#Summer fun tip #4: Torturing foreign drivers
It’s one of those sounded-good-at-the-time ideas. “Let’s drive across Spain and France during a heatwave. We’ll take the Classic even …
Category Archives: Barb’s Commentary
#Vacation part 3: What we have here is a failure to communicate
The sun was still high in the sky and heat was rising in visible waves from every surface. The two returned veterinarians and I stared at the bags of rapidly warming raw chicken, and everyone looked nervous.
Why writing fiction really matters
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
“Insert!” He extended his foot… “You sound like a Borg.” … and wriggled his toes into…
#Vacation part 2: How to meet the locals.
There are so many articles out there about how to meet people while travelling. Seventeen says hit the beach or gym. …
You can take the girl out of the South, but… #BookReview of #gothic #fantasy ATONEMENT, TENNESSEE
She said she was glad I wasn’t a ‘real’ Yankee (I was), gave me her recipes for red beans and rice (yum) and homemade mayonnaise (WTF?), taught me how to smock (!) and told me to watch out for the Faculty Wives Club at the University (I did).
How to take a grownup summer holiday. Or not…
I can stay anywhere. Okay…anywhere that has wifi. And an en suite because I won’t put on shoes to use the bathroom. And a washing machine, dishwasher, fridge-freezer, and microwave. A patio with a grill. Privacy. Good restaurants, access to museums and culture, outdoor recreation, water, mountains, good transportation, and historical sites. And an electric kettle.
Dark #UrbanFantasy UNHINGED by Shelley Pickens #RBRT #Bookreview
“Doctor, this woman’s kidneys are missing.” We made it through various bits of eerie mayhem—including the alien birth (tastefully shown in silhouette behind a scrim, but I still recognized my daughter as the ‘mother’)—by not meeting the eyes of any other parents.
The Power of That Glittery Hoo-ha Trope. #BookReview of THE MARRIAGE MERGER by Sandy Curtis
But once her glittery hoo-ha gets the job done, he realizes that he will never again have satisfying sex with any other woman.
Urban Fantasy vs Horror~LOSING IT by Elizabeth Armstrong #RBRT #Bookreview
In most horror, it’s enough that the main characters survive Daddy coming for them with an axe. But in urban fantasy, they catch the ghost who drove Daddy crazy and charge him with income tax evasion, bring hot dish to the ghost’s mama, and maybe end up married to the ghost’s sister.
Everything but the Glittery Hoo-ha~#BookReview: Plundering the Romance Novel, #parody by Ionia Martin
So Candy fell deeply in love with the monkey and changed the ending to him eating all the planes and crushing all the military vehicles, after explaining to him that she couldn’t ever be with him because inter-species relationships were not allowed on Amazon.
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