tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79309474263671658522024-03-14T00:24:09.246-04:00KEEPER SHELFVisual Art, Romance Reviews and MoreLACI HESShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458761814775056159noreply@blogger.comBlogger506125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930947426367165852.post-70711733142365499972012-11-16T08:53:00.000-05:002012-11-16T09:07:35.876-05:00Saying Goodbye...<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">As you may <span style="font-size: large;">know, </span></span>15 months<span style="font-size: large;"> a<span style="font-size: large;">go</span></span>, I<span style="font-size: large;"> started <span style="font-size: large;">in a profession</span></span> I love<span style="font-size: large;">. Tattooing is amazing<span style="font-size: large;">, <span style="font-size: large;">and I feel I'm doing what I was meant to do. However, it </span></span></span>takes up most of my time. I have less time to read, and even less time to write about the novels I do make it through. I still love the Romance genre, but I find myself less and less inclined to search out new authors or highly reviewed books. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I am proud that I kept up with this blog for the length of time I did, but now I know I need to focus on art and tattooing. Thanks for looking and reading! If you like to look at pretty things, art </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>and tattoos, I can still be found on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tctattooing">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://pinterest.com/hessterprynne/">Pinterest</a> <span style="font-size: large;">and occasionally <a href="http://keepershelf.polyvore.com/">Polyvor<span style="font-size: large;">e.</span></a></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>All the best, Laci Hess </i></span></div>
LACI HESShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458761814775056159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930947426367165852.post-2757921434734930362012-10-18T03:01:00.001-04:002012-10-18T03:01:06.165-04:00Parks & Rec<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><div style='width:600px;margin:0 auto'><div style='position:relative;'><a href='http://www.polyvore.com/parks_rec/set?.embedder=2555976&.svc=blogger&id=61295808' target='_blank'><img force='1' border='0' height='324' title='Parks & Rec' src='http://cfc.polyvoreimg.com/cgi/img-set/.sig/FhlsVTNHPPJmdT6Lw7qVg/cid/61295808/id/yFq7dvTYQQCjWnhNKOmdsw/size/c600x324.jpg' alt='Parks & Rec' width='600'/></a></div></div><br/><div style='text-align:center'><small><a href='http://www.polyvore.com/parks_rec/set?.embedder=2555976&.svc=blogger&id=61295808' target='_blank'>Parks & Rec</a> by <a href='http://keepershelf.polyvore.com/?.embedder=2555976&.svc=blogger' target='_blank'>keepershelf</a> featuring <a href='http://www.polyvore.com/necklaces/shop?category_id=62' target='_blank'>necklaces</a></small></div><div style='width:600px;margin:0 auto'><small><div style='padding-top:16px'><p style='clear:both;margin:0em;padding:0px'><a href='http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/thing.outbound?.embedder=2555976&.svc=blogger&id=67282423' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><img force='1' height='50' style='border:1px solid #cccccc;margin:0 8px 8px 0;padding:2px;background-color:#ffffff;' src='http://ak1.polyvoreimg.com/cgi/img-thing/size/s/tid/67282423.jpg' hspace='4' align='left' width='50'/></a><div style='margin-bottom:8px;text-align:left;'><a href='http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/thing.outbound?.embedder=2555976&.svc=blogger&id=67282423' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Necklace</a><br/>tinyhandsonline.com<br/><br style='display:none'/></div></p><p style='clear:both;margin:0em;padding:0px'><a href='http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/thing.outbound?.embedder=2555976&.svc=blogger&id=66420803' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><img force='1' height='50' style='border:1px solid #cccccc;margin:0 8px 8px 0;padding:2px;background-color:#ffffff;' src='http://ak2.polyvoreimg.com/cgi/img-thing/size/s/tid/66420803.jpg' hspace='4' align='left' width='50'/></a><div style='margin-bottom:8px;text-align:left;'><a href='http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/thing.outbound?.embedder=2555976&.svc=blogger&id=66420803' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Parks and Recreation Li'l Sebastian Plush</a><br/>nbcuniversalstore.com<br/><br style='display:none'/></div></p></div></small></div></div>LACI HESShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458761814775056159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930947426367165852.post-90794141306211829282012-10-01T18:10:00.003-04:002012-10-01T18:10:31.646-04:00<br />
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A really fun read, great H/H - fun story - bit too many characters popping up from past books.<br />
<br />LACI HESShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458761814775056159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930947426367165852.post-25843986799272205842012-10-01T17:41:00.000-04:002012-10-01T17:41:08.945-04:00Kristan Higgins - "Somebody to Love" - 2012<br />
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Kristan Higgins is hit or miss for me, I hated "Catch of the Day" and loved "The Next Best Thing" - "Somebody to Love" includes guest appearances by characters in each. It's a sequel of sorts, and I was really enjoyed it, even if it lost some steam towards the end.<br />
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HESShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458761814775056159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930947426367165852.post-5921867165784329902012-07-30T11:04:00.000-04:002012-07-30T11:04:38.876-04:00"The Bargain (The Would-Be Widow) - Mary Jo Putney - 1999 (1988)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i43.tower.com/images/mm117201710/bargain-mary-jo-putney-paperback-cover-art.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://i43.tower.com/images/mm117201710/bargain-mary-jo-putney-paperback-cover-art.jpg" width="247" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm a big fan of MJP, she's one of the pillars of the romance genre, and I'm always excited to find an older book I haven't read. "The Bargain" is actually a re-issue of a Regency published a decade before, and introduces and references some beloved characters from other novels. This book introduces the prematurely white-haired Scottish surgeon, Ian Kinlock who pops up in several other romances, and I loved seeing his own romance unfold. In fact, for me this secondary romance overshadowed the primary one. The premise is original, Lady Jocelyn must marry before she turns 25 or lose her inheritance, so she marries a dying soldier who gives his name in return for Lady Jocelyn providing an annuity for his only sister. However in grand MJP fashion (see, "One Perfect Rose) he is not dying, just a missed piece of shrapnel and a opium addiction... My issue with "The Bargain" is not with the hero, David Lancaster, he's wonderful, but with the heroine Lady Jocelyn. She reads as cold, even when she's being kind and generous, issues stemming from scandalous parents and an early supposed rejection, for much of the novel she is preoccupied with the Duke of Candover (Rafe, hero of Petals in the Storm, he's in the Archangel series) and it really takes away from David who is more deserving of her attention and loving her the whole time... Luckily she gets her act together, and a B rated MJP is still better than most authors on a good day... </div>LACI HESShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458761814775056159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930947426367165852.post-89828896823860384122012-07-27T22:51:00.000-04:002012-07-27T22:51:14.172-04:00"Only Yours" - Susan Mallery - 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://bookmoving.com/book/covers/only-susan-mallery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://bookmoving.com/book/covers/only-susan-mallery.jpg" width="252" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">This book succeeds where 'Woodrose Mountain" failed, and aside from the constant secondary characters popping up from previous books, it was a nice small town romance with a tortured hero, and I always love that...</div>LACI HESShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458761814775056159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930947426367165852.post-351493869648949072012-07-26T00:31:00.000-04:002012-07-26T00:31:26.992-04:00"As an Earl Desires" - Lorraine Heath - 2005<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186089770l/1629396.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186089770l/1629396.jpg" width="247" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I thought maybe I should list 10 things I love about this book, but there is only one: </div><div style="text-align: center;">the hero Sebastian. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">1) The title</div><div style="text-align: center;">2) The cutesy employment of the title in this book, in the form top ten lists that take you right out of the story. This is not High Fidelity, it doesn't need to be. </div><div style="text-align: center;">3) The villian. He's super gross.</div><div style="text-align: center;">4) The heroine's self-absorbed distant and manipulative Grandmother, she's gross, too.</div><div style="text-align: center;">5) The way the H/H deal with their respective families.</div><div style="text-align: center;">6) How Sebastian copes with PTSD. </div><div style="text-align: center;">7) How quickly the H/H fall in love.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Things I LIKE, but did not love, about this book:</div><div style="text-align: center;">The heroine, she's smart and good-hearted, but not quite up to scratch for a hero like Sebastian. She's not an "ugly duckling" she's just country bred, and a little too naive for such an experienced hero. Obviously thousands of novels have been written about a rake and his reformer, some of which are fantastic, this one just wasn't quite right. I hate when the hero seems to be convincing himself he's in love, or it happens so suddenly, I just don't buy it. In fact, Sebastian goes from not wanting to marry Annabel to proposing in a single scene...Annabel calls him out on this, too - but why not just write their story differently? I really liked Annabel's cousin Louisa, if she doesn't already have her own book, she should. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">This is just one of those books that wasn't awful, it was just a little bit off. </div>LACI HESShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458761814775056159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930947426367165852.post-23293187331323269812012-07-16T22:06:00.000-04:002012-07-16T22:06:24.409-04:00"What Happens in London" - Julia Quinn - 2009<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://bfgb.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/london.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://bfgb.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/london.jpg" width="247" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Julia Quinn used to be a favorite of mine, and it was nice to spend an afternoon remembering why. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>LACI HESShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458761814775056159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930947426367165852.post-60198839695402608982012-07-16T21:58:00.000-04:002012-07-16T21:58:54.935-04:00Vintage shoot at Greenhouse Park...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nzuJFtPKRE4/UATGq2POkmI/AAAAAAAABDI/AQ7_dXrbHjo/s1600/11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nzuJFtPKRE4/UATGq2POkmI/AAAAAAAABDI/AQ7_dXrbHjo/s400/11.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>LACI HESShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458761814775056159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930947426367165852.post-61827315090063714102012-07-16T21:55:00.000-04:002012-07-16T21:55:39.134-04:00"Woodrose Mountain" - Raeanne Thayne - 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1326328067l/12048347.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1326328067l/12048347.jpg" width="252" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This book thinks beading can save the soul, and doesn't shut up about it. </div>LACI HESShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458761814775056159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930947426367165852.post-6920709967261835922012-07-08T06:48:00.001-04:002012-07-16T21:47:22.294-04:00Hitting the comfort reads so hard this week.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uB-0D-gV8mY/SlPakr93N9I/AAAAAAAAWdw/cdhfKks9fVQ/s400/elvis" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="313" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uB-0D-gV8mY/SlPakr93N9I/AAAAAAAAWdw/cdhfKks9fVQ/s320/elvis" width="320" /></a></div><a href="http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/3587ede6f93cd51dbb30145065cab063/131869.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/3587ede6f93cd51dbb30145065cab063/131869.jpg" /></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">...and so much lovely tattoo inspiration!</span></div>LACI HESShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458761814775056159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930947426367165852.post-86830382188871349502012-07-08T06:27:00.000-04:002012-07-08T06:27:47.512-04:00"Just One Taste" - Louisa Edwards - 2010<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_z0xY_GVmQcM/TIb62ceYUNI/AAAAAAAACIc/KdxtAvFrqQs/s320/LE%20trio%20prize%202010%5B1%5D" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_z0xY_GVmQcM/TIb62ceYUNI/AAAAAAAACIc/KdxtAvFrqQs/s400/LE%20trio%20prize%202010%5B1%5D" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I very much enjoy the world Louisa Edwards has created, but I did not love this book. </div>LACI HESShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458761814775056159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930947426367165852.post-56046523248831944642012-06-26T01:07:00.001-04:002012-06-26T01:07:57.283-04:00Nurse Joan<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><div style='width:600px;margin:0 auto'><div style='position:relative;'><a href='http://www.polyvore.com/nurse_joan/set?.embedder=2555976&.svc=blogger&id=51766843'><img force='1' border='0' height='347' title='Nurse Joan' src='http://cfc.polyvoreimg.com/cgi/img-set/.sig/dIs4t9ZlIVELLnZgf7cZg/cid/51766843/id/yfH9duhKQ5qD_XECWmUqcw/size/c600x347.jpg' alt='Nurse Joan' width='600'/></a></div></div><br/><div style='text-align:center'><small><a href='http://www.polyvore.com/nurse_joan/set?.embedder=2555976&.svc=blogger&id=51766843'>Nurse Joan</a> by <a href='http://keepershelf.polyvore.com/?.embedder=2555976&.svc=blogger'>keepershelf</a> featuring <a href='http://www.polyvore.com/chain_jewelry/shop?query=chain+jewelry'>chain jewelry</a></small></div><div style='width:600px;margin:0 auto'><small><div style='padding-top:16px'><p style='clear:both;margin:0em;padding:0px'><a href='http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/thing.outbound?.embedder=2555976&.svc=blogger&id=56446315' rel='nofollow'><img force='1' height='50' style='border:1px solid #cccccc;margin:0 8px 8px 0;padding:2px;background-color:#ffffff;' src='http://ak1.polyvoreimg.com/cgi/img-thing/size/s/tid/56446315.jpg' hspace='4' align='left' width='50'/></a><div style='margin-bottom:8px;text-align:left;'><a href='http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/thing.outbound?.embedder=2555976&.svc=blogger&id=56446315' rel='nofollow'>Chain jewelry</a><br/>$30 - etsy.com<br/><br style='display:none'/></div></p><p style='clear:both;margin:0em;padding:0px'><a href='http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/thing.outbound?.embedder=2555976&.svc=blogger&id=24471516' rel='nofollow'><img force='1' height='50' style='border:1px solid #cccccc;margin:0 8px 8px 0;padding:2px;background-color:#ffffff;' src='http://ak1.polyvoreimg.com/cgi/img-thing/size/s/tid/24471516.jpg' hspace='4' align='left' width='50'/></a><div style='margin-bottom:8px;text-align:left;'><a href='http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/thing.outbound?.embedder=2555976&.svc=blogger&id=24471516' rel='nofollow'>Mad Men - The Illustrated World</a><br/>$1.99 - fredflare.com<br/><br style='display:none'/></div></p><p style='clear:both;margin:0em;padding:0px'><a href='http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/thing.outbound?.embedder=2555976&.svc=blogger&id=9697112' rel='nofollow'><img force='1' height='50' style='border:1px solid #cccccc;margin:0 8px 8px 0;padding:2px;background-color:#ffffff;' src='http://ak2.polyvoreimg.com/cgi/img-thing/size/s/tid/9697112.jpg' hspace='4' align='left' width='50'/></a><div style='margin-bottom:8px;text-align:left;'><a href='http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/thing.outbound?.embedder=2555976&.svc=blogger&id=9697112' rel='nofollow'>Daisy Bucket: Dashed Circle - Clear Stamp 1pc : 1-5/8" diameter</a><br/>$3 - scrapbookdoodle.com<br/><br style='display:none'/></div></p></div></small></div></div>LACI HESShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458761814775056159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930947426367165852.post-40689068681437265562012-06-20T01:40:00.001-04:002012-06-20T01:40:09.086-04:00Time Management.I need it. LACI HESShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458761814775056159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930947426367165852.post-90758743750317894852012-06-18T12:17:00.000-04:002012-06-18T12:17:42.563-04:00"High Plains Bride" - Jenna Kernan - 2007<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178473857l/797875.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178473857l/797875.jpg" width="252" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've had this book in my TBR pile for years. It was on my looking for list, and I was excited when I found it, but never wanted to read it... </div>LACI HESShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458761814775056159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930947426367165852.post-4346484110954753272012-06-13T02:01:00.000-04:002012-06-13T02:01:48.092-04:00"A Stockingful of Joy" - Anthology - 2005<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/293718-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/293718-M.jpg" width="241" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Christmas in June, I know. I feel it must happen every year, but I can't explain it. I like anthologies when my attention span is lagging - or I'm actually busy (the case more and more, I'm happy to say...)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For the sake of saving time, I did not finish Susan King's Highland love story - so hard for me to get into medievals... I read Mary Jo Putney's story first, but found it ho hum. Thank goodness for Justine Dare's Western story - yes, it was pretty cliche - but I did not care one bit. I very much enjoyed Jill Barnett's story, which featured not only an unusual setting (Gangs of New York era NYC) but a heroine who is, gasp 40! That's a really big deal in a genre of 18-year-olds and spinsters at the ripe old age of 24. I'll be on the lookout for more books from Justine Dare and Jill Barnett - and see how they fair when they don't have to invoke the Christmas spirits. </div>LACI HESShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458761814775056159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930947426367165852.post-37454061182906234672012-05-30T02:11:00.000-04:002012-05-30T02:11:01.204-04:00"Slightly Dangerous" - Mary Balogh - 2004<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ia600804.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/25/items/olcovers24/olcovers24-L.zip&file=240159-L.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://ia600804.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/25/items/olcovers24/olcovers24-L.zip&file=240159-L.jpg" width="266" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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