Latest Romance Book Releases – July 24th 2018

Shh.
Don’t say it out loud Leslie.
This is when my slump started…last year. A year and I’m still not back totally.
Don’t jinx yourself.

I’ll guinea pig Ghosted for you guys. Since I obviously have no self control and preorder books as if the bill will never come due. 🙄

Peer and the Puppet sounds good. I did have to read the blurb really slowly to get everything straight. Just me or a little confusing?

Also, Consent by Nancy Ohlin is on sale for .99, normally 8.99 and is a student-teacher read!
Tasha…I’ll let you guys know how it is. Riiiiiiiight after I finish sleeping with some monsters. *snort*

Tessa, I’m going to see if I can listen to that song.
Today is still more English with Brooklyn in The Summer still on repeat. Such a happy song about a breakup, lol.
But why not add in some Japanese.

I can see how that one would be hard, Tessa. Especially when you add power vocals in.

*blushes* Honest truth, the power vocals aren’t hard for me. It’s keeping track of the words. I have to memorize the English words that go to the Japanese ones if I’m ever going to memorize it. Did you read the translation? Obviously, the game it came from REALLY lent itself to my love for the song. Though, instead of Yaketsuki I say Oh Itsuki, one of the characters in the game. (SUCH A SAD, SCARIER THAN SCARY GAME)

Umm……this is worse than hugging.

I just finished my 20th book of the year. Which is sad and happy all at the same time.

I just came across “His Banana” (I know!) by Penelope Bloom, I wondered if anyone had read it yet, it’s only .99 so not a huge risk, sounds like it might be good.

You’re right, Sandi…it dropped even more! And…AND!!! The sequel, The Consequences, is down to 1.99 – but don’t read the blurb if you don’t want to know if he did or didn’t in The Affair. 😉
For the record, I haven’t read the sequel yet.

Come Leslie. Join me on the dark side.

Oh no…if you’re looking for carbs, you won’t find them at my house. The limited amount I do buy is gobbled up by my hubby in record time.

Where are my carb lovers?

Carb lovers?
*raises hand*
*looks at ever-expanding a$$*
*slowly lowers hand*

Have some bread. It’s delicious.
Look even idols agree. At the 54 second mark. Honestly, I’m like that with bread.
https://youtu.be/S_qeax9hpdg
It is so delicious I can’t have it in the house all the time. And noodles. Rice. Potatoes. So good!

I really need to just mark a day and start.
Not think of it as a diet and choose small goals.

I don’t really want to lose weight, just tone everything up. My belly isn’t that big, I think it’d be doable if I actually started doing something. But, reading! And shows! And cooking, cleaning, taxiing, bathing, feeding, playing, yada, yada, yada. It’s shoved way down on my priority list. I’m a “I’ll do that after etc. etc. etc.” person. And then more etc. and it becomes more fantasy than reality.
I didn’t eat the cupcakes. 1 for each kiddo. I just ate a lemon bar….and a cookie. And the latte. But, I missed lunch so it evens out. 🙂

Yes, and then dance it off together, lol.

That’s what I need then.
A baby or two to carry around.

My husband used to swear by my baby vitamins. He would take them and say they always made him feel great. And he would tell anybody, he wasn’t ashamed. He took them for years long after I went back to one a days.

Yes! I forgot about that one, Tessa. I always do that with them too. Maybe I should start conditioning…I really am that outta shape. I always joke that using an Apple slicer gave me pain for days on my upper arms/inner arms/arm pits/probably chest area as an example as to how our if shape I am. It actually happened that way. I think I did like 3 apples. Lol

I was reminded of Justified the other day.
Amy have you and your husband watched that? I do think you may like it. A bit dark, funny, great writing and acting. Seriously the actors and their characters are a perfect match. Also one of the best hero/villian anti bromance pairings ever. Lol.
I know I’ve talked of it before but it was a seriously good show through out and I think even stuck the landing.

I had a ton of hair, but it started coming out in handfuls. They said it was a combination of being in the hospital for so long and the Warfarin (generic Coumadin) I was on at the time (Warfarin is known to make hair fall out; Coumadin does not in most cases.)
I lost so much that I cut it off to above my shoulders and bleached it white blonde so that my lily white scalp wouldn’t be as noticeable. And if you’re seeing those flyaway baby hairs, you know you’re doing something right! I felt like a fuzzball for a while, but I was so happy to have hair growing back in that I didn’t care!
Amy–I truly didn’t notice much of a difference until at least 3 months after I went on the Biotin. That’s when I started seeing a little stubble, but the real difference was around 6 months. I noticed it in my nails much sooner than that.
Maryse–I never even thought about prenatal vitamins. That’s great that it’s working for you. They always made me SO sick when I was pregnant, but I have a cast iron stomach now, so I bet I could handle them if I wasn’t already on various vitamins at different times of the day.
Congrats, Jean! That’s awesome!

I have a brown thumb and I routinely kill plants that you’re not supposed to be able to kill and I TRY! I water them once a week and what not, but they all eventually crap out on me. And I still want this cactus. Reading the instructions for care confuses me (I’ve killed 1 before). It says “Water thoroughly when soil is dry to the touch. As the “fans” of cristates can trap water that can lead to rot, it is preferable to water from beneath, if possible. Water thoroughly when soil is dry to the touch, except on cloudy, humid or cold winter days. Protect from frost.” So…the little saucers you put under the plants to catch the extra water- you just put water in them then? NO watering the top? And somehow the plant soaks this water from the saucer clear up to the top of the soil so it feels moist to the touch? Except on bad weather days…then I deprive it? All of winter is cold. Also, it says it’s currently growing in a 3.5” pot, but it’s being shipped bare root. So, do I get another 3.5” or a little bigger? I’m asking here Bc there are a few green thumbs here.

FLT: In my dreams, I danced. (Blind Kiss by Renee Carlino). Loving this book so far!!!
The H and h are part of an experiment in the beginning….. kissing while blindfolded without ever seeing the other person’s face. Will there be a reaction based on the kiss without the initial attraction to looks? Hmmm…..

Tasha–yes, you water from the bottom. Just put it in the saucer until it’s soaked up. And if any is left standing for more than a day, I dump it out so that it doesn’t get nasty or risk rotting the roots.
From what I remember, you should put it in the same size pot (cacti like to be in pots just big enough to fit them), which you can keep it in for a long time, until it gets root bound. Also, make sure the soil is somewhat sandy. If it doesn’t have instructions for a soil mixture, you can look one up. The main thing is–don’t over water it. In my experience, that’s the quickest way to kill a succulent.

Ok, thanks Nay. I assume the water will soak clear to the top so it’s moist to the touch. I’ve killed all my succulents. They’re my favorite and they hate me. You’d think once a week wasn’t too much. And I did the sand thing with them too.

“That’s what I need then.
A baby or two to carry around.”
Do it, bev. Have a baby. Or two. Or two at once.

I love the living art with succulents, they look so pretty.

Actually, I do have a heart leaf philodendron that has lasted like 3 years, maybe. And 1 other one, a lone surviver, that’s thinned out a ton (poor thing looks pitiful) that’s lasted 1 year now. I have no idea what it is.

After I finally got hubs to watch Bloodlines and Ozark (he LOVED both of them), he found a show called Longmire and and love it even more, so when he was looking for something similar, I tried to get him to watch Justified, but he couldn’t get into it. But it wasn’t because it was bad or anything. It was because the scenery looked nothing like it was supposed to for the setting in Lexington and Appalachia. He’s big about ‘the land’ anywhere we go, so that bugged the crap out of him. It’s a shame because I’ve heard more than once how awesome that series is.
Speaking of Ozark, if anyone watched it and has been waiting for season 2 to finally start, it premieres on August 31. I can’t wait! I adore Jason Bateman.

Fine.
I’ll name the baby Pumpernickel and give it to Maryse.

FLT “When things are going poorly, I dream about tidal waves.” Elizabeth O’Roark, Drowning Erin
I just finished “Waking Olivia” by her and loved it! And they’re in KU!
Ugh hardly any time to read last night as Alice decided to get good and skunked right before my retreat! 🙄

Nay! Can you text me the brand? I need some for next time because there will be one.

Sent it, Robin.
In case anyone else has the skunk problem, the brand we use is Pro-pet and we got it at True Value Hardware, which carries a lot of farm animal products. But Amazon has many different brands that have decent reviews.

FLT:
Prologue – The smell of blood touched my nostrils, and I almost f****g laughed.
Chapter 1 – “Are you f*****g serious?”
The Mafia and his Obsession Part 1 by Layla James
Yes, there is a lot of swearing in this. 😛 They are Russian Mafia. lol

FLT
It was January 10th 2005.
from the newie by Chloe Walsh, Binding 13. It’s massive – my kindle says it has 800+ pages!!!!!! WTAH??????? And I don’t yet have any idea what the book title refers to. But so far, I’m in, even though it’s NA which isn’t my fav normally. It’s set in Ireland. A hot young up-and-coming rugby player and a girl who has changed schools (to HIS school yesssss) cos she was severely bullied at her old school.
So far I like the storyline and the writing style.

Ha ha yes bev. I remember reading (and loving) LHoG and thinking the same thing. Well, this one’s long but somehow it just flies by pretty quickly and I’m at 35% already. I guess it is kinda slow burn. Starts off with the h only fifteen and the H seventeen. I’m assuming they grow up a bit during the book, cos I don’t think it’s gonna go down the taboo path. I’m still liking it.