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BOOKS BOUGHT

GAH!  I can't believe I bought another feckin' anthology.  They're so CRAP!  But it has a LoraLeigh/Breeds story in it.  Quite a substantial one.  It's the story of Matthias Slaughter, a wolf breed.  Lots of name-dropping, which I'm quite fond of.  Simon Quatres pops up again.  Lots of action right from the get-go...and Jonas...sigh! 

TMF is an old favorite ever since I saw the tv version in 1989 or thereabouts.  I found a nice hardcover (ISBN 9781579126940).  Refined design, sturdy, about 14 pt font so you can hold it close or at arm's length and still get a good eyeful.

TDBfB is not really about putting boys in danger.  And if you needed to be told that, you're a sorry old sod.  And it's not even just for girls. Duh!  It's about cultural experience and developing one's intellect.  That's what an adult thinks when they see the book.  When a child sees it, they think, "wow, cool title."  How to Play Poker! Sweet!  Juggling.  Hmmm...why not.  What are the 3 most breakable things in the classroom/house/brother's/sister's room? (That's a joke, see.)

442 Magazine.  Aahh, what can I say about this mag?  It's A-mazing.  It's HI-larious.  EVERYBODY who's ANYBODY in European football, and even a few who aren't anybody but wannabes.  I love this mag. I've been reading it for almost 10 years, ever since Michael Owen had his second cover in January 1999.  Back then, it was imported and costs $4.95 at Borders.  Now, it's $8.50. But it has so much information about the movers and shakers that if you really really love soccer, you can't be without it.  I do choose my moments, though, because it's so expensive.  I usually buy the season opener issue because it comes with a supplement, then a mid-season issue or two, then the end-of-year issue plus the voting issue and the awards issue.  So that averages about 5-6 issues a year.  Being a reader of 442 gives you pitch-cred.

-- or do I mean stave off?

BOOKS BOUGHT:

She's So Funny by Judy Brown:  a collection of funny lines from female comedians (notice I didn't use the word "lady"?)

The Best American Comics 2007: er...the best American comics compilation edited by Chris Ware

Port of Paradise by Lisa Marie Rice: romance and intrigue in Bari, Italy

Theories of Everything-Cartoons by Roz Chast: she makes ennui funny

BOOKS READ:

She's So Funny

• The wisecracks range from epic to so-so to no-wonder-I've-never-heard-of-her. 
• Classic comediennes Totie Fields, Joan Rivers, Phyllis Diller, Lily Tomlin
• Super Comediennes of the 80s: (give or take 5 years) Elayne Boosler, Judy Tenuta, Paula Poundstone, Roseanne Barr, Joy Behar, Cathy Ladman, Lizz Winstead, Judy Gold, Carol Leifer, Ellen DeGeneres, Rita Rudner
• 90s and beyond: Janeane Garofalo, Margaret Cho, Kathy Griffith, Wendy Liebman, Laura Kightlinger, Diane Ford, Wanda Sykes, Maria Bamford
• Flash in the pans unfortunately: Monica Piper, Maryellen Hooper, Stephanie Hodge.  It's a shame because these chicks were massively hilarious.

 The Best American Comics 2007

• so much color your eyes bleed
• excessive graphic design -- obsessive even
• I love the dustjacket design and hardcover design
• the forward needs more indents; they are few and fffaaaaaaaaaarrrrr between.  It reminds me of a Victorian APOLOGIA PRO RESARTUS
• I've read about 6 of the comics and they are depressing, pretentious, whiny, weltschmertzy, and sturm-und-drang-ish.  In short, they are ANTI-COMICS.  They don't make you feel good.  I don't need to be reminded that life is shite.  They remind me of the first sweep of how overwhelming and confusing life is that you have when you first leave home for college.  I hope there's more variation in tone as I continue to read the book.

Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunters series -- action and romance, mythology and mischance

• This has to be one of the best series ever!  It has all the ingredients of a swetergrl favorite:

• mythology
• romance
• action
• intrigue
• characters you want to be friends with
• danger
• strategizing (this is what makes facing the danger so much fun)
• superpowers
• psychic powers
• what? All that ain't enough?

Tons of blog and forum space is devoted to this series, so here's my turn.  There's a reading order to these but you can get that at Amazon.com.  The whole series is one of the more popular list topics.  That's one thing that sort of bugs me about Amazon.  So many lists are repetitive and there's nothing tangible to distinguish them.  Weird nicknames, I guess.  Or saucy titles. 

The first one I read was DANCE WITH THE DEVIL.  I read on tarzantheseries.net (now defunct) that it had a reference to Travis Fimmel in it, so I hustled over to my local book shop and surprise! surprise! It was there.  I was a good girl.  I did not hunt for the reference, but read the whole book.  It was cute.  Simi  is just the coolest character.  Her banter is hilarious. 

It's been a couple of years so I don't remember exactly which came next, but I was sufficiently interested to get more books from the series.

NIGHT PLAY

NIGHT PLEASURES

FANTASY LOVER 

I flirted with the idea of getting a paperback cover as the titles are shamelessly panderous.  Title notwithstanding, the art is quite discreet.   FL is the "beginning" of the series.  Some of the greatest inventions of romantic novels have to be the Devereaux sisters.  Half Romanian Gypsy and half Louisiana Cajun.

The dark-hunters are ex-humans who have been granted eternal life, unbelievable wealth and supernatural powers.  They're an army -- literally.  Many of them were warriors in their past lives.  And their past lives...WHOAH!  Celts, Romans, Greeks, Vikings, and pirates.  The whole series is a testosterone buffet.  Not because of the love scenes.  As nice as they are, if it wasn't for the stories of mythological beings mixing with humans, I would not buy/keep these books. 

Kenyon has put out a concordance to the series, but if you're a reader like me, it's more fun to discover the characters book by book.    

Take this cool dark-hunter quiz!

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