What was begun as an online journal of the books I read evolved...or maybe it devolved...to also feature behind the scenes goings-on at All About Romance from my perspective (mostly based on my personal feelings - okay, it's a personal pity party); topics I've gone over ad nauseum in commentary at AAR, including the nature of reviews and online behavior; and my non-cyber life (including family and items in pop culture that capture my interest, which is just about everything).

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Below you'll find the blogs I visit, broken out in my own odd little system of categories.

November 2006



Isn't Family Exhausting?

Sunday, 26 November 2006 4:25 P GMT-05
My husband has always found my family exhausting, and last night at dinner, after the last of the Thanksgiving group (which included members of both families) left, I realized he was right. He tends to be quiet anyway, but when my family is aro
Category: Personal/Political
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Hoopla...Part III

Sunday, 19 November 2006 11:55 A GMT-05
Today I write for the third time about the hysteria surrounding what Anne Stuart said: About what Miss Snark said about what Anne Stuart said; About what other bloggers have written about what Miss Snark said about what Anne Stuart said;
Category: Blogging Internet
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Hoopla...Part II

Saturday, 18 November 2006 10:57 A GMT-05
The insanity surrounding my interview with Anne Stuart last month rages on. I thought it had gone full circle when a reader posted to one AAR's message boards about Miss Snark's not-one-but-three bloggings tsk, tsking the author for her impo
Category: AAR Blogging Internet
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Giving Up the Ghost

Thursday, 16 November 2006 7:29 P GMT-05
It's been another two full days since I posted about the sample page I'd set up on blog-city to host perhaps twenty pages at year of AAR content in order to provide direct commenting ability for them...and those full days have been incredib
Category: AAR
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Testing...testing

Tuesday, 14 November 2006 3:13 P GMT-05
Well, after a full week of trying to find a way to provide blog-like commenting on some of AAR's pages, I've finished creating one of two solutions.  It is currently in testing, so the original page remains online as well, but for those
Category: AAR
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Aphrodisia Double-Speak

Monday, 13 November 2006 10:40 A GMT-05
Sybil commented on my blog from over the weekend about Kate Douglas' Wolf Tales, and I went to the source...in this case, HelenKay Dimon, who wrote about the whole "is it Erotic Romance or Simply Erotica?" some time ago:In the never-en
Category: Reading
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AAR's minipolls

Sunday, 12 November 2006 5:04 P GMT-05
Let your voice be heard in AAR’s last mini-poll for this year! There's one more week to vote for your top ten hanky read books, hanky read authors, holiday reads, and e-books. AAR's minipolls TTFN, Laurie Likes Books
Category: AAR
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Wolf Tales...may contain spoilers

Saturday, 11 November 2006 11:35 A GMT-05
In the current At the Back Fence column, there's a small segment from me on how confused I am as to the labeling of books these days. This is a topic of significance for me, which is why I've been dismayed that it doesn't seem to be a pro
Category: Reading
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Poll results

Friday, 10 November 2006 8:23 P GMT-05
Here are the results of my informal poll regarding this week's elections:
Category: Personal/Political
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TV

Thursday, 9 November 2006 2:21 P GMT-05
This has been a weird TV fall season for me. I don't know that I've watched more than two episodes of any new show, and many of the shows I watched fairly regularly last year are those I've not kept up with this year. But I am
Category: Entertainment

Are you celebrating...or in mourning? (click here)

Wednesday, 8 November 2006 7:10 P GMT-05
Are you celebrating, or in mourning after yesterday's elections?
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AAR After Hours

Wednesday, 8 November 2006 6:59 P GMT-05
Though AAR After Hours has exceeded expectations in terms of total hits, I'm dismayed by one aspect of things: it seems that only AAR contributors are commenting on each other's posts, as opposed to other readers of the blog.  It's
Category: AAR Blogging

Hoopla

Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:07 A GMT-05
Last night I noticed that several blogs featured entries, with lots of reader/author comments, about my interview with Anne Stuart, and, specifically, the "lost question" I'd initially and accidentally mis-coded so that it wasn't vi
Category: AAR Blogging Internet
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New Polls...Re-Poll

Monday, 6 November 2006 2:43 P GMT-05
Last week we posted the results in our latest set of mini-polls, and learned - based on comments both here and at AAR proper - that there was confusion surrounding the poll for your top ten e-books. As a result, included in the new set of mini-polls
Category: AAR
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Midnight in Death

Saturday, 4 November 2006 6:35 P GMT-05
Midnight in Death, a short story in the Silent Nights anthology, falls between Holiday in Death and Conspiracy in Death in J.D. Robb's In Death series, that I first wrote about in September , and then again in October. I still haven't moved o
Category: Reading
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Take Me

Saturday, 4 November 2006 12:25 P GMT-05
Review of Take Me
Category: Reading
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Catching up on TV and TV-related items

Friday, 3 November 2006 11:57 A GMT-05
Check out Maureen Dowd's interview of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert in Rolling Stone (or on the magazine's website).So, is the weird-haired Marcel Vigernon the "Stephen" of season two on Top Chef? He may actually be "Stephen
Category: Entertainment
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Follow-up: The Politics of Deafness

Friday, 3 November 2006 11:43 A GMT-05
I blogged last week on the controversy surrounding the name of Jane Fernandes as president of Gallaudet University. On October 30th the university's board of trustees revoked her appointment.TTFN, Laurie Likes Books
Category: Personal/Political
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My ballot...Mainstream Sexy, Erotic Romance, & E-Book poll

Thursday, 2 November 2006 9:36 P GMT-05
We were able to post the results for our latest set of mini-polls at AAR...this time for the Top Ten Mainstream Sexy Titles, Top Ten Erotic Romances, and Top Ten E-Book Titles. Lee, LinnieGayl, and Cindy did, as usual, a fabulous job keeping up
Category: Reading
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