April's Affections and Intrigues: Love and Mystery Bloom

Melissa Tackett

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20 comments posted.

Re: Big Girl (3:48am March 22, 2010):

Ahhhh, my first 'adult' novel, my first romance, was My Enemy, My Queen, by Victoria Holt. I have read everything she has ever written I do believe. But that one remains one of my all time favorite books.

Melissa

Re: Down By The River (4:22am January 25, 2010):

I adore my series!! And I do prefere to read them order, but if I find one and read it I must go back and get the back titles and then read them in order. Now some series are written in order but ment to be read in another... Like
DragonRiders.... I have all of those, and the Tower series and the Pegus series by the same author.... The In Death... Oh, they make me sigh with delight each time a new one comes out.... All the series by Christine Feehan I snatch up.... Sigh, there are two many to count, yes, I am addicted. LOL

Re: Forbidden Falls (11:12am January 17, 2010):

I am not sure what where I would be classified. I love my Kindle, and am lost without it. I have PC Kindle for both my laptops.... it is okay, but not my Kindle. I had my Ipod stolen... and I miss it terribly... I tried a mp3 player.... but it got stolen too.... so I am without that now too. I do love the ebooks, they are so much less expensive than printed books, and I can usually read them faster. Doing my reviews it is easy to email the ebooks to my kindle and whip out a review. Now I am kind of in a slow spot. Sigh....

Re: Dark Lover (5:02am November 30, 2009):

Ohhh, your new baby is soooo cute. Love the eyes, "Love me" they seem to say. Or not guilty..... hehheehe. :) I have several Keeper selves, one per author, a couple of them for authors that have more than one series. And I do reread a lot. Although now that I have my Kindle I dont' need shelves. LOL I read all kinds of books, whatever catches my eye at the time. Sorry, can't be more speficiate.

Re: Kindred In Death (6:36am November 9, 2009):

There are certain books series
that are like family, and I
will always follow them as
long as the writing stays
fresh and interesting. If it
gets slow or repetitive, then
I have had to say good-bye to
some of them over the years
because of the writing, while
others I will stay with. Like
The Dragon Riders Series, I
will hopefully always follow.

Re: The Fixer Upper (7:01am August 24, 2009):

I am a ready of everything
that has written words.... I
don't consider anything I read
empty literature. But I know
lots of people who do consider
them empty literature. But
when I pat attention, no
matter what it is I read, I
learn a lot. A sentence or a
comment will send me to the
internet looking it up and
learning why it was used and
what it really means.

Re: Smash Cut (4:54am August 17, 2009):

I am a very strange when it
comes to re-reads. Mostly I
will re-read and keep a series
book. but every now and then
a book will just tug at
something in me, and I will
keep it and turn back to it
for no reason other than I
want that special feeling back
for a minute or two. Usually
they are little Harlequins or
something like that that I can
read in a day or less. I am
reading a series right now
that are defiantly not
keepers, but are great for one
time through.

Re: The Perfect Couple (3:05am August 10, 2009):

I am very thankful that none
of my favorites have lost
their contracts. But I am
very careful to only buy their
books the first week of the
release date. That helps
ensure their sales say up and
they stay of the bestseller
lists, which keeps their
contracts safe. I have been
very lucky that I have also
been discovering lots of new
authors in e-books. :) Good
luck with your new author
search, I know you will successful, and I pray the
ones that lost their contracts
will soon get new ones.
Melissa

Re: Hot Pursuit (12:34pm August 2, 2009):

I don't use the library, but I
have found that my buying is
changing a little bit. I have
gotten involved in reviews and
am getting my books that way.
I love it!! And doing this by
ebook means I can read it on
my kindle and then read it at
night at work. I have found
some nice new authors that
way. :)

Re: Mackenzie's Legacy (1:24pm July 26, 2009):

Ohhhhh, hmmmmmm, Okay, I know a co worker of mine would definatly say the Harry Potter new generation..... She is convinced that Draco would become the new Valdermort. LOL
But for me..... I would have loved for Betrice Small to give us a 20th century look at the O'Mally family and what those woman are up to as we hit the 21st century.... And the Characters in LMA's Little Woman series.....

I am sure their are more, but most of the ones I am caught up in lately are still being written about in one form or another. LOL

Re: The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society (11:53am July 5, 2009):

I read part of the first book
of the Anita Blake series....
I couldn't get into it at
all... the writing just didn't
draw me in. I know everyone
really really likes them, but
they didn't do it for me. And
I have never heard of the book
you are talking about at all.
LOL

Re: A Thread Of Truth (11:02am June 21, 2009):

I just finished a review book,
it was the first book by this
author I had read, and their
were some typos and some
incorrect word usage, but I
was totally wrapped up in the
story line that I was able to ignore them. LOL And some
times if the story line is not
well developed and they will
pull me out of the story and
make me put it up. T

Re: Undead And Unwelcome (10:17am June 14, 2009):

I would love to meet Robin D.
Owens and Christine Feehan....
and Ummmmm, Oh, yeah, C.L.
Wilson. What would I ask
them??? How many revisions to
you go through for a book? do
you write at a computer or by
hand and transcribe? How do
you get a an idea flowing?
Okay, I am a writer too,
trying to get something decent
written to get
published.......

Re: The Red Pony (4:33am June 8, 2009):

LOL 7th grade was the year that we doing reading assignments. I moved that year, in my old school we had not started yet, and in my new school they had already done the reading assignments. So, as much as I loved reading, I had to wait till 10th grade American literature. I started with Of Mice and Men.... and read the whole Steinbeck collection, exception Grapes of Wrath. Opps.... although your article makes me think of going back and reading it now. Some of the other classics I read and enjoyed were Louisa May Alcott, Black Beauty, and several others. Now, as I have a kindle and books are cheaper... I am starting to look back into a lot of the old classics again. :)

Re: The Warrior (10:53am May 24, 2009):

Hmmm, both, I start with a plan, and the best intentions, but find that anything will turn my head and off I go. Like a friend bought tickets to Judas Priest and WhiteSnake concert in Aug. Her usually concert partner doesn't want to go with her, and remember when WhiteSnake first came out as the first and at the time, only Christian hair band. LOL They quickly got corrupted by secular life and we got pour some sugar on me... not bad corruption. LOL So I am coming in to work late and won't be able to hear for three days... but it will be my third concert in my life. I am badly deprived. LOL

Hope you enjoyed Fiddler on the Roof.

Re: Pretty in Plaid (1:29pm May 17, 2009):

I prefere to get places 1/2 hour to an hour early..... or more depending on the bus schedules. My grandma always told me it was always better to be an hour early some place than a minute late, and I have always tried to live by that rule, especially now that I take the bus every where. And yes, I always I have a book to read if I am early. LOL

Re: Comfort Food (3:33am May 4, 2009):

Hmmmmm, especially since I got my Kindle, I find myself in this position a lot. I am trying to reread all of Louisa May Alcott, but at the same time my favorite authors are coming out with new books that I have waiting forever for. Sigh.... so it is very hard for me sometimes. LOL I just finished Christine Feehan's Burning Wild. Then I picked back up Jack and Jill by LMA, when I finish it, I will mostly start Lover Avenged by JR Ward or Echoes of Darkness by Robin D. Owenes.

This could change in a minutes...... just a plan for the moment. LOL

Re: Behind The Shadows (11:55am April 26, 2009):

Oh, and did you ever replace
behind the shadows???

Re: Behind The Shadows (11:54am April 26, 2009):

LOL I adore retail therapy,
when my mom died I had a great
day of retail therapy,....
okay a month... books, movies,
towels.... sheets..... more
towels.... (mom was haunting
me I think, I don't buy
towels... LOL) I love to buy
books anytime, any place, and
my friends all know that give
two seconds without something
occupying me and I have a book
or a pen in my hand.

Re: Summer On Blossom Street (9:53am March 15, 2009):

I feel the same way, if I am not wrapped up in a series so that I can see, feel and desire to go to this store or that eatery... then they haven't writtenn a book that really pulls on my senses. I love Francis Ray's Grayson family series and would love to visit Alberquie (sp) and visit Casa de Hospitality, but of course that hotel is not there, as the restuaruant that is owned by the middle brother. Both sound like great places to go and hang out with great people.