead More →

So, I may be an infrequent poster in the next few days. First, I had a regular doctor’s appointment today and he started me on a new medication that may make me drowsy until I get used to it. Joy. On top of that, my mother and sister are coming in for a visit Thursday through Saturday from out of state and that’s always a busy, busy time for us all. It’s a long story that I won’t get into here, but the short version is that our father lives with me and our mother lives with her because of health problems both are having. Anyway, will try to postRead More →

My goals for today are simple. I want to catch up on all the outstanding comments I still need to respond to here. So, if you’ve commented either here or on Bev’s Notes in the last week or so, check back later today or tomorrow and, hopefully, everything will be acknowledged. Plus I want to see if I can add both a recent comments & recent posts box to the sidebar. Along with those I am dead-set on finishing the Ridgway I’m in the middle of reading. Not to mention that I really need to reshelve all those stacks of books that seem to haveRead More →

I was updating my shopping list this morning and finally got around to ordering another book or books from this author because I enjoyed Simply Irresistible so much when I first read it. Okay, yeah, the Superman references didn’t hurt, but still, I really liked the book. I couldn’t order them all from Amazon but did order Totally Spellbound and Absolutely Captivated. I’ll have to check the UBS over the weekend. I did find something interesting when I finally tracked down her website, however. Anyone read her books? I mean her other books. Apparently she’s published in mystery, romance, science fiction and fantasy. Who knew. Really, did anyone elseRead More →

I’m currently reading The Care and Feeding of Unmarried Men by Christie Ridgway and absolutely riveted because I have no idea where this one is going before getting to that happy ending. I had to be out running errands today and kept sneaking moments to read a little. It’s been so long since I read anything that kept me absorbed from page one like this that I’d almost forgotten what it felt like. Maybe it’s simply the change from what I’ve been reading lately, but I don’t think that’s all of it. More later after I finish, which will probably be later tonight at theRead More →

Sometimes, I feel like I don’t know my self very well. I swear I don’t particularly like time travels romances and then I go out and buy one on a whim. I picked up Portrait of a Man by Tracy Fobes today at the grocery store knowing full well it’s a time travel. Here’s the kicker, however, from what I can tell the traveling in time in this one is from the future to the present. Realizing this started me to wondering about whether I might have a hidden weakness for this diversion from the usual in this romance sub-genre because if I remember correctly,Read More →

My daughter, Amy, and I raided Wal-Mart today or at least that’s what it felt like. Mostly gardening and organizing stuff was what we went for, but I also managed to snag a couple of books. Like that’s any real surprise. The books I bagged are: Hannah Howell’s Highland Warrior – it’s been a while since I read anything by her except in short stories so I’m not even sure why I got it, except that the blurb on the back sounded interesting. Christie Ridgway’s The Care and Feeding of Unmarried Men – okay, I admit it, I couldn’t resist the title, plain and simple,Read More →

Since I’m still gearing myself up to combine both of my blogs into one I almost didn’t want to post this but an interesting question occurred to me yesterday so I couldn’t resist. Who are the most unexpected heroes you’ve ever run across in romances? That’s the basic question but let me explain which book brought it to mind and why so you’ll know what I’m actually asking. Yesterday I suddenly got in the mood to reread one of Deborah Simmons’ books and finally settled on one of my personal favorites by this author, The Last Rogue. The thing that always strikes me about TLRRead More →

Did I imagine it or did someone say in one of the many ebook posts recently that LTD Press is no longer? I’d go back and check but there’ve been so many posts I have no idea where I saw it. If so, though, that gives you a good idea of how much I haven’t been reading ebooks lately because I used to get quite a few books from them. Oye. Oh, and in a strange twist of irony, I just got the latest eBookwise newsletter . . . is someone trying to tell me something?Read More →