Just got back from shopping

...and picked up a couple of new books.

The one worth mentioning here is Stand By Your Hitman by Leslie Langtry.  More research for my assassin RP *nods*

I was a little down this afternoon, till I brought myself to Borders and there was live music going on, something that I've never seen happen while I've been there.  So I stayed a while and yeah, it did a good job of perking me up.

12 days till I'm 21.

What else have I been up to?

I just finished reading Hot Ice by Cherry Adair (finally got around to it) due to the fact that I had to do research for an RP I'm in.  It helped a bit...guess I'll have to get more romance novels with espionage plots.  Hm.

I've also been reading A Courtesan's Scandal by Julia London (I also have her book Highland Scandal) but I'm only halfway through it and still don't get what's going on.

There's a few new books on the shelf.  I'm not sure if I've mentioned them before.

Gaelen Foley - My Dangerous Duke (sequel to My Wicked Marquess)
Kat Martin - Rule's Bride (second sequel to Royal's Bride, sequel to Reese's Bride)
Larissa Ione - Ecstasy Unveiled (fourth book in the Demonica series about the Seminus demon brothers)

I've still yet to do several book reviews that I need to catch up on and finish the Bride and Prejudice movie review...hahaha.  And I'm back in school, so that's no help.  I haven't been paying attention to my romance novels since a couple of days before the Twilight: Eclipse movie came out.  It's only around the last couple of weeks of summer vacation that I actually started caring.

Seriously though, I thought I would've been done with the rest of my books by now.  The current count of romance novels on my shelf is now 75.  I'm not sure if I've missed anything but it seems more than that.  Then again, nowadays I just pick up books on the shelf and put them down after a long while.  But don't worry, there's a whole slew of new reads at Borders that I've found that I can't wait to purchase.

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.

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.