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[Leea]

: I love it! I have to say that Colin is just so cute and I can just picture Jill knee deep in mud planting her garden. I have no idea where this story will go... (view spoiler)[they have a connection, they know it and we know it but what are Colin and Jill going to do about it? I know Colin plans on going to Africa but there has got to be something he can do in N.Cali. Trust that area is wild and untamed for sure ;) (hide spoiler)]

Jack... (view spoiler)[ Its funny to read him and Mel all relaxed and not all over each other. I know that's how real life is but it's still strange to read. (hide spoiler)]

Denny (view spoiler)[ I saw that coming a mile away, or in the last book :) Not sure how this storyline will play out. Sounds like you know more than me since you've read ahead. I hope Denny finds his lady because I really like that kid. (hide spoiler)]

Enjoyed reading about how Rick is doing in Oregon. I wonder if Carr will revisit that storyline again.

I love reading about Luke and Shelby and baby Brett. Luke and Shelby was my favorite love story. I loved reading her take what she wanted and never question it. I respect that about her, she goes after what she wants. There is a scene in Wild Man Creek where Luke talks about Shelby crying and how he can't take it when she cried. So sweet!

[Regina]

The set up to sweet dreams sounds good. Thanks Leea! Please don't feel bad and hopefully you don't think I am a big PIA.

For the life of me I cannot remember if Denny is or isn't! But I know it is discussed. I also remember in one of the future books that there is a local organic and prospering/growing organic farm -- I am guessing that is Jillian's! And she has a guy with her. :) I agree, I don't think he is going to N. Africa.

I love that she shows real life -- kids need feeding/changing/putting to sleep. Couples have issues, etc -- and talk about real life stuff.

[Regina]

Leea, how far are you into Wildman Creek?

I realize I only have two more to read and I am all caught up! :( #15: (which is waiting for me at the library) and then the one being released next week #19:

[Leea]

PIA? Oh, got it ;) No, not at all. Never. We all just have similar liked but we don't like all the same stuff. That would be boring. I would hate for you to continue a book, you don't like because of me. Life is way to short for bad books.

I have less than 100 pages in Wild Man Creek... It's starting to get really interesting and Kelley (jills sis) is visiting and making yummy food. Like I need another reason to pack it all up and move to VR. haha!

I have a few buddy reads this week, but I might be able to start #15 this weekend (although, weekends are so busy.) No pressure at all :)

I wonder how many book Carr will write about Virgin River. Oh, also, I saw another small town series by Carr. . I wonder if it's good?

[Leea]

I should apologize, i've had WAY too much coffee today... haha!

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Carina, I think I already told you and Leea both but I won't even be cracking it open until tonight.

Leea, part of me wonders if I shouldn't have just started at book 2.

[Regina]

Stacia, you mean with Sweet Dreams? Me too. I plan to give it a try.

Leea, lol. I wish i could have more coffee but it is too late here for me to be drinking coffee!

I am going to look for a copy of that book, it is only a trilogy but hey -- like you posted on your book review thread -- what am I going to do when I am done????

[Regina]

So the next Virgin River is a christmas book! :( http://www.robyncarr.com/series.html

She also has some standalones:

http://www.robyncarr.com/booklist.html

[Leea]

My cut off is 5pm... I still have time here :) Having my own expresso machine does have it's draw backs.

Yeah, I hope you ladies like Sweet Dreams. Yikes, the pressure.

[Leea]

Regina wrote: "So the next Virgin River is a christmas book! :( http://www.robyncarr.com/series.html

She also has some standalones:

http://www.robyncarr.com/booklist.html"

Wow 20 books! How does she still keep this series fresh and us coming back for more?

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Regina wrote: "Stacia, you mean with Sweet Dreams? Me too. I plan to give it a try.

Leea, lol. I wish i could have more coffee but it is too late here for me to be drinking coffee!

I am going to look for..."

Yes, I think I should have started with SD. I'll probably read it but not at least for a couple of weeks. After I finish the book I'm on, I need to give adult contemporary romance a breather. I'm not sure why but this genre is still my least favorite. Maybe because I hold my characters to a higher standard in realistic fiction than I do in historical or fantasy books, yet for whatever reason, it seems like the most slap-worthy characters are in contemps. Go figure!

[Regina]

Leea wrote: "My cut off is 5pm... I still have time here :) Having my own expresso machine does have it's draw backs.

Yeah, I hope you ladies like Sweet Dreams. Yikes, the pressure."

We will hold you responsible! Silly lady, of course it isn't any reflection on you at all. :) My cut off is 2:30.

[D.G.]

I'm having coffee now! I can drink up till 6:30 or so.

This has been a weird day at work. The Global CEO came to the office to welcome the new US CEO and gave us a presentation which we thought was going to be a pep talk but was really "improve or else!" (not in that many words but that was the message.)

I know I've said I should be looking for a new job but I really need to get my ass in gear now.

[Regina]

DG, that is a huge warning sign. I was at a firm that was later acquired (like 6 months later - it had put itself on the market b/c it was sinking fast) and anyway, we were going to have a pep talk b/c key top people left. So we all go into this meeting and the managing partner ended up lecturing us and using very personal experiences (without names, but we each could identify ourselves) as reasons of what needed improving. I should have left then, but I held on out of comfort and high salary. Leave now!!! *deep breath* :)

[Leea]

I hate it when they do that. Like them saying 'improve or else' will really motivate you. ugh! Sorry, D.G.

I know you wont hold me responsible, I just liked Lauren and Tate and I hope you will :)

[D.G.]

If I find job, I'll sure will! To tell you the truth, I wouldn't mind if they let me go. I'm due for a long vacation.

[Leea]

Regina, Who is Darla and Phil Prentiss from Virgin River? I could swear i've never heard of them. ha!

[Regina]

LOL DG, I feel the same on many days.

Hmmm, let me think for a minute Leea ....

[Regina]

Oh I remember - -they are the couple who kept trying to have kids in Moonlight Road #14, problems conceiving and miscarriages. Ultimatley, (view spoiler)[Mel referred them to the young couple looking for someone to adopt their child. (hide spoiler)]

[Laura]

Hey ladies! Finished and halfway through . This series is great! So funny and great characters!

[Mimi]

Read aqnd I loved the first part, but after that...not so much.

[D.G.]

I had HUGE issues with that book, Mimi.

[Mimi]

Gah, I ended up giving it 3.5 stars. Really, I loved their childhood and youth, but after the separation, the heroine's hatred and unreasonableness were too much. And the Grand Misunderstanding was... I don't know. I have no problem with him(except maybe he should've TOLD her what was going on) and I know he had to leave. But her reactions were all wrong. Even after he came back *sigh*. Way to ruin a promising book...

[D.G.]

Actually, I'm the opposite. I think she was right to be mad at him, and think he was really dishonorable to (view spoiler)[ have sex with the daughter of the people who gave him shelter, without using a condom and then leave her in the lurch without even wondering if she got pregnant. (hide spoiler)]. I also think he was old enough to know he was out of his league with the problem with the other girl and he should have asked for help.

I wrote a really long review about the book if you want to check out where I'm coming from.

[Mimi]

Well, yeah, but her hatred of him was so... Intense. She blamed him for everything that went wrong in her life. I mean, she knew he had to (view spoiler)[leave or go to jail. Even before she found out that other girl was going to him. But, yeah, his tactics of dealing with a threat of rape weren't the most logical. As to sleeping with her... i don't know, that part just felt like typical horny, in love teenagers to me. Plus she was partly responsible for that. It isn't like he seduced and duped her. it was a mutual decision and the 'fault' can't be just his. (hide spoiler)]

As I said, she just bothered me.

[D.G.]

I would have hated him too. (view spoiler)[Losing a child is a very difficult thing and I think it was perfectly normal for her to be mad at him because he wasn't there for her. Worse, in her mind, he preferred somebody else's child instead of theirs - it doesn't matter that he didn't knew but that was the end result.

IIRC, he was older than her so I blame him for not owning to his responsibilities, specially for leaving without even wondering if she was pregnant. She was having sex with him because she loved him and she never thought he was going to leave her for somebody else. And he could have written and let her know where he was. There was no reason to abandon her. But he was really insecure about his prospects and that's the main reason he let her go. (hide spoiler)]

[Kay]

Laura wrote: "Hey ladies! Finished and halfway through . This series is great! So funny and great characters!"

How was the Lucky One? I vowed to myself never to read another Nicholas Sparks book again. LOL But since the movie is coming out, I'm curious to know if it is any good.

[D.G.]

I've never read a book by Nicholas Sparks. How are they?

[Kay]

D.G. ~Shameless Hussy~ wrote: "I've never read a book by Nicholas Sparks. How are they?"

From the ones that I have read, start off usually about how a couple falls in love and then there seems to be a common theme of one of the following: death, illness, tragedy, etc. These are decent books if you're okay with no HEA sometimes.

[Regina]

Whenever I think about his books I think about the father who was an author in Anna and the French Kiss -- her dad wrote these kinds of books. :)

[Kay]

Regina wrote: "Whenever I think about his books I think about the father who was an author in Anna and the French Kiss -- her dad wrote these kinds of books. :)"

that reminds me that I still have to read .

[Regina]

Me too Kay. I have the audio on my iphone ready to go, I just need to make time for it.

[Leea]

Laura wrote: "Hey ladies! Finished and halfway through . This series is great! So funny and great characters!"

I really want to read these... I'm so glad you're enjoying them.

My computer crashed. It sucks. I'm pissed. My husband is gone and I want to run the damn thing over with my car. I'm really mad because I won't be able to load books for awhile. Ahhh!

[Mishelle, 'The Book Bag']

Okay, so I finished and i simply adored this book.. Then I picked up and HOLY CRAP....

[Leea]

Haha! Do you like Fifty Shell?

[Jen (at last!)]

I've been on a Harlequin kick b/c I felt the need for some fluff after all the serious stuff I'd been reading. lol

So, I'm reading this trilogy Secrets We Keep with three of my fave authors(Liz Fielding, Barbara Hannay and Jackie Braun) I found pretty cheap on Amazon. The first book Reunited: Marriage in a Million: Secrets We Keep was pretty good. I just started the second Needed: Her Mr. Right.

[Mishelle, 'The Book Bag']

Leea wrote: "Haha! Do you like Fifty Shell?"

On an extremely disturbing level.. why yes, yes I do....

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Finished and I cried, it was so moving.

Will start tomorrow for our buddy read!

[Mimi]

D.G. ~Shameless Hussy~ wrote: "I would have hated him too. Losing a child is a very difficult thing and I think it was perfectly normal for her to be mad at him because he wasn't there for her. Worse, in her mind, he preferred s..."

Yes, but, I didn't quite see it (view spoiler)[as him abandoning her. I mean, he had to leave. Yes, he could've taken her with him, but he was a kid, too. After being accused for the murder, I think he was also scared and didn't want to bring her into the mess.

And him choosing someone else? He chose to protect someone dear to him, who he knew couldn't handle it and help her and the baby because he was the ony one she let help. I guess he thought Alix could carry on and have a great life, despite everything. And he didn't think of the baby, because IMO teenagers rarely think ahead in these situations. It's always a surprise(as it was to Alix, too).

Finally, yes, he was older, but I don't think that makes him solely responsible. He wasn't much more experienced than her and they were just in love... (hide spoiler)]

[D.G.]

He wasn't a teenager. I think he was at least 2-3 years older than her (she was in her last year of high school so 18 for her and at least 20 for him.) That's not being a child so I would expect him to be responsible and at least wonder about the possibility of getting this girl pregnant, specially when her family had been so kind to him when he needed it.

You have to see it from her perspective. I think she felt abandoned and with good reason. (view spoiler)[ She's having sex with this guy, who supposedly loves her but then doesn't want to tell anybody about their relationship. She knows something is wrong but he doesn't trust her to tell her. Then all of a sudden, there's a problem and he must leave without telling where he's going but he takes this other woman with him and she can't tell him she's pregnant. Then her baby dies.

I think any woman would blame the guy. When a man leaves you alone with a baby and the baby dies, there's always the thought 'maybe the baby could have lived if he had been here'. And then you found out that he left to take care of SOMEBODY ELSE's baby? While your baby was DYING?

Now, that's not logical because her baby wasn't sick or needed a transfusion and there was nothing he could have done to save him but logic doesn't have anything to do with feelings and I think most women would have felt abandoned in that case. (hide spoiler)]

[D.G.]

I finished My Dearest Enemy and I can tell why early suffragist don't show up in romance too often. Even though I can understand where that woman was coming from, I couldn't help but find her so annoying! She acted like men were horrible creatures left on this earth to torture women and every revelation that the hero was a person came as a surprise to her.

Now I'll start

[Mimi]

Well, apparently, neither of them thought logically, lol. (view spoiler)[ Again, I think after being arrested for his father's murder the possibility of her being pregnant wasn't the first thing on his mind. He was scared out of his mind, protecting someone who had lived through an nightmare, and facing the prospect of jail, or losing everything. And before the death he did chose Alix. And before... I don't know, I still think the responsibility for the baby is THEIRS, not just HIS.

And I can see the anger, but the extreme hatred began before she knew all that. All of the sudden she just started blaming him for everything and thinking he abandoned her, and that he didn't even deserve to know about the baby. And he didn't take the other girl with him, she joined him after repeatedly trying to kill herself and her baby, of course he took them in!

I can't say I know how it's like to lose a child because I don't, and it must be horrifying, but the whole thing about destroying Nick for not being there bothered me. A lot. Especially since he had no idea about it. (hide spoiler)]

I don't know, D.G. we both had a problem with this book and the characters, but an opposite one, lol. Together we'd like give the book either 1 or 5 stars. I guess I saw the events and the characters in a different light than you, and while I get what you're saying, it doesn't change my view(just as yours is unchanged)... Still, I like discussing and analyzing books like this... It's interesting.

[Regina]

I am starting for our buddy read! I am so starting the audio of

[D.G.]

Exactly! The responsibility was THEIRS but it ended up being only HERS. He didn't assume any!

You are definitely fairer than I because I really understood this woman's anger, hatred and need for revenge - except, I would have never gone back to him...there was just too much bad blood. Oh I would have gone to jail after stabbing him in the balls. I so would have. :)

As I tell people often, I'm not nice. :)

[Mimi]

But, how could he assume responsibility if he didn't know anything about what came next? He had already sacrificed so much to protect someone, I think he would've done right by her. Frankly, she decided she didn't want him to know. I think there could've been a way to do it, but she was so angry and bitter she did it on her own and with that other guy.

Uhm, well, maybe I'm just not bloodthirsty :P.

[D.G.]

I think it's pretty well known that having sex can result in babies, specially if there's no protection involved. :) And he was (supposedly) smart enough to realize that the other business had the potential to become very serious and he didn't handle it well.

If he had been completely alone without any person to trust, I would have understood why he thought he needed to handle this on his own but there was the grandfather, who had been almost like a surrogate father for 10 years. I really couldn't understand why he thought he could reach out to him.

Also, I blame him because as the only person with knowledge of all the facts, he had more control of the situation. (view spoiler)[ In her eyes, he just needed time to come around to acknowledge their relationship while that other problem was resolved but she didn't know how serious that problem was. If she had known, I know she would have asked her grandfather for help.

Now, after the shit hit the fan, I agree he didn't have time to think about her or even the possible consequences of their relationship because he was too busy dealing with the other stuff that needed his immediate attendance. But that doesn't deny the fact that he left a woman he supposedly loved pregnant and that she had to deal with the death of their child on her own. (hide spoiler)]

LOL, definitely we both had strong feelings about the book even if they were the opposite. We'll have to agree to disagree!

[D.G.]

Oh I started . Do we have a thread to discuss this book or are we going to talk about it here?

So far I'd like to understand why (view spoiler)[she's in the middle of that war. (hide spoiler)]

[Regina]

I have been reading your posts Mimi and DG and all the spoilers (b/c I will never read this book) and I am so interested in the discussion. Everytime I read one of your posts I think -- yeah! Then I read the other's post and I think -- oh, yeah this! LOL.

[Regina]

I am starting the buddy read of I have only read the beginning, but the writer is good and I like it so far. UF is hard for me right now, but it is going really well.

And I am listening to

I keep on the back burner and am slowly reading these:

[Regina]

Oh DG, I wanted to add about that Kay wasn't crazy about it either.

My issue wasn't the romance, but was there was a lack of character development, overly cheesy lines (and overly cliched as well), each character fit a very cliched and over used stereotype, and things happened without any buildup (like sex, or bonding between people). So I dnfed it. The best thing about it was the set-up and the world. It wasn't the romance that turned me off at all. I love romance in a world falling apart. :) But what I meant is if maybe if someone was reading it just for the romance, they might like it. I would love for someone who didn't like #1, to push through #2 and tell me if it is better.