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In a few minutes, the Very Tall Husband and I are off to beautiful Cave Junction, Oregon to spend turkey day with his parents. Updates from me will be sparse (if not non-existent) until I get back on Sunday night.
So, to all our readers in the US: Hope all of you have a safe, fun, food-filled Thanksgiving, and may your relatives be minimally difficult and/or embarrassing. If they aren’t, then can I recommend the Seventh Generation kitchen cleaner with hydrogen peroxide as an EXCELLENT way to remove difficult and hideous stains, up to and including blood? Just keep spraying and blotting, spraying and blotting....
And Sarah adds...
I am hosting Turkey Day at Chez SB Sarah, since really, no one is coming for the food OR to see us. They all want to visit and hold and cuddle and keep awake for endless hours the adorable Mr. Freebird. So Happy Turkey Day, and here’s some unbelievable cuteness to make up for the indigestion.
Behold! More recommendations from our lovely and immensely well-read readers. Also of possible interest: I’ve also updated the Vampire Romance recommendation list.
recommends the first few books in Catherine Coulter’s FBI series.
recommends pretty much everything Suzanne Brockmann has written, especially her Navy SEAL books, but in she likes these in particular:
AngieW recommends:
Shannon recommends:
Amanda recommends Suzanne Brockmann and Cathie Linz’s Men of Honor series.
Candy recommends Getting Rid of Bradley and What The Lady Wants by Jennifer Crusie.
Nicole recommends:
recommends
Gail recommends:
Mary recommends the following books by Merline Lovelace:
recommends Exposure by Susan Andersen and Loaded by Shari Shattuck.
Maili recommends:
cw recommends:
recommends an anthology called In Love and War, especially Merline Lovelace’s “A Military Affair.”
recommends Kathryn Shay’s Hidden Cove series: After the Fire, On the Line, and Nothing More to Lose, as well as Promises to Keep.
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Candy tagged me with this meme back when I was busy, you know, giving birth, so I finally got to it today. What, it’s only been two weeks, which, on maternity leave, seem like one Saturday after another.
I tag: E.D’Trix, Stef, and EAPeril!
Candy: Look at the calculating look in that hussy’s face. She’s totally trying to figure out which part of him to eat first, squeezing different parts of him like a supermarket shopper would a borderline-ripe piece of fruit.
And he doesn’t look too bad for somebody who’s been dead these last five months, does he? Hooray for barrels of rum and the preservative capabilities thereof. But it’s so sad when you’re forced to eat your deceased shipmates.
Sarah: You know, once she nails him, and one hopes that rigor mortis has affected key areas for her sake at least, she can nail him to the bow of the ship instead of that mermaid lady that ships usually have.
Pity he died with such a startled expression on his face, though.
Candy: C’mon everybody! “A la tuhuelpa legria macarena,
“Que tuhuelce paralla legria cosabuena,
“A la tuhuelpa legria macarena,
“Eeeh, macarena!”
Sarah: What is he pointing at with his wee bitty fingers? Is he telling her to get down on the ground so that he and his girl-horse can use her skirt as a picnic tablecloth?
Is he demonstrating his fine 70’s disco skills as one of the more blonde Village People to Candy’s fine Mayan-tinged Spanish translation?
“Look, a snake!”
“In your dreams it’s a - oh, over there! Yes, that is a snake!”
Candy: And from the macarena, we move on to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller!” Or maybe they’re trying to poke each other’s eyes, Three Stooges-style. Either way, what bliss.
Sarah: “You have some schmutz… right here-”
“Don’t touch me! Dance! Only dance!”
“But your face - you just have a little bit of -”
“No! We must dance the dance of the thousand dances!”
“Just lemme lick this napkin and wipe that schmutz off your face!”
Candy: Whoa. Look at the angle of her neck. Fucked. Up. “If It’s Tuesday, There Must Be Corpses!”
This book also gets my vote for Best. Title. EVAR.
Sarah: I look at this cover, and I look at the title, and I look at his goofy, goofy face, and I have no words. I sit here and giggle like Butthead. Tuesdays with Morrie would have been a MUCH better movie if Albom had followed this format.
Also, how much does her back hurt now that he’s snapped her fourth vertebrae? She’s going to need that dildo as a spinal brace.
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A website that reviews romance novels from a couple of smart bitches who will always give it to you straight. No bullshit. No gushing--unless the author really deserves it.
Everything is better with Alan Rickman in it! Right Julie??
They also have it for download to the sony ereader, so I am going to put it on mine. I can’t wait to read this!
Er, clarification request--I’m pretty sure this is wishful thinking, since I can’t think of a single poem for this contest, but are the winners going to be decided at random or by which poem you Smart Bitches like best?
In Sherwood F., long, long ago,
Was a story told that you all know.
Yet this new retelling
With Lofty grand spelling
Is a tale that will surely soon grow.
…
Oops! I didn’t know full names were posted. Would you remove my last name please?
The forester asked Meg if she would
Apply a sweet kiss to his wee wood.
The idea was thrilling,
But she wasn’t quite willing,
But if she wouldn’t do it then he…
