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This is the new thread as the other was sooo long and had lots of pages. Continuation of our wonderful discussions on Twilight Fanfiction, Books, and Life in general.  But mostly Twilight fanfics... and life stuff that will get me a NOT ALLOWED statement. 

Okay, here is a place to discuss what you are reading, ask for recommendations and complain about the writing.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion, so please play nice   

Because we know drypen's watching   

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Edward is a Doctor trained in England. Bella is a pharmacist. The writer is from Bangladesh according to her ffnet bio. All I know is she doesn't know much about the US school system or hospital system. But she warns us at the beginning and requests a lot of leeway. Her English is okay. Misuse of words. But forgivable.

The story has grabbed me. I don't know that I would rec it unless you like arranged marriage stories. I'm 18 chapters in and I want to bash their heads together because they don't seem to talk. Just misinterpret stuff. But Edward goes from sweet to jerk to sweet again pretty quickly.  And? There's like 54 chapters so it will be a while. 200K words.  Oh and they work at Seattle Grace. So I'm waiting for the Grey's Anatomy characters to show up. LOL!

Still making my way through silly romantic novels. I actually came across a series that I really liked, after reading dud after dud. The Stage Dive series by Kylie Scott is really cute! Rock star romance books, without a ton of drama.

These two were so bad omg.. I'm just now realizing the author of Tall, Tatted and Tempting co-signed At Any Price. That should have been a giant warning to avoid it.



Tall, Tatted and Tempting would have been cute if it didn't heavily feature a mary sue character. She was SO good at everything she did, a runaway guitar goddess. The plot twist was painfully predictable and the dude in this was deaf, but even though he hadn't spoken in over eight years his speaking voice was perfectly audible?? I won't stress the other unbelievable issue, but the girl in this novel was apparently able to learn sign language even though she head issues reading. So how you would know what words you're learning to sign is beyond me.

At Any Price had SUCH promise. Again, very predictable, but I continued reading because I liked the narrator. a popular gaming blogger auctioned off her virginity for a quarter million dollars. She was very witty so I didn't have really have any issues with the plot until she refused to be seen as a prostitute. She was so progressive up until the dude said she was essentially a prostitute. You're getting paid for a service. Move along. Plus it took them forever to finally get it on O M G. Dragged the hell out.

I gave up reading about that far in. It just seemed to drag on and most of it could be solved with a little communication.

Yes, I can see that

But most stories are full of miscommunication.  It seems to be a standard plot device. 

I stopped at chapter 26. I can understand miscommunication for a bit but at some point they have to talk and I don't want to read a story of 50 chapters of miscommunication/ no communication.

Ya, you got me there too. I am not even going to check this one out.

As I'm not a vampire you're fine, you can trust me. 
And anyway I'm gonna get you when you least expect it.   

I loved that line. Best part of the movie.....

Shoot! There were some funny bits in the films! Surrounded by all the  you tend to forget!

......okay second best part. Best part is the Italian scene with the topless Rob. Sigh. 

Oh god yeah hun - I always drool over his happy trail in that scene. 

 

JOKE!  I really need to stop trying to start a riot.

What's everybody reading?   I'm reading the Silver Linings Playbook.   Still haven't seen the movie and I'm really glad I waited to read the book.  It's really good so far!   I'm moving back to fanfiction after this one.

I've had to take a detour from the Outlander series to read the Lord John series of books (a secondary character in Outlander)  in order to move on from Breath (Book 6) as Echo (book7) makes reference to shit that comes from the LJ series I know nothing about! ...I am not a happy camper at the moment...

Been in FF land for so long now.. Took a break to read "Mockingjay"    I'm about halfway through..

I absolutely hated Mockingjay with every fiber of my being.  I kept wanting to throw the book across the room but didn't because I was afraid I'd break something.  If you are only halfway through it however I'll refrain from saying anything else to spoil it for you.   Currently reading Oh Jerusalem by Laurie King (her Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series).  Its the only Russell/Holmes series book that I haven't read.  Up to now I haven't read it because I didn't care about Holmes and Russell traipsing around the Holy Land.  However, her new book is coming out next year and since she keeps making references to this book, I caved.   Its exceeding my expectations.

I've heard that from quite a few people... SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... I am waiting for it to piss me off 

Is this Mockingjay from the Hunger Games series?...Its been a while since I read it but I don't remember it pissing me off.....*sigh* Wouldn't it be nice to have time to go back a re-read books having exhausted all your current stuff on TBR? At the rate my TBR is growing I'll be dead first 


So, I got a alert from mamasutra saying that she's been warned that her stories are going to be pulled so she's moving. Poor woman, it's not like she only written a handful, she's got 35 stories on her profile and she's been on there with said stories for years.    FFN are sh!tbags. Now I'm gonna have to remember my TWCS password.....

According to Iris, more than a few have been warned, so we'll see what happens going forward.

Do we know the names of anyone else?  I am behind in backing up since I've been getting my daughters together for college...I thought I would have time after the younger one moves in on Saturday, but who knows now.

I've heard Chance Lowell got warned too...

I jsut finished reading "Tides of Fate by SparklingTwilight.  I actually enjoyed the book, had some really good laughs ( ok i actually cracked up)   and my husband looked at me as I was possitively Crazy. 

I am trying to find a good Militaryward , Heroward or Uniformward to read and not having any luck.

I loved Tides of Fate and recently reread it.

This would definately be a book i woul Re-read.  Hmmm my smileys are not working

I read it first as a WIP and a couple of my suggestions for the family reunion made it in. A fun read with not a lot of angst.

I jsut finished reading "Tides of Fate by SparklingTwilight.  I actually enjoyed the book, had some really good laughs ( ok i actually cracked up)   and my husband looked at me as I was possitively Crazy. 

I am trying to find a good Militaryward , Heroward or Uniformward to read and not having any luck.

I just read Tip of the Spear by Robsmyyummy Cabanaboy. Great Militarywardstory!