[quote=""LoveHistory""]I see you've met Ashton. Not much else to her I'm afraid. There are some interesting points to her character development, but in Love & War she's pretty much just an egocentric nymphomaniac.[/quote]
Yep. Love and War was a bit of a disappointment, and I actually had to skim a lot to get through. A good editor needs a crack at that to pare it down.
I did enjoy Ashton at the Academy graduation when she collected her buttons
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The S-word, male vs. female authors
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
Doesn't matter who the author is or what gender, but if the scene is more about the physical act than it is moving the plot or developing the relationship, I roll my eyes and turn the page. The scenes in George RR Martin's series worked. The ones in Pillars of the Earth didn't (plus the ones in the latter were horribly violent and like EC said, filled with male fantasy)
The bad sex award has been announced today. Goes to a bloke. The hot snail has been joined by a companion...
http://m.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/nov/ ... pe=article
http://m.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/nov/ ... pe=article
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
- Kveto from Prague
- Compulsive Reader
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- Location: Prague, Bohemia
[quote=""EC2""]The bad sex award has been announced today. Goes to a bloke. The hot snail has been joined by a companion...[/quote]
Thanks, I needed the laugh!
Thanks, I needed the laugh!
Faith L. Justice, Author Website
[quote=""EC2""]The bad sex award has been announced today. Goes to a bloke. The hot snail has been joined by a companion...
http://m.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/nov/ ... pe=article[/quote]
I'm dying, thanks for that.
http://m.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/nov/ ... pe=article[/quote]
I'm dying, thanks for that.
Like a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect with a too blunt pin he screwed himself into her.
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
- cw gortner
- Bibliophile
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[quote=""Kveto from Prague""]Oy! What a topic. I see none of the other lads on this site have weighed in here. I'll not touch this subject with a ten-foot (thrusting, penetrating) pole. [/quote]
I'm lurking . . .
I'm lurking . . .
THE QUEEN'S VOW available on June 12, 2012!
THE TUDOR SECRET, Book I in the Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles
THE CONFESSIONS OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI
THE LAST QUEEN
www.cwgortner.com
THE TUDOR SECRET, Book I in the Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles
THE CONFESSIONS OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI
THE LAST QUEEN
www.cwgortner.com
- Margaret
- Bibliomaniac
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- Joined: August 2008
- Interest in HF: I can't answer this in 100 characters. Sorry.
- Favourite HF book: Checkmate, the final novel in the Lymond series
- Preferred HF: Literary novels. Late medieval and Renaissance.
- Location: Catskill, New York, USA
- Contact:
Huh? My navel is at my waist. Sorry if that's TMI.He placed his hand on the concave stretch that was her belly, letting two fingers rest in the yawn of her navel. He slipped downwards, grazing the tight skin of her waist with his fingertips.
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- Nefret
- Bibliomaniac
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- Joined: February 2009
- Favourite HF book: Welsh Princes trilogy
- Preferred HF: The Middle Ages (England), New Kingdom Egypt, Medieval France
- Location: Temple of Isis
[quote=""Misfit""]I'm dying, thanks for that.[/quote]
Most hilarious thing I have read all year.
Most hilarious thing I have read all year.
Into battle we ride with Gods by our side
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}