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Sometimes Lavender, Sometimes Purple: A Love Affair With Adjectives and Adverbs
While many of you are aware of “copywriting boobos”, I tend to be more aware of descriptive information. I want it to seep into my subconscious setting the scene, showing me the action but not be…
Earworm of the day: Marathon Kiss by Marianne Faithfull
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoWcgP7SUD4For me, Marianne Faithfull is a true “mood” musician. Sometimes, I don’t listen to her for months, next I take an album of hers and listen to it non-stop.
Is This Our Collective Fantasy?
My workout playlist runs to guilty pleasures, and Whatever You Like is among the guiltiest. I prefer this more indie, Joan as Policewoman version to the TI original. In case you’re not interested in listening –…
Pandora's Box: A Lady Never Lies
And Pandora’s Box is back again! This time around, Blythe Barnhill and Jean Wan are taking on a European historical by debut author Juliana Grey. In A Lady Never Lies, Lady Morley has fled to Italy…
TBR Challenge 2012 – And Now for Something Completely Different…
I read across a wide variety of genres, so choosing a non-romance book for this month’s TBR Challenge proved rather tricky. In the end, I went with a mystery, because I really wanted to get back…
On vacation in Southern Bavaria, part 2
The best part of my recent trip was a visit to Rose Island or Roseninsel, as it’s called in German, in the Starnberger See. There is only the one small islet in the whole of the…
Speaking of Audiobooks: Julie James Interview and Giveaway!
After getting a taste of the winning combination of author Julie James and narrator Karen White with Penguin’s release of Just the Sexiest Man Alive in 2010, romance audio fans have been begging for more from…