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Wednesday Update (Bunnies, Popsicles and Grand Finales)

1) I finished my second book yesterday! Sweet Magik is finally done...76,000 words of hot, hunky Klaus boys, elfin spells and demon slaying. Phew. I am soooooo ready for summer vacation!
2) I read Ava Gray's Skin Tight and was pretty surprised. It was a good, solid suspense story but nothing like the edgy, intense, gripping Skin Game. I thought Foster and Mia would be another wild ride, but it was much more of a traditional novel...almost....mellow??? I was expecting Bonnie and Clyde, but...

Happy Release Day, Sam Wayland!

Big, huge congratulations to fellow Quirky Lady Sam Wayland, whose debut novel is out today! Yay, Sam! With Grace is a sexy, emotional menage story...it's hot, it's touching, and that guy on the cover has a nice scruffy beard thing going on.....see it!
Here's the blurb for Sam's wonderful story...please stop by next week for Penelope's review.
BLURB FOR WITH GRACE.....

Grace loves her boyfriend, Philip, she loves her job, and she might just love her boss, but she can ignore that. She and...

Penelope Ponders her Plethora of Pet Peeves

Cougar stories.
Cougars, in general.
Over-use of the words c**k and p***y in erotica. Come on people, get a thesaurus!
Over-abundance of ARC reviews. Release day is losing the magic.
Reading PDF files on my Kindle. My eyes! My eyes! Am I blind yet?
Authors who crank out 2000 words/day while I struggle with one freakin' scene. In a week.
When my expectations exceed reality for a new release.
Bunny poop in my front yard.
Bunnies taunting my wiener dog.
Run-away wiener dogs.
Unnecessary repetition in...

Happy Memorial Day!

Happy Memorial Day!
I hope all of you are having a wonderful weekend. I am currently re-reading Saving Grace by Julie Garwood, and entertaining four frolicking children....hee hee! We will be heading out to the pool shortly, where I will be hiding under an umbrella with my romance novel while the kids swim like little fish.
All My Best,Penelope

Reading Update

I am having a good reading streak! I finished Goddess of the Hunt by Tessa Dare this week, and I loved it. Not a lot of plot...it's all about the characters. (Which is fine with me!) I also just started an ARC of Annette Blair's newest mystery, Death by Diamonds , and it's adorable. I love Annette's snappy, fun "voice" and her wonderful descriptions of the vintage clothing make me wanna go shopping in a big, bad way.
Emily Bryan's newest book, Stroke of Genius , is out and I added it to my TBR...

Ack! Ack! Ack! (Review of Changeless by Gail Carriger)

Changeless by Gail Carriger
ACK! (We'll get back to that in a minute).
I am officially a Gail Carriger addict. In a million years, I could not imagine finding a series that is so perfectly suited to my personality. Carriger's writing is the perfect blend of humor, satire, history, sexiness, imaginative steampunk inventions, paranormality, and let's not forget the stunning outfits! (hee hee hee)....
The characters are delicious. The mystery is filled with chills, spills (and I do mean that...

Beard of the Day

Here's a classic...as in "Star Wars" classic! Liam Neeson, who has a delicious, buttery accent and a tall, commanding presence that makes me swoon, had a rockin' beard in The Phantom Menace (which happens to be my favorite part of the series). The scene where Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) fight Darth Maul is one of the most bad-ass, coolest action sequences ev-ah. The music, the intensity, the double light saber. The cool martial arts. I especially love the part when they...

Super Quickie Review of the Highly Rockable Book Soulless by Gail Carriger

Soulless by Gail Carriger
I honestly don't care what steampunk means. I don't care what "genre" this book falls into....comedic steampunk paranormal/fantasy romance? Who the hell cares?
All I know is the second I started to read it, I realized I was falling in love with this book. It has everything I could ever want in a novel...excellent writing, awesome tongue-in-cheek humor, fantastic characters, super sexy chemistry, a nice little mystery, spine-tingling suspense, and my favorite....the...

How Do You Feel About Alien Sex?

I'm actually feeling pretty good about it right now.
I just finished reading Solange Ayre's Star Bride series... One Thousand Brides , Bride Reborn , and Bride's Holiday Gift . I liked this author so much I also got Wizard's Woman --seriously, that Kindle is deadly! I inhaled these 4 stories in 24 hours.
Ayre's "aliens" resemble earth boys in many ways, but they also have a few differences. Furry ears, a pelt of fur on their backs, a cylindrical-shaped penis head, and a really good jumping...

Beard of the Day

Beard of the Day goes to.....Robin Hood! It sort of goes without saying that Robin was way too busy stealing from the rich and giving to the poor to have time to shave. Come on.
Russell Crowe is a fine Robin. Here are some more...




Kevin Costner gets an "F" since he's clean shaven. Give me a break.




This is Jonas Armstrong in the 2006 BBC television version of Robin Hood. Love his beard, his sexy and mysterious look. Oh yeah, A+!!!!




Finally, here is Kermit as Robin Hood. Unfortunately, frogs...