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My busyness is seriously afflicting my book reading schedule! Though I have managed to get a bit done. When I wake up in the morning, I tell myself that I will have a leisurely night with a book. Problem is, something usually comes up and I don’t have the time or the energy anymore to read. Hours just flit by!

I did finish and review two books! A novel and a small, quick humor read on relationships.

I finished Matrimony by Joshua Henkin and Legs Talk by D.E. Boone.

The books that I won this week are few but great:
Things I Want My Daughters to Know, by Elizabeth Noble
Heart of Stone by Diana Palmer

Finally, my book intake for the week. Instead of listing these, as you can tell, I am now just going to post pictures of what I got.

Title: Legs Talk: A Modern Girl’s Dating Tale
Author(s): D.E. Boone
Genre: Fiction- Humor
Tags: dating, humor, legs, relationships, break up, humor, women, photography, black and white
Finished: February 22, 2009
Rating: 3 Stars

Legs Talk: A Modern Girl’s Dating Tale by D.E. Boone is a small book, about 112 pages with full page black and white photographs. It takes the reader through the story of a woman in a relationship with a man who has a special interest in her legs and her legs only. It begins as most of these type stories do: girl meets boy, boy comes on very strong, girl consents, boy turns out to be a big jerk, girl walks away, girl goes back, boy is still a jerk, the end.

The book is very charming. It is a short read, though; I read it in about 10 minutes. Each turn of a page brings a blank page with writing and a black and white photograph featuring below the waist leg shots. There are a lot of shoes and stockings, every now and then sprinkled with casual jeans and boots. The point isn’t to show the faces of the two characters, only their legs. Legs are the focus, after all! If you could see the rest of the body, it would distract from the imagery of the legs. Since legs are the topic, they should be thrust into the photographic spotlight.

Legs Talk takes a humorous look at dating. It’s a great book for anyone who has ever broken up, or has gone back to the same man over and over again. True to the nature of relationships, the book is not cut and dry about how they do or don’t work out. Within the short phrases and sentiment, you can see how confused the woman is about the relationship she is presently in with her leg fetishist boyfriend. She gives in to him against her better judgment, makes concessions to the man, and wavers in her decision to quit seeing him.

I especially like the small piece of their post breakup phone conversation when the women replies to a “have you missed me’ type question with, “How can I miss you if you won’t go away?” That small bit of wit was enough to make the book. The words are short and simple, but effective.

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Okay, we have the results for The Terror by Dan Simmons…

The winning numbers are: 10, 12, 20, 22, 25

Winners:
Lindsey@A Kindred Spirit’s Thoughts
Ana
Amandasue
Teddy
Linda

I am going to email all of you now and request your addresses. Remember, no PO Boxes. If you did not get my email, leave me a comment here. Please send me your address in 3 days or else I will have to choose a new winner in your place.

Okay, we have the results for The Italian Lover by Robert Hellenga…

The winning numbers are: 1, 2, 7, 8, 17, 22

Winners:
Dani ~ aka The Romance Book Addict
Lenore
Deidre
mindy
kim v

I am going to email all of you now and request your addresses. Remember, no PO Boxes. If you did not get my email, leave me a comment here. Please send me your address in 3 days or else I will have to choose a new winner in your place.

I got my latest card from PostCrossing today! It was in my PO Box just waiting.

According to the postcard, this is the largest market in Latin America. The woman who sent it to me informed me that you can get everything there, even magic potions. How awesome is that?

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Which author’s writing surprised you when you first read their work and what about it grabs you?

Okay, there is something that all of you should know about me. Are you ready? This is my grand confession…

I am a vampire book snob.

There, I said it. It is out in the open and I can’t take it back. All of you now know my terrible truth.

You see, it all began in the year 1994 when my mother took me to see the motion picture version of one of her favorite books Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice. Entranced can’t even begin to explain what I felt when I watched the sophisticated, sensual, elegant vampires gracing the large screen of the small Ft. Monroe military base supplied theater, which was probably there before the Civil War AND the slave contraband decision. I had always thought vampires to be pallid, disgusting creatures. Like animals, I would say. Yet when I saw Lestat and Louis in their Frenchman clothing, vampires became something new to me.

I became and still am completely in love with the Vampire Chronicles (Marius is the end all and be all of literary characters in my mind and heart).

It made me a snob.

As a result, it is very hard for me to even pick up a vampire book. I’m close minded. I worry that the vampires within the pages won’t live up to my expectations. I don’t want them to be gothic cliches and I don’t want them to be full on beasts a la 30 Days of Night.

But, upon many recommendations, I decided to give the Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris a try. Everyone said that they were great and the show True Blood was interesting. It was just that previously, I had read the back of the first book in the Southern Vampire Mysteries and thought to myself, “oh man, some superhero telepathic waitress and vampires ‘out of the coffin.’” It just sounded like one of those Mary Sue, vampire cliche books that I wanted so desperately to avoid.

With much trepidation, I opened up the first book.

And LOVED it.

Oh man did I love the book. I am a full fledged fan of the series now. I have learned that I can love sophisticated, elegant vampires, but I can also love your normal, sometimes country, very human in nature vampires. Where Anne Rice is elegant and reads like prose, Charlaine Harris is witty and down to earth but no less talented. The characters in the Sookie Stackhouse novels aren’t grandiose or extraordinary (funny to say when referring to vampires, I know). The world that Harris makes seems as if it could be real. I think that is what I like the most about Harris’ writing– when you real, you feel as if the things happen are possible.