Douglas’s Comments (group member since Jun 15, 2017)

Douglas’s comments from the Read, Reading, Planning to Read and More group.

Still reading In a Holidaze and it one of those books that I want to put down and read something a bit more exciting but it has just enough things going on I know I would not be able to stop thinking about it so I keep reading and wonder where the hell this story is going.

After the amazing The Ippos King I had to have something WAY different to avoid book hangover and this one has been gathering edust in my TBR for months (maybe over a year) but it was the perfect break and it is a Cinderella story at its heart and I am always a sucker for those (she even loses her shoes at the ball) but from the subtitle (an Accidental Pregnancy Story) you can guess where this is going, lot of hidden story I am just getting to, not a bad start although the prince is a bit of an ass but I see signs of the hero we know he is going to be LOL

Bad Prince

Monadh wrote: "For those whose TBR pile isn't big enough, Lindsay Buroker's Sinister Magic is free (today) on Amazon. It's the first book in her great UF series Death Before Dragons, set in the Pa..."

Just what I needed, another book I can't get time to read :) I had an empty slot in my KU list and it fit perfectly .

Well just an ARC for this since Groundhog Day is one of my all time favorites

In a Holidaze

Well been super busy to the point The Ippos King which normally I would have polished off in 1 day is on day 3 and since I am still a book addict I had to buy this one today if someone will send me some time I will get to read it :) Sounded like a good story

A Winter Wish

I have had Spinning Silver in my TBR forever, sounds like I need to get to it soon.

DemetraP wrote: "Has anyone read a good historical lately? Except for Lisa Kleypas and Kerrigan Byrne authors I can't find a good historical in the past year or so. Mary Balogh is good but haven't liked her past fe..."

Have you read Julia Quinn? Her Bridgerton series is excellent

Sigh, ok for 2 days running i have tried to buy a book I already owned ....

ok, I am officially losing it, I am used to trying to buy books and seeing i bought it last year but now I tried to buy a book I bought 3 days ago

Monadh wrote: "Now I have to brag, too, since I finally made the top 10'000 on Amazon.com (though I am aware that it fades in comparison to Doug's accomplishment). But I made it thru book reviews alone. Now I hav..."

Congratulations, we all had to start someplace, I actually made the Top 1000 only on book reviews so it can be done (not sure how many years that took), the Amazon VINE Program is what got me into product reviews

Well I have some ARCs that are not due until down in Nov so I get to read some of Doug's stuff (we will not speak of the TBR) so I bought 2 books and enjoyed this one The Heiress's Deception it is part of a series that is actually 2 series in a row about 2 competing clubs in London in the regency era and it was really good but some of the others were better. I had read the first 2 books in this series when they came out and was waiting for more and forgot about it, now there are about 6 book and so I grabbed this one today Manhattan Dragon the stories in the first 2 were really good even if the writing needed a bit of work, hope she has gotten better because the synopsis sounded really good.

re: Lupi series - I also was a big fan but it just dragged on so long I just drifted away, it seemed to have lost any direction it had

Just a note about that ceramic tile that looks like wood, we used it in our sunroom and if installed correctly it DOES look like wood but we were afraid it might be slick when wet since it is an entryway to the backyard so we got one of these to put down at the sliding doors but it looks amazing and you have to look really close to realize it is not wood.

(I love this also since you can clean it with the outdoor hose and let it dry in the sun) I am sure other people besides Sam's sells them

https://www.samsclub.com/p/members-ma...

Monadh wrote: "What are back cover reviews and how is that cheating?.."

There used to be what was supposed to be an old lady that read sometimes dozens of books a day, it became obvious that many/most/all of her reviews were using information that could be obtained from the back cover of the books. I read an article that said her son ran a bookstore and they sold the books there (obviously this was before the popular advent of Kindle) and so the term "back cover review" came about and I can't remember the name they used for so many years, it was a joke to most readers but since she only left 5 Star reviews for the books, no publisher or author cared. The name was Harriet Klusman or something like that

HappyBookWorm2020 wrote: "Douglas, I appreciate so much that you like historical romance. It's one of my favorite genres. Have you ever tried Carla Kelly?..."

I find they have more humor than most genres and I love to laugh, if they have no humor I tend not to like the ones that lack it but the ones that Kerrigan Byrne writes are almost like the old adventure type books with a bit more romance thrown in.

Still one of you :) In more mundane news I have started this one since I liked book 1 so well A Night Like This

Well this popped up on my profile on Amazon today and you guys are about the only people I can brag about it :) It will be short lived since it was a bit of a quest, I am going back to reading books at my leisure, you have no idea the backlog of stuff I still have to review but I was curious to see if you could actually do it without doing "back cover" reviews and other ways to cheat. You can but it consumes almost all free time of your days and nights. I had more fun at Top Reviewer #1000 :) (you also get tons of emails from people you never heard of wanting you to review their book/product)

Douglas C. Meeks
HALL OF FAME #8
TOP 10 REVIEWER
VINE VOICE

Well, as expected Emerald Blaze was awesome, I could read about this cast of characters all day for a month

Well I am just starting Emerald Blaze I was just about 25% into Just Like Heaven and had to finish it (it was very good and will probably read the next one after Emerald Blaze

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "I bet the moment I cancel it will be published so I'll hang on..."

I am going to leave my preorder there until the book or a cancellation arrives, probably will have forgot who these people are by then