Scandalous Love, 8-14

Just a listing of each chapter's main points, pretty much

Sherrilyn Kenyon - Totally got the book signing accomplished!

You know...I haven't read a romance novel since the Twilight Pre-party last June.

But I totally got Sherrilyn Kenyon's autographs on my books.  All five of them.  : )  And she gave me a sixth - a signed copy of her Dark-Hunters manga!

Comic Con just got 10x better

Sherrilyn Kenyon will be appearing there!  I'm pretty sure she did last year but I didn't know who she was until I started reading her MacAllister series.  Thank God I'll be done with it for a while after I finish the review for Taming the Scotsman (which is in Drafts right now).  But this time I have a game plan.  Instead of getting Twilight swag this year - well more like, aside from getting Twilight swag, I'm also gonna hang out at Sherrilyn's booth and get freebies there.  Hopefully autographs for my books as well.  That means I need some new Sharpies.

Romantic Movie of the Day

I went out to see Letters to Juliet tonight (Vanessa Redgrave, Amanda Seyfried).  It's actually pretty sweet, and quite comedic.  I almost thought I wasn't going to be able to see this movie because it's a very rare chance I actually go to the movie theater, if at all.

Something I tend to notice in these books

In several of my books, it turns out the heroine knows something about accounts.  She tells the hero about that, so she can have a reason to stay around and "prove herself useful" so the guy will actually let her stay.


I can't remember all the books, but it was a feature so prominent in them, so I'm gonna try to flip through them after finals (all 70-something of my books) and see which ones actually HAVE that theme.  I KNOW there's more than one.


Book #1: Tracy Ann Warren's Tempted By His Kiss
Book #2: Adele Ashworth's My Darling Caroline (added 8/9/11)


You might be asking, "Why the hell is she talking about accounting in a romance novel blog?"  Well here's my answer.


I can't do accounting.  I'm a Pre-Business major, about to be dropped down to Undeclared because I'm gettin' kicked out of the system.  From what I've heard from other business majors, Accounting is TERRIBLY HARD.  Even if you're an accounting major - you've got study groups constantly burning that midnight oil, and I have to go through about two accounting classes as part of my requirements.  I took it last semester and didn't do so well.  So why the hell do these girls in romance novels act like they know so much about accounting and students today find it so damn hard?!


It's not fair!

Sometimes I even ask myself...

...why do I do this so much?  Why do I buy so many romance novels, only for my money to fly out of my wallet and into the bankbooks of the authors whom I idolize.  And not just authors, it's anything that I purchase that benefits the bank accounts of someone else.

What am I working on? Plus, two new books.

I am currently reading Claiming the Highlander by Kinley MacGregor/Sherrilyn Kenyon. As far as I know, I think her regular name is Sherrilyn Kenyon, since that's the pen name she uses for most of her titles as well as her website, obviously SherrilynKenyon.com.

From my point of view

A twenty-year-old college girl with seventy-plus books about romance on her shelf.  From Shana Abé to Sue-Ellen Welfonder, and many other authors in-between, I can honestly say I am obsessed with romance novels.

Since 2006, I've been collecting these books of fluff and fantasies about eras long gone by, that people frequently ask me, "What the hell are you doing with all these trashy books?!"  Well, I don't have a straight answer for that.  I love them, sometimes hate them, occasionally want to throw them against a wall, but restrain myself from doing so.  And people sometimes tell me that I should either burn them or sell them.

What, a girl can't have her own collection of these in her room?

Anyway, I've seen the Smart Bitches, Trashy Books webpage, and am nowhere near their caliber of literary critique, although I do have a very big potty mouth, so that's to be expected along the way.  I've always wanted to write reviews about the books I've read (and video games I've played, and movies I've watched, etc...) but never really thought about an actual literary analysis until recently (my VERY cute grad-student English teacher bases his class on a lot of discussion, and I do very poorly on it, yet still have a good grade).

Not that I should feel intimidated by those Smart Bitches.  I think they're older than me anyway, so they can claim the "being wiser" thing, while I claim youth and inexperience (thank you, The Young Victoria).  I'm pretty sure it's true.

So I'm risking my college career, my health (lack of sleep due to persistent reading till the dawn breaks), and my social life just to fulfill a fantasy.  People think I'm crazy, but it's no biggie (hah, yeah right!)

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