presents to buy and some purple
I am a horrible sister. I have not bought Amy a birthday present and her birthday is TODAY. As in, I suck. So. I'm buying her Cecelia Ahern's Where Rainbows End because, uno, she loved P.S. I Love You (both the movie and the book, the latter of which she still needs to lend me because, hello, bookworm here) and dos, because holy shit the story is freaking similar to hers and her husband's. Friends from childhood, separated during their teenage years because he moved away, and they later reconnect as adults. Freakish! So she will love it, regardless of whether the story is good or not (I haven't read any of Ahern's work yet but I hear good stuff in the chick lit circles), because of the thought behind. It's much better than what her monster-in-law gave her recently. Les Portes de Québec by who-freaking-cares is a (only slightly historical) story of adultery, primarily. Subliminal message? Yes indeed. MIL hates Amy. She even tried to push P (that's her husband) and his ex back together after they got married. WHO DOES THAT.
Now, to think of a present (possibly a book, again - it's so very me lol) for Jo in Chile. She loves rock climbing and hiking (since she got with her current boyfriend, blargh), she's diabetic (cue low-carb, low-fat cooking recipes) and the only leisure books we've kind of connected on were HP and this philosophical story about clones that I really enjoyed). Anyone have any ideas? She's not so obsessed with HP that she desperately wants to read Fantastic Beasts and the other two. As to diabetes-friendly cookbooks, she has a dozen. Hmm...
Still book-wise, I'm about to finish Lord of Ice by Gaelen Foley. It's... well I'm just past the sexytimes and lol, for a not-very-purple book, Foley went all out with "mound of Venus" and "turgid member" and all. I jolted a tad whenever I'd run across those. It's like... mmhmm, this is just fine, and then "could not be satisfied until he was spent" and I was like WOT. Seriously, though, overall it's quite an enjoyable read: emotionally scarred soldier (officer, actually, I believe) who has trouble adjusting to quiet life back in Society after warring against Napoleon. Girl's a bastard orphan and she suddenly becomes his ward when his friend who was in charge of her is murdered in his home. Cue several attempts on her life because, dun dun dun, turns out the man who killed him is her uncle and he wants her dowry money to indulge his own (legitimate) kid. So, yeah, it's pretty good overall but that sexy bit had me in fits lol. I do not like purple prose, if you can't tell ;P
Now, to think of a present (possibly a book, again - it's so very me lol) for Jo in Chile. She loves rock climbing and hiking (since she got with her current boyfriend, blargh), she's diabetic (cue low-carb, low-fat cooking recipes) and the only leisure books we've kind of connected on were HP and this philosophical story about clones that I really enjoyed). Anyone have any ideas? She's not so obsessed with HP that she desperately wants to read Fantastic Beasts and the other two. As to diabetes-friendly cookbooks, she has a dozen. Hmm...
Still book-wise, I'm about to finish Lord of Ice by Gaelen Foley. It's... well I'm just past the sexytimes and lol, for a not-very-purple book, Foley went all out with "mound of Venus" and "turgid member" and all. I jolted a tad whenever I'd run across those. It's like... mmhmm, this is just fine, and then "could not be satisfied until he was spent" and I was like WOT. Seriously, though, overall it's quite an enjoyable read: emotionally scarred soldier (officer, actually, I believe) who has trouble adjusting to quiet life back in Society after warring against Napoleon. Girl's a bastard orphan and she suddenly becomes his ward when his friend who was in charge of her is murdered in his home. Cue several attempts on her life because, dun dun dun, turns out the man who killed him is her uncle and he wants her dowry money to indulge his own (legitimate) kid. So, yeah, it's pretty good overall but that sexy bit had me in fits lol. I do not like purple prose, if you can't tell ;P