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Feb 23, 2014 11:58AM
I love Godive chocolate especially the raspberry filled ones! Healthy foods wise I love tabouli.
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Peanut butter everything! !!
I hear ya Manuela. That is why I brought up fostering. As you had mentioned it not being much of an option to have your own. But working with kids even if they aren't yours, at times makes the difference. We are here for you all the same though Manuela. -massive hulk hugs-
Manuela wrote: "Well, I am turning 44 this year and so far no kids in sight... :("Adoption is always an option if you're ok with that. Seems like you may have your hands full though. I'm 43 and never in my dreams thought I'd be a mother again at my age. My two eldest are 21 and 22(both born on July 9th, and no, October is not a good month for me). In May I'll be a grandmother too. My daughter is trying to make me old!!! I told her that I am too young and sexy to be a grandma...lol She called me old and decrepit! She's gonna get that special hug called a headlock when I get home!
Rebecca wrote: "I love peanut butter in any shape or form. especially peanut butter m&ms. I also love heal yogurt. There is a strawberry cheesecake one that I love."I love the Raspberry M&Ms
Dhfan4life wrote: "I hear ya Manuela. That is why I brought up fostering. As you had mentioned it not being much of an option to have your own. But working with kids even if they aren't yours, at times makes the diff..."Thanks Honey Bun :) ~bear hugs~
@Manuela, raspberry M&M's? I don't think I have heard of that and I loooooove M&M's.
@Shari, Peanut Butter rocks! Reese's Cups are my favorite healthy addiction. :)
@Shari, Peanut Butter rocks! Reese's Cups are my favorite healthy addiction. :)
Nette wrote: "Manuela wrote: "Well, I am turning 44 this year and so far no kids in sight... :("Adoption is always an option if you're ok with that. Seems like you may have your hands full though. I'm 43 and..."
Adoption is not an option anymore as we are both in our mid 40s and here in Oz it is so hard at that age to adopt. Fostering sounds good but I don't know if I could let the kids go once I have put my heart in it. Adopting foreign babies is too expensive (unless of course I win in Lotto). But thanks anyways for all the positive thoughts. :)
Marta wrote: "@Manuela, raspberry M&M's? I don't think I have heard of that and I loooooove M&M's.@Shari, Peanut Butter rocks! Reese's Cups are my favorite healthy addiction. :)"
got a bag in the fridge right now. :)
Lol Manuela, will need to look for those...yum
well come down under, they sell them at woolies
Marta wrote: "@Manuela, raspberry M&M's? I don't think I have heard of that and I loooooove M&M's.@Shari, Peanut Butter rocks! Reese's Cups are my favorite healthy addiction. :)"
OMG Reese's Cups. I've always wanted to eat them. But we don't have sth like them here :(
New Question: Have you ever had a moment you wished you captured for one of the funniest home video shows?
I seen this pic on one of my favorite blogs and I had a horrible thought so I asked the Facebook Menyons this question and wanted to see how the lovely Goodreads Menyons would respond.
How do you think you'd feel when the Dark Hunter series finally ends!? How do you feel when any of your favourite series end!?
Dude, the breathe just left my body for a time after reading that question. I don't know what I'd do other than need to be put into an assisted living home after I break down. O_O
Lol right! I seen it and immediately thought to myself, what am I gonna do when the Dark Hunter series end!? :-( I don't think ive ever read another series that has me so loyal to it. I think my heart would break a little when it's all over
I think will be the first time that I ever get to do a re-read of a series I like.
Dhfan4life wrote: "New Question: Have you ever had a moment you wished you captured for one of the funniest home video shows?"LOL ironically i have a couple of those moments. just never attempted to send em in to that show.
Lol, same here. And most you just have to be there to truly get.
Dhfan4life wrote: "Lol, same here. And most you just have to be there to truly get."haha XD
No, no, no, I don't wanna think about the end of Dark Hunters :D!
I am hanging already in the ropes over a few series that stopped although there were a lot more characters to explore. and I have to admit that everytime I see a post by Sherry that she is ill or that she will travel by plane to some signing that something terrible is going to happen to her. I quickly drown those thoughts but they resurface again and again.
I actually like it when an author ends a series while it is still good instead of going on and on and the series gets worse and repetitive. So far the series I read that ended weren't that good anymore towards the end so I didn't care too much.
So it would be like a bittersweet satisfaction for you, Sarah!? Have it end while its still good. I have only read a couple of series where it went on for 3 or 4 books too long. I stay away from series that are as long or longer than SK's. If I had discovered her now as a potential read, I wouldn't have bothered since her series is so long.
And yes, Manuela. I have that fear as well. SK very easily gets sick and I know she has a couple of medical disorders that doesn't make her life all that easy so I get worried that it might get very bad for her
Ya know while I said earlier I would have like a mental break down when the DH series ends. I honestly have to say that, if it were to end because SK was too ill or passed on or heaven forbid whatever else out of her control, kept her from finishing the series I don't think I would be super upset. Not to say I would do a back flip cause I don't know what happens with this or that character. But at the same time when you step back from it all and think about how great of a series she would have left behind in general is just amazing. Sure she isn't the next Poe, or whomever that has written such phenomenal classics. But for what she does, in her style, Sherrilyn Kenyon will forever rule in the minds, hearts, and memories of so many people. So I think even if the series didn't end up being finished it would still go down as tops to far more people than most other books out there.
Heck, I don't even recall half as much theorizing and talking and imagining done for one romance series in my life as SK's books. So I think with all that alone would keep SK's work alive if it either finishes prematurely or naturally.
Sarah ♥ Vutch forever ♥ wrote: "I actually like it when an author ends a series while it is still good instead of going on and on and the series gets worse and repetitive. So far the series I read that ended weren't that good a..."
And I've seen series just up and end before it was fully fleshed out cause the writing/style wasn't there to keep it afloat. I think it's sad either way if the story goes on a little too long or never reaches a real plateau either, especially if it's a shorter series.
Shari-amor wrote: "So it would be like a bittersweet satisfaction for you, Sarah!?"Yes, I think you could call it that.
Ok I am sorry if I am butting in some ongoing discussion, but I need to know if you guys are annoyed, when you read a free book, but the quality of the writing is so bad, that it takes away from the story itself? I am reading "Not just Play" right now by Warick Love and the writer jumps between past tense and present tense so badly, that it hurts to read it. :(
I would say I get annoyed. But then I remember it's free and if it's truly that bad I'm happy to not finish and just delete it. No need to waste more time.
Yes I do get annoyed when the writing quality in a book is horrible. Just because it's free is no excuse for it to not have been edited or proofread whether it's professionally done, by a beta reader or something.
True, no excuse for not getting it properly edited. I just know there is no sense of getting myself too frustrated about it, when delete is so much faster.
I know and I have done so in the past but I am worried that books I am paying for are the same. And the story is promising.
It's like a pain when it starts in present tense, then changes to past and after a few sentences goes back to present. Makes my head spin.
Unfortunately I think it is the risk we take these days as readers unfortunately. I mean in the days of most independent authors not taking the time out to proofread or have the backing for editors. We as the readers are subjected to junk reads at times. Very unfortunate.
I've actually had a book do that to me. Switch back and forth between the past and present tense. It drove me nuts. It would happen in weird places and at random times.
Oh, I had one book that wasn't even real English, I mean the words were English words but there was not sentence structure nor was there a correct time or spelling, so I deleted that one as well. But a lot of writers seem to do that nowadays, to mix up past and present tense and it just annoys me thoroughly.
I think pending on the feel of the story I could over look it. But I've read one story before that totally swapped between 3 different POVs out of nowhere. Started out very well in first person. Then out of nowhere just cause the main character got a love interest the author suddenly decided mid and random vacation sequence to switch over to him. And talking about how he felt about his partner finding someone attractive etc. And then when they came into a situation where they were going to foster a teenage boy. There was like a two paragraph switch to his mindset as well. Now don't get me wrong I'm used to switching character takes on things. But not at the most random of times. Especially when the author didn't really have much justification for it and it didn't really add much to the story.
If anything, the author could have switched between the main character and his mother's perspective whom featured in the story a little bit more often than the love interest for a time or the teenage boy. But nada from her side. So really made the story rather weird to me.
Hahahaha, yeah I know what you mean. I have to remind everyone that English is my second language and I am (even if I am pretty fast nowadays) still translating in my head and when the spelling mistakes make a totally different word out of the blue that has nothing to do with the story line I am like WTF?!?!? If it happens once in a book I am overreading it. I am not fuzzy (or is it fussy?) and it doesn't even show in my rating but when it happens constantly and my fav is "he" and "her" and I have to go back to re-read a paragraph because I lost the plot and wonder when a male-female discussion became a male-male one, or better why would he do this to himself, then I think the writer should take the book off the market and/or get it re-edited asap for re-publishing. ~shaking my head just thinking about the last book I read~
I think self publishing is a great avenue for new authors who are having trouble getting a publisher to sign them on, however I really feel whatever language you write in, take refresher courses in grammar, sentence structure, and creative writing. I remember an author saying it doens't matter how great of an idea you have for a story, if you can't write well no one will want to read it. It doesn't matter if it is free. I have free books that made me feel like i wasted my time on when I should have found something else to read.
My hat is off to you and Bo. You guys definitely make English seem like MY second language most days lol. Haha yea you mean fussy. Think of fuzzy in relation to hair or fur references. ;) But totally read you loud and clear on the he and her stuff. I had the damndest time reading the Study series by Maria S. Snyder. Cause her commander/leader character definitely seemed to be going through a sex change or was a sudden hermaphrodite and I missed it happening some how.Tenses aside though, I just am not a major fan of when it seems like the author has a scene planned out in their minds and yet when they write it. They still don't go back and double check to make sure it makes sense. As I've come across a few romantic comedy books before that try to keep the funny stuff going strong. But when it comes to tracking down clues or having a particular love scene. Quite a few things get lost in translation.
Namely in a book I read before, where there is a set of 5 people crouching in a hall way watching a 6th character in a bedroom use powers in some kind of trance(and afraid of her). Then out of nowhere, two of the main characters in said hall way are looking at each other, go in for a kiss, and getting it on in the hallway like nobody else is around. I swore I re-read that scene many times, and there is still no real excuse for such a scene like that happening unless the main couple is a set of instant exhibitionists that don't know when the right time to get it on.
Ora wrote: "I think self publishing is a great avenue for new authors who are having trouble getting a publisher to sign them on, however I really feel whatever language you write in, take refresher courses in..."Well said on all 3 of your points there Ora. Not just about the grammar and sentence structure, but also the creative writing classes. I know not everyone is going to be the next Stephen King or Edgar Allen Poe. But seriously for newbie writers and authors, I pray to the heavens above, please make sure your scenes and characters/their motives make sense.
As I really hate when you have a world or characters set up so beautifully and the story is going along awesomely. But out of nowhere the author seems to think, let's chuck my own rules and sprinkle in random craziness to spice things up that don't make sense. That more than anything I don't like. I'm pretty flexible on fictional leeway and willing to go where an author wishes to take me. But if you can't drive the story the way you initially set it up, please let someone else take the wheel.
Yeah, you know the star wars effect? Han Solo, when he gets frozen into the carbonite, his hands are bound but when he comes out of the freezer in his nice square box his hands are extended forward, no bindings in sight. He is wearing a black vest, he is not, he is, when Leia defrosts him he is not wearing it... Well you get my drift. I read one of these short sex stories (was just in the mood for it) and here the hero is bound to the bed head board and all of the sudden his hands move up her hips. I had to re-read that one as I thought he had been released and I eagerly had just skipped it, but no, no magic and after that his hands were bound again. And that wasn't the only thing in that short story.
Dhfan4life wrote: "But if you can't drive the story the way you initially set it up, please let someone else take the wheel...."Lol is it wrong that my immediate thought was to let Jesus take the wheel!?
I wish some of these self-pubbed "authors" could read this discussion. It's nice to see all of my complaints being aired by readers who are *not* also writers.I'm a novelist, unpublished but on the submission trail, and I don't read self-pubbed stuff unless it's from a traditionally published author I trust. Like reading Clock and Silence. I've been burned every single time I've tried to read one. I end up not finishing it. I've only paid for one, and it's the only time I've left a one star review. It was HORRIBLE.
The tense issues drive me crazy. The lack of proper point of view drives me crazy. The terrible writing drives me crazy. The lackluster or totally unbelievable plots drive me crazy. The half-formed characters drive me crazy. Just because you can write 50,000 words, slap it on Kindle or Smashwords and call it a book, does not make the person an author. Or even a writer.
I've spent years and thousands of dollars learning the craft of writing. It's my passion, and I want to do it right. I'm not taking a shortcut quick fix because I've been submitting for a year and a half with no bites yet.
Self-publishing does have a place in the publishing world. But that place is not for people to slap up dreck that readers have to wade through.
Shari-amor wrote: " Dhfan4life wrote: "But if you can't drive the story the way you initially set it up, please let someone else take the wheel...."Lol is it wrong that my immediate thought was to let Jesus take th..."
LOL, not in the least. But I don't think Jesus is behind some of these wheels. More like the Mad Hatter, haha.
Rachel wrote: "I wish some of these self-pubbed "authors" could read this discussion. It's nice to see all of my complaints being aired by readers who are *not* also writers.I'm a novelist, unpublished but on t..."
You are welcome Rachel. ;)
I am a self... confessing READER ONLY!!!. Yes you put it all in nice English for me. I only can say DITTO.
Unfortunately I am a cheapskate and I love to one-click the freebies on amazon. Surprisingly about 80% of the books I got so far are alright sometimes even better than good. A lot show big potential but then there are those who make me honestly wonder, what possessed them in the first place to think that they can write. LOL I have stories in my head, I have ideas and characters talk to me all the time. In no way do I have an inclination to pen them to paper. Maybe one day I tell a very good author of my ideas and let them have a go at them. LOL
Borrowing from another group on this one. New Question: How bad are you?http://www.buzzfeed.com/tanyachen/how...
I'm Rih-Rih bad. 26 out of 69
Haha I got 20. But still young enough to get more as I go along.
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