10. My week – It is something like 110 degrees out. I think the low for Baltimore last night barely made it out of the 90’s. Yeah, not cool Mother Nature.
9. Great news for Stacia Kane fans – she announced on her blog that there will be a fifth book in her Downside series. Book four, Sacrificial Magic is scheduled to come out March 27th. (Read chp one here). Book five will be called Chasing Magic. If you haven’t read this series I definitely recommend. Book one, Unholy Ghosts is good, but book two and three will blow you away. The heroine Chess is addicted to drugs – throughout the entire series which turns off some people, but I think it makes her very different. And the hero’s name is Terrible. And I lurve him. :)
8. So happy to read that there will be a fourth Nice Girls book from Molly Harper!! Nice Girls Don’t Bite Their Neighbors is due out this coming March! No cover yet, but you can read the blurb on her site. I adore the first three books in this series (Starting with Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs). So funny!! Definitely recommend if you haven’t read them.
7. Yes, I know that is an extremely tiny picture – if you get real close and squint it is the new cover for Rainshadow Road by Lisa Kleypas out this January. Go to her blog for the blurb. I couldn’t find a bigger picture! This will be book two in her Friday Harbor series. I have yet to read a Kleypas contemporary – but I swear I will read a Travises book soon. SOON!!! I love her historicals. Love Come to Me, first printed in 1988, will be rereleased at the end of August.
6. Cover Alert – Infatuation – A Little Harmless Military Romance coming from Melissa Schroeder this November. For more info go here.
5. I saw Harry Potter this weekend. I absolutely loved it. I’m a huge fan of the books, and the movie did them proud. Now, I know last week I was all about Neville and how he has turned into a dashing young man. But I’m so over that. Because – as I sat in the theater with my 3-D glasses on, all of a sudden, a tired, worn out Lucius Malfoy appeared on the screen. Now obviously, I’ve seen Lucius in the previous movies – but Smexy sat a little straighter in her chair. She took notice. Something about that defeated Jason Isaacs made Smexy do a little sexy smile to herself. I want to help him redeem himself with no clothes on– that’s all I’m sayin’. ;)
4. Speaking of Harry Potter – Alan Rickman. Oh le sigh how I love him. I found this audio of Alan Rickman reading Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130. Turn up the volume and try not to swoon on top of your keyboard. Go HERE. Shivers.
3. Sherlock Holmes 2 this December. If I could doodle winkies hearts on my computer screen I would. RDJ = sexy. Need I say more?
2. Anderson Cooper, my beloved Silver Fox is coming to daytime. He is THE NEW OPRAH. Hot damn. From his site:
….Anderson will offer a fresh perspective on issues and social trends affecting women’s lives. “Anderson” will be a daily destination for multiple generations of women, a place where viewers can gain insight, and connect with each other and the world around them.
He needs a best friend, right? Oprah had Gayle. He needs Smexy. I could give insight damn it. We could talk about moobs, and hot and hairy men. Maybe we could take a road trip together. Oh the possibilities. And if you don’t already think he is absolutely adorable, watch this:
1. My weekend – Date night with the hubs tonight :) I believe a wine bar is in my future. I’m also reading Bloodlands by Christine Cody. I’m intrigued with the blurb on this one. Will report back :) Happy Friday!!!
I am going on a date night tonight too!! Harry Potter for us. I am unbelievably excited!
And I can’t believe you haven’t read The Travises! Excellent books.
YAY! You will love it!!
And I know I will love Kleypas contemporaries if I just read one….
Swooooooon! Alan Rickman, his voice makes me want to have his babies ;)
I wonder if we listen to it enough if we will be spontaneously impregnated with his babies….prob not ;)
Hello sexy Infatuation man… I wish those were my hands on that sexy body!!!
Get in line missy!
I have a magnifying option build in my state of the art glasses, so I could see Lisa Kleypas’. Cover well enough ;) Have a ultra romantic and fun filled date with your hubby :D
Thanks Leontine!
*checks to make sure I have the right post before commenting*
I love me some ACoop! * I can’t stop laughing* lolol
LOLOL…you just have so much ACoop love you need to spread it around. I get it ;)
I’ve loved ACoop since ChannelOne!!! That makes me old, I think.
You should certainly read Kleypas’ Travises — so good. I didn’t like Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor as much (was really disappointed actually), so I’m not sure I’ll pick up the second book of the series.
Yeah – I think I will try her Travises series – Have heard great stuff about them.
Yay for the ACoop love!! :)
I have to agree with you on #5. Hot as Neville turned out, I’ve always had a bit of a thing for bad-boy Lucius.
Looking forward to Sherlock Holmes as well. Enjoy your night out.
Yes, the bad boy. :)
Love your top ten with Alan rickman and jason Issacs..swoon
tis a good combo! :)
Thank god for internet on my phone. Great top ten Mandi! So excited about A Cooper’s new show. Especially after seeing that pic of him tied to a chair with what can only be described as an impressive package completely visible through his pants. I’m looking at him in an entirely new light!
oooh..I forgot about that picture!! *swoon*
I wasen’t able to get into unholy ghosts the first time I tried it…..but I guess I should give it another try? …………
It’s definitely not for everyone – but I do think bk 2 and 3 are better than bk 1. I know some look for the heroine to change (ie – not be a druggie anymore) – that is not going to happen.
It’s hot in So. California as well, but thank the powers that be we are dealing with about 20% humidity here in the High Desert (the edge of the Mojave Desert). Also delighted to see some of the new books–love Mollie Harper and Melissa Schroeder. Enjoyed the info as well as your “take” on what’s happening. And I, too, love Harry Potter. I used to grab the books out of my granddaughter’s hands about 20 seconds after she finished reading them. Stay cool . . .
I should reread the Potter books…such a fun series!
I hear you about the heat! We aren’t far from B’more either and have been enduring the sweltering heat. Found a frog in our mini pool, and the girls keep putting cool water in so ‘Freddy’ wouldn’t boil alive…
I have always had a thing for Lucius. (Almost spells like luscious…hmm….) it his eyes that do it for me….
LOL.. Luscious Lucius – oh yes, I like the sound of that!
Holy crap Smexy, I agree, it is unbearable here in Baltimore!! Its so humid i can barely breathe! I’ve locked myself inside, enjoying cold beer, AC & some smokin’ hot books.
I love Harry Potter, the final movie was amazing.!!! Did anyone else cry like a baby at the end?? I feel like its the end of my childhood. Alan Rickmans performance was just awesome!!
You will love the Travises series, its fantastic. I enjoy Lisa’s books so much.
Have a great weekend…stay cool!
I got much more choked up at HP than I thought I would. They did such a great job with that movie. It’s the kind that I want to go watch over and over :)
You haven’t read Lisa Kleypas’s ‘Travis’ trilogy yet?!
YOU!?
Wow. You’ve really got to jump on that bandwagon, pronto!
:)
I know!!! zomg..I know
We have the heat, too… all the way up here. Its unbelievable! Hope your date night includes A/C! I saw the new Sherlock trailer at HP 7.2 (I saw on Sunday)… it looks fantastic! Can’t wait. Happy weekend!
I think I heard gasps when the Sherlock trailer came on ..LOL. So glad they are doing a second one!
It’s insanely hot here in Atlanta….and my car AC is out. Lucky me.
I saw the Molly Harper thing and I squealed. Love, love her voice and Jane is just…epic. And I love her werewolf series just as much. (I noticed a reference to the Jane series, too!)
I haven’t read her werewolf books yet but Tori loves them. Need to give them a try!
I thought I had read all of Lisa Kleypas’s older historicals, but the blurb for Love Come to Me doesn’t sound familiar at all. I’ll have to look for it in August when it releases.
Alan Rickman reading Shakespeare – big swoon!! Though my fav movie with him is Galaxy Quest. ;)
LOLOL..I love him in Galaxy Quest – I had forgotten about that movie!
Thanks for linking to the Kleypas cover/blurb. I love her contemporaries and was wondering when the next one was coming out. Although I wonder if she’s ever going to go back and write about that last Travis brother …
Looking forward to trying her contemps!
I wish you would send some of that heat my way Smexy! It is cool and very very wet here in Holland for the time of year, more like October. I just turned on the central heating system!
I love Lisa Kleypas, but really did not like her first contemporary book, and still haven’t read the other two, though they are on my shelves. I love that her oldest books are being republished, as they are nowhere to be found anymore.
How was your datenight?
I’m going to come live with you until it is winter here! ;)
Date night was fun! Thanks for asking! We had citrus marinated olives at the wine bar – so delicious.
You are welcome Mandi! And I do have enough books for the both for us! I am sorry but I don’t like olives, but I can introduce you to a lot of Dutch yummies.
Alan Rickman *happy sigh*
LOL I’d like to help Lucius redeem himself naked too ;)
Hope you and the hubby had a lovely date night!
I’m currently reading a Lisa Kleypas book, although it’s one the Hathaway books :) She writes so well! And as for her contemporary books? Blue-Eyed Devil is a keeper. It blew me away!
And Alan Rickman has a great voice :)