Jennefer’s Comments (group member since Mar 12, 2010)

Jennefer’s comments from the Bodice Ripper Readers Anonymous group.

Started this tonight, just a couple chapters in but I am excited! I think it is going to be a good one!

Tammy wrote: "Hi all - I know it's not technically a bodice ripper (it was set in 1979) but I reviewed The Insiders and included our blurb. The story itself is SO old skool bodice ripper that I t..."

This campaign is for any and all books that need reviews! Thanks for sharing and participating and great job on the review!!!!

Karla wrote: "I'm on it all the time at work and I'm lucky in that I work at an academic library, where pretty much all sites are go. Nothing's blocked, afaik.

I order and process books for a living - there's n..."

Oh I am soooooo jealous! I need to get a gig like that! :)

I have an office job that is annoyingly monotonous and boring with a large bank. Ugh... why on earth do I work for a bank? It does not fit my personality at all and I need to find something else! But it is stable with good benefits and in these tough times that is pretty wonderful. Hard to remember that on a day to day basis tho. Anyway... today they finally figured out that GoodReads is a "time waster" site and they added it to their very long list of blocked sites. *sigh* Now what I am I going to do all day?

Just curious, does anyone else stop in here at GoodReads while at work or is that a big no-no?

Welcome to the group BJ! Hope you find some great rec's here! :)

Tammy wrote: "I'm curious - do all of you re-read favourite books or is once the only time? ..."


I always think I will re-read more than I actually do. I have re-read books like Anne of Green Gables and Kilmany of the Orchard that I read when I was a kid.... I dont think I have ever re-read anything I originaly read as an adult (but I always seem to hang onto them thinking one day I will LOL)

This has been a very enlightening post for me! LOL I get the concept, like I said I learned how to speed read in school for assigned reading, I know you can get all the information that way and you will not miss anything..... but, but, but.... why not savor every word for pleasure reading? I am not trying to get information here, I am reading a story for fun! I guess I can see it, I just can not imagine ever chosing to do that myself!

There you go Karla! Got it uploaded (and a bunch more that I had! I think I spent 2 or 3 hours uploading covers and updating descriptions this afternoon LOL)

I think I have a scanner up in a closet somewhere someone gave us that we never hooked up to our computer cuz we didn't have a use for it (my hubby and I, I think it was his aunt that gave it to us).... I am going to try to convince him to hunt it down and hook it up for me so I can scan it and others that I have. Now that I have my handy dandy librarian status I can put that thing to use! :)

Did some book shopping this weekend.... library book sale.... like I am not going to check that out no matter how many books I have! (and a stop by the used book store... shhhh... don't tell my hubby)

White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
The President's Lady: A Novel about Rachel and Andrew Jackson by Irving Stone
Forever and Always by Jude Deveraux
Anya: A Novel by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
Fever Pitch by Sarah Holland
Bonds of Enchantment by Marian Jones
Jade: A Novel of China by Pat Barr
Centennial by James A. Michener
Fire's Lady by Barbara Bretton
Hungry Hill by Daphne du Maurier
Small Changes by Marge Piercy
An Indecent Obsession by Colleen McCullough
A Garden of Earthly Delights by Joyce Carol Oates
The Exiles by William Stuart Long
The Hat on the Bed by John O'Hara
Whispers on the Nile by David Wolman
Deceived by Bertrice Small
Answer As a Man by Taylor Caldwell
Passion's Raging Storm by Sylvie F. Sommerfield
The Duchess by Jude Deveraux
Captive Secrets by Fern Michaels
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Sofia by Ann Chamberlin

*Whew* All of this for $14... maybe I should come clean with my hubby.... like he could get upset over 14 bucks! (I'm kidding, he does not care.... but I like to try to avoid the crazy looks he gives me when I get all excited over my recent finds, lol)

You got some goodies there! I see you have Passion by Lisa Valdez and A Kingdom of Dreams by Judith McNaught in there... a couple of my faves! :) And The Kadin by Bertrice Small, nice! Oh, and some Deidre Knight.... I loved her contemporary romance Butterfly Tattoo and have been wanting to check out her PNR series! Oh I am so jealous! The Bronze Horseman! A Knight in Shinning Armor! Oh, so jealous! :)

Happy reading Tonya!

People skim read???? What? It never even occurred to me to do that! I used to do the speed reading thing in school for assigned reading but never ever in my pleasure reading! I am with Karla, I would rather toss a book for a good one that skim a bad one. I do occasionally skim ahead to see whats going on like you Tonya, but I pick right back up where I left off and read it word for word. I have been known to skim read the last chapter of a book before I get there if I am starting to doubt that the characters are heading towards an HEA. Sometimes I need a little assurance that everything is going to be ok :)

Hide My Savage Heart by Gimone Hall


Check out my review here.

Loved this one! I also have Jasmine Veil by this author which just got bumped up nearer the top of Mt. TBR. I am really excited to read more of her work!

Got another one reviewed! Loved this one! 5 stars!
Hide My Savage Heart by Gimone Hall
my review

I have another book of hers that is going to be bumped up my TBR and if that one is as good as this one was, well I am going to have to hunt down some more of her work!

I am really trying to do my best with this! I have a hard time writing reviews, but I think it is a good thing to do! So I try :)

I was at the library the other day and as I was browsing I noticed a bunch of James Bond books on the shelf with these sexy re-issue covers. I didn't realize they were so short (200 pages or so)! So a grabbed a couple to check out. Anybody read any of these? I think they will be fun!

Acornn wrote: "...I'm not liking this book too much. When I first read it six years ago, I remember liking it a lot when I finished it. Now, I don't really care for it. I'm just really annoyed by it and can't wait to finish it. I'm nearing the end and can't wait to read the 'extended' ending in the rewritten version..."


Isn't it funny how your opinion of some books can change so drastically! I'm sorry you are not enjoying it as much this time. :( I will be interested to hear what you think of the extended ending.

Love your new avatar by the way Karla! Sexy! :)

Karla wrote: "Hah, wow. And I wonder if this soothed the anti-rape readers, or if they saw it as the blatant ploy it was? :D"

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Thats what I say! Just so we are clear I don't mind the scene as it was at all, I am ok with this kind of stuff in my fiction.... but if McNaught thinks that Whitney verbally saying she wants to have sex was the big offensive thing in that scene then she just does not get it! There is a line where she is starting to kinda get into it and he stops what he was doing to her and says something like "I don't want you to enjoy this too much now"... yikes! That line is left in the new version and apparently is ok! If she verbally says she wants to have sex then it is perfectly ok for him to be out to physically and mentally hurt and humiliate her! LOL I mean really!

***spoiler****

When I read this a couple of months ago I also picked up a copy of the new edition to compare this scene. There is a very slight difference just before they have sex where you are reading everything that is going through Whitney's mind about how she knew that he was going to rape her and this was her punishment yada yada yada which is all the same in the new and old. but then in the new right after you read everything that was going through her mind it say "But she was wrong" at that point he is prepared to stop but then Whitney verbaly says that she is ok and she wants it. It is only a couple of lines inserted so that Whitney actually gives her verbal consent to have sex so that it is not a rape, but everything else is the same and just as brutal.

I love all of those Jeanine! And yes on the brothers as the Capitol One guys! LOL That is perfect!