Name: Laura
Where you're from: Minnesota
Family: Husband and daughter
Hobbies: Reading, scrapbooking, cooking and gardening
Favorite Book: Anything by Sharon Kay Penman, Desiree, Laurie King's Sherlock Holmes series
Movie: Gone With the Wind
Song: Don't really have one
Food: Mexican, Asian, Indian
Smell: Vanilla
Sport: The Vikings and the Twins
How you became interested in historical fiction (or non!): Always liked history as a child. Reading historical fiction was just a way to continue learning. Historical fiction brings the people to life - you just have to keep in mind that not all of it is true!

Name: Emily
Where you're from: New Braunfels, Texas
Where you live now: Austin, Texas
Birthday: September, 1975
Family: Husband & two insane Welsh Terriers
Job: Yoga Therapist/Yoga Teacher
Hobbies: Yoga, Reading, Making Soap & other body products, spending time with family, friends & my dogs

Favorite:
Book - this is tough because there are so many: Memoirs of a Geisha, The Poisonwood Bible, Cleopatra by Margaret George
Movie: loved the English Patient even though it is very sappy
Song: I love music and constantly listen to it so it is hard to say. There are so many genres I like and so I cannot even narrow it down to a genre but I do love classical and electronic (they do not go together at all!)
Food: Mexican food
Smell: I dabble in aromatherapy and love many scents: rosemary, lavender, rose geranium and patchouli are some top favorites.
Sport: Water sports, skiing, canoing, swimming.
Any websites you want to share: Mine: www.sundarayogatherapy.com
How you became interested in historical fiction (or non!) Genetics - my father was a history student and later history teacher. My undergrad degree was in history as well.

Name: Susan C
Where you're from: Pennsylvania
Where you live now:still Pennsyvania, just a different area
Birthday: September
Family: Husband and dog
Job: Very good housewife
Hobbies: reading, making cards with rubber stamps
Favorite:
Book: The Counte of Monte Cristo
Movie: Always Famous
Song: anything from singer and songwriters from 60's and 70's. It drives my husband nuts because they were overplayed during the 70's (his decade not mine) I'm an 80's gal. Bad music!
Food: Chicken dumpling soup (homemade)
Smell: cherry blossoms
Sport: none
Any websites you want to share: www.fantasticfiction.com, you can find a list of your favorite authors books and series. The other www.paperbackswap.com, great way to get rid of unwanted books.
How you became interested in historical fiction (or non!) I honestly think the covers of so many of the books caused me to start buying and then I fell in love with the genre once I started reading.

Name Wendy: (Wen to friends)
Where you're from: Native Floridian
Where you live now Still in FL for now
Birthday 8/24/70
Family One younger brother, Parents (alive and Still married), one teenage son (lives with me), 3 small dogs (Payton, Paisley and Chloe)and a cat that thinks he is a dog(Clark Kent)
Job I work from home and have a site where I sell jewelry I make from natural stones. I also make pet accessories from a sister site.
Hobbies Well the job is one of the hobbies too, I also crochet, sew and read read read
Favorite:
Book Oh so many so guess will pick recent one would be Brief Gaudy Hour by Margaret Campbell Barnes
Movie Somewhere in Time and Monty Pythons Holy Grail (I know way opposite ends of movie world)
Food Does Ice Cream Count?
Smell Pipe Tobacco (I dont even smoke) and Vanilla and Sandalwood mixed together.
Any websites you want to share: Will share mine with any interested but wont list since did this for fun not to plug my site
How you became interested in historical fiction (or non!) Well Read the Other Boleyn Girl after seeing the film. Got curious as to if what was written and shown on screen was close to right. Found differing oppinions on things and was hooked on reading about historical figures. Specially females since in school they tend to be glossed over.

Ha, found it! I knew this thread was somewhere! All you newbies may like this! It's a little bit about some of the people here.

thank you!

Equestrian sports are those involving horses, usually.

Name: Suffiyan Saleem (a.k.a Saifee)
Where you're from :Faisalabad (Pakistan)
Where you live now :Faisalabad (Pakistan)
Birthday :December, the 1th, 1987
Family :single with 4 siblings 2 of whom are married
Job :no job.full time student
Hobbies :a music fanatic plus love reading
Favorite:
Book(s) : long list including devil wears prada, harry potters, davinci code, the boleyn inheritance
Movie :long list here too.titanic,a beautiful mind, philidelpia,forrest gump, raise your voice, the reader, benjamin button, vanity fair & all the chick flicks (lol)
Song: rehab by amy winehous, my life would suck by kelly clarkson and the list is everchanging and like very long!
Food: continental stuff.im sure you people won't understand if i wrote the name of local dishes which are my favourite.
Smell: the smell of 1st rain of the summer!
Sport: swimming and thats all!
How you became interested in historical fiction (or non!): after watching the other boleyn girl, i was intrigued that it was based on a book,then i started digging for the other tudor novels by gregory & now i'm in love with this genre!


@Nona

What are Equestrian sports?

sorry I replyed before reading all the posts, my bad.

Alisa wrote: "Hi Mandy!

Yes, Countess Bathory was fascinating to research - but tricky, since so many details about her are legend. As for adult fiction, The Blood Countess by Andre Codrescu was quite fascin..."


Another good Bathory book is Bathory: Memoir of a Countess by A Mordeaux it's in somewhat of a diary format and sometimes its a little sadistic but very good considering the subject her husband plays a big part in her 'past-times' it's amazing how little is known about her when you get down to her story.

Robin wrote: "Hi! I'm new here as well and found this as I was browsing the group links. :)


Name: Robin

Where you're from: Dacula, GA

Where you live now: Loganville, GA

Birthday: June 19

Family: my hubby, ..."

Hi, Robin. Welcome to the group. We have a Loganville in PA, too. It is about 5 miles from where I am sitting in my kitchen in York, PA. Soon, I will be driving through your area on my way to Columbus/Ft. Benning (our big move). Welcome!

Hi! I'm new here as well and found this as I was browsing the group links. :)


Name: Robin

Where you're from: Dacula, GA

Where you live now: Loganville, GA

Birthday: June 19

Family: my hubby, Johnny, and my 18mth old boy Logan

Job: SAHM, but formerly a HS English teacher

Hobbies: reading, cooking, scrapbooking, playing World of Warcraft lol

Favorite:
Book: I, Elizabeth by R. Miles
Movie: Star Wars
Song: right now, "Chicken Fried," Zac Brown Band
Food: Mexican, Italian, good Southern cookin'
Smell: my boy after a bath, hubby's soap, cake :)
Sport: NASCAR, NFL, Braves' baseball, UGA football

Any websites you want to share:

How you became interested in historical fiction (or non!) I think the first book I read in the genre was probably I, Elizabeth, though I'd been fascinated with British history before that through Arthurian legend. Now I can't get my hands on enough historical fiction.

Hi Mandy!

Yes, Countess Bathory was fascinating to research - but tricky, since so many details about her are legend. As for adult fiction, The Blood Countess by Andre Codrescu was quite fascinating. And for non-fiction I liked Countess Dracula by Tony Thorne.

:)Alisa

There's a Best Children's Historical Fiction list over on Listopia.

Alisa,
Your books sound like so much fun! I love the idea of Historical fiction for young adults - doesn't seem like there's too much of it out there.
Your website is fun!
The Countess of Bathory sounds fascinating - I'd never heard of her! I'm off to see if I can find some adult historical fiction about her! Any suggestions?
Welcome to the group :)

Welcome Alisa! Thanks for posting about your book signing here! If I lived closer I would definitely go.

Hello everyone! My name is Alisa Libby and I've been lurking on the fringes of the European Royalty group for some time now. Thanks to you my reading list has probably doubled, but sadly I'm not good at keeping up with the monthly book club reads. Still, I've been meaning to say an official hello for a while. Also - I hope it's okay that I posted my book-signing this Saturday to this page. I had just read a post about Anne Easter-Smith coming to the Wellesley Booksmith next month and it occurred to me that I'll be there signing my new book, The King's Rose, tomorrow! So I wanted to let you all know. Needless to say, I'm not a natural at self promotion.

Now, for the getting to know you part:
I'm from Massachusetts and still living here now. I work in Boston at the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and I work with fantastic people. I live in a small, cozy house with my husband and our aging basset hound. As you've guessed, I like to write and I have two young adult novels published: the first one, The Blood Confession, is historical fantasy inspired by the legendary "Blood Countess" Bathory. The new book, The King's Rose, is historical fiction about Catherine Howard.

Favorite book? I loved The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George; Beloved by Toni Morrison; Endless Love by Scott Spencer; Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov; Dracula by Bram Stoker; Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut; Ghosts by Marsha Parker...my favorite YA list is a whole other matter, including Fade by Robert Courmier and the Dangerous Angels series by Francesca Lia Block. And a million other books I'll think of once I post this message.

If you're interested in my books, please visit my website for more details: http://www.alisalibby.com. I also have a blog: http://alisamlibby.wordpress.com/

I became interested in history in general when I took a course in college with a teacher who told us history as a story, with all of the gorey details intact. Instead of just a dry recitation of names and dates, he showed us history that was full of life and urgency and peopled with complex and fascinating characters.

I hope that helps as a belated introduction. I know it is short notice, but it would be wonderful to see you tomorrow at my signing. I also have other Mass events coming up, listed under "appearances" on my website.

My best,
Alisa

I'm pretty sure some of her books has been translated but I don't know which ones

Welcome to the group Elina! Do you know if Kaari Utrio's books have been translated into English? I'm part Swedish and those books sound like they would be interesting.

Name: Elina
Where you're from: Turku, Finland
Where you live now, Turku
Birthday: 31.12.87
Family: mom and dad
Job: cook
Hobbies: reading, horseback riding
Favorite:
Book: The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice
Movie:Lord of the Rings
Song: Drawn Together by Sentenced
Food: lasagne
Smell: no idea
Sport: riding
Any websites you want to share: -
How you became interested in historical fiction (or non!) Always were interested in history in school. Started reading Kaari Utrio's books which are from finnish/nordic history

Name - Wanda
Where you're from - York, PA
Where you live now - York, PA; moving to Fort Benning, GA in June, 2009
Birthday - May 14 (I am older than dirt but still younger than God)
Family - Married - 13 years. Husband - Joe - U.S. Army Soldier; Son - William - 10 yrs. old
Job - Legal Secretary in a medium-sized law firm in Lancaster, PA
Hobbies - Reading, cooking, crocheting, knitting
Favorite:
Book - Pillars of the Earth; World w/o End; The Secret Lion; The Shell Seekers
Movie - Under the Tuscan Sun; The Ten Commandments
Song - The Broken Road by Rascal Flatts. Usually I listen to classical music when reading so I adore Mozart and Pachelbel, too.
Food - Anything that is on my plate! I am an equal opportunity eater.
Smell - Sandalwood, Frankincense, Myrrh and new babies
Sport - Could reading be considered a sport? Seriously, I love football!
Any websites you want to share: I don’t have my own website or blog but I know a great recipe website - myrecipes.com - a compilation of recipes from Cooking Light, Southern Living, and others.
How you became interested in historical fiction (or non!) - I have always been drawn to historical fiction. My sister and I used to walk to the book store - she would buy Danielle Steele (sp?) and I would buy something with knights, queens and kings on the cover.

Name: Lauren
Where you're from: Long Island, New York
Where you live now: Rockville, Maryland
Birthday: November 13
Family: Husband, and 2 girls (2.5 and 4)
Job: lawyer
Hobbies: reading, shopping
Favorite:
Book: Not sure... I guess Gone With the Wind because I read it 95 times between the ages of 12 and 14. As a grown up, some favorites have been The Physician by Noah Gordon, Katherine by Anya Seton, and anything by Sharon Kay Penman (Here Be Dragons has a slight edge)
Movie: Gone With the Wind
Song: Depends on my mood!
Food: Indian (especially dal or chana masala), Mexican
Smell: Lavendar
Sport: Um....
Any websites you want to share:
How you became interested in historical fiction (or non!): I was always a history buff. History was my favorite subject in high school. As a child, my favorite books were the Anne of Green Gables Series. Then moved on to Gone With the Wind, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, and Madame Bovary. Once I read Dangerous Liaisons and Jean Plaidy's Royal Road to Fotheringhay, I knew that I prefered historical fiction - better than the "classics."

Welcome to the group Sierra! I'm glad you found us!

Hi everyone, I'm new to this group so I just wanted to introduce myself! I'm excited to read some of your suggestions since I am an avid reader of historical fiction. :)

Name: Sierra
Where you're from: California
Where you live now: Washington State
Birthday: February
Family: Just me :)
Job: Sales
Hobbies: Reading, Music, Dancing, Travel, Politics, Cooking
Favorite:
Book-- I can't pick just one, there are too many!
Movie-- I'm more a fan of TV shows than movies-- my current addiction is Gray's Anatomy
Song-- Girl Eyes by Eve 6 and Gracias Por Tu Amor by Banda el Recodo
Food-- Ice Cream! And anything my mom cooks :)
Smell-- Freshly cut grass in the sun
Sport-- Soccer
Any websites you want to share:
How you became interested in historical fiction (or non!): I've always been a history buff-- it was one of my favorite subjects in high school and college. I love to learn about the women behind and beside the men we all learn about in history class-- the people who are usually not the main characters and those that history has typically misunderstood or overlooked.

Yes, history tends to be taught wretchedly in our schools. And Americans try to teach our kids a lot of our own history; I guess it creeps in even to the non-American history, by analogy if by nothing else.

The battle stuff may be an attempt to make it more appealing to the boys; I dunno. Or the instructor has a thing for it.

You're less likely to get the battle-heavy stuff if you take a social history course - but you're only likely to have such a class in college, and as an upper classman at that, after most people have given up interest.

It's one reason I think historians are so wrong-headed about denegrating history written for a popular audience. They particularly seem to hate the ones written by "amateur" historians like Barbara Tuchman or Antonia Frasier.

well I remeber taking a history class in college that was supposed to be world history and I thought I'ld love it. wrong the first three weeks was world then the rest of it was americanized, or what I call the average american attitude 'all about us and what we did'. I passed the class with a grudge that I'll never take a history class again without looking at the agenda first. I told the counselor 'if I had wanted american history I could have taken it' he just laughed at me. So I gave up education and history combined and now it's just pleasure, and I love it!

That's a really interesting observation Nona! I completely agree with you. I think it's not just the american wars either. The classes seem to like to focus on wars and conflicts in general (I just remember the French and Russian revolutions being thrown into my classes as well). I think if they focused on people and how they lived and similarities to our own lives, then a lot of people wouldn't dread history classes. I love history, but I really don't care about battle strategy! I know there are people who love that, but so many more people would love history if they made it relevant to everyday people and not just military buffs.

reading this forum I realize most have come to love HF/HNF by reading TOBG or history classes not braodening their time frames enough for the students. Thats somewhat amazing that so many students would enjoy history if they didn't focus on american wars so much,I was the same but my English teacher told me to find what I wanted elsewhere and I did as all you others have done.

Name:Nona
Where you're from: Newton Kansas
Where you live now: Tulsa OKlahoma
Birthday: May 6
Family: my wonderful husband, two girls ages 3 & 5.
Job: collection agent
Hobbies: my five horses, we do alot of off road stuff with our trail jeep and four wheelers, reading and of course my husbands hot rods.
Favorite:
Book: ok I can't answer this but my favorite authors are Elizabeth Chadwick and Sharon Kay Penman.
Movie: Pride & Predjudice, Ironman and Vanity Fair
Song: cannot do this either, fav artists are Gaelic Storm, the KilKinneys, Craic Wisely, I'm on an Irish kick right now.
Food: simmering Roast & Potato, anything mexican, carmel apples.
Smell: walking into the stable on a fresh, crisp October morning, fresh cut grass, my horse the warm musty equine smell is soothing after a hard day.
Sport: Equestrian sports.
Any websites you want to share: http://www.historicalfictiononline.com it's a great place for us history lovers, it's got book reviews, discussion forums on author and books along with other great stuff.
How you became interested in historical fiction (or non!) as a teen I read alot of ancient Roman/Eyqptian books and fell in love with ancient history, I was never into English history though but years later it was Elizabeth Chadwick that got me addicted with England history with The Champion, it sits on my bookshelf today.

Name -Lori although i go by tacowsh1t on the web
Where you're from - podonk nowhere minnesota Motley to be exact
Where you live now - sunny Gilbert Arizona
Birthday - March 21st
Family - 7 siblings, married with a puppy
Job - Sales
Hobbies - knit, crochet, read, scuba
Favorite:
Book - anything european historical. I loved Katherine Harper;s and Margret Georges books. I can't get enough of them.
Movie - right now anything with Chris Evans. So going to be a future ex husband one day.
Song - currently dead and gone by T.I.
Food - wow anything my best friend cooks. He is truely an artist in the kitchen.
Smell - my puppy, a clean house, Drews cookin, fall
Sport - Baseball baby
Any websites you want to share: ravarly.com its a knitting website. so amazing
How you became interested in historical fiction (or non!) - Well in college I was looking for a degree and history sounded fun. Suddenly I can't get enough information. I am so considuring graduate school just so i can study more. Isn't that sad. Bust my butt to get out and then I try to get back in.

Name: Jenn
Where you're from: South Carolina
Where you live now: New Hampshire
Birthday: I'm a Capricorn, or a Horse on the Chinese Zodiac
Family: Married, pets: Yes.
Job: UI designer
Hobbies: Equitation (historic variety), Iggies, cooking, writing, I used to be an artist, but college sucked all the joy and creativity out of it.

Favorite:
Book: currently The Sunne in Splendour
Movie: You've Got Mail; The Shawshank Redemption, Iron Man
Song: It's a Beautiful Day (U2), however, really pinning it down is impossible. I have a very ecclectic taste but prefer instrumental.
Food: Southern Fried Chicken and dumplings, a lot of medieval recipes, Moroccan tagines, Dim Sum in authentic Chinese restaurants. Not fushion.
Smell: Wood smoke on an autumn evening while outside walking, Christmas trees, Lilac, Gardinias, freshly mown grass, wet pavement and earth after it rains on a hot summer day.
Sport: horse back riding.

How you became interested in historical fiction (or non!) I became interested in historical fiction through my husband. I typically read fantasy before that.

Name - Lauren
Where you're from - Kentucky
Where you live now - still here
Birthday - July 22
Family - live with boyfriend of 5 years and my weiner dog, emmitt :)
Job - part time bank teller & full time student
Hobbies - reading, movies, music

Favorites
Book - tie between The Book Thief & Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Movie - braveheart
Song - burning bright by shinedown
Food - any kind of pasta
Smell - fresh out of the dryer laundry :)
Sport - volleyball

How you became interested in historical fiction... I already loved to read, then I discovered tudor England. Yes.. the secrets, the scandals, the royalty... it all came together to draw me in!

Welcome Vanna! Ha ha, don't worry about being a student! We've got a wide range of ages here. I'm unemployed and studying for the NY Bar, so I'm kind of a student. ;) We're glad to have you!

Hi! I just joined this group and I'm really glad to see so many other people interested in historical fiction as I am. I am looking forward to talking and discussing new books! =)

Name: Vanna
Where you're from: Austin, TX
Where you live now: Same
Birthday: January 29 (it's in 2 days...so excited =))
Family: i have one awesome brother who got me interested in books since i was almost six years old and a hardworking mom
Job: kinda embarrassed since I notice so many adults...I'm still a student, but I have a pretty advanced reading level
Hobbies: reading, writing, and drawing
Favorite:
Book: The Host
Movie: Titanic
Song: Before It's Too Late- Death Cab for Cutie
Food: Coffee Icecream
Smell: Homemade Cake

How you became interested in historical fiction (or non!) I took a World Cultures class in sixth grade and my teacher started recommending me a bunch of books. I became addicted to historical fiction and still am. =)

Name: Jesse
Where you're from: Dallas, Tx
Where you live now: Las Cruces, NM
Birthday: May 25th
Family: Wife, 3 daughters
Job: Technical Administrator (IT geek)
Hobbies: Writing, Reading, Guitar playing and Guitar Hero (looks like I'll fit in just fine with you guys)
Favorite: An impossible task, but here goes...
Book: Today my favorite is FICCIONES, Jorge Luis Borges
Movie: At the moment, MULHOLLAND DR.
Song: About a thousand songs are tied for first today. I breathe music.
Food: Mexican and Italian make me smile
Smell: Mom's enchiladas; freshly bathed babies
Sport: NFL- Dallas Cowboys 4ever!!!!!
Any websites you want to share: My irregularly updated blog-
http://jmunoz0525.wordpress.com/
How you became interested in historical fiction (or non!): I've always been fascinated by history and historical fiction is a natural extension of that fascination.

Wow, I've never heard of digital scrapbooking, but I like the sound of it. Scrapbooking is something I would like to do, but realistically there are a lot of things I'd like to do, and I'm afraid of buying a bunch of scrapbooking stuff and then never actually using it (plus having to store it all somewhere). And what are these "blogs" you talk about? Just kidding! I do know what blogs are! I don't have a blog, and I don't think I've really read a blog (god, I sound like an 80 year old grandma!), but once I have a little more time I'll definitely check out all of your blogs.

Haha - I also love Rock Band and Guitar Hero - both of which I have for the PS2 (even though I also have a Wii and an Xbox360... and no kids..... We won't discuss it. hehehe.) I'm a drummer primarily and my husband can actually play the expert level on the guitar which I think is crazy!

Um, hello, I also love digital scrapbooking! LOVE LOVE LOVE! April, do you chat on DST? I feel like I've visited your blog before... Possible?

April - cute blog! Your scrap pages are darling! Really cute layouts - the Autumn one is beautiful. I'm a scrapbooker, but not a very good one...my son's book is about a year behind and my daughters is about 3 years behind...
It's awful. I need to spend about a week doing nothing but scrapping. Too bad those retreats scare me.

Okay freaky! I am obsessed with Rock Band! LOL I LOVE playing the drums AND I collect Barbies too! I have easily over 100!
Don't you think it's a little freaky how much we all have in common?
I have a blog too. It's aprilmassad.blogspot.com! I can't wait to read everyone else's!

I collect Barbies too! Not as much anymore (my collection still lives with my parents), but I've got a ton (mostly in their boxes, although I would love to take them out and display them together in a nice cabinet or something). I love the historical ones! The new dolls do look cheap now (whole presentation - doll itself, clothes, etc.), which is a shame.

Mandy wrote: "Tisha - Aerosmith was ridiculously easy! That's why we loaned it away months ago and forgot about it.
I do have a blog, but it's nothing interesting. Mostly stuff about my kids. Today I made a post..."

Mandy, I had that Barbie problem with my daughter for a while! Now she's 15 and way too cool to bother with mine. I don't much care for the new head mold though.

Tisha - Aerosmith was ridiculously easy! That's why we loaned it away months ago and forgot about it.
I do have a blog, but it's nothing interesting. Mostly stuff about my kids. Today I made a post about TV. I have strange thoughts. http://moodyjournal.blogspot.com/

Susan, I love Barbies! I have a tiny collection - just 4 of the Princesses of the World. I stopped collecting them a few years ago. Reading historical fiction sort of makes me want to start again. I loved the princesses...they are so much fun! Problem is my 6 year old thinks they should be hers. I have to hide them.

Name: Susan Higginbotham
Where you're from: born in North Carolina; moved up and down the East Coast
Where you live now: North Carolina
Family: Husband, 2 teenage kids, plus a cairn terrier and 3 cats of the tabby variety
Job: working for a legal publisher
Hobbies: not really a hobby, but I write historical fiction in my free time. I also collect Barbie dolls, though not as avidly as I used to--I'd rather buy books these days!
Favorite:
Book: No one favorite, but my favorite authors are Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and Anne Tyler. My favorite HF authors are Sharon Penman, Jean Plaidy, Margaret Campbell Barnes, Brenda Clarke/Brenda Honeyman, just to name a few.
Food: Sausage pizza. Yum! Washed down with a classic Coca-Cola.
Smell: New book smell
Any websites you want to share: http://www.susanhigginbotham.com
http://susandhigginbotham.blogspot.com/
How you became interested in historical fiction (or non!): I'd read the occasional historical fiction or biography when I was growing up, but I really didn't become interested in it per se until I started researching my own novels. Then I discovered how many fascinating books I'd overlooked, both HF and historical nonfiction.

I know what you mean with Aerosmith, Mandy. It was easier too; the level difficulty wasn't comparable to the other editions.

Thank you for the compliment on my blog! Do you have one?

I am also a huge Guitar hero fan. I got it for the Playstation 2 when it first game out so I have GH1, GH2, GH3, 80's edition and Aerosmith. Also, my in-laws got Rock Band this past fall so now we jam out on those! It's so much fun and addicting.

Oh - we have Aerosmith, too. I forgot about it, because we loaned it to my SIL. I was disappointed in it - wanted it to be better, because we love Aerosmith - but it kind of sucked.
I checked out your blog - it's lots of fun! I'm a VS addict, too.

I also checked out Emily's blog - great photo's!

I was hoping people would link to their blogs! I love reading them...it's a sickness.

Mandy wrote: "Snort, definitely!
But you have to admit, the book was entertaining!
I called it my 'historical smut' ;)

Tisha - another guitar hero fan! yay!
What do you play on? We have a Wii, so we only play..."

YAY! I have the 360 and have III, World Tour, and received the Aerosmith edition as a gift earlier last year. Seems we have more and more in common!

Yay Chicago! Someday I'll come back to you Chicago, someday....

Name: Angie
Where you're from: Small town Ohio
Where you live now: Chicago!
Birthday: March 26
Family: Back in OH
Job: Indy bookstore manager
Hobbies: Reading, movies
Favorite
Book: Hard to say, I love historical, but also mysteries. I try to try a little of everything.
Movie: Now, Voyager (Bette Davis is the best!)
Song: Anything Foo Fighters!
Food: Fried Potatoes (the way mom makes them)
Sport: I'm a great soccer spectator!

Snort, definitely!
But you have to admit, the book was entertaining!
I called it my 'historical smut' ;)

Tisha - another guitar hero fan! yay!
What do you play on? We have a Wii, so we only play GH3 and World Tour.

I'm a bit surprised to see how many of our little group are from outside of America! Typical American perspective, right? Just assuming everyone is from the states...lol
Anyway, I think that's very cool!