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becky you cant have the same book picked for you and there are 52 people signed up so if you don't pick a book for yourself you will have 51 books to read. there is no obligation to finish them all... I use it hoping some of the books i buy in bulk whenever there is a sale will get picked so i am finally motivated to read it. It is supposed to be fun and encouraging
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I love Carol Lynne she is so nice
Bubbles (Dane) wrote: "becky you cant have the same book picked for you and there are 52 people signed up so if you don't pick a book for yourself you will have 51 books to read. there is no obligation to finish them all..."I just haven't been reading m/m long enough to have that kind of stockpile yet! A year or two from now, if I'm still devouring m/m and haven't drifted on to something else, I'll probably need to do it just to clear out the tbr. But at the moment I only have 9 books or novellas that would qualify, so signing up today would be an expensive proposition.
Now if I could find an "everything else" group hosting a similar challenge, that would be very helpful!
Edina wrote: "Check out this list about MM romance with effeminate heroes :)my link text "I was a bit surprised to not see Julian (Julie) Hallowell from Ethan Day's As You Are on your list. Also surprised at some of the titles on the list. There are some books I haven't read, but a couple I have and wonder what is the criteria used to determine if a male is effeminate.
Last night I started on Harper Fox's
The Salisbury Key
and now I'm wondering what the hell took me so long to start it! I bought it the day it was released, but seems there were other stories on my TBR list. Now Daniel is breaking my heart.
I just finished reading a couple of books by Paul Reed- Longing and Vertical Intercourse. Not romance- more memoir, but such beautiful writing. I enjoyed them so much. Strong sense of place- SF in the 70s and 80s.
Will someone tell me what happens in I Spy Something Wicked I swear I read it but now the blurb sounds unfamiliar and i can't find it in my looseid orders (but their tracking system sucks so i could be over looking it) but now i am doubting if i ever read it
Ask Heather S. She just read it last weekend
Oh I think she's mad at me over my dark lover comments
No she's not! I will email you what I remember bc I don't want to show everyone how bad my memory really is!
Bubbles (Dane) wrote: "Will someone tell me what happens in I Spy Something Wicked I swear I read it but now the blurb sounds unfamiliar and i can't find it in my looseid orders (but their tracking system ..."Mark has a clandestine meeting with Malik. He is asked to go back in the 'game' one more time. The rest of the story is about his decision as to whether he really deserves happiness with Stephen. Hope that helps jog your memory.
Josh wrote: "Bella wrote: "Now reading Spring 1 by Carol Lynne and I'm loving it :Dglad to find a good read after such long time"
Carol is someone who doesn't get a lot of press and yet she is one of the m..."
I agree and I was not into her books before,to be honest. Not into Cattle Valley either as most of them r m/m/m or m/m/f which I don't support at all. But now-a-days her writing has improved so much and she's writing quite good m/m books now. Lucky me :D
Bella I have not found any MMF in the cattle valley yet and of the 21 I think there are only 5 or 6 that are MMM Her campus cravings were all MM if I remember right and the bodyguard in love were except the fourth book which was MMMM
Bubbles (Dane) wrote: "Bella I have not found any MMF in the cattle valley yet and of the 21 I think there are only 5 or 6 that are MMM Her campus cravings were all MM if I remember right and the bodyguard in love were..."
There's atleast one m/m/f no doubt; u know one of them was a country singer; that's all I can remember though
and didn't try campus cravings yet so no comment on them
I haven't made it to the MMF :( uh not looking forward to that one http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_...
If you leave a comment on jades post there you could win her new book. There weren't a lot of comments so thought I'd share the post
Bubbles (Dane) wrote: "I haven't made it to the MMF :( uh not looking forward to that one http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_...
If you leave a ..."
Yeah I'm not into m/m/f either =[
I do read MF, not a lot but I like it sometimes and I will read the MMM but it's not my favorite. The only MmF I read was vintage affair and it was not for me
Yeah I always read M/F ; no problem with that for me :D
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And it was really not what you'd call m/f/m. It did bother a LOT of people, though. ;-)
Vintage affair has mmf?? Oh my god. That teaches me to buy books in big heaps. From this day forward I swear to read the blurbs of the books I buy. 
Alyosha wrote: "Vintage affair has mmf?? Oh my god. That teaches me to buy books in big heaps. From this day forward I swear to read the blurbs of the books I buy. "
LOL it's just a small one night scene; nothing big :D
Nothing big? ? ? Lol it was horrible it made me cry
Bubbles (Dane) wrote: "Nothing big? ? ? Lol it was horrible it made me cry"Really? Hahaha XD
Bubbles you are scaring me out of reading it :( Or at least I'll have to be drunk. Or read it now that I have fever.
I don't like m/m/f in any variation. Thanks for the warning for Vintage Affair. I've read a few m/m/m and that doesn't bother me as much
Haha? Yes really I hated that scene and the guy
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It's really NOT what any of you imagine. It is very angsty, I will admit that.
I liked the story but I would skip that scene if I could go back
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:-D
So, someone spare me from misery and tell me, is it just a scene or is it a mmf relationship (relationship as in having more than just sex together)?
Alyosha wrote: "So, someone spare me from misery and tell me, is it just a scene or is it a mmf relationship (relationship as in having more than just sex together)?"It is just a scene
I emailed you heather. It is just a scene. One horrible scene during a stormy night. I would skip it if I were you
Roger that. That's a relief. I can read mmf if it's just a scene, I don't like it but I won't puke either. Now that's nothing against people in such relationships, just not something I look for in my books. Thaks B&B
I'm ok with the single scenes mostly but I don't like reading permanent ménage and relationships
Interesting info. I avoid all threesome variations so this was good to know. I especially wouldn't want to read it if (as I've read) one of the participant is kind of forced into doing it. That it wasn't exactly something the guy wanted to do. I usually don't like that. But it's probably better than it sounds.
It's an easy scene to skip if you know before as soon as the guy and girl sneak into his room skip to the next chapter (view spoiler)
That's how I feel about the Hunger Games Trilogy!!! Such horrible things happened in those books but they definitely made me FEEL!
Alyosha wrote: "Roger that. That's a relief. I can read mmf if it's just a scene, I don't like it but I won't puke either. Now that's nothing against people in such relationships, just not something I look for in ..."I agree with ya :D
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Josh wrote: "It's a scene. That's why I kind of object to the m/f/m label because that implies a three-party relationship and no such relationship exists (or ever would in one of my books)."Okay, good, you get to stay in my auto-buy- list Josh ;)
loved a vintage affair and the scene (just one small bit) was very much part of the whole - the book is very much well worth reading -
Josh wrote: "It's a scene. That's why I kind of object to the m/f/m label because that implies a three-party relationship and no such relationship exists (or ever would in one of my books)."I think I said this before shortly after AVA was released, but I think it was necessary for the characters to grow - both Austin and Jeff. It was just a handful of pages, and yet that seems to be all a lot of readers can focus on. I personally didn't like it, but once you moved past that one scene, it makes sense.
ah.. Vintage Affair... :-D I skipped the scene and I hated the girl all the way and I pretty much skimmed through the rest of the story after The Scene because I didn't want Austin to have anything to do with the entire bunch. I really liked him and disliked Jeff and the girl.
I don't mind m/m/m or m/m/f if written well.Carol Lynne only had one m/m/f book in the Cattle Valley series, I think it was called Bent Not Broken.And there are only 2 main couples in Cattle Valley that are m/m/m.
A Vintage Affair - loved it and the m/m/f scene was needed. It's an uncomfortable scene but it's supposed to be. Every scene Josh writes has a purpose behind it so you know he didn't get up one morning and say "Hmm, I think I'll write m/m/f just for kicks."
I've just finished The Lonely War by Alan Chin, very emotional, (view spoiler) I knew I had to expect it for a book taking place during WWII in the Pacific. Very bittersweet. I cried. The last paragraph left me gaping for 5 minutes.I'm reading The Tourist by Clare London. Holy cow! The beginning is very hot, the concept of the book is awesome. I read 72 Hours a while ago and even if I enjoyed it, I couldn't warm up to the narrator. The narrator in The Tourist is just great! :)
RE: m/m/f or m/f/m. If it's in a het book, I don't really mind it, even if I always think the two guys were better off without the f :)
If it's in a m/m book, like Andy said, it has to be well written and needed. I always wonder if there's a trace of a weird kind of "racism" in me :-/
I haven't read A Vintage Affair yet, it's been picked for me for the challenge in the m/m romance group, I'll get to read it soon. I have postponed it for a while because I am a teetotaler (I don't advocate it, but I can't drink alcohol, so the wine references are lost on me).
Emanuela ~Zstyx~ wrote: "I have postponed it for a while because I am a teetotaler (I don't advocate it, but I can't drink alcohol, so the wine references are lost on me). "Me too but I didn't think the wine refs were too confusing in A Vintage Affair.
Bella wrote: "So any1 reading any M/F right now?"I don't read much m/f. But I did recently read Cherise Sinclair's latest in the Shadowlands series, Make Me, Sir.
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The idea behind the Gang Bang reading challenge over in the m/m group is that everyone in the challenge recommends a title for everyone else. With 50 people signed up that's potentially 49 books, if the same title isn't picked for you by more than one person. A book a month for a group discussion I can handle. Buying 30 or 40 books for a quarterly challenge is way out of my budget. I really like the concept of the Gang Bang, but it's too big.
I only started reading m/m recently, and it's meant a shift from the Big 6 to epublishers. In general that's been a good thing for my budget, because houses like Samhain and Loose Id (probably the two I've read the most from lately) set their prices lower than the big NY houses. I'd say the books I'm reading now average around $5 a pop instead of $7-8.
But I'm finding that I also have to be really careful. For that $7-8 I could be pretty sure that I was going to get a novel in the 200-400 page range. I've read a few stories recently that turned out to be far too short for the price, IMO. Fictionwise and AllRomance often list word count, which helps. But it's a little frustrating to feel like I have to hunt around for word counts to get everything I can for my reading dollar. It would be really helpful if ebook listings automatically came with a page or word count.
Libraries do a lot to fill in the gaps for me, but it's just about impossible to find m/m genre fiction in the library. Literary fiction maybe, but not the stories I want to read. The Kindle lending function has been a huge help in this area. Most of the epublishers have the lending function enabled, which means I can try a new author risk free. (Assuming I can find someone willing to lend one to me.) That's how I read Somebody Killed His Editor and Fatal Shadows. Then I bought All She Wrote and the whole Adrien English series, because I knew I had to have them. I can't buy everything, but I buy what I can.
I haven't checked out SSBB yet. I'm sure there's good stuff out there, but I'm pretty skeptical. There's dross being published for profit, and that after vetting and editing. I'm not sure I'm up to facing the horror of a free, unedited story archive.
As far as pirating goes, I just don't do it. I know some people try to justify it and will defend their position to the death. But the bottom line is, it's stealing. I don't dine n' dash. I don't sneak in the exit at the movie theater. And I don't steal books.