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.

The Origin of the Honeymoon

Today, the tradition of a honeymoon following nuptials has, long way from its original meaning. Today's "happy ending" to the wedding event is a far cry from its much different beginnings. The word honeymoon has its roots in the Norse word "hjunottsmanathr" which was anything but blissful. Northern European history describes the abduction of a bride from neighboring village. It was imperative, that the abductor, the husband to be, take his bride to be into hiding for period of time. His friends assured his and her safe keeping and kept their whereabouts unknown. Once the bride's family gave up their search, the bride groom returned to his people. This folkloric explanation presumably is the origin of today's honeymoon, for its original meaning meant hiding. 

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.

Finished another book

But I don't want to write a review just yet.  It's another Kinley MacGregor book and right after this, I'll be reading and reviewing an oldie-but-goodie in my library.

I first found out about romance novels when I was 8

Yes.  It's true.  I even read a couple of pages of it but I wasn't ready for that stuff yet of course, since I was just a kid.  I've been corrupted ever since then, ha!

Where'd I find this, you may ask?  It's presumably owned by my mom.  I don't know how she got it but lately she reprimands me for buying the books I have.  Hypocrite.

The book is called Chances, by Janice Kaiser, and it was published in 1987.  We still have it with us, even though I've moved houses so many times.  That book has been kept in so many damn places and it currently resides in my grandpa's TV room nestled in a bookshelf so unnoticed.  The only reason I brought it up today is because I saw it there.  No, I do not know what it's about, seeing as I've never officially read it.  But I think it was a contemporary at the time.

Not sure if I'll ever read it.  The Internet doesn't even have a stock photo of it, so is it even relevantly a known book?

I have seventy-plus books to go through

So how am I gonna pull this off?

I've been thinking about it, and while I do have plenty of books to go through, I still have many older ones to review.  After this next Kinley MacGregor/Sherrilyn Kenyon book, Taming the Highlander, I'm going to select one of my oldies and write about it here.

Bros before hos! Final take: Claiming the Highlander

As with most romance novels, this one pulled at my heartstrings, but it made me also laugh about the sheer absurdity of some things.