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Alright! WTG Catherine! Thank you Mr Elf! ;)
Jennifer, I'll be subbing for jr high band today and tomorrow. Our three music/band teachers have a conference they're going to.
Thanks...Mr Elf...I knew I could count on you! :) I knew I had points...just didn't know how to count them! lol... :)
Is it Friday YET? lol Anxious for next song..... ;)
I think it's just barely Friday where Mr Elf is posting the song from...it will still be a while LOL
Week 2 - ♬ Laid by James (1993) POSSIBLE LINKS
Lyrics: Click here
Video: You Tube clip
Shelf: Obsessed Hero
Word: No bonus word this week.
Good luck!!
I've had a quick look and one of the obvious choices is Fifty Shades of Grey (as I've actually never read it) - author / artist link (and a shelf link as well) but I promised myself that I wouldn't read itI'm thinking Laid Bare - Lauren Dane with a link to the song title / book title. I'm hoping that I'll get a link with the handcuffs in the video clip for a plot point link as well
Laid Bare is a good choice. I may have to use that. Once again this morning my computer is acting wonky and I don't have time to dig before I go to work. I'll look at the shelf and see what I can find while my class watches the rest of The Temptations.
Grrrr getting disgusted can't think this morning! Like Damiellar mentioned above Fifty Shades of Grey would be kinda obvious choice and I haven't read it yet but gonna look a bit more first.
I'll be honest and say I think I'm going to go with a book published in 1993. I've read the first 50 Shades and don't care to read the others (not to mention I read it when it was fanfiction)I think I'll go with one of these...
OK I am pretty sure I have found what I am going to read but wanted to ask if the following would work as well....For Cover (2 Points) - On Cover is a pretty ladies dress and all video showed were dresses
For Plot (3 Points) - the lady in my book kidnaps and holds a man captive and they have passionate love and in the lyrics it has "This bed is on fire
With passionate love" and in the lyrics it seems "she" is obsessed with bossing the guy around and doing what she wants and heck with what he wants....
I've just finished Laid Bare and I'm thinking I could do better for links. I'm thinking I'll brood on it and see if anything else grab me before I write up my review.(and possibly borrow someone else's inspiration)
Jennifer, I would say the plot works. Not sure about the dresses though. I'll let someone else answer that.
This is kind of a weird one. I'm going to have to do some searching on this. Hopefully I'll have something by the end of the day.
After an unfruitful search, I'm going to bite the bullet and read Fifty Shades Freed. It has cover, plot, shelf, and name for a total of 11 points.
after much searching I have settled on Captive of My Desires for the following pointsSetting - 1993---------------6 Points
Name - James (character)-----5 Points
Plot - the lady in my book kidnaps and holds a man captive and they have passionate love and in the lyrics it has "This bed is on fire With passionate love" and in the lyrics it seems "she" is obsessed with bossing the guy around and doing what she wants and heck with what he wants---3 Points
Cover - Dress On Cover--------2 Points
The Cover has not been approved yet but I just re-read the lyrics and it does have "women's clothes" in them.....
Week 2 - ♬ Laid by James (1993)JenniferJ: Captive of My Desires by Johanna Lindsey ♬ POINTS: setting + Name + Plot = 14 ♬ Review HEre
Susan Arrow to the Heart by Jennifer Blake ♬ POINTS: Setting + Plot = 9 ♬ Review Here
Damiellar Fifty Shades Darker by EL James ♬ POINTS: Shelf + Cover + Plot + Name = 11 ♬ review Here
Catherine Fifty Shades Freed by EL James ♬ POINTS: Shelf + Cover + Plot + Name = 11 ♬ review here
Christal Fifty Shades Freed by EL James ♬ POINTS: Shelf + Name + Cover + Plot = 11 ♬ Review Here
TOTAL TEAM POINTS = 56
ooh, ooh ...can I read Reflected in You?!?!?! or I can read Fifty Shades Freed!!!! :)
Catherine, either of those would be great :)
I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet as well as the best I can get for Laid Bare is 7 points (4 - Title + 3 - Plot (used to be together move back together after heroine had to deal with stalker))I'm just downloading
1 - shelf link
2 - mask on cover links to masks in video clip
3 - plot - obssessive, passionate love
5 - author's name matches artist's name
11 points is better than 7... I can do this...somehow
Ok.....I'll read Fifty Shades Freed :)So is that 11 points then?
Yes Catherine. It's 11 points. I'll add your choice and Damiellar's to the weekly post probably tomorrow. I'm already snugly in my bed for the night reading :) Happy reading ladies!
Book:Fifty Shades Darker - E.L. James
Rating: ★★
Finished: 12-Jan-2013
Review:
Ok.. well I read it. I will say that I felt no connection with either Ana or Grey. As the saying goes I'd slap Ana silly except she already is. The character of Grey was definitely not fleshed out. At the most he was two-dimensional. At times I found myself thinking "it's about time for Grey to " and sure enough, next paragraph there you are.
You know how a good book can sweep you along so that the pages almost seem to turn themselves. This wasn't like that.
Each sentence felt like a chore. It was soooo hard to keep my attention on this. The only good thing about it is that I don't feel in the need for Brain Bleach (that's all that saves it from a one star rating)
Links:
SHELF - on "Obsessed Hero" shelf
COVER - mask on cover matches masks in video clip
PLOT - Song is about obsessive, passionate love as is this particular book (even if I personally think it's been done a lot better)
NAME - singer's name "James" matches author's surname (E.L. James)
Individual points: Shelf(1) + Cover(2) + Plot(3) + Name(5) = 11 points
Good review Damiellar! Would love to get some recommendations for the books of dollar tripe that have been done better. I've read Bared to You and lived it, keen to read others.
Did you hear they are making a movie of it?
Which one? Bared to you or fifty shades?
Fifty. I guess they cast the actor already. Can't remember his name; no one with whom I'm familiar.
I wonder if Grey will come across as more "stalker-ific" on the Big Screen and people will realize.
Lisa Kay wrote: "Did you hear they are making a movie of it?"Say it isn't so!!!
not happy!
CaroB wrote: "... Would love to get some recommendations for the books of dollar tripe that have been done better. I've read Bared to You and lived it, keen to read others."I'll look some out...I have a weakness for BAD fiction but they're not exactly the kind of thing that the name sticks in your head.
I read the first Fifty, was disappointed that it hadn't changed from the fanfiction version which I read for free as she posted it. I said I wouldn't read the rest, I knew what happened.
Susan (susayq) wrote: "I read the first Fifty, was disappointed that it hadn't changed from the fanfiction version which I read for free as she posted it. I said I wouldn't read the rest, I knew what happened."I loved the first one and absolutely hated the third one. Why on earth are they making a movie out of them? They are not movie material. It'll be horrible
For them to make a movie it'll have to be XXX rated. There's no way they can make an R rated movie out of this lol I think it will be horrible too.
Rating: 4 stars
Review: Jennifer Blake writes great gothic bodice ripper type romances. She puts twists and turns in the story that keep you guessing till the end of the book.
In this one, the heroine, Katrine, is married to Giles. He's older than her and unable to have chlidren so he decides to hold an old fashioned knight's tournament with jousting and fencing and the such. The winner gets....to sleep with Katrine and get her preggo so Giles can have an heir. Katrine is totally against this. Well, in comes the hero, Rowan. He wins the tournament but has ulterior motives for being there in the first place; his brother was killed on Katrine's plantation the year before and he wants answers. Giles is so obsessed with Katrine having a baby he goes so far as to drug her and trap her naked in a tower with Rowan. Rowan and Katrine fall in love and the get their HEA, but it's not without complications and surprises galore.
LINKS:
Setting (6 pts) = published in 1993
Plot (3 pts) = please look at this post and let me know if I can count this as plot LOL my plea for plot points
TOTAL POINTS = 9 (I hope)
Susan, you had me at "He's gone so far as to drug her, strip her and leave her locked in a tower with the guy, who's naked as well." I'll takethat as obsessed hero plot (plese note it doesn't count for shelf because it wasn't on that shelf).
Apologies ladies, I forgot to mention that I've updated your dance card in Post #2 of this thread. 
Congrats Teal We Read Again, you got 50 points for your first week of the game.
CaroB wrote: "Susan, you had me at "He's gone so far as to drug her, strip her and leave her locked in a tower with the guy, who's naked as well." I'll takethat as obsessed hero plot (plese note it doesn't coun..."
Thanks :)
Woohoo for us! 50 points!!
hope to be done by Mon!!!! :) going crazy :)
♬ Week 2 Song: "Laid" by James (1993)
Book: Fifty Shades Freed
Rating: ★★
Finished: 13-Jan-2013
Review: Well, I finished the trilogy at least. Anna and Christian were as messed up and infuriating as ever. I thought the writing was a little better but the expression "Hmmm" was overused in this one.
*Links:
PLOT: Book is about obsessive, controlling relationship
COVER: Handcuffs match video
NAME: Author last name matches band name
SHELF: Obsessed Hero
Individual points: Shelf(1) + Cover(2) + Plot(3) + Name(5) = 11 points
It's Monday morning here, I hope you ladies have a great week! I'm making Butterfinger cupcakes today for my daughter's birthday. She's 13 *sigh* Only one left who's not a teenager (or older). it goes too quickly.I spent yesterday cleaning out my closet looking for an outfit to wear to a job interview next Tuesday. My girls helped me narrow it down, my BFF is supposed to come by today and give her opinion LOL I may bring several outfits and see what my mom says LOL
Week 2 - ♬ Laid by James (1993)
Book: Captive of My Desires by Johanna Lindsey
Rating: **
Finished: 1/13/13
Review: I'm sorry but it was all I could do to get thru this book. It was just quite boring and dragged then on parts that I may have enjoyed reading like Gabrielle's time spent with her father it skipped over and quickly advanced us into the future.
I didn't really care for any of the characters one way or the other but I especially never took a liking to James who to me always came off snooty although he used to be a pirate himself. The only time I really got excited about the entire story was when Gabrielle kidnapped James's brother in law because she needed his ship but also because she had decided he was the man she wanted to marry and for shaming her at one of her high society parties she felt she owed him some payback and humiliation of her pirating his ship.
Links:
PLOT: Woman so oncessed with making man her husband she kidnaps him, pirates his ship, and has passionate love with him at sea!
NAME: Has character named James.
SETTING: First published in 1993.
CaroB wrote: "Good review Damiellar! Would love to get some recommendations for the books of dollar tripe that have been done better. I've read Bared to You and lived it, keen to read others."CaroB, have you read Tiffany Reisz's Original Sinners series that starts with The Siren? I haven't personally read them but one of my fellow book bloggers absolutely adores them and says they are much better than FSoG.
Susan (susayq) wrote: "It's Monday morning here, I hope you ladies have a great week! I'm making Butterfinger cupcakes today for my daughter's birthday. She's 13 *sigh* Only one left who's not a teenager (or older). it..."Butterfinger cupcakes?!? Ummmm.... yum! That sounds delicious.
Good luck with your job interview; I'm sure you'll do great, Susan. :)
JenniferJ sorry you didn't like your book. Have you read any others in that series? Christal, I feel your pain about Ana and Christian. :)
Thanks Christal. And the Butterfinger cupcakes were Harley's choice. I'll post a pic when I'm finished with them :)
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This time though, I've noticed that there are a few backstory scenes that take place in a war zone, so you have been awarded 3 points for plot, and 1 point for shelf.