for the love of pete.

• Cute.

• Really. That part where Dante asked Zoey where she goes on a date, and then when Zoey goes on on how you can figure a guy out if you go on a date with him at the museum. Seriously cute.

• I wasn't actually looking for some suspense story to read, but still I picked up for the love of pete because I'm super curious: does Julia Harper write like Elizabeth Hoyt? Yea imo. Because I so love those conversations. ☺

• And it's hot. ♥

Reaching the end of October '09...

• Slow reading month for me.
  

• Finished Megan Hart's Dirty yesterday. I liked it. Loved Dan.
  

• Planing to read either Abby Gaines or Elizabeth Hoyt (Julia Harper?) next. Or maybe some new-to-me author.
  

• Have I mentioned how much I love logging on to Google Reader and learning about the romance reading world? It's so dramatic.
  

I want to do the Top 16 thing too.

In short, a number of blogs are naming their top 16 romances as a tribute to Kathleen Winsor, as suggested by Maili and Jessica. I don't know them, but I want to join in, and say thank you. ☺

My top 16 (in no particular order) that I can think of now:

• Out of Control by Shannon Mckenna. I love Davy. LOVE him. And his brothers. And friends.

• The French Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress by Abby Green. ♥

• Wish You Were Here by Christie Ridgway. I love it that the hero is temporary blind for the good long part of the book. Love is blind. Heheh.
  

• Wicked by Jill Barnett. And Wild, and Wonderful. Za best medieval romance evah.

• No Rest For The Wicked by Kresley Cole. Sebastian!
  

• Corbin's Fancy by Linda Lael Miller. That's me, Fancy.

• My Prerogative by Sasha White. Favorite read of 2008.

• Ex, Why and Me by Susanna Carr. It's all the talking.
  

• Pleasures of the Night by Sylvia Day. Aidan just totally adores Lyssa. I want to be the recipient of that adoration.

• Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. It's the grovelling. And no, I've not read Kiss an Angel yet.
  

• Simple Jess by Pamela Morsi. And every other book by her.

• High Stakes by Erin McCarthy. This is my absolute fav in her vampire series. I like how Ethan is fascinated by Alexis. And damn it's funny.
  

• Teaming Up by Abby Gaines. I still have a lot of her backlist I've not read.
  

• A Very Special Delivery by Linda Goodnight. This book is still free.

• Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson. I think this book made me cry the worst to date. I think.
  

• The Belgariad and The Malloreon by David Eddings. I'm not cheating. There's lots of romance going on in them.

I know I know, I'm doing it wrong, it's like my top 16 authors, instead of 16 titles, but...

Finished a book. Happy feelings. But...

The Leopard Prince *Double Thumbs Up*

• I read The Leopard Prince last weekend accompanied by the flu and sore throat. Lots-of-non-stop-coughing stopped by and stayed too.
  

• I tell myself I'm not doing a book justice if I read it when I'm sick. But-
  

• The point of this post is to say, I wasn't in my best reading mood, and yet I still continued reading The Leopard Prince, and still enjoyed it a whole damn lot. Thank you Elizabeth Hoyt. You're gooood.