ROSY KIERA: Goodreads

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

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Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

I watched the movie "Captain Blood" with Errol Flynn before I read the book. I like both. Sabatini is just classic heroic action and swashbuckling fun. Just a fun, fun read.

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Tiger Lily

by Jodi Lynn Anderson

Three and half stars, I think. Genre: retold classic, alternative narrators. love triangles Summary: This is the story of Peter Pan, but told from Tinkerbell's point of view as an omniscient third person narrator. As a fairy, she can tel...

tagged: ya-lit and fantasy

Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side

by Beth Fantaskey

Genre: arranged marriages, vampire fiancees, senior year probs Summary: Jessica Packwood is just your average high school student, until she meets Lucius Vladescu who claims to be a vampire prince and that they are engaged to be married ...

tagged: contemporary, paranormal, set-in-usa, and ya-lit

Promised

by Caragh M. O'Brien

Genre: genetic manipulation, dystopian societies, down with the Man! Summary: Gaia Stone, the new leader of Sylum, leads her people back across the wasteland to the Enclave, without knowing if they will be welcome or not. In Gaia's absen...

tagged: action-adventure, dystopian, sci-fi, set-in-usa, and ya-lit

The Highwayman of Tanglewood

by Marcia Lynn McClure

tagged: romance, set-in-europe, historical-fiction, and to-review

Fleeting Fancy

by Rosemary Edghill

Why doesn't goodreads have a half-star function?! Because in all reality, I would give this 2.5 stars. It was ok with moments of true enjoyment, but I had to skim through most of it because I just didn't really care about the majority of...

tagged: austenesque, romance, and set-in-europe

My Quotes

"We once heard a statement, to 'make life an art.' And that really intrigued us because it meant that if you cooked the meal, you should make that art. If you painted your rooms, make that art. Make art everything you touch and everything you do. That must be the ideal of life." Leo and Diane Dillon

"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it." Audrey Hepburn

"What classical myths were to ancient Greece and Rome, movies have become to us: a pantheon of heros and villains against whom we measure ourselves." (I have no idea where this comes from!! :/)

"People must be amused, somehow...They can't always be a workin', nor yet they can't always be a learnin'. Make the best of it; not the worst."~Hard Times by Charles Dickens

"Halfway 'cross the globe and we're standing on new ground." ~Too Late; A Declaration

"Love [is] the mingling of two souls." Seven Daughters and Seven Sons by Barbara Cohen

"We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world."¤ Marianne Williamson

"Better pass boldly into that other world, full in the glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."¤ The Dead by James Joyce

"Our time is the time of fairytales." ¤ Hans Christian Andersen

"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten." ¤ Rudyard Kipling

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." ~Douglas Adams

"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which is which." ¤ Douglas Adams

"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." Scaramouche by Raphael Sabatini

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Minimalism--just another word for sensory deprivation." ~www.unhappyhipsters.com

""I laughed at myself...I think that really saved my sanity" Lloyd Alexander

"Will you tell me what reality in all the world was not first a dream?" The Romantic Prince by Rafael Sabatini

ROSY KIERA

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