things that make you go O_o

Posted on 05/10/2009 by Kris


I bet you’re asking yourself if that thing on the cover is what you think it is.

It is. I checked.

Oh, c’mon. How could I not. 🙂
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maybe it’s me, but…

Posted on 04/10/2009 by Kris


As I was scrolling through the virtual shelves the other day in an effort to spend some of my b’day e$, a couple of things struck me about my book buying habits.

First, and this will be no surprise given my obsession with the bloody things, if there’s no book cover I ain’t buying it.

The second light bulb went off after I’d read a blurb and thought ‘nuh uh, gurlfriend’.

The problem… the character names.

Tell me; how the fuck can I engage with a book when I can’t even pronounce the damn name of one of the protags??

For example “do me harder, however-the-hell-you-say-it” doesn’t really allow me to connect with the fantasy, ya know.

Does this bother anyone else? Or are you all sane??
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tam’s guest post: dnf – why?

Posted on 03/10/2009 by Kris

We all have books that were “DNF” because they are just awful, or the theme turns us off and we just can’t face it again. But what about a DNF because…. well, no real reason. If someone asked you’d say that everything in the book was fine, characters, setting, plot and there were no glaring editorial errors you just…. lost interest, got bored, forgot about it.

Does that happen to you? I have several where I’ve read about 2/3 of the book and then just drifted away. I can’t tell you why exactly. It’s not length because it can be a long book of over 200 or pages or it can be 30 pages. There was nothing wrong with the books in question and many people would rate them highly, but for some reason I just lose interest and while I have every good intention of returning and finishing it….

This induces a fair amount of guilt on my part when I see them sitting there in my TBR file. I feel that I’m letting the author down because I didn’t finish their work (not that they’ll ever know since you’ll notice I didn’t name names here). I also feel guilty for buying more books when I have books I haven’t finished. And yet I can’t seem to force myself to go and finish them. They are like the vegetables your mother said you had to eat before you get dessert, but I’m a big girl now, I don’t have to eat them if I don’t want to. I will sometimes skim through to the end to see if anything important happened but mostly it just languishes there, staring at me mournfully every time I click “open”, begging me to expose its electronic pages to the sunlight. But then I choose the shiny new book and it is left there, alone, in the dark… of my TBR file.

So am I the only one who has this problem? What do you do with your DNFs that don’t deserve deletion? Do you feel guilty too?

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things that make you go O_o

Posted on 02/10/2009 by Kris

As a result of my recent glut on yaoi, something I’ve noticed which is occasionally used in the first seme/uke sex scene is the phrase ‘Don’t worry. It only hurts the first time.’

O_o

Did you know there is a male version of a hymen and, once gone, sex magically becomes more enjoyable?? *Whoa. Deja vu.*

You learn something new everyday.

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fuck it (not really) fridays

Posted on 01/10/2009 by Kris


Nothing too bitchy from me today.


*rolls eyes* No, I’m not sick… or hungover *glaring in the vague direction of Holland*. I’m still riding the gloat glow of my birthday spoilage.


Yes, it’s true that I shamelessly pimped my birthday to everyone. There was, however, a reason for this and this was quite clearly for THE LOOT!!

Sure I feel loved, blah, blah**, but, let’s face it, it was always about how much I could guilt people into giving me because they either (a) for whatever reason genuinely like me or (b) didn’t want me to look like a totally friendless loser. I’m pretty sure that it was the latter that won the day.

Anyway, on to the bragging…

You’ve all seen my flowers from Tam, which amazingly continue to survive despite longing, albeit calculating, looks 50+ times a day from the boy kittens. (I’ve tried to take a photo of them doing this, but for some reason they now run off whenever I catch them eyeing the flowers. Wusses!)

I received some vouchers to a couple of great stores which will help me replace the stuff the boy kittens have destroyed over the last 12 months. (Evil bastards!)


I also got this which tells me when it’s time for me to be fabulous. Nothing like positive reinforcement. (This was from the Mumma, who seems to think that my ego is nowhere near to what it should be. Go figure.)

The best part… MY B’DAY BOOK LOOT!!

I was positively spoilt for ARe Bucks from a Redheaded-Cali-Butt-Lover and a Misguided-Jake-Fan-From-Leeds.

As for the books themselves… Lookee!

The second book in the series has been removed from this line up in order to save you from the gouging of the eyes. (K Z, I thought you might have been overstating the ugliness. You weren’t.)

The graphic novels came from the Mumma, The Draegan Lords from Wave and M L, and the yaoi from Ingrid. (I’m not sure if the yaoi was meant to be for my b’day or whether it’s part of The Great Yaoi Swap. Proximity, however, means it counts as a pressie.)

O_O Agatha Christie graphic novels! Very cool.

Close up of my signed copy of The Draegan Lords and other goodies. (Mwahahahaha!)

Oh, I almost forgot.

Last, but by no means least, I truly felt the b’day love when I received the below cookie crumb from the infamous Ms Castanet Feldman.

See. She does so like me.

**Smooches to all those who dropped by with wishes and, more importantly (it’s all about priority, people), gave me cards and pressies. I lubs youse. *sniffles*
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well… (and update)

Posted on 29/09/2009 by Kris


It might be too early to start the celebratory drinking, but… Yay! It’s finally here! It’s MY BIRTHDAY!!! *beams*


I woke up to birthday greetings from Wave, Tam, Tracy and Orannia (((BIG HUGS)))), I could finally open the card from Jen that’s been taunting me – thanks Jen!!! – and even the boy kittens have been lovey dovey in a non-beastiality way this morning. Granted it’s cold and the latter won’t last…. who cares!

So, Orannia told me not to be too upset that all my pressies haven’t arrived cos “On the bright side you can just extend the birthday celebrations until all errant packages have arrived *grin*”. I was like “gee, I’m not sure… OKAY!!” *Mwahahahaha!*


Tam not only sent me this cookie card, but made me a special cookie video here. *sniffles* Love ya back, hun!

Oh, and I have cake…


What?!

Update: Look what just arrived from Canada.

My attempt to save Tam’s flowers from the boy kittens. Well, one of ’em anyway cos Feliks has already been up there and yelled at soon after. *sigh*
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things that make you go O_o

Posted on 28/09/2009 by Kris


This is going to make me sound culturally inappropriate/ unpc/ whatever so my apologies beforehand, blah, blah *fuck it*.

So, I’ve been reading yaoi all weekend and have come across a guy’s name a few times that always makes me think of, well, different things and from there really different things and then it starts to get really, REALLY weird.

Tell me, when you see a gay guy with the name ‘Subaru’ what springs to your mind??
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maybe it’s me, but…

Posted on 27/09/2009 by Kris


I’m a lazy online person.

There are blogs I read religiously, but the rest of the time I flitter around like a drunken bumble bee attempting to work out if anything is actually going on in the big wide reading, writing and publishing world or is it just the usual shit rehashed. *Irony, I haz it.*

My stumbling around occasionally takes me past author sites, which is a very nice segue to my post of today about the dreaded online persona.

Yeah, yeah, I know. It’s been done to death. *Hence the irony thing.* However, I’m not interested in discussing authorzilla wankfests *this time*. Instead, I wanted to ask a question about something that always takes me aback.

That is, how do you feel when you read a post by an author which has spelling and grammatical errors in it?

Because as much as I realise blogging is meant to be a more informal way of interacting with fans and other writers, etc, as a reader I have to admit that I find it really off-putting.

Yeah, yeah, I know (again). Authors are not Gods, the pedestal thing sucks big time and I’m the last person who should talk about so-called writing skills, but still…

What do you think?
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it IS me this time

Posted on 26/09/2009 by Kris


It’s my turn to host James Lear’s The Back Passage on its international reading tour.

After I’d opened the package and had taken the book out, my initial reaction was ‘wow, I thought it’d be bigger’.


Isn’t it weird how you hear so much about something and, consciously or not, you build up this image of how you expect it to be in real life.

It literally becomes larger than life… no sexual innuendo intended.

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fuck it fridays

Posted on 24/09/2009 by Kris


Forget the fact that some people should never, ever be allowed to write emails because their brain fails to engage their ‘I’m being a rude, arrogant, insulting fucktard-o-meter’ before they hit send.


Forget the fact that I have to go ‘in country’ late arvo for a meeting and will likely be dodging were-kangas out on their secret Friday night run on the drive back home.

Forget the fact that I haven’t received any – well, okay kinda one – birthday packages yet.

Look. At. This.


How did she know I bet none of you realised how mean Jen is in RL, did you. Ha!
Posted in fuck it fridays, Jenre, me, pet peeve/fave rant | 31 Comments