What was I thinking?

• Damn reading for being such a time consuming thingy?

• I take that back. Thank you for allowing me to escape.
  

• Totally grateful to any time I have for reading.

• Totally grateful that I can read.

• Totally grateful that romance novels exist.

• I managed to read a little more of Something about Emmaline (by Elizabeth Boyle) . I'm glad I don't have to wait to long to read about Emmaline in action! That gal rocks.
  

Reading = Hours. Whatever.

• To me, you can't just spare an hour a day to read. I need...10 hours straight for it. Maybe 7-8 hours to read and then the remaining hours thinking about it. Or maybe more.
  

• But currently that's all I have. An hour, actually half an hour or so a day, for reading.

• I tried reading Something about Emmaline by Elizabeth Boyle in those hour / half-hours. Nope not working. The story seems cute from the start, it's meant to be read in one shot. Hell most books are.

• Damn reading for being such a time consuming thingy.

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.

Mistress to the Merciless Millionaire - Read :)

• In super brief, the hero rejected and humiliated the heroine ten years ago, and a tense ten years have past, so now they get their happy ending with each other. I'm not exactly a big fan of these types of story lines (people who parted years ago on a bad note, now coming together etc). I personally prefer to read every other type. But I still have to read Mistress to the Merciless Millionaire because 1) it's by Abby Green, 2) it stars the uber alpha brother of Sorcha (heroine from Bought for the Frenchman's Pleasure). His little appearance in that book just rocks my world. ☺

• Type of story aside, I still love the ending to hell ♥. Lots of talking and clarification involved, so that I wasn't left hanging thinking 'hey what about that part where (blah-blah-blah), shouldn't you apologise for that too?'. Satisfaction is always guaranteed for me when reaching the end of an Abby Green book, no matter the theme.

• I sorta wished to see more of Sorcha and Romain (from Bought for the Frenchman's Pleasure), but then from reading Abby Green's previous books, secondary characters aren't everywhere. Whenever they're mentioned, they probably last less than a page. That's another reason why I love her books. Everything, every page is always about the main couple. You just learn so darn much about them. Secondary romances are probably more suitable to be in books with 400 pages, so yeah this is not a new discovery I know.
  

• When Kate (the heroine) knits, I was suddenly reminded that I have three Christine Ridgway books in my TBR pile. Poor pile.

• Now, I do not have much Abby Green backlist left to read. So Ms Green, please write faster. ☺

Ruthless Greek Boss, Secretary Mistress!

I just saw the cover for Abby Green's up-coming Dec 2009 book: Ruthless Greek Boss, Secretary Mistress.

Copied from Abby Green's website:

Three Weeks in the Boss’s Bed!

Lucy Proctor watches the women who come and go in Aristotle Levakis’ life. She has no desire to join them, despite Ari’s devastating good-looks, and is perfectly content as his assistant – or so she tries to convince herself!

Ari shouldn’t find his prim and plump secretary attractive, but something about her calls to him. He knows there is only one way to overcome this desire – and that is to sate it...

Read an Excerpt

Happyhappyhappydance ♥♥

I'm going to start on Mistress to the Merciless Millionaire after I switch off this computer. ☺