April's Affections and Intrigues: Love and Mystery Bloom

Jeanne Adams

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Re: Renegade (1:38pm November 6, 2012):

Hey Nancy! Congrats on your release today of RENEGADE! This is an AWESOME read and I adore Griff (the hero) and Val (the heroine).

As to first dates, I remember calling my friend after I had gone out with the DH. We had gone to dinner and sat for nearly 5 hours talking. But I wasn't sure he liked me. My friend said, "If a man will willing sit with a woman and actually talk TO her rather than AT her for hours, he likes her."

Ha!!

Re: Deadly Little Lies (11:06pm September 18, 2012):

Oh, Jennifer! Wizard of Oz indeed. Did you read all of them? SO good! Frank Baum was brilliant

Re: Deadly Little Lies (11:06pm September 18, 2012):

Hello Kai! I felt the same way about Lord of the Flies. Never ever want to re read THAT one! Ha! I adore the Count of Monte Cristo and most anything Dumas as well. :> You're also in great company with the Mockingbird.

Re: Deadly Little Lies (11:04pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Mary Anne! I'd love to know some of the keepers. I bet you'd be surprised how many we'd all recognize. :> And thank you for the good wishes. Deadly Little Lies is already out - Sept of 2011 - but Deadly Charms will be out late Oct. :>

Re: Deadly Little Lies (11:03pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Teresa W! I like Stephen King but once through is usually enough for me! Ha! His imagery is so vivid, I can remember great swaths of the books....shiver....

Re: Deadly Little Lies (9:33pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Holly! Thanks!

Re: Deadly Little Lies (9:31pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Peggy! Little Women is a total Old Fav! And I like autobios too. I particularly loved one I read on Jimmy Stewart a few years ago. I love that The Miracle Worker helped you in your trials. And thank you so much for your lovely comments. :>

Re: Deadly Little Lies (9:13pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Deb! Outsiders is good. I don't think I'd reread it, as it was sad too, but memorable! And yes, Shakes (cat and man) rocks! :>

Re: Deadly Little Lies (8:58pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Rita! Had to LOL about the packing. OMGosh, packing books is soooooo heavy duty. Last time I moved, the movers kept looking at the book shelves and shaking their heads. Grins.

Re: Deadly Little Lies (8:48pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Kathleen! Dark chocolate rocks, doesn't it? Yummmmm. Oh, Shogun...now that's a good one!

Re: Deadly Little Lies (8:46pm September 18, 2012):

Hey Anna! Luv yer show, babe!

Re: Deadly Little Lies (8:38pm September 18, 2012):

HI Jennifer! I loved alll the Sherlock too. What fun it is to go back to that too, btw. It never gets old.

Re: Deadly Little Lies (8:36pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Wilma! Thanks!

Re: Deadly Little Lies (8:35pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Kimberly! thanks! What a lovely compliment. :>

Re: Deadly Little Lies (7:39pm September 18, 2012):

Anna C., I'm DYING for Seven Nights in a Rogues Bed. Seriously. DYING. You write such engrossing, brilliant books, I'm always keen to get another. (You must take some speed writing classes, m'dear! I need faster Anna C fixes!!)

Re: Deadly Little Lies (7:38pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Linda! Oh, I loved your description of reading to your sisters! Such a wonderful memory. My Mama and Daddy, both gone now, used to read to me all the time, and would get all four of us kids together and we'd read the Shakespeare plays, each of us taking a part. Really fun! :> It does make you nostalgic, doesn't it, to remember reading with them? Sigh. :> Good stuff.

Re: Deadly Little Lies (7:31pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Susan! Godiva's another of those "cures for most ills" isn't it? Grins. :> Thanks for commenting.

Re: Deadly Little Lies (7:22pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Colleen C! You're not alone in that "book reports put me off" bit. I wish I'd had teachers like my pal Jo Robertson. I'll bet she made old Knowles's Seperate Peace worth reading. :> As it stands now, I remember it with loathing. Grins. Glad you found Fantasy and Romance to rekindle the lurve!

Re: Deadly Little Lies (7:20pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Diane S! I love those old books. Didn't read the Nurse ones, though I remember my children's librarian trying to GET me to read them. Not for me, just animals and all that back then! Hahaha! Azeet Paratrooper Dog! Barnner, Forward! Misty of Chincoteague! That was me! :>

Re: Deadly Little Lies (7:18pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Sharon! Dame Daphne is on my keeper shelf, for sure! :> thanks for stopping in today!

Re: Deadly Little Lies (7:17pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Mary C! Atticus and Scout are faves on a lot of people's list today. :> Mockingbird is one of those unforgettables. :>

Re: Deadly Little Lies (7:16pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Nancy! You and Anna C both love the Dunnetts. i've not yet gotten in to them, but I'm determined to do so since I love the two of ya'll and I know you have great taste! :>

The color fairy books - Lang - are totally cool. :>

Re: Deadly Little Lies (6:46pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Jo! Great to see another Romance Bandit popping in! I'm glad SOMEONE enjoyed A Seperate Peace! Hahaha! And In Death is definately something we agree on even if we diverge on Peace. Grins.

Re: Deadly Little Lies (6:44pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Roxanne S! Thanks for stopping in! I love Barbara Michaels too. Not as big on Dean Koontz, but one of my BFF's has everythign he's ever written on her keeper shelf! :>

Re: Deadly Little Lies (6:43pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Elaine! We'll have to figure something out about that postage thing....hmmmm....I'll ask Dianna, because that woman thinks fo everything! Grins. Thanks for popping in today! :>

Re: Deadly Little Lies (6:41pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Shelly C! Wow! You like my books too? COOL!! Thanks! Sounds like I'm in great company on your bookshelf there. Have you read the new Lyndsay Sands?

Re: Deadly Little Lies (6:40pm September 18, 2012):

Hey Mal Kaplan! Welcome! I love and still love all the Grimms, Andersons and fairy tales of all ilks. So glad to know you're still a serial reader at your young age. Grins. What's the latest fav read?

Re: Deadly Little Lies (6:37pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Anna Campbell, you faboo writer you!! Had to LOl about heaving the bookcase out the door in the event of a fire. Grins. And you KNOW I share your love of Eva Ibbotsen's COUNTESS. What a wonderful book. Sigh. And Mr. Impossible is another fav as well. :> ALL your books are on my Keeper Shelf. And I'm DYING for the new one - it's out Sept. 25, right?

Re: Deadly Little Lies (6:33pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Mary Ann D! Ahh,soup and toast clears most ills, doesn't it? And The Little Princess and the Secret Garden? Old Favorites for sure!

Re: Deadly Little Lies (6:31pm September 18, 2012):

Hi again, Chelsea K! Ohh, I love that Frontier Magic series and I also have heard of the Princess and the Goblin, but haven't read it. Grins. I'll hve to look it up!

Re: Deadly Little Lies (3:18pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Angie! Thanks for popping in. Oh, I adore the Library. It's like one massive Keeper Shelf. Grins. As to Braiker's book, I've heard of it and heard it too was a "keeper"! My version of that, from non-fiction, is Tony Robbins's Awaken The Giant Within. It truly changed my life, as did doing a couple of Tony's workshops. :> Congrats on the changes. You go, girl! :>

Re: Deadly Little Lies (2:29pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Felicia! Thanks for popping in! Heehee, had to LOL about reading any thing you can get your hands on. I often say that I'll read anything up to and including the cereal box on the breakfast table. Grins.

Love Marion Zimmer Bradley. Mists is a fav, but also loved her Darkover series.

Re: Deadly Little Lies (2:15pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Chelsea K! I love Patricia Wrede. I've read everything SHE's ever written as well. Wish she'd write more. :> Thanks for popping in today!

Re: Deadly Little Lies (2:13pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Cynthia! Thanks for stopping in today! I'm like you, I don't remember a time without books. :> That's a good thing. Ha! Anne Frank was one I enjoyed and was also saddened by. She was so hopeful and positive, in and of herself. Then to know she met such a terrible end. Sad. Sigh.

Re: Deadly Little Lies (2:12pm September 18, 2012):

Theresa, it IS different if you HAVE to read them! I didn't actually stumble on a book I didn't like - even the mandatory reading - until Lord of the Flies. Oh, and then followed hard on by A Seperate Peace. Ugh. De. Press. Ing. Grins.

Re: Deadly Little Lies (2:10pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Jo Anne! Barbara Michaels! Yes! And Nine Coaches Waiting...wow, haven't thought about that one for a while. Grins. There's an old favorite, for sure. I loved Shakespeare as well, and have to confess that McBeth was a fav. Grins. All that "bubble bubble toil and trouble" business was just up my alley. I think it worried my mother terribly that I was more interested in the war strategies (how Burnam wood to Dunsiname didst come...)and the witches than I was in the pathos of Lady McBeth. And while As You Like It was her fav, I was only "meh" about that one. Snork!

Re: Deadly Little Lies (2:05pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Erin! Oh! Don't even get me started on Anne McCaffrey or Andre Norton. I think I've read everything either one of them wrote. I also loved McCaffrey's "adult fictino" books - Stitch in Snow, The Lady - but her dragon riders and harpers were my all time favs.

Re: Deadly Little Lies (2:03pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Kathleen! I so loved the Narnia books. And they opened up worlds for me too. :> I read tons of fantasy and sci-fi thanks to C.S. Lewis. :>

Mockingbird can be a bit intense, can't it? Do you remember what you read instead?

Re: Deadly Little Lies (2:02pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Sandy! Isn't it great that so many of those older books are now available? I love that. Glad you stopped in today!

Re: Deadly Little Lies (2:01pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Mary! Oh, I loved Mrs. Mike! What a great book. Hmmm....do I have a copy of that? :> better check. Grins. May have to do some shopping.

Re: Deadly Little Lies (12:27pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Cassondra!! *Waving madly* I hear you've got a visitor coming your way today...

So fun that you have Tubs of them. Won't it be serious fun and nostalgia to unpack them? Oh! How luscious!!

And what a lovely compliment on the post. Thanks!

Re: Deadly Little Lies (12:23pm September 18, 2012):

Hey Ashley! Did you love the sequel, Scarlett, or hate it?

Re: Deadly Little Lies (12:21pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Anne! Gone Away Lake is one I missed, so I'm going to look that up. :>

Aren't series wonderful? I love recurring characters and locales. So much fun!!

Re: Deadly Little Lies (12:19pm September 18, 2012):

Hey Beth! I loved My Antonia! And how funny that you should post that right after Anthonia's comment! :> Her name made me try to remember My Antonia! Grins. Coincidence? I don't think so! *cue spooky music* Maybe I should reread My Antonia!

Re: Deadly Little Lies (12:17pm September 18, 2012):

Hi Anthonia! Oh, you have a wonderful reading list there! Patty Briggs is among my favs. Do you like the Mercy Thompson series or are you a fan of her Dragon Bones stuff?

Re: Deadly Little Lies (12:16pm September 18, 2012):

Hey Theresa! Nothing like a book, a cup of dark roast coffee and some rich dark chocolate, is there? Ha! My sibs and I used to do the summer Reading Races at our local library. OMGosh! We read so many books! It was fun though.

Re: Deadly Little Lies (12:15pm September 18, 2012):

Hey Michelle D! Had to LOL about the Puma shoes. Oh...Atticus Finch....

Re: Deadly Little Lies (12:15pm September 18, 2012):

GS Moch, thanks for stopping in! I loved the Bridgertons but haven't revisited....must do that! And I agree, there are so many good NEW books too. I'm a member of the Romance Bandits Blog group and those gals are prolific! Amongst the group of us, there's always a new book out, or a guest with a great book to make into a new favorite. :>

Re: Deadly Little Lies (12:13pm September 18, 2012):

Whoa! I pop off for a bit and here you are! Thanks for stopping in!

Stephanie, I loved mysteries too - hence the Victoria Holt! I loved The Egypt Club and Secrets of the Emerald Star. Still remember the plot of both!

Re: Deadly Little Lies (9:01am September 18, 2012):

Hi Clare! I do think there was a hack there! Puma shoes? seriously?

I don't think I read the Vian Smith book, but can't be sure. I read every dog/pony/horse/cat/animal book I could find, so it's highly possible. I love that you went and bought some of the Old Favs online. I have too. I have most of the Silver Chief books now, and Norah's Ark, and Red Horse Hill and so many of the oldy-goody ones I loved. Problem is, so many of them slander one group or another - the irish, the natives, the group-least-liked-at-the-time - that I hesitate to read them to my kids. Sigh.

And being boys, Victoria Holt doesn't appeal, nor does Nancy Drew! ha!

Re: Deadly Little Lies (8:24am September 18, 2012):

Hi Vanessa! I loved Madeleine L'Engle! A Wrinkle in Time, The Wind in the Door, etc. SO good! I loved a lot of sci fi and fantasy too. All the Narnia books, expecially! What was your fav L'Engle?

Re: Money Shot (5:28pm June 10, 2011):

Snork! Always happy to help. Buildings, synopsis writing, tree identification (Although Cassondra's better at trees and guns than I am, I think I beat her on architecture. Grins.), anything you need!

And one wouldn't EVER want to miss an opportunity to meet a fawn, wield a named sword, or engage in a back-of-the-wardrobe-world adventure, now would one?

Re: Money Shot (5:17pm June 10, 2011):

Susan, who says there aren't worlds in the back of wardrobes? I'm not convinced there AREN'T. Grins. And I desperately wanted - and still want - to visit the PEI of Anne of Green Gables...

Re: Money Shot (4:39pm June 10, 2011):

OMGosh. Horny moose. How could one NOT love a book with super secret spy stuff, snow, and moose on the loose? SNORK! I love it already. Bought it the first day I could and can't wait to read it!! Yeah SUSAN! And I love setting, I could talk about setting alllll day. Architecture. Trees. Weather...oh, they're supposed to TALK to each other? Ha! And I have to disagree about your supposed shortcomings, my dear Ms. Sey. I knew right where everyone was in Money, Honey. Sure that I will in Money Shot too. :>

Re: Captive of Sin (4:22pm November 24, 2009):

Ahhh, yes. Rupert. And Tom too, with his love of his frizzie haired, book loving heroine. Sigh.

Re: Captive of Sin (3:47pm November 24, 2009):

Uh-uh. MINE!!!! Grins.

And Anna, I guess you are joining Ollie in the long line of women in love with Anna's cousin, Sergei? Grins.

(For those who are bamfoozled by this, Anna C and I share love for Eva Ibbotsons' Countess Below Stairs - and Cousin Sergei! Oh, and Peter too.)

Re: Captive of Sin (3:10pm November 24, 2009):

Three words for you ladies: Matthew. Is. Mine.

*sunny smile*

Re: Captive of Sin (11:37am November 24, 2009):

Hey GS, you reminded me! I love Maxim de Winter from Rebecca as well. (I was too lazy to go pull the book and get his name! hahah!)

I also love Sergei from Laura Anne Gilman's Retriever series

Re: Captive of Sin (9:50am November 24, 2009):

Ahhh, Anna, my dear, step aside. :> Gideon, oh gorgeous Gideon...

SNORK!!

Seriously, my fav tortured hero is Matthew, hands down. He's MINE, I tell you, MINE! Hahahah!

Actually, one of my other fav tortured heroes is Harry Potter. Talk about torture! Seven books worth. Ha!

Great to see you here today.