randomosity of the day
Oct. 20th, 2007 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmoore1. My nephew is the world's messiest eater. End of discussion. Went to lunch with Myles, Jen and Jackson, and the lighting wasn't great...we knew he'd gotten some food on himself, but when we got outside, the boy was abolutely CAKED in food. Also? He only liked me today when the waist length ponytail was in grabbing distance. He didn't like me a lot today...
2. This is my new favorite icon. It is a fairly silly icon and one I shall likely lose interest in before long, but it suits my more recent entertainment wants. Plus, it has Kyo AND Manji, and I feel that combination is hard to top. As long as they aren't fighting. I feel there wouldn't be a Japan left if that ever happened. (Thoughkingcrankycatseems to be appalled that I would even think of comparing Kyo to Manji...)
3. In Rondo, it was recently revealed that the hero is Korean(actually, that may have been revealed in the first episode, but I was too busy being entertained by the melodrama and action to notice) but was raised in Japan. The heroine, also Korean, apparently has no birth records, and there's no record of her at all before she was several years old. I had SO better not have found myself watching a "I'm in love with my long lost sibling drama." I have very, very carefully avoided both those and death in the snow kdramas...
4. I have placed 2 book orders to Amazon this week. One earlier this week of things I knew the booksale wouldn't have, the other today after not find the books at the sale. A hardcover held up the first order, and now they're apparently all arriving the same day. In three boxes. Because now, even though the whole order is supposed to arrive on Wednesday, the hardcover is being shipped separately...
5. I went back to the booksale today and got a couple of "grab bag" boxes. One box had several books by Bertrice Small. Small writes "romance novels" where the heroine, always the most beautiful and sensuous woman alive, goes through several lovers, all amazingly skilled(even the evil ones) and sometimes more than one at a time(per sex scene.) I have read several for pure "WTF?" factor over the years, and they have all been amazingly bad and prosy. One of these books has this lovely description: "A fiery celtic beauty, Reganis abducted to exotic lands and delivered to Karim al Malina, master of the erotic arts, who will mold her into a Love Slave [their caps, not mine] fir for a Moorish king[9 out of 10 of her heroines end up this way, trust me]. Under Karim's tutelage, Regan-now called Zaynab, "the beautiful one"-is swept into uncharted realms of ecstasy. But the pair break the first ruler of teacher and pupil when they fall in love. Now, as Zaynab fulfills her destiny as the adored prize of the Caliph of Cordoba, she vows that somehow, she will be reunited with Karim, her only love..." Ok, seriously, sweetie, the man's profesion is to turn nice abducted girls into first class prostitutes...you aren't the first one he's "swept into uncharted realms of ecstasy." I am SO happy these books now get called "Erotica" instead. Except hers, which, as far as I know, are still published as romance. Did I mention the bulk of that is how most of her books go?
ETA:nihongofrancaisassures me that Rondo is not a "in love with my long lost sibling" drama despite red herrings. I am relieved. I'd hate to have my record accidentally be broken.
2. This is my new favorite icon. It is a fairly silly icon and one I shall likely lose interest in before long, but it suits my more recent entertainment wants. Plus, it has Kyo AND Manji, and I feel that combination is hard to top. As long as they aren't fighting. I feel there wouldn't be a Japan left if that ever happened. (Though
kingcrankycatseems to be appalled that I would even think of comparing Kyo to Manji...)3. In Rondo, it was recently revealed that the hero is Korean(actually, that may have been revealed in the first episode, but I was too busy being entertained by the melodrama and action to notice) but was raised in Japan. The heroine, also Korean, apparently has no birth records, and there's no record of her at all before she was several years old. I had SO better not have found myself watching a "I'm in love with my long lost sibling drama." I have very, very carefully avoided both those and death in the snow kdramas...
4. I have placed 2 book orders to Amazon this week. One earlier this week of things I knew the booksale wouldn't have, the other today after not find the books at the sale. A hardcover held up the first order, and now they're apparently all arriving the same day. In three boxes. Because now, even though the whole order is supposed to arrive on Wednesday, the hardcover is being shipped separately...
5. I went back to the booksale today and got a couple of "grab bag" boxes. One box had several books by Bertrice Small. Small writes "romance novels" where the heroine, always the most beautiful and sensuous woman alive, goes through several lovers, all amazingly skilled(even the evil ones) and sometimes more than one at a time(per sex scene.) I have read several for pure "WTF?" factor over the years, and they have all been amazingly bad and prosy. One of these books has this lovely description: "A fiery celtic beauty, Reganis abducted to exotic lands and delivered to Karim al Malina, master of the erotic arts, who will mold her into a Love Slave [their caps, not mine] fir for a Moorish king[9 out of 10 of her heroines end up this way, trust me]. Under Karim's tutelage, Regan-now called Zaynab, "the beautiful one"-is swept into uncharted realms of ecstasy. But the pair break the first ruler of teacher and pupil when they fall in love. Now, as Zaynab fulfills her destiny as the adored prize of the Caliph of Cordoba, she vows that somehow, she will be reunited with Karim, her only love..." Ok, seriously, sweetie, the man's profesion is to turn nice abducted girls into first class prostitutes...you aren't the first one he's "swept into uncharted realms of ecstasy." I am SO happy these books now get called "Erotica" instead. Except hers, which, as far as I know, are still published as romance. Did I mention the bulk of that is how most of her books go?
ETA:
nihongofrancaisassures me that Rondo is not a "in love with my long lost sibling" drama despite red herrings. I am relieved. I'd hate to have my record accidentally be broken.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2007-10-21 05:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-21 05:19 am (UTC)*continues watching*
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Date: 2007-10-21 05:28 am (UTC)You know, it's funny because a second before I read this I said to myself, "They're probably related."
WHAT DOES THIS TELL US ABOUT ASIAN DORAMAS?...anyone?
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Date: 2007-10-21 05:29 am (UTC)