new things

reading ivanhoe for senior seminar... meh, lots of characters, looooooottttttssss of description, which i don't mind.... really!! but, as with fight scenes in my trashy romance novels, i tend to skim them. i guess they add to the ambiance?

also started a blog for american studies, http://singingtheamericantune.blogger.com, so i'm having fun with that.

can't wait for patrick rothfuss's new book, finally can finish the first one!

Susan Brockman and J. R. Ward also have new books coming out in the next couple of months, excitement is mounting!!!!

also now on twitter

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Grrrreeeeaaaat things!!

Notice to the world, I now have a pc that connects to the @ home network! Those who seek to foil my blogging plans are sadly disapointed!!

It's a rainy day and all I want is a cookie...

Alas it is also a couple days before payday so the cookie will have to wait, along with the billions of books I wanna buy. Gah, i'm so frustrated. I went and bought Lara Adrian's new book Taken by Midnight the latest installment in her Midnight Breed series. and before I go on I feel that I should tell you something about myself...

I hate weak female characters, also ones that have no common sense. And let me just say that Jenna, the main female character of the novel can check both of these traits off of her character profile. Let me explain...

Jenna wakes up in the Order's compound after having been attacked by an evil gen one vampire. When she wakes up her bestie is there telling her she's safe and everything will be OK.

Now let me stop there. If I woke up in a strange place and my best friend was there I would immediately feel better, and if said friend who I trust because she is my bestie, told me to rest and that I was safe, I would believe her because, again, she's my best friend.

Not Jenna. This hardened state trooper decides, to hell with everyone, I'm not getting any answers so I'm gonna leave!

Never mind she has some kind of something stuck in her neck or that she is recovering at a highly unusual rate, fuck all that! she's gonna hightale it out of there!

And boy is she touchy, she doesn't want help from anyone, or to be friends with anyone, so far in the novel she's being a bit of an icy bitch. And I really wanna start a new novel and stop waisting my time on such a winey butt but, being the eternal optimist that I am, I'm hoping that the next book , which comes out in 2011, will be better than this one.

I'm gonna go trudge through this novel and eat some chocolate cake.

Remember me?! I'm the blogger that hasn't posted in 4 months!

Sadly video blogs did not work out. The camera that I have can only make 30 second videos, which is kinda annoying. So this lovely October morning sees me with a cup of coffee, text book beside me, sitting at the PC typing my little heart out. I'm in the middle of several projects, most of them for university. I'm writing a short story, reading lots of Jacobean drama and applying psychoanalytic theory to film. When I'm not doing any of that I'm surfing the internet or trying new recipes for stuffed french toast. Do I have an obsession? No i do not! (maybe)

Let me just say that you have not lived until you've had peanut butter and banana stuffed french toast! Today the recipe was for cheesy ham stuffed french toast. I substituted the ham with I'm not feeling the turkey.

In other news I found a new blog that might be ruling my life now. This is how it happened. I was googleing summaries of Epicene and the journey took me to Sparknotes where I saw something called Blogging Breaking Dawn. I had to pause for a minute and go Really?! Someone's blogging about this book?! Turns out it's a dude that has never read the series before. So I check it out and OMG it's AMAZING! And because I don't want to ruin it for you I'm just gonna post the link at the bottom and you can follow along for yourself. Start with the very first post, OK? He starts with Twilight and goes on through the series, and it's great!

You can trust me, I would never lead you astray (wink;P)

And that's all for now bloggers, I must now actually do the assignments for my classes.

Bye!

We needed a new look

so I changed some pics and the background and VOILA!!!! New blog.....
So I wanna take the opportunity to say that I'm going to be trying something new in the near future and that is (drum roll) a video blog!!!!

No I am not leaving my home, Living in Technicolor, but instead of the more traditional written blogs I'm going to experiment with video posts.

I hope to post the first one tomorrow, or in the next couple of days so we'll see where it goes, until then...

BYE!!

here there be spoilers...

I don't think it was the last Black Dagger Brotherhood novel. Because...
1) Vicious found out he has a sister and she threatened to kill their mother, the scribe virgin.
2) in a previous novel Vicious foresaw that he would call a human male brother
3) Quinn and Blay have tons of sexual tension and even though it looks like Quinn is letting Blay go I don't think they're done yet!

I feel like there should be a meaningful title here....

Tomorrow I begin the last (I think) book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. I've been putting it off and putting it off just because I don't want the series to end, J.R. Ward is an amazing writer! But sooner or later it must happen and I don't know when my next day off will be, so tomorrow I might be saying goodbye to the Brotherhood :(
In other news, I want to write a novel for Harlequin Romance! Don't role your eyes! It's mostly to see if I can do it.... and it's turning out to be much harder than one would think! I've written short stories before, but they were only 12 pages or so long. The minimum word count for a Harlequin novel is something like 50,000! That's about 200 pages and that's the manuscript!
But the novel might have to wait until after my cousin's wedding!!! I'm a bridesmaid and I went to get my dress today but there were a couple of snafus... 1) the sash of the dress, which is long, got caught on the garment rack and had a tear in it... so it will take at least 10 days to get that fixed and the wedding is in 3 weeks.
2) Between my undergarment and the tightness of the dress I can't breathe very well, I'm afraid I'll have a panic attack or faint during the ceremony. I've decided to just wear it for a couple of hours at a time until the wedding, just to stretch it out and also to get used to wearing such a tight dress. At least it's really purty!
And that's all the news for today, I'll write back soon with my comments on Lover Mine!!