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Dishing with Dee….Insomnia sucks

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You know when you lay down in bed and realize its going to be one of those nights? Well last night was one of those…it all started when I left work late (i mean an hour and a half later than planned, which since I start at 7am still isn’t bad), but then had to sit in DC rush hour traffic (whee! NOT!) So by the time I got home, got my workout in and chowed down on dinner, it was nearly 9:30. So I snuggled up in bed and attempted to sleep and that just didn’t work (normally, its like lights out, hit the pillow, i’m done). But last night, I just lay in bed…i’m not sure why and since I rarely get like this (maybe only one or two nights a year) its not really anything that I’m too worried about. So at 11pm, I found myself watching the Christmas episode of Call the Midwife (that somehow my DVD-R had failed to record), so that I could finally start watching the new season; as well as finishing up the book I was reading (Cry No More – Linda Howard). While doing this – I came to 2 realizations – BBC TV is frickin awesome – I love their period drama’s (except Mr Selfridge – no, just no) and I miss the golden days of romance – no one writes romance like Linda Howard back in the early 2000’s. I miss those days…

I did manage to finally eek out an couple of hours sleep – so I’m sit at work, struggling to stay awake (I’m on my second cup of coffee and have a soda standing in the wings). Wish me luck! 😉

 
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Posted by on April 2, 2015 in Dishing with Dee

 

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Review: Prey

Prey
Prey by Linda Howard
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Book Review
I would probably give this more like 3.5 than 3, but not quite to the level of a 4. I don’t know if i’ve ever read a strict RomSus from Linda Howard, I’d read some of her traditional romances though. I was surprised how much I ended up enjoying this book. I could tell that she had def. done research into the way certain things happened in the book with the bear kill etc, but it wasn’t so much that it over-powered the story/ caused a data-dump for the reader. My one comment would be that Angie kinda prove me nuts with her woe is me, I don’t like sex, its never been good for me, my boobs are too small routine…it was repeated many times through-out the book.

Narration Review
Abby Craden’s narration def. drove me nuts at first, but as the book progressed it got better. Her rendition of female voices was good, but her male ones not so much. I think this is def. a book that would have benefited from 2 narrators, a male and a female. I’m not sure if i’ll seek her out as a narrator in again in the future, it will have to depend on the book.

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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Audiobook Review

 

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