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 2007



A Dirty Job

Friday, 30 November 2007 1:06 P GMT-05
A Dirty Job Christopher Moore Grade: A (DIK Status) Count me in as a Christopher Moore fangirl! In 2004, while on an Alaskan cruise with family, I followed the recommendation of one-time AAR reviewer Mary Novak and read Moore's Bloodsucking Fiends.
Category: Reading
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Don't Try This at Home

Thursday, 29 November 2007 2:23 P GMT-05
Don't Try This at Home Edited by Kimberly Witherspoon and Andrew Friedman Grade: B- Although I'm not much of a cook and don't enjoy cooking myself - and now that I'm a proud wearer of a lap-band, I'm not much of an eater either - I love watching othe
Category: Reading

Elijah

Wednesday, 28 November 2007 2:57 P GMT-05
ELIJAH, Jacquelyn Frank, Zebra, 375 pages, $6.99, ISBN 10: 0-8217-8067-0, ISBN 13: 978-0-8217-8067-1, December 2007 (On sale November 27) After centuries of warfare, the Demons [not Biblical or evil - just another paranormal race] and Lycanthrope
Category: Reading

Reckless

Tuesday, 27 November 2007 7:52 P GMT-05
Reckless Amanda Quick Grade: B Sensuality: Warm Although my most recent JAK/Amanda Quick read was a disaster, she does remain a major comfort read author, and one of the first books I grabbed to read when I got sick last month was Reckless, published
Category: Reading
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Wild, Wicked, & Wanton

Monday, 26 November 2007 6:57 P GMT-05
Wicked, Wild, & WantonJaci BurtonGrade: B- Sensuality: Burning I've never read Jaci Burton before, but I've heard her name bandied about on various blogs. She's one of the authors listed in our If You Like... feature, so when I noticed her book prior
Category: Reading

On the Mend

Monday, 26 November 2007 2:01 P GMT-05
After being sick for more than a full month, I am finally on the mend. I saw specialists on Monday and Tuesday of last week, and today I see another. I've had chest X-rays and an upper G.I. barium swallow, and I've been on a total of six separate pre
Category: Personal/Political
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Pneumonia

Monday, 19 November 2007 8:37 P GMT-05
I've mentioned a couple of times in the past few weeks that I've been sick, and today the diagnosis changed from bronchitis to pneumonia. Which means I'm mostly in bed and definitely not working. Because Cheryl knows the ins and outs of our review da
Category: AAR Personal/Political
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The Hat

Monday, 12 November 2007 11:47 A GMT-05
Did you know that JFK killed the men's hat business when he didn't wear a hat for his inauguration? I think it's a shame, and I wonder: Now that JFK is president on AMC's Mad Men, will Don Draper will follow suit and be hatless next season? I love a
Category: Personal/Political
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