books and more books! and first day of school :)

[stormsandsins]

Question of little importance but indulge me, I'm just curious: How do ya'll pronounce "civilisation"? Linguistics and phonetics have always fascinated me :)

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[dracoangelica]

I say it : civil-a-zay-shun. Or, civilization.

But I'm american. And southern.

[stormsandsins]

I say civil-ai-zay-shun

[kerosinkanister]

I'm just boggled that there's a genre of Navy SEAL romantic suspense. The things people think of!

[stormsandsins]

Ahaha, they're actually quite manly but hey, there's even army romance so why not? Besides, I'd bet my eyeteeth those authors are married to Navy SEAL guys (or military guys, at the very least). The amount of army vocabulary you learn in these books is quite astonishing.

[sireesanwar]

I like the alien angle and I think I like that the woman are humans and the men are vamps because I don't usually care about a female vamp

[stormsandsins]

See, I like when there aren't any racial differences, or at least when they're not played upon that much (or not mentioned, I guess). I think I like Gena Showalter's Lords of the Underworld because they don't rely on mating human women to subsist (at least, not as far as I've read?) I like when there are challenges between races and they figure out how to overcome it (i.e. that dude in the LotU series who can't touch anyone

[sireesanwar]

That is true. I guess I just saw it as a difference and left it at that. I really don't mind. Though, I agree that it is sad these women never get to have baby girls and then there is no daddies girl.

Hmmmm.... Okay I thought there was an alien reference but maybe I'm confusing the series.

I really hope you like the Riley Jensen series because at book two it just becomes so much better.

[sireesanwar]

That is true. I guess I just saw it as a difference and left it at that. I really don't mind. Though, I agree that it is sad these women never get to have baby girls and then there is no daddies girl.

Hmmmm.... Okay I thought there was an alien reference but maybe I'm confusing the series.

I really hope you like the Riley Jensen series because at book two it just becomes so much better.