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raisintorte ([personal profile] raisintorte) wrote2008-03-12 12:38 am
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Drugs . . . I mean books?

I am hooked on books. Seriously. (also, wow that sounds CHEESY) BUT I mean it.

I am on a book binge. It started off innocently with Julia Quinn, just picked one up and it was good. Less than a month later? I've read her entire book list.

And then I saw Stephanie Laurens had a lot of books. That was 3 weeks ago. I'm 10 books in to her book list and I can't read them fast enough.

I want to read more. I keep having to stop myself ordering them all off of B&N.com.

And fanfic isn't doing it for me - I want my historical romance with dukes and lords and ladies and balls and society and dresses and just EVERYTHING.

It has been so long since I just ran through book lists - I did it in high school and college. I would pick and author and get all of their books from the library and gorge myself. I did it with probably 30-40 authors over the years.

And now I'm doing it again. The only problem is I keep picking authors that don't have hardbound books in the library and we don't have a good second hand store around here. Which means I'm actually buying them all new. Which is getting expensive.

I'm limiting trips to B&N and limiting the number of books I buy - but then I usually run out early in the week and go through withdrawal. It's a VICIOUS CYCLE.

It's probably a good thing I'm out of new books this week - I need to write my [livejournal.com profile] ronon_love story and I'm having a dinner party on Saturday that I need to plan dinner and dessert for.
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[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/tesserae_/ 2008-03-12 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
Have you read Dorothy Dunnet's Lymond series?

[identity profile] raisintorte.livejournal.com 2008-03-12 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
I have not! I just wikipedia'd it and it looks really interesting - not my usual thing - but I'll check it out when I'm at the library this weekend.

I ummm . . . tend to read books with swooning ladies hanging off of burly men on the inside cover.

Regency romance novels are crack for Annie.
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[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/tesserae_/ 2008-03-12 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, people either adore Dunnett or give up because there are too many words in the books. But they're *extremely* slashy, and Lymond is entrancing, and the author's got an amazing gift for scene and language. The second book's an easier and more entertaining read than the first, and you really could start there...