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author: Kazuya Minekura
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 07/25/08
shelves: manga
review:

]]> 28260143 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:05:35 -0700
author: Joss Whedon
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 07/25/08
shelves: graphic-novels
review:

]]> 27899611 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:16:24 -0700
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 07/21/08
shelves: graphic-novels
review:

]]> 27899171 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:12:35 -0700
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 07/21/08
shelves: graphic-novels
review:

]]> 27887364 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:50:28 -0700
author: Jet Mykles
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.57
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 07/21/08
shelves: fantasy-fluff, smut, things-that-go-bump-in-the-night, three-for-all-smut, trashy-romances-are-fun
review:

]]> 27887363 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:50:27 -0700
author: Jet Mykles
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.62
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 07/21/08
shelves: fantasy-fluff, smut, things-that-go-bump-in-the-night, trashy-romances-are-fun
review:

]]> 27887338 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:50:10 -0700
author: Takaaki Kusaka
name: Cyn
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 07/21/08
shelves: boys-love, manga
review:

]]> 27887321 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:49:59 -0700
author: Raika Sakuragi
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 07/21/08
shelves: boys-love-novel
review:

]]> 27887298 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:49:49 -0700
author: Barbara Katagiri
name: Cyn
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 07/21/08
shelves: boys-love-novel, smut
review:

]]> 27559505 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:59:04 -0700
author: Laurell K. Hamilton
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1997
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 07/17/08
shelves: paranormal-smut, smut, things-that-go-bump-in-the-night, three-for-all-smut, urban-fantasy
review:

]]> 27559462 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:58:33 -0700
author: Laurell K. Hamilton
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.52
book published: 1997
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 07/17/08
shelves: paranormal-smut, smut, things-that-go-bump-in-the-night, three-for-all-smut, urban-fantasy
review:

]]> 27559441 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:58:13 -0700
author: Laurell K. Hamilton
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.35
book published: 1998
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 07/17/08
shelves: paranormal-smut, smut, things-that-go-bump-in-the-night, three-for-all-smut, urban-fantasy
review:

]]> 27559409 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:57:47 -0700
author: Charlaine Harris
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 07/17/08
shelves: things-that-go-bump-in-the-night, urban-fantasy
review:

]]> 27148863 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:17:15 -0700
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 07/13/08
shelves: graphic-novels
review:

]]> 27148846 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:17:00 -0700
author: Joss Whedon
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 07/13/08
shelves: graphic-novels
review:

]]> 27120589 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:40:20 -0700
author: Robert Smith
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1989
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 07/13/08
shelves: gorgeous-purple-prose
review:

]]> 27120351 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:36:34 -0700
author: Tamaki Kirishima
name: Cyn
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 07/13/08
shelves: boys-love, manga, yaoi
review:

]]> 27120321 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:36:06 -0700
author: Clare London
name: Cyn
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 07/13/08
shelves: boy-smut, fantasy-fluff, smut
review:

]]> 26568377 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:42:51 -0700
author: Takahiro Kitamura
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 07/07/08
shelves: art-book, japan, sociology-and-culture-stuff
review:

]]> 25891335 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:23:23 -0700
author: Gena Showalter
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.62
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/30/08
shelves: paranormal-smut, smut, things-that-go-bump-in-the-night, trashy-romances-are-fun, urban-fantasy
review:

]]> 25891332 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:23:09 -0700
author: Gena Showalter
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/30/08
shelves: paranormal-smut, smut, things-that-go-bump-in-the-night, trashy-romances-are-fun, urban-fantasy
review:

]]> 25891330 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:23:05 -0700
author: Gena Showalter
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/30/08
shelves: paranormal-smut, smut, things-that-go-bump-in-the-night, trashy-romances-are-fun, urban-fantasy
review:

]]> 25891298 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:20:32 -0700
author: You Shizaki
name: Cyn
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 06/30/08
shelves: boys-love-novel
review:

]]> 25891294 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:20:19 -0700
author: Shungiku Nakamura
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/30/08
shelves: boys-love, manga, yaoi
review:

]]> 25891291 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:20:10 -0700
author: Sooyeon Won
name: Cyn
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 06/30/08
shelves: boys-love, manga
review:

]]> 25725882 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:11:53 -0700
author: Rumiko Takahashi
name: Cyn
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/27/08
shelves: manga, shonen
review:

]]> 25725837 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:09:43 -0700
author: Tite Kubo
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/27/08
shelves: manga, shonen
review:

]]> 25725759 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:06:56 -0700
author: Sean Michael
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/27/08
shelves: boy-smut, smut
review:

]]> 25725572 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:02:30 -0700
author: Chris Owen
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/27/08
shelves: boy-smut, smut
review:

]]> 25284083 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:33:42 -0700
author: Lara Adrian
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 06/24/08
shelves: het-smut, paranormal-smut, smut, things-that-go-bump-in-the-night, trashy-romances-are-fun, urban-fantasy
review:

]]> 25284082 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:33:40 -0700
author: Lara Adrian
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 06/24/08
shelves: het-smut, paranormal-smut, shonen, things-that-go-bump-in-the-night, trashy-romances-are-fun, urban-fantasy
review:

]]> 25284079 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:33:39 -0700
author: Lara Adrian
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 06/24/08
shelves: het-smut, paranormal-smut, smut, things-that-go-bump-in-the-night, trashy-romances-are-fun, urban-fantasy
review:

]]> 25284050 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:32:15 -0700
author: Kiriko Fuwa
name: Cyn
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 06/24/08
shelves: boys-love, manga, yaoi
review:

]]> 25284047 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:32:02 -0700
author: Hajin Yoo
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/24/08
shelves: boys-love, manga
review:

]]> 25284039 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:31:45 -0700
author: Saki Aida
name: Cyn
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 06/24/08
shelves: boys-love-novel, smut
review:

]]> 24629859 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:38:55 -0700
author: Makoto Tateno
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/16/08
shelves: art-book, boys-love, in-japanese-so-i-cant-read-it
review:

]]> 24629662 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:37:23 -0700
author: Shungiku Nakamura
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/16/08
shelves: art-book, boys-love, in-japanese-so-i-cant-read-it
review:

]]> 24629066 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:29:33 -0700
author: Tite Kubo
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/16/08
shelves: manga, shonen
review:

]]> 24629050 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:29:24 -0700
author: Tite Kubo
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2005
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 06/16/08
shelves: manga, shonen
review:

]]> 24575997 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:44:34 -0700
author: J.R. Ward
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 06/15/08
shelves: het-smut, paranormal-smut, things-that-go-bump-in-the-night, trashy-romances-are-fun, urban-fantasy
review:

]]> 24575590 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:40:35 -0700
author: Shiuko Kano
name: Cyn
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/15/08
shelves: boys-love, manga, yaoi
review:

]]> 24575568 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:40:23 -0700
author: Yaya Sakuragi
name: Cyn
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/15/08
shelves: boys-love, manga, yaoi
review:

]]> 23798137 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:18:37 -0700
author: J., M. Snyder
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/05/08
shelves: boy-touching
review:

]]> 23707511 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:41:39 -0700
Sometimes you just need to be told that it's okay to enjoy sex, and it's okay to enjoy food.
Logically, we should know this already, but there are times when hearing it from an outside source just drives it home.

I really and truly think I am in love, and it's not often that the object of my affection is a mass of bound paper and ink.]]>
author: Sarah Katherine Lewis
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 06/08
date added: 06/05/08
shelves: sociology-and-culture-stuff
review:
Reading this book was like a little feminazi epiphany for me.

Sometimes you just need to be told that it's okay to enjoy sex, and it's okay to enjoy food.
Logically, we should know this already, but there are times when hearing it from an outside source just drives it home.

I really and truly think I am in love, and it's not often that the object of my affection is a mass of bound paper and ink.
]]> 23725810 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:15:24 -0700
author: Hinako Takanaga
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 06/04/08
shelves: boys-love, manga, yaoi
review:

]]> 23725792 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:15:10 -0700
author: Makoto Tateno
name: Cyn
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 06/04/08
shelves: boys-love, manga, yaoi
review:

]]> 23725785 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:15:00 -0700
author: Yuki Shimizu
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 06/04/08
shelves: boys-love, manga, yaoi
review:

]]> 23707502 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:04:10 -0700
author: Tite Kubo
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/04/08
shelves: manga, shonen
review:

]]> 23634234 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:10:56 -0700
Then, one of my favorite authors was holding a contest on her LJ to win an extra copy of the second book in the series, that she picked up by mistake. I entered. I figured that if I still hated it, then I could always trade the book away to a good home, and besides, I like the author who was running the contest, so she should have good taste, right?

Book gets here, I leave it mouldering for about a week, then last night I pick it up to read before I go to bed. It's just okay, I keep drawing comparisons to the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R. Ward, and finding this series lacking, but it's good enough that I read until I can't keep my eyes open anymore.

Then, I wake up an hour early to get some reading in before I go to work. I then take another half an hour from my morning prep to finish the damn book. I put the rest of the series up on my wishlist on paperback swap and get cranky because there are 50+ people in front of me for each book.

All day at work, I'm thinking about how I don't have anything new to read for when I'm dragged up to Maine for a family wedding, and how buying a few books would be a good idea.

Then, to cinch the deal, Amazon.com was running a 4-3 offer. *sigh*

Oh, hell. Lara Adrian's books managed to suck me in. DAMN YOU FOR WRITING FAIRLY DECENT ANGST.]]>
author: Lara Adrian
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 06/08
date added: 06/03/08
shelves: het-smut, paranormal-smut, smut, things-that-go-bump-in-the-night, trashy-romances-are-fun, urban-fantasy
review:
I wasn't planning on liking this series. Hell, I had gotten the first book in the series off of paperbackswap.com and I found that I really didn't care for it, so back up on the swap it went.

Then, one of my favorite authors was holding a contest on her LJ to win an extra copy of the second book in the series, that she picked up by mistake. I entered. I figured that if I still hated it, then I could always trade the book away to a good home, and besides, I like the author who was running the contest, so she should have good taste, right?

Book gets here, I leave it mouldering for about a week, then last night I pick it up to read before I go to bed. It's just okay, I keep drawing comparisons to the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R. Ward, and finding this series lacking, but it's good enough that I read until I can't keep my eyes open anymore.

Then, I wake up an hour early to get some reading in before I go to work. I then take another half an hour from my morning prep to finish the damn book. I put the rest of the series up on my wishlist on paperback swap and get cranky because there are 50+ people in front of me for each book.

All day at work, I'm thinking about how I don't have anything new to read for when I'm dragged up to Maine for a family wedding, and how buying a few books would be a good idea.

Then, to cinch the deal, Amazon.com was running a 4-3 offer. *sigh*

Oh, hell. Lara Adrian's books managed to suck me in. DAMN YOU FOR WRITING FAIRLY DECENT ANGST.
]]> 23231275 Thu, 29 May 2008 11:03:41 -0700
author: Ally Blue
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 05/29/08
shelves: boy-smut, fantasy-fluff, smut
review:

]]> 23231224 Thu, 29 May 2008 11:03:06 -0700
author: J. L. Langley
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.86
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 05/29/08
shelves: boy-smut, smut
review:

]]> 23231207 Thu, 29 May 2008 11:02:52 -0700
author: Tim Pilcher
name: Cyn
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 05/29/08
shelves: art-book, art-history, history-of-sex, sociology-and-culture-stuff
review:

]]> 23067104 Tue, 27 May 2008 13:54:30 -0700
author: Mercedes Lackey
name: Cyn
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 05/27/08
shelves: fairy-tales-retold, fantasy-fluff
review:

]]> 23067058 Tue, 27 May 2008 13:54:04 -0700
author: Yun Kouga
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 05/27/08
shelves: boys-love-hints, manga, shojou
review:

]]> 23066990 Tue, 27 May 2008 13:53:25 -0700
author: Olivia Lorenz
name: Cyn
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 05/27/08
shelves: boy-smut, paranormal-smut, smut, things-that-go-bump-in-the-night
review:

]]> 22862319 Sat, 24 May 2008 05:41:30 -0700
author: Makoto Tateno
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 05/24/08
shelves: boys-love, manga, yaoi
review:

]]> 22862303 Sat, 24 May 2008 05:40:45 -0700
author: Kano Miyamoto
name: Cyn
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 05/24/08
shelves: boys-love, manga, yaoi
review:

]]> 22862284 Sat, 24 May 2008 05:40:07 -0700
author: Tarako Kotobuki
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 05/24/08
shelves: boys-love, manga, yaoi
review:

]]> 22862260 Sat, 24 May 2008 05:39:06 -0700
author: Hajin Yoo
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 05/24/08
shelves: boys-love, manga
review:

]]> 22381033 Fri, 16 May 2008 11:55:09 -0700
author: Sooyeon Won
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.67
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 05/16/08
shelves: boys-love, manga
review:

]]> 22379069 Fri, 16 May 2008 11:23:28 -0700
author: Satosumi Takaguchi
name: Cyn
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 05/16/08
shelves: boys-love, manga
review:

]]> 22379038 Fri, 16 May 2008 11:22:36 -0700