Tag: Holly’s Annoyed

"Stop the GR Bullies" aka WTF is Wrong with People?

"Stop the GR Bullies" aka WTF is Wrong with People?

(for the record, the title of this post is a rhetorical question..I know there’s no right – or even good – answer to that question) Warning: The following is going to be a long, rambling rant. Read at your own risk. I’ve been on the internet a long time now. I started lurking on message […]

The Smell of Desperation.

The Smell of Desperation.

I recently read a contemporary romance novel where the heroine was 30 and desperate to get married. When I say desperate, I mean desperate enough to pay a matchmaker $1500 to set her up with her one true love. Only the matchmaker died, so her grandson had taken over the business. And naturally the grandson […]

#nook Complaints: Lend Me feature and Highlight/Note taking

Posted June 10, 2010 by Holly in Discussions | Tagged: , , , , , | 9 Comments
#nook Complaints: Lend Me feature and Highlight/Note taking

I’ve had my nook for close to 4 months now. I would say I read at least 1 book a week on it, if not more. While I’m still very happy with it, there are several things that bother me about it. 1) Lend Me: this was one of the things I was most excited […]

Brotherly Love?

A few weeks ago I picked up a new YA series for my teenage daughter on a whim at Walmart. The books were marked down to $7 (for trade paperbacks) and I thought they sounded like something she would enjoy. I tend to be a rather strict parent, however, and I wanted to make sure […]

Oh SEP, Why??

Oh SEP, Why??

You may or may not remember, but back in September when we did the Susan Elizabeth Phillips Author Spotlight we talked about who might be the heroine for Ted’s book. If you remember, Ted was introduced as a sniffling kid in Fancy Pants. SEP hinted for years that she’d one day write his book and […]