April's Affections and Intrigues: Love and Mystery Bloom

Ray Getzinger

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Re: Ice Cold (10:01pm July 18, 2010):

I would love to meet both of those authors, but the two authors I want most to meet are Suzanne Forster and Trish MacGregor. I have been following Tish and reading every novel she has written since 1986.

Ray

Re: Blown Away (1:23pm May 30, 2010):

I read trilogies as I find them. If all three are out I get all of them. I bought and read both of Stieg Larsson's first two in the "Girl Who..." trilogy. Yesterday I picked up the third, THE GIRL WHO KICKED A HORNET'S NEST. Now I am faced with a dilemma. Do I finish reading BLEEDING KANSAS by Sara Paretsky or read THE GIRL... first taking a chance I may never go back and finish. I think I will just continue. The book is interesting and Paretsky is one of my must read authors. If I don't I may do what I did with two other favorites, not read any further novels until I finish the one I put in my storage shed and never got back to, one for over three years the other two.

Ray

Re: A Thread So Thin (8:05pm May 18, 2010):

I never had an imaginary friend, but I imagined a woman who looked like and was born in the same place as the woman I married ten years later.

Ray

Re: Live To Tell (3:16pm May 9, 2010):

I have missed out or had important events shortened. When my daughter was born in 1968 I was on vacation for a whole month awaiting her to be born any day. It happened early in the morning of the day I had to check in to a Navy duty station 150 miles away the same day. I got to see her then I had to leave.
The same thing happened when my granddaughter was born in 1991. I didn't even get to see her until several months later when I returned from the Mediterranean.
I haven't missed any book signings, but I did miss an obit for a local author I knew well until it was too late to attend the funeral.
Ray

Re: Big Girl (10:04pm March 23, 2010):

I don't remember a specific novel, but my mother had a collection of Grace Livingston Hill novels. I think I was in fourth grade at the time.

I don't think I have ever been embarrassed about anything I've read.

Ray

Re: The You I Never Knew (4:09pm March 14, 2010):

I like both. They put me in a mood. I don't have to be in a mood for happy or sad before I start. One terrific book is Jenna Leigh's BRALESS IN THE BUICK (2006) now available on Kindle for those who use that format. I have a trade paperback version from the original printing. It is about a woman who can't be normal because her mother and friends are a riot. In the beginning of the story she climbs out of her car, trips and falls right in front of her male neighbor. When she gets up she has fallen out of her top. I couldn't stop laughing from the time I read that scene until I finished reading the story.

Ray

Re: Down By The River (11:01pm January 24, 2010):

I like Series to be by one author. If I like an author I don't really care if the books are a series or stand alone as long as good writing is consistent.

Ray

Re: Forbidden Falls (7:33pm January 17, 2010):

I am pretty techno savy, but I don't need the latest gadgets. I like to work with what I have for as long as it isn't obsolete. I think I might get a new computer in the spring if I have the money. By then the bugs should be worked out of Window 7.

Ray

Re: Come Hell Or High Water (11:31pm January 10, 2010):

For me every day is a good day. Looks like yours was spectacular.

Ray

Re: Dark Lover (12:44pm November 29, 2009):

My favorite genre is Romantic Suspense. If I like an author I will follow into whatever genre or sub genre that author writes. An author I have followed for 25 years writes romantic suspense with a touch of paranormal. I love a good Science Fiction Romance. Even when I read Cold War era spy vs spy there had to be a touch of romance.

Ray

Re: Red Hot Lies (5:02pm August 30, 2009):

I like first person when we are in the presence of the main character and we are in his/her head and even a switch to the first person of the villain or other main character when each change in POV is a change in scene.

As to reading the book above the fray, I become so involved with the main character that while my head is in the book I am that person. Just the way I read.

Ray

Re: The Fixer Upper (9:42pm August 23, 2009):

I read just about any genre. My favorites are romantic suspense. From the comments on this blog I agree with the general consensus that the only empty calories are reading a book you intensely dislike and get nothing from reading. I have never found that in anything I chose to read. One of the books I stopped reading in the middle was not because it was empty calories, but because the subject was so intense I had to stop reading. If I ever run out of reading material I will probably begin where I left off.

When it comes to Best Sellers I enjoy seeing a book I read make the list, but it is a plus if I read it before it made the list. Just because something is on the best seller list does not mean the book will interest me.

I've read only one of Oprah's recommendations. I saw the movie first. It is one of the first times I've seen a movie before reading the book and saw that it followed almost exactly except that the last two chapters took place after the end of the movie.

Lots of men read romance. Most of them just don't advertise the fact. Many of the male readers will join in the laughter at readers of romance just to appear macho.

I could care less. I read what I like. If I have to explain to someone it is their problem.

Ray

Re: Smash Cut (11:52pm August 16, 2009):

I don't like to reread books, but if I accidentally pick one up that I've read I will finish it. As to keeping books. I don't recall ever throwing one away. I have given some to military people or when I was working donated some to the ship's library, but generally I have most of the books I have ever purchased.

Ray

Re: Hot Pursuit (11:28am August 2, 2009):

I buy all my books. I plan on reading Hot Puruit, but I am now having to limit my purchase of hard cover books. It isn't that my personal finances have changed, but that I have so many new authors to try that I have had to neglect those I have read for years. I may wait for the paperback editions for authors I have read for years.

Ray

Re: Mackenzie's Legacy (6:20am July 27, 2009):

I like T.J. Macgregor's Time Travel in which a daughter meets a mother she thought dead only to find she had gone back in time to avoid a bunch of nasty characters who themselves were time travelers. Time travel lets future generations find their ancestors alive.

Every time I read a novel I want to know what happens after the HEA.

Good topic Sandi.

Re: A Thread Of Truth (11:20am June 21, 2009):

I notice the typos and go on. I realize proofreading relies a lot on spell check and grammar check. When there are as many as five or ten on a page it gets difficult. I still enjoy the story even though it is like wading through a minefield.

A book by one of my favorite authors was incorrectly collated. Five or six pages would be reversed, some were correctly collated. Once I figured out what was happening I would check before reading. I still enjoyed the book, but returned it to the store for a corrected copy.

Ray

Re: The Warrior (2:22pm May 26, 2009):

I use the B & N Wish List. I prioritise my list. How long the list. I go down the list. Then I impulse buy if I have money left over in my book budget. Actually I have a hard time without a list. If I were to browse the shelves w/o a goal I would spend time in the store I could spend reading. I have on occasion gone into a store and spent two hours and only found one book.

Ray

Re: Comfort Food (4:54pm May 3, 2009):

I never finish a book if I stop to read something else. When I am looking for what to read next I will put aside whatever I planned to read for Suzanne Forster, T.J. Macgregor and Suzanne Brockmann.

Ray

Re: The Accidental Human (12:26pm April 12, 2009):

In a store where all the books are shelved with the spine out I can't shop by cover. In a store that shows the cover I can walk through the aisle and see something that just grabs me the way the cover on Susanne Forster's The Lonely Girls Club did. I don't like it when even the houses on the coveer don't match the story setting as much as I don't like people on covers who don't match. Most of my books are bought on the basis of what I see on the Internet where I don't even look at the cover.

Ray

Re: Summer On Blossom Street (12:17pm March 8, 2009):

I get personally involved with all well written characters. If I can't I don't enjoy the book.

Ray

Re: The Secret Life of Bees (1:51pm February 8, 2009):

I watched the Poseidon Adventure (1972 film) and then read the book Beyond the Poseidon Adventure and then saw the movie made in 1979. Not only did the characters not match, but in one the secret cargo was gold and in the other it was a nuclear weapon. I forget which now.

I saw White Orchid with a friend who had already seen it once and loved it. Later I saw the book in the Orlando Airport and picked it up. There were differences, but not enough to detract from my enjoyment. The book explained things that were difficult to understand in the movie and the last chapter or two went further in the story than did the movie.

I would say that If I had read White Orchid first the movie would have been a disappointment.

Re: Obama (9:51pm January 18, 2009):

I haven't read biography since high school when I learned Dizzy Dean had to quit pitching for the St. Louis Cardinals when he stubbed his big toe and threw his arm out compensating for the pain.

Ike's parents had a living room so vast that they couldn't hear the children playing at the other end of the room.

Well, I have read some historical biographies by Gore Vidal, but that is about it since high school and that is longer ago than many readers have been alive.

Ray

Re: Shadow of Turning (5:13pm December 28, 2008):

Hi Sandi,
My favorite book this year was Suzanne Forster's THE PRIVATE CONCIERGE. THE ARRANGEMENT from 2007 by Suzanne was my favorite of 2007 and the best book in my opinion since her August 2005 THE LONELY GIRLS CLUB, which I consider the Gold Standard in Romantic Suspense.

I don't have any specific goals other than to read the books in my collection that remain unread.

Ray

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