kanld
kanld
09 May 2008 @ 03:28 pm
Awrtograf, UR Doin It Wrong.  
In French, "tacot" means an old battered car, not quite a collectible, just... tired. A "vieux tacot" is an "old battered car".
On the infos panel near my house, I read there's kinda meeting next Sunday on the City Hall parking. Unfortunately, the person in charge has something with spelling.
Enjoy.
Tacos
Of course it could be worse with "tacaud" (cheap fish).
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The Clinton-lovin' Communist
theclamsman
[clinton_2008]
09 May 2008 @ 05:12 am
Holy crap. If this is true, the media would have a field day with it.  
http://littleisis.blogspot.com/2008/05/my-correspondance-with-donna-brazile.html

Basics: A young voter sent Donna Brazile an email through Brazile's website. She got a response.

Young voter's email:

From: natalie bryan [mailto:xxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:17 AM
To: donna@brazileassociates.com
Subject: This Race

Hi Donna!!!!

I am emailing you on behalf of many people. I am, as you may know, a Hillary Clinton Supporter. You have probably gotten a lot of emails from her supporters, and I understand from the blogs I often frequent that you have responded to many of them.

I want you to know that I read bits and pieces of your autobiography, Cooking With Grease, and thought it was wonderful and well written. I came to understand from your book and from a lot of what I have witnessed in this election cycle that to simply put groups of people in Demographics and Exit polls is a misunderstanding of both America and the Democratic Party.

What I have learned is that people often vote based on their experiences. You, as an Undeclared Obama supporter, probably identify strongly with his candidacy because of the struggles you went through during a time when race relations in this country were in turmoil. I voted for Hillary Clinton, not only because I relate to her strongly as both a person and a woman who is very spiritual and devoted to her family and to helping others, but also because she is the greatest candidate to lead this country out of the mess we're in, and because her policy proposals have been phenominal and close to my heart, because it proves to me that she is not simply talking and promising change, she is telling me how she is going to make it happen. It proves to me that she actually cares.

As a young person, I have a big future ahead of me, and I also have dreams and ambitions, and strong opinions and many other things. CNN tells me every day that I should be supporting Barack Obama, because his freshness and newness should appeal to my fickle nature. But I support Hillary, and like many of her supporters, I feel sad and dissappointed and hurt and many other things by what I see, based on rationality and facts, as the poor and undeserved treatment she and her husband have received by the DNC party elite and the Chicago Style Campaign tactics of Senator Obama's Campaign that I have witnessed with my own eyes and heard a number of stories about.

I understand that many of the emails you have received by Clinton Supporters urging you to do the right and ethical thing by seating Michigan and Florida delegates have been angry and often probably obnoxious. But you cannot possibly understand how frustrated they are. And while you may say that they are "the reason" Hillary is losing, whatever her supporters have done or said pale in comparison to the abuse and mistreatment we have suffered from some supporters of Senator Obama.

You may use Roe V Wade as a trump card for accusing them of being petty in their vows to not support Senator Obama, should he be the nominee, but I assure you that using something like that as a threat will not work, because there are few (actually, no) politicians I have seen that are as devoted to a woman's right to choose than Hillary Clinton, and you know that as well as I.

Ms. Brazille, I urge you not to disclude and disenfranchise millions of voters from every walk of life from this nominating process simply for the sake of one candidate, because doing so would be an awful mistake. I have respect for you as a person, Ms. Brazille, but I would implore you to make the right decision and seat Florida and Michigan . I would also implore you to stop encouraging super delegates to force Senator Clinton out of the race, because the more they do this, the stronger she gets.

Ms. Brazille, I cannot pretend to understand what you have gone through in your life, nor what you are going through now. It would be ignorant of me to try. But many people feel angry when they are stereotyped or put in a box because if what candidate they support. I support Hillary Clinton, and I love all of my friends. Including the great African American friends I have that I adore. and all of the African American women at my mother's church who embrace me and always tell me how "pretty" I look every time I see them. I also love my Latino friends, my Italian friends, my Jewish friends, my Catholic friends.

As I said, I cannot pretend to understand your experiences, but nor can you understand mine. Just because a person's skin may be paler that yours, does not mean their lives are without suffering.
I, for one, cry at night wondering what my republican mother will do if anything happens to her, because she doesn't have Health Insurance. And because of this, my mother may just support Hillary Clinton over John McCain come this fall. She is a Republican who supports Hillary Clinton not because Rush Limbaugh told her to, but because she believes that Hillary Clinton is a Candidate that may actually care about her.

So Ms. Brazille, I would yet again urge you to do everything you can to seat Michigan and Florida properly, and also, I would ask that you stop saying you are "undeclared" on CNN's panels when clearly you know which candidate you support.

Thank you very much for reading this email. Like you, I am very emotionally invested in this Campaign, (as is Stephanie Tubbs Jones, a Congresswoman from the district next to mine who also supports Hillary :D) and wish you all the luck in the world.

respectfully,

A young female voter from Ohio


Brazile's (alleged) response:

From: "Donna Brazile"
To: "'natalie bryan'"
Subject: RE: This Race
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 07:58:35 -0400

Thanks Natalie,

As of today, I am not going to respond to any more anti American, Anti Democratic emails. Have a nice day.

I am sorry because you are sincere, but the Hillary forces are uncivil, repugnant and vile. When you come up for air and would like to email a person who cares about America and not just a personality, I will respond.

Thanks for your time and your interest.

Donna


I want screencaps of this (supposed) email! And I want to send those screencaps to EVERY MAJOR NEWS OUTLET.

D:

...
 
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elisa_rolle
elisa_rolle
08 May 2008 @ 05:19 pm
Futuristic or Fantasy?  
You all know that I'm a freak for tags on my library. I'd like to tag correctly all my books. So I need help: sometime I have a doubt if tag something Fantasy or Futuristic... Here some examples:

Poison by Joely Skey: In this world, trust is hard to find…and the one thing they need to survive. Tobias Smator lives down his late father’s execution by avoiding the spotlight—and responsibility. He doesn’t mind what people think of him as long as they leave him alone. Still, in this unremarkable half-life he’s fashioned for himself on deceptively low-tech Rimania, he’s not safe from political intrigue. Someone wants him dead. Alliance operative Geln Marac’s orders for his first assignment were simple: Stay uninvolved. Those orders go out the window, however, when he delivers an antidote to save Tobias from death by poisoning. His reward? Possible betrayal that lands him in the hands of police interrogators. To protect the Alliance, Geln resorts to a temporary mindwipe. Tobias is fascinated by the amnesiac man who saved his life. But Geln has attracted the attention of the high-powered Lord Eberly, who would use him as a pawn. Rather than sacrifice Geln to the political wolves, Tobias chooses to embrace his heritage. Geln’s memory reawakens to a precarious situation with no source of protection—except Tobias. There’s only one way forward for both of them. Trust—or die.
SETTING: Planetary society and in particular a secluded Planet like Rimania where people live like in Regency England. Almost no use of high-tech device and no appeareance of spaceship, even if they exist.

My Fair Captain by J.L. Langley: Talk about a compromising situation! A storm of political intrigue, murderous mayhem and sexual hungers is brewing on planet Regelence. Swarthy Intergalactic Navy Captain Nathaniel Hawkins ran from a past he had no intention of ever reliving. But when his Admiral asks him to use his peerage, as an earl and the heir to a dukedom, to investigate a missing weapons stash, he’s forced to do just that. As if being undercover on a Regency planet where the young men are supposed to remain pure until marriage isn’t bad enough, Nate finds himself attracted to the king’s unmarried son. All Prince Aiden Townsend has ever wanted was to be an artist. He has no interest in a marriage of political fortune or becoming a societal paragon. Until he lands in the arms of the mysterious Earl of Deverell. One look at Nate’s handsome face has Aiden reconsidering his future. Not only does Nate make a virile subject for Aiden’s art, but the great war hero awakens feelings in Aiden he has never felt, feelings he can’t ignore. After a momentous dance at a season ball, Aiden and Nate find themselves exchanging important information and working closely together. They have to fight their growing attraction long enough to find out who stole the weapons and keep themselves from a compromising situation and certain scandal.
SETTING: Planetary society and in particular a secluded Planet like Regelence where people live like in Regency England. Wide use of high-tech device and appeareance of spaceship.

To Touch the Stars by Sienna Black: Generations ago, Edmund Talkirk led a group of colonists on an interstellar search for a new home. They were hoping for a second Earth. They never found it. Now, the descendents of those first brave souls eke out a living on the surface of the world they call Shadow. They are led by their Talkirk, a scarred warrior once known as Cymren, who expects treachery, and demands loyalty and obedience. Lucan came from the underground darkness of the Warren, a part of Shadow thought long abandoned. He left everything and everyone he held dear in an attempt to avert a great wrong. His incredible promises and bold words challenge everything Talkirk knows. Yet there is something about him, wisdom far beyond his years and mystical power his frail body should not possess. He came proclaiming his ability as Pureblood to save Talkirk and the Cairn, the walled city he protects. Whether he intends to save the man and master, or to betray both, is the question, and yet Talkirk can't resist his allure. One way or the other, he'll have the man and the power, regardless of who he has to battle to keep them.
SETTING: Planetary society and in particular a secluded Planet like Shadow where people live like in a Medieval England. Almost no use of high-tech device and no appeareance of spaceship, even if the Cairn where they live was the former spaceship.

So, they are Futuristic or Fantasy? The future setting make them Futuristic? Is Fantasy only an alternate universe of something in the past?
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elisa_rolle
elisa_rolle
08 May 2008 @ 04:50 pm
Poison by Joely Skye  
Poison is a very strange novel. I actually can't say if I fully understand it.

In a fantasy regency world, Rimania, people are divided in Elite and Worker. They are closed cast and only Elite can do politics and have access high class; they are so strict on their rules that a worker is not even allowed in presence of Elite if not as personal servant.

Tobias is the nephew of the actual regent. His father attempted to his brother's life once, and was killed for this. Now Tobias prefer to live secluded in his manor with a matchmaking mother. He is not interest in politics, but when his uncle is murdered and some days after also his cousin, only another cousin remains between Tobias and the regency. And he is not very happy of that.

Meanwhile Geln, an outworld spy of the Alliance who wants to take over of Rimania, infiltrates in the Elite's society through Tobias' mother. Geln is a spy and also a "whore": he is sex to reach his purposes; after being the "prostitute" of a revolutionary worker, Arjes, now he is the paramour of Dressia, Tobias' mother. But when Tobias is poisoned, surprisingly Geln saves his life. Tobias is an innocent 23 years old man, who is not aware of all the politic troubles around him: he only realizes that people he loved were killed and he wants to know why. But when he meets Geln, he realizes also something else: he is attracted by a men, even if they said to him that in this new Elite society, homosexuality is extinct.

Tobia and Geln embark in a strange relationship, where Tobia discovers his sexuality and Geln tries to teach him how beautiful can be with a man and meanwhile tries to go on with his plan without using innocent Tobias as a pawn. But Geln is not so tough as he thinks, and past experiences make him a little skittish when he faces a true and sincere love.

Among betrayals and perils, the reader starts to understand to not trust no one and maybe the less human of all will be the more trustworthy of all.

http://samhainpublishing.com/romance/poison

Waiting Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=waiting+reading+list&view=elisa.rolle
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Erastes
erastes
08 May 2008 @ 03:06 pm
blick!  

Life is just so sucky right now, I can't think straight.  I've unblocked the sink - at last, but the joints are buggered, the rubbers are all wobbly and frankly it's cowboy-rigged (not that I can do anything about THAT) - so I'm going to have to go and buy some more joints and hope to god I can put them all back together. I smell hideous. 

Severus caught a baby blackbird this morning (not fledged but out of his nest) and is banned from the garden until further notice. He's sulking. Oh BOY is he sulking. The funny thing is that i was dripping water on his head to prevent him trying the cat flap and he had no idea it was me.

I did manage 1300 words or so yesterday. There is UST.

 
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elisa_rolle
elisa_rolle
08 May 2008 @ 09:41 am
In memory of Paul Leicester Ford  
Paul Leicester Ford (23 March 1865, New York, New York, USA - 8 May 1902, New York, New York, USA) was an American novelist and biographer, born in Brooklyn. He was the great-grandson (through his mother's family) of Noah Webster and the brother of the noted historian Worthington C. Ford. He wrote lives of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and others, edited the works of Thomas Jefferson, and wrote a number of novels, which had considerable success, including The Honorable Peter Stirling (1894), Story of an Untold Love, Janice Meredith, Wanted a Matchmaker, and Wanted a Chaperon. He was murdered by his brother, Malcolm Webster Ford, at one time the most famous amateur athlete in the United States, who then committed suicide.

Janice Meredith: A Story of the American Revolution published in 1899 proved to be Ford's greatest literary success. Although the critics attacked the novel's faulty construction, lack of style, and contrived action, the reading public adored it. Within the first three months, over 200,000 copies sold, which was the largest on record of any novel then published. Within two years of its publication, it was dramatized and, early in the twentieth century, it was even made into a motion picture. The novel was a culmination of Ford's diverse skills. This historical romance, set before and during the time of the Revolutionary War, narrates the struggle of the colonies to gain their freedom and the struggle of the hero, Jack Brereton, to win the heroine, Janice Meredith. One enthusiastic critic went so far as to declare that this novel was "the great New Jersey novel, if not the great American novel." For the public's part, a new dance was coined the "Janice Meredith Waltz," and a new hairstyle was labeled the "Meredith curl." All in all, most critics agreed that Janice Meredith was proof of Ford's improved skill as a novelist.

To  read more:

http://rosaromance.splinder.com/post/17025678/
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theljstaff
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07 May 2008 @ 05:49 pm
May News  
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elisa_rolle
elisa_rolle
07 May 2008 @ 05:59 pm
The Elegant Corpse by A.M. Riley  
Another book by A.M. Riley that I hardly will forget. Roger Corso is a detective by the book; forget all those detective from television fiction, tough men who do what they have to do even if what they do is slightly (or heavily) not legal. Roger is a freak controlled and perfect detective.

When he arrives home after a one week vacation and finds a mummified corpse in his living room, he calls the CSI and starts to investigate. And everytime he finds a proof he relates to his superiors, even when the proofs lead to one of his best friend, his former Master. Yes cause Roger is now a Master himself, one of the old league, a leatherman with whips and mask; Roger is not the mild mannered queer type that it's so fashion in the twenty-one century, Roger is a big man, muscle and discipline from the '80. And now that his former lover and sub is dead, Roger lives an apparently quite and ordinary life, saved going one night every month in a BDSM club managed by an old friend. Like other ordinary men go to play pool or booling, Roger plays with whips and S. Andrew cross.

Sean is the young brother of the victim Roger finds in his living room. Gary, the victim, disappeared more then 20 years before, when Sean was still a little child, and now Sean is alone, since the death of both his parents. He is a troubled guy, living in a precarious way and having no control on his life. He is the classical type who pushes the right bottoms on Roger, a man who needs someone to control, someone who needs to be controlled, a mutual exchange of powers. But Sean is very young and Roger fears to be again in a committed relationship. Actually Sean's behaviour is very strange, he is a more than 30 years old man who behaves like a nearly twenty.

Maybe the strenght of this couple is that both of them are so clearly made to be together and the reader knows that they will be together, what he is expecting is the climax, not of their relationship, but of the mystery which plays along with the romance: who is the serial killer? everytime you think to have found the right man, soon after he is the next victim and you need to start again. The mystery is pretty good, I should admit I'm not an expert, but sincerely I discovered the killer only cause all the others were dead.

I think Roger is somewhat a Dom disillusioned; he has seen too much, made too much and now nothing seems to have the same impact on him as before. He is a survivor, he has escaped the AIDS plague, but many around him not, and now he is alone. I don't think he needs someone who turns up his little world, he needs someone who will share it with him: sorry, he has not the age to start again, he is arrived to a point in which he needs stability and comfort. Sean instead is a little like a Peter Pan, someone who is arrived to a point when he needs to grew and instead he seems to always avoid it.

The book is very complex and wonderfully intertwined, full of supporting characters who are themself worthy of an entire story. And it's also a little bit nostalgic, it seems like a last greeting to a dying era.

http://www.loose-id.net/detail.aspx?ID=718

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elisa_rolle
elisa_rolle
07 May 2008 @ 09:34 am
Romance History: Constance Gluyas  
In "The Passionate Savage", Signet, 1980, Constance Gluyas (1920 Mar 28 - 1983 Aug) features Flaming Dawn, who broke her people's trust by giving herself to the white hunter, Lucien Marsh, and followed him into a white man's world where the price of her desire was unspeakable degradation. And Lady Samantha Pierce, who broke her marriage vows and her social code to possess Lucien Marsh, desperately seeking escape from her gilded cage of perverse passions and shocking corruption. Two magnificent women, so unalike on the surface, yet sisters-under-the-skin in their hunger and their daring. Two exquisite rival heroines in a sweeping epic that moves from the untamed American wilderness to the licentious aristocratic underworld of Victorian London to reach flaming new heights of adventure and romance...

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http://rosaromance.splinder.com/post/17012597/
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elisa_rolle
elisa_rolle
06 May 2008 @ 06:31 pm
Gossip!  
gossip gacked from [info]bigboobedcanuck 

Actually I don't know these two actors, but they are so cute than I can't prevent me to share with you this gossip:

Emmy-nominated As The World Turns actor Van Hansis is dating fellow actor Tyler Hanes.

One of the two went to the gala premiere of the other and the other said that the first was his favourite actor... How pretty they are?!?

 

Van Hansis & Tyler Hanes



The two together!
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elisa_rolle
elisa_rolle
06 May 2008 @ 05:03 pm
My Vampire an I: Two Erotic Love Stories by J.P. Bowie  
My Vampire and I by J.P. Bowie

Marcus is an eighteen hundreds years old vampire. He was a roman warrior, son of a Senator, and he was turned when he was 25 five years old, so now he is a rather handsome vampire. He lost a lover in the past, but now he is again on the prowl since for centuries he is dreaming of a new lover and now is the time to claim him.

Roger is a 24 year old guy with a rather simple life. Good friends, a pretty cute image and a steady work, he is quite enamored with himself. But when he meets Marcus he suddenly falls for this handsome vampire, since he always has had a thing for vampires and co. But some enemies from Marcus' past are not so willing to allow him to rebuild a life together with Roger.

I think J.P. Bowie wanted to write a good mix between paranormal and comedy. Roger is the classical "queen": while Marcus is telling his rather sad story life, all Roger could think is how cool it's to have a vampire lover; while Marcus is trying to explain to Roger the pro and contro of turning vampire, all Roger could think is how well hung is his new boyfriend and how all his friends will die for jealousy.

Well, so,maybe I'm a bit too harsh with poor Roger: he is not a bad guy, he is young and in love, and then he has the chance to have a wonderful and immortal life with an hunk like Marcus, something he has never thought possible for an average guy like him.

Marcus and Roger's relationship is quite a master and pet's one, but Marcus is not a dom for choice, he is only the stronger in the couple and so he takes the lead. But Roger is quite an imp, iperactive and sometime naivee, very tender and cute.

All in all My Vampire and I is more funny than suspence, and for me is a good thing. I was expecting a more classical vampire story, a bit angst and sad, and instead it's a comedy where in the end neither the evil ones are so scary.

My Vampire Lover by J.P. Bowie

Usually in a vampire story the Vampire is a strong and powerful man who lures and loves the innocent and naivee boy. My Vampire Lover turns the tables. Jean-Claude was a French artist of the end of the nineteen century; he didn't choose to become a vampire, he was seduced and betrayed by a man he admired, an artist like him. When he awakened as vampire, he was scared and helpless and his master abandoned him. A gentle and caring friend helped him to migrate to New World and Jean-Claude started a new life and also found the help of Marcus, who will be a good friend but not a lover.

Today Jean-Claude is drawn by Ron, a gentle man he sees every night from the window of his apartment. Ron manages the Italian restaurant around the corner and all in all he is a quite ordinary man, not someone who could steal the looks. But Jean-Claude sees something in him... I think he sees comfort and company, and also a man who can protect him! Yes, the vampire is lured by a man stronger than him. Obviously, Ron is stronger only if we consider the normal skill for a human, Jean-Claude is always a vampire, and he has special powers that makes him immortal and almost invincible. But still in their relationship, Ron is the leading man. As before with his friend Henry and then with Marcus, Jean-Claude is not a leader, he is the perfect picture of an artist, someone who can't relate with the day-to-day routine of life, someone who need a firm hand to address him.

My Vampire Lover is a little less funny than My Vampire and I, the two stories were released together in print form. But both are easy, smooth and enjoyable, not at all angst like so many vampire stories before.

http://www.total-e-bound.com/

http://www.amazon.com/My-Vampire-I-Erotic-Stories/dp/0595438725/

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http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=waiting+reading+list&view=elisa.rolle
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elisa_rolle
elisa_rolle
05 May 2008 @ 07:10 pm
Products tagged "Gay Romance" on Amazon  
Here is the list of the books tagged "Gay Romance" on Amazon order by Popularity: 

1) The Tin Star by J. L. Langley (Paperback) (43) http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1191.html
2) Without Reservations by J. L. Langley (Paperback) (32) (read before livejournal)
3) All Through the Night by Suzanne Brockmann (Hardcover) (24) http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/192101.html
*4) A Secret Edge by Robin Reardon (Paperback) (22)
5) Willow Bend by Ally Blue (Paperback) (19) (read before livejournal)
*6) Brethren by W., A. Hoffman (Paperback) (16)
*7) Falling by M. L. Rhodes (Paperback) (16)
*8) Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale (Perfect Paperback) (15)
9) Details of the Hunt by Laura Baumbach (Paperback) (15) (read before livejournal)
*10) Call Me by Your Name: A Novel by Andre Aciman (Hardcover) (14)
11) Ransom by Lee Rowan (Paperback) (14) (read before livejournal)
*12) The Price of Temptation by M. J. Pearson (Paperback) (13)
13) Bareback by Chris Owen (Paperback) (13) (read before livejournal)
14) Standish by Erastes (Paperback) (13) http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/15429.html
*15) When You Don't See Me by Timothy James Beck (Paperback) (12)
*16) Matelots by W. A. Hoffman (Paperback)(12)
*17) Vintage: A Ghost Story by Steve Berman (Paperback) (12)
18) Couplings by M. L. Rhodes (Paperback) (12) http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/79571.html
*19) The God Eaters by Jesse Hajicek (Paperback) (12)
*20) Discreet Young Gentleman by M. J. Pearson (Paperback) (11)
*21) Under The Big Sky by S. Bryan Gonzales (Paperback) (11)
22) Hearts from the Ashes by Ally Blue (Paperback) (11) http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/35920.html
23) Fireline by Tory Temple (Paperback)  (11) (read before livejournal)
*24) Adagio by Chris Owen (Paperback) (11)
25) A Bit of Rough by Laura Baumbach (Paperback) (10) http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/2623.html
*26) The Master of Seacliff by Max Pierce (Paperback) (10)
*27) Just a Boy by Rob Clinger (Paperback) (10)
28) Always by M. L. Rhodes (Paperback) (10) http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/114786.html
*29) The Phoenix by Ruth Sims (Paperback) (10)
30) The Cost of Eternity by Shayla Kersten (Paperback) (9) http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/44847.html
*31) Into This World We're Thrown by Mark Kendrick (Paperback) (8)
*32) Magic's Price by Mercedes Lackey (Paperback) (8)
*33) A Strong and Sudden Thaw by R. W. Day (Paperback) (8)
34) Out There in the Night by Laura Baumbach (Paperback) (8) (read before livejournal)
35) Caught Running by Abigail Roux (Paperback) (8) http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/199171.html
*36) The Boy with Black Eyes by Brian Lucas (Paperback) (8)
37) Male of the Species by Kate Steele (Paperback) (8) (read before livejournal)
*38) Latter Days: A Novel by C. Jay Cox (Paperback) (8)
39) Heaven Sent by Jet Mykles (Paperback) (8) http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/27253.html
40) Oleander House by Ally Blue (Paperback) (8) http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/31109.html
*41) Freshman Pledge by Larry Coles (Paperback) (8)
42) On Fire by Drew Zachary (Paperback) (8) http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/34403.html
43) Bad Case of Loving You by Laney Cairo (Paperback) (8) http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/40712.html
*44) A Private Hunger by Sean Michael (Paperback) (8)
*45) Orphan's Quest Book One of... by Pat Nelson Childs (Paperback) (7)
*46) Strings Attached by Nick Nolan (Paperback) (7)
*47) Sweet Lips by Mel Smith (Paperback) (7)
48) The Broken H by J. L. Langley (Paperback) (7) (read before livejournal)
49) The Crimson Spell by Ayano Yamane (Paperback) (7) http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/142967.html
50) Captain's Surrender by Alex Beecroft (Paperback) (7) http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/213072.html
*51) Amnesia by Sean Michael (Paperback) (7)
52) Founder by Jodi Payne (Paperback) (7) http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/127590.html
53) Lies & Kisses by Masara Minase (Paperback) (7) http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/255580.html
54) I'll Be Dead For Christmas... by Josh Lanyon (Paperback) (7) http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/209243.html

(*) Book I haven't read

The list is nice, there are some very good titles in it, even among those I haven't read, and BTW someone of you care to give me some good advice on the book I haven't read?

I think that this list can be interesting if we give importance to the fact that someone spend his time to "tag" a book he loves on Amazon to allow other people to have good reccomendations. In the last year I found some books to buy using Amazon reccomendations (even if not much told be truth).

Actually I like the reccomendations and lists tools of Amazon, but I read only the reviews of people I know and trust. And you? 

From the list I took off the DVD products, but there are a lot of them... maybe I should consider it? Gay Romance Movies is still a thing I haven't started... maybe is better for me if I don't dig in this sector...
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theljstaff
theljstaff
[news]
05 May 2008 @ 10:56 am
Advisory Board Nominations Open  
Advisory Board Nominations Begin

This morning we are opening the nomination process for the user-representative positions on the LiveJournal Advisory Board. A full description of the process can be found here.

To get you started, here are the basic things you should know:

- You may only nominate yourself
- Each nominee will need 100 motions of support in order to be eligible to be a candidate
- We ask that you keep your comments on the nomination posts to "I support this nomination" or something to that effect; be kind to those who will need to count the "supports", please.
- Although the nominations and election poll will take place in [info]lj_election_en, you do not need to watch the community in order to keep up with the election; we'll announce everything here as well.

Everyone here at LiveJournal is looking forward to this first-ever User-Representative election! We'd like to thank everyone who is participating. Some words from our current Advisory Board members:

danah boyd: “LiveJournal is filled with very passionate users. These users have helped shaped LJ's various communities over the last decade and it gives me great joy that LJ is recognizing and incorporating users' voices into the decision-making processes. Having user representatives from different parts of LJ on the Advisory Board will help make sure that the company is meeting the needs of its diverse constituents.”

Esther Dyson: "I'm sure we'll learn a lot from the process, and later on from the two users selected as well. Especially, I hope that the discussions before the voting will be more meaningful and more focused on policy than those in some offline campaigns."

Brad Fitzpatrick: "It's cool that SUP is getting users involved with the LiveJournal decision-making process. I look forward to seeing who the community elects and the results of our efforts working together."

Professor Lawrence Lessig: “The user elections will provide a critical check on LJ's process of maintaining a valuable and trustworthy environment for the LJ community. The mandate of the elections will give the user representatives pride of place among the members of the Advisory Board. Each of us will look to them to guide us in our judgment about how best to make LJ the community we all aspire that it will be. I look forward to welcoming the user representatives, and learning a great deal from them.”


[info]chasethestars has also made some banners for you to use, if you'd like to show your support for the candidate of your choice!

( Banners + code for you to use! )
 
 
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elisa_rolle
elisa_rolle
05 May 2008 @ 04:18 pm
Seven random questions meme  
Gacked from [info]ashmedai. Copy the questions into a comment and replace the blanks with whatever pops into your head. Then re-post this into your own LJ to see what people want to ask YOU!

1. What do you think of _____________ ?

2. When did you last ____________?

3. __________ or ___________ and why?

4. What did you ______________?

5. What's your favorite ______________?

6. How would you ______________?

7. Who would you most like to ________ ?
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elisa_rolle
elisa_rolle
05 May 2008 @ 12:45 pm
Corazón (Calendar Boys - May) by Jamie Craig  

Can I rename this book "How to pick up two unlikeable characters and make you like them"? Yes, cause in Corazon, we have not one but two cheating man, a thing I find almost unforgivable in a man, and one of the two is also unrepentant, cause he justifies the cheating since he doesn't love his current partner...

Mason is a IT specialist from San Antonio. He has a steady relationship with a colleague, Miguel, a good guy, maybe a little too... normal! Yes cause Miguel is gentle and caring, not selfish, but when they visit Miguel's family in New Mexico, Miguel only asks to Mason to not flaunt their relationship, since Miguel's family knows that their son is gay, but obviously they are not so happy with the situation. But still they welcome Mason in their home, even if with a bit of a cold attitude.

During one of this visit Mason has the chance to exchange some words, and a kiss, with Anton, the boyfriend of Miguel's sister. It's only a kiss and Mason and Miguel leave soon after, so Mason has emphasized the memory in his mind and now he fears the next time he will see Anton, cause he is not sure to be able to stay far from the man. And when Mason and Miguel plan to spend a week with Miguel's family for the Cinco de Mayo's celebration, all what Mason fears comes to reality: Anton confesses to be gay and to have asked Petra to marry him to try to correct his sin and have a normal family. He never thought to find a new male lover after the tragic death of his former one, and he doesn't know how to do now that he and Mason realize that there is something more than a kiss between them.

Mason is not against the idea to start something with Anton, even if for some days, since he isn't really in love with Miguel, he has a comfort relationship, something that is nice and quiet, but that doesn't give him heartthrob like Anton do. And when he realizes that with Anton is something more than a spring fling, he is willing to give it a try, but Anton? will he risk all he has and all he want to be?

In the end I supported Mason and Anton. I still felt a little sad for Miguel (not so more for Petra), but between Mason and Miguel there wasn't the real love that there is with Anton.

http://www.amberquill.com/AmberAllure/CalendarBoysMay.html

Waiting Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=waiting reading list&view=elisa.rolle 

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Erastes
erastes
05 May 2008 @ 10:50 am
Cillit Bang: not good for hands.  
Given my appalling record with mobile phones I realised this morning that I don't NEED to get the fourth gen or whatever is going on with them at the moment. All I need is a phone, so I can ring Dad or the AA if the car breaks down.  I do need/or would like a digital camera but there's no point in putting on in my phone, as they aren't generally as good, so I'm going to get a dirt cheap £10 phone and a decent ish digital camera and start taking photos again.  I also need a scanner, now I'm not in a place where such things are taken for granted-just the luxury of being to scan in a contract when I need it is something I miss. The Post Office is such an antiquated thing!!!

What happened to Bank Holiday TV? It's just a load of programmes that are normally on on a Monday - and shit films. Escape to Victory? Puhleeze!!!!

And I'd like to recommend this free short story: "Narcissus" by Hayden Thorne - it's incredible and works on many levels. I read it and didn't realise I was holding my breath until I got to the end.
 
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Erastes
erastes
04 May 2008 @ 04:56 pm
Vive L'equine!  
Which is probably ungrammatical. *Gallic shrug*

Happy Birthday [info]vashtan! May there be dog tags and vests in your day.

I was watching the MEASLY 2 hours of Badminton Horse Trials the BBC patronisingly managed to squish in between wall-to-wall snooker and a Frenchman won it. I wasn't particularly pleased at first (Pah!) but when he reacted after jumping the last fence clear by being so fantastically over-emotional I wept a small tear myself. He was literally SOBBING, his arms flung around his horse's neck, bless him. And the sign of a true horseman when just about the first thing he said was "I am pleased because there were people who didn't believe in this horse and I hope I have proved them wrong."  HUGGLES HIM.

Why the blinkety blink can't the ruddy BBC open a dedicated sports channel or four so we can watch the sports we want to?  What's most annoying is that Badminton is the largest attended event in the world bar the Olympics. over 150,000 spectators turn up for the cross-country day alone, so it's not like, just ME that likes it.  Of course only about six people attend the dressage phase. *g*

[info]gehayi told me about the horse at the Kentucky Derby yesterday, in fact she frightened me to death saying "Did you see what happened?" and I thought that the Martians had landed or something.  It was very sad, but not at all unusual. ( ranty mcrant )

And just randomly, Sean Bean could sell me ANYTHING. His voice sends me into a puddle.

Less randomly: Raider of the Lost Ark on tonight!  WHEEE!!
 
 
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elisa_rolle
elisa_rolle
04 May 2008 @ 05:28 pm
Do You Believe in Magic? by Drew Zachary  
Theo is an illusionist but he had a very bad night during which everything went wrong, and that one night Craig, an entertainment columnist for the local newspaper, was at the show. And so now Theo has this very bad review and he is very pissed of. So much that he storms into Craig's office pretending a second chance.

Theo obtains his second chance, but also a very close encounter with handsome and sexy Craig. Theo like it rough and Craig is able to give him just the right dose of stick and carrot to take Theo in line.

This is another single shot from Drew Zachary, less than 30 pages, and it's only a blossoming of a relationship. We don't know if Theo and Craig have something everlasting, but for sure they seem to have a lot in common, and Craig could be the right man to control a brat like Theo.

All in all there are three scenes of which two are sex scenes, but Theo and Craig are nice characters and they play a bit of pleasure and pain game between them. We know better Theo's reasons and a little less Craig's one, but I think these two can have something good.

http://www.torquerebooks.com/zencart

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elisa_rolle
elisa_rolle
04 May 2008 @ 12:37 pm
The Cowboy and the Crow by Sedonia Guillone  

A very short story, less than 15 pages, that tells us of a love beyond myth and reality.

Patrick is a normal country boy and he is in love with John Crowfeather, a Native American Navajo from the nearby reservation. They met in high school and since then they never have been apart, and Patrick becomes part of John's family, two spirits together, something the Navajo allow and embrace.

But one month before John disappeared and since then Patrick is alone mending fence with only the companionship of his horse, Snoopy, and a strange crow. Is it possible that the old legends John's grandfather continues to tell him are true? John turns into a skin-walker? Patrick only knows that he will wait forever for his lover to return, cause he trusts him and if John goes away, he has a good reason and he will return as soon as possible.

As I said the story is very short, but it's very romantic. You can feel the deeply love between Patrick and John, and I'd be glad to know a little more about how they met and became a couple, I always like the puppy love of teens.

http://www.torquerebooks.com/zencart/

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http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=waiting reading list&view=elisa.rolle

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elisa_rolle
elisa_rolle
04 May 2008 @ 11:47 am
Tara S. Nichols: If a Summer Crush Comes to Reality  
I just added a new post to the "Chatting with" series on "Rosa is for Romance".

Tara S. Nichols: If a Summer Crush Comes to Reality

"Ever since Tara Nichols was a little girl she has had an affinity for romantic adventures. With crushes on the likes of Tarzan and Hans Solo she grew up looking for the perfect gentleman rogue. When she is not writing about romance she can be found tending her garden, keeping bees or reading a spy novel. Tara roams free on the flat prairie land in Manitoba Canada where she lives with her young son and husband."

To read more:

http://rosaromance.splinder.com/post/16974452/
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