Mid-Summer Reading

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 life personality, almost more so than many of our other Presidents. So, anyway, I got curious and thought I’d start looking for a book on his life and lo, and behold, one was just published and I grabbed it last weekend – The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley. I’ve just started what’s a really, really big book so I’ll have to get back to you on what I think of it after I wade through some of it.

Summer TV

Do you love or hate summer TV? I can never decide. On the one hand, we have reruns but, on the other, we have summer replacement series. It can be an uneven trade-off. I was thinking about this the other night while catching up on some recordings I was behind on. There were several replacement series there that I have definite mixed feelings about but a couple I love. In the mixed category are Royal Pains and Warehouse 13. In the love, love, love, can’t get enough of is Eureka. (Warning, those are all graphic intensive sites.) I actualy wish Eureka was on all year long, it’s that’s good. But then, there is the old saying about too much of a good thing, so mayb not.

Great discussions here and there that I’ve been following

• Does Science Fiction Romance Need More Alpha Heroes? @ The Galaxy Express
• Do You Blog For Yourself Or Your Readers? @ Racy Romance Reviews
• What’s Your X-Factor @ Samhain Weblog

And in the “did you know?” category

There’s a new Tron movie in the works called Tron Legacy. Well, I hadn’t heard about it until I ran across a blog post about it the other day.