And the rosary beads count the one, two, threes.
One of the more amusing parts of working at a bookstore is restocking the romance novels.
One, whenever I'm shelving anything with the word 'renegade' in the title, I start humming the song by Styx. You may or may not be surprised at how frequently this occurs. Two, As soon as you think you've seen absolutely every possible way you can use either ( Read more... )
One, whenever I'm shelving anything with the word 'renegade' in the title, I start humming the song by Styx. You may or may not be surprised at how frequently this occurs. Two, As soon as you think you've seen absolutely every possible way you can use either ( Read more... )
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I love them. I love them like people love MMA, I'm Pregnant and [fill in here] or Slushies. They're easy reads & & 99.99999% of the time you know how it's going to end but occasionally, someone surprises you & the book ends up being and good read and/or hawt hawt hawt pr0n. Occasionally, VERY occasionally, you get crack like cowboy vampires & you want to weep with horrified joy.
1) I know why I love big burly men with claymores: I grew up with comics. You know my taste in men. ;) Also, kilts leave nothing to the imagination regarding the eveness of musculature, unlike slacks or baggy jeans which hide chicken legs. Or EVEN WORSE, skinny jeans that hide NOTHING. A man whose thighs are thinner than my calves is a man I can kneecap by sitting on his lap.
I'm just saying. ;)
2) Outlander is a good book. The second one ( ... )
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This is why I love you. And also have a hunch that there was some kind of wormhole in 1987 or there abouts.
In regards to cowboy vampires, you do realize you have to read it now, don't you. Or at least skin and report back with some choice passages. You can't just say that there are cowboy vampires and not follow that up. It's like saying that there is cake, but one can never know if it's a lie or not because no one will ever see it. Not gonna lie though, cowboy vampires could be totally awesome if done right.
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Of course, it's all well and good until you actually start singing "HAAAAAAAAANGMAN'S COMING DOWN FROM THE GALLOWS AND I DOOOOOON'T HAVE VERY LOOOOOONG!". That just gets you weird looks from customers, even if you are singing quietly. The giggles afterwards probably contribute to this.
I work at the bookstore again Sunday. I'm not going to buy it, but I can skim during my break and come back with some sputtering on the topic, but probably no quotes. Just a lot of WTF, but I'll do my best. I'll be sure to get the title too just so you can go find it at your local bookstore and have a skim yourself. Agreed x1000. Guns, fangs, and chaps? Shoot first, suck later? That could be an awesome novel, romance or just plain ol' fiction.
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Regarding Diana Gabaldon - I haven't read her books although my mom has and I believe that she enjoyed them as she does pick up Gabaldon's books when they're on the bargain tables. Since her blow up at fandom, I've lost all interest in checking out any of her books, especially since I found out that she 'loaned' out her characters to another writer. They might be masterpieces but it's unlikely I'll ever find out now and I'm quite okay with that.
On a completely different note, Little Women now makes perfect sense to me - somewhat. I still don't get why Jo didn't get together with Laurie, but that is a rant for another day. No, now I finally understand why Laurie was obsessed with becoming a part of the March family. They're werewolves (or Vampires, depending on which book you pick up). No wonder he was willing to marry ( ... )
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Percy: So, Dave? There's this guy.
Dave: *cocks shotgun*
Percy: Thats, erm, not going to work on him.
Dave: Percy, explain. Now.
Percy: His name is Jeff Archer, and he's a cowboy vampire, and can I keep him pleasepleaseplease?
Dave: *blinks* Necrophilia. Seriously? Necrophilia?
Percy: When you say it that way, it sounds horrible.
Dave: Right. I'm gonna go sharpen some stakes, borrow some of your mother's silver jewelry, and take out stock in a garlic greenhouse.
Percy: A slight overreaction, don't you think?
Dave: Okay. So no stock in garlic. But I'm cooking pasta with enough garlic in the sauce to kill a horse tonight, and I want him over for dinner.
Percy: BECAUSE THAT'S SO MUCH BETTER.
Dave: Thems the breaks, Percy.
Sweet Murphy. *shakes head ( ... )
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Mum would probably be laughing with you, and would draw the line at staking since dust and ash are a pain to get out of the carpet, dammit.
Sherlock the vampire detective. Hmmm. That's a new one.
(Speaking of, do you remember the show "Sherlock Holmes In The 22nd Century"?)
I know that Neil Gaiman wrote a short Sherlock Holmes story based on 'A Study In Scarlet', though set against a backdrop of Lovecraftian mythos. Not the same thing as a vampire detective though, so you may be on to something there ( ... )
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And yet, dammit, I'm going to be flipping through that book on my break when I work again Sunday. Curse my easily amused-ness.
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Personally my curiosity is piqued to find out what EVERY GIRL DESERVES A GUY LIKE WHATEVERTHEDUDE'SNAMEIS ZOMG. is all about.
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That's if I even bother to touch that book. Gabaldon doesn't really have a good deal of my respect, and so it's currently curiosity wrestling with principle.
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When I was a wee thing, I used to work in a library as a Page, and my job was basically signing out books for patrons, cutting little kids crafts for story time, and shelving books. Best part? the librarians (all super bitchy and fantastic 40+ ladies) so scorned the romance novels that they just had a red R written on their spine and were shoved in a book shelf at random; we didn't even have to alphabitize them. :D
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That's the best little library anecdote I have ever, ever heard, and I kind of love these librarians (ALPHABETIZING THE ROMANCES IS A BITCH. Nora Roberts, I know you're awesome -- La Nora is the patron saint of fandom -- but FRIGGING HELL. Between all the different series/sequences/trilogies/whatever you write, I could spend an hour just trying to make sure everything YOU write is organized). This is just like how back before we cleaned up our back room at the bookstore, Stephanie Meyer's stuff was stored between 'Humour' and the damaged goods.
Hee. The Scarlet R. I swear there's a story in that somewhere.
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