Need a good historical romance. Other genres too. discussion
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Discussion of HR and other books. And recs.
I’m reading this on my iPad. As usual, some of my previous message isn’t visible to me. In case I need to repeat it - the amusing review was by OLT.
HappyBookWorm2020 wrote: "Well, I have some good news. Supposedly Servpro is going to start working on our house next week. I have been wondering when it would get started. I also found my son health insurance since he is..."
Grrreat!
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Glad for your good news!
Danker wrote: "I’m reading this on my iPad. As usual, some of my previous message isn’t visible to me. In case I need to repeat it - the amusing review was by OLT."Lol, Danker. I remembered nothing about that story or my review and so went looking on Amazon. Amazing that it was on the first page of reviews. Old reviews are usually relegated to the very last pages. I have at times looked for some of my old reviews and can't usually find them anymore on Amazon. At least here on GR they are easily accessible.
Have you done a reread of Lord Ruin? I remember liking it a lot the first time I read it, but there are some things I would probably have strong objections to in my old age.
Thanks, Obama, as my son would say. It helps that he is young. Am glad that things are moving on your house, HBW.
It's Mimi Matthews' new release day. Yay. Hope it's good. Also, for anyone interested, you can get a recent Mary Balogh HR, the first in her new series, for only $2.99. That's about as low as you can go for a Balogh HR. Remember Love
Well, I just went to the GR reviews of Remember Love. Sounds as if it is just barely and maybe not even worth three bucks.
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think. But 48 pages: too short for me.
A bit of good news is always welcome HBW.
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think. But 48 pages: too short for me."
Where is this review?"
On Amazon, per the post by Danker.
Danker wrote: "I’m reading this on my iPad. As usual, some of my previous message isn’t visible to me. In case I need to repeat it - the amusing review was by OLT."I always enjoyed your reviews. OLT has just about stopped.
OLT - I need psychoanalysis regarding why I have re-read Lord Ruin three times. In many ways he is repulsive. The first sex scene is vile. (It’s almost as though I expect things to have changed since I last read it 😂😂.)However, I will never re-read Surrender to Ruin, even though I looked forward to reading it for aeons. Bracebridge owned a brothel - that’s a no-no for me. And he treats Emily appallingly.
Go to Carolyn Jewel’s website and Moonlight can be read for free.
I read the new Mimi Matthews yesterday, and it was a bit of fluff. I really liked the first 2 in this series. The characters in this book felt a bit shallow to me, but it won't stop me reading the next title. I think the heroine's brothers could make good books, especially the oldest two.
Roberta2 wrote: "I read the new Mimi Matthews yesterday, and it was a bit of fluff. I really liked the first 2 in this series. The characters in this book felt a bit shallow to me, but it won't stop me reading the ..."And I read (am trying to finish, that is) that Mary Balogh HR on sale that I mentioned here. Just to refresh my memory about my not liking her writing style and plots and characters, I guess. Yep, don't like. This one was dull, repetitive, boring, lacking any spark, etc. Well, with those adjectives I could be describing myself, but then that's the reason I want to read something that's the opposite of me.
I like books with a bit of humour.I have just read Wendy Vella series Sinclair and Raven. I enjoyed each book 1 to 10 .
I have read books that have started well then got boring in the middle. Wendy books have kept my interest. Family loyalty, fun characters and mysteries.
I think she will be my author to go to, when I am in a slump .
My first historical romance authors were Mary Balogh then Eloisa James and Julia Quinn.
OLT wrote: "Roberta2 wrote: "I read the new Mimi Matthews yesterday, and it was a bit of fluff. I really liked the first 2 in this series. The characters in this book felt a bit shallow to me, but it won't sto..."MB's new books don't compare well to her older single books and her earlier series. I loved most of the Bedwyn series many times.
HappyBookWorm2020 wrote: "OLT wrote: "Roberta2 wrote: "I read the new Mimi Matthews yesterday, and it was a bit of fluff. I really liked the first 2 in this series. The characters in this book felt a bit shallow to me, but ..."I really like the Survivor, Huxtable and and Bedwyn series by Balogh. These are regular re-reads for me.
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parking lot getting back to my car. There is a slight hill. I leaned
on someone's car to break my fall. Scared me.
Rant- why must customers park their carts in the middle of the aisle?
Hope your okay and just upset. I do a lot of shopping at Trader Joe's. They seem to choose where to open a new store by how cramped the parking lot is. And to add to this, shoppers never bother to look when they're walking through the lot.
HR-ML wrote: "Just went grocery shopping. I almost fell face first in the Krogerparking lot getting back to my car. There is a slight hill. I leaned
on someone's car to break my fall. Scared me.
Rant- why mu..."
Almost falling - that's one of the scariest feelings! Glad you were able to interrupt the fall. Hope you're okay now.
Is the moral of the story to keep your bags in your cart and push it all the way to the car? I hate to hear stories about falling or almost falling, even more since breaking bones doing that very thing. Glad you are okay, HR-ML.
OLT wrote: "Is the moral of the story to keep your bags in your cart and push it all the way to the car? I hate to hear stories about falling or almost falling, even more since breaking bones doing that very t..."Is that how you screwed up your foot?
Carol wrote: "OLT wrote: "Is the moral of the story to keep your bags in your cart and push it all the way to the car? I hate to hear stories about falling or almost falling, even more since breaking bones doing..."Falling, yes, but not in a parking lot. It was going up some steps at an Incan ruins in Peru. Sounds more exciting, maybe, but the results are pretty universal.
OLT wrote: "Carol wrote: "OLT wrote: "Is the moral of the story to keep your bags in your cart and push it all the way to the car? I hate to hear stories about falling or almost falling, even more since breaki..."Well, at least it's a better story than tripping in a supermarket parking lot.
HR-ML wrote: "Just went grocery shopping. I almost fell face first in the Krogerparking lot getting back to my car. There is a slight hill. I leaned
on someone's car to break my fall. Scared me.
Rant- why mu..."
HR-ML, I'm so glad you caught yourself.
I always use a shopping cart even if I am getting one item. If there is one in the lot, I'll put my handbag in it and roll it into the store. I have balance issues too.
My younger self would be open-mouthed to think that she would one day measure the distance to the store door and the availability of a shopping cart when deciding where to park.
She could hang upside down from tree limbs. Walk any distance on uneven ground. Run. Go barefooted. Wade in creeks. :sigh: I am realizing how lucky I was to be able to do those things.
Yes to the trolley. I always use one - for many years it was to protect my unhealed broken foot (and then the unhealed knee damaged in a fall in a bush shower on my last ever camping trip) but now it’s also because my arthritic hands can’t cope with heavy shopping bags. I always use the trolley right to my boot and conscientiously return it to a trolley bay. And it never happens without me feeling dismal about being old and having mobility issues. I will never be the 92 year old running a marathon! Too much sitting on my rear end reading. Too much on and off again strength work.
I just recently have seen Carol Burnett on Jimmy Kimmel and Joan Baez on Stephen Colbert. Both have always been greatly admired by me. Burnett is celebrating her 90th birthday with a two-hour TV special soon and is amazingly sharp. And walking on her own two feet without a cane. Baez is younger, at 82, and damn the woman looks good. I feel older than both of them.
I've been having more and more hand and thumb pain in the past few months and found these exercises online which have actually helped me. Here's the link if anyone is interested:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyCdT...
OLT wrote: "Here's another one I really like:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_i5y..."
I found some hand exercises on line a few weeks ago. Oh, good. Just what I needed. The next day, one hand was so bad I had to wear a splint FOR three days.
Be very careful. DON'T push it at all!!!
Two Tylenol with one Advil. Three days.
Exactly, Carol. The secret is to know your limits and build up gradually. That's pretty much the case with any exercises. Sorry you had a bad experience with your hand exercises.
Danker wrote: "Yes to the trolley. I always use one - for many years it was to protect my unhealed broken foot (and then the unhealed knee damaged in a fall in a bush shower on my last ever camping trip) but now ..."Danker, I am appreciative of the fact that I can still walk, even if I have balance issues. I am likely going to have at least one knee replacement after I retire, after avoiding it for the last 20 years. .
Carla Kelly has a story in an anthology coming out in June. Her story sounds really good. I am not a fan of Heather B. Moore, one of the other authors. I just preordered it. It will also be in Kindle Unlimited if you subscribe to that. This may sound weird but one of the worst things to me about growing older is outliving my favorite authors. ETA I may have already posted about this.
https://www.amazon.com/Wyoming-Summer...
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Several romance authors, including Edith Layton & Johanna
Lindsey have died of cancer. Can't recall the circumstances
on Jo Beverly's death? I just read Jo's cancer recurred & she
died in 2016. Cecilia Grant and others have just disappeared
from publishing.
I found Clare Darcy, a new-to-me-author, who passed on yrs ago.
Thanks for hand exercises. Re deaths: yes, but it’s friends and family members, as well - and that’s a sadness the survivors are forced to endure.
I remember Layton and Beverley dying. They were both generous and kind mentors of other authors and I think you are right that cancer got them both. I also remember that one talented HR author (whose name I can’t remember) was murdered by her husband. I imagine that some of the authors who have “disappeared” have retired. One author, whose name I’ve also forgotten, announced her retirement to her readers and said she and her OH were going travelling in their camper van and she was, in future, concentrating on family. Others who have gone silent may have become disenchanted at how little they earn. It was once a market dominated by relatively few authors. With self-publishing and the ease of creating e-books it is now a heavily crowded one and royalties must have diminished.
Hope everyone feeling okay. Sounds like a few of you have had problems lately. My husband and I walk our dog and our daughter dog every day, for 1 hour to an hour and a half.
The other day daughter came with us. We were walking on the canal. I slipped on a bit of mud.(nearly fell in canal lol) bit further on I missed a step. Daughter grabs hold of me , saying I keep hold of you, your balance doesn’t look good today. Now I thought how old and decrepit does she think I am 🤷♀️😂.
I didn’t know Jo Beverley had died.
I just finished listening to Another Man's Treasure by SW Hubbard on Hoopla. The story was great. The reader was wonderful. It is also an Amazon KU. Mystery with a lot of twists and a little romance.
Not a female HR author but instead a male author of another genre that I read - crime/mystery. Don Winslow - I love his books. I include the link because it provides a good example of why a top-selling and highly respected author may dump the genre for which he is known, worldwide, because he wants to do something very different. https://twitter.com/gregfleming4/stat...
I have started to read Nicola Cornick book Desired. I normally like her books. 🤞 I am hoping it’s better than the last book I read .
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Good for you and your spouse walking regularly! Sorry to hear you slipped, thankfully your daughter most likely prevented an injury.
Whisper of Scandal
Is my fav by Nicola.
HR-ML, Glad you are okay. I think my 2 biggest aging anxieties are falling and breaking a bone or getting dementia or alzheimer's disease.
I also liked Whisper of scandal , though I read it back in July 2020. I have read all but the last book in this series, over the years.
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Your fears are mine also. My late Mom had Alzheimer's. She was
smart yet scatter-brained. Scatter-brained is my middle name:
hope I don't get it.
Shaz---
No doubt you know that Nicola is a professor too. She told me
via email she writes 2 books per year, per her book contract. A busy lady!
I didn’t know that HR . Hope everyone well and has a nice weekend.
Forecast rain here for weekend and most of next week. Had a couple of nice drying days, so clothes have been washed. Just the ironing to be done, which is not one of my favourite chores .
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Reading this-good so far. Her dad killed the hero's uncle and
his clan killed her dad. She was left an orphan w/ 6 brothers,
some older than she. Thankfully no gory details. Hero now
wants peace.
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I’m currently working my way through all the Carolyn Jewel titles that I’ve archived in my Kindle Collections folder. For reasons too boring to share I ended up reading the reviews for Moonlight on the Amazon site. (An aside only - all of my reviews seem to have disappeared when I was (reluctantly) forced to transfer from US Amazon to Aus Amazon.) Anyway - I found a 2011 review about Moonlight by OLT.
Apt, clever and very funny - I had a good laugh.