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I’ve been tagged by Earthpal to write five things that I’m obsesses about, so here goes.
1. I’m obsessed with my bed, I had better explain this. I need to have my blankets neat, I can’t stand sleeping in twisted sheets. I love nothing more than a neat, tucked in bed.
2. Chewing gum with you mouth shut. It takes such refrain to stop myself going up to some people and clapping their mouths shut. It makes people look so dumb like cows standing out in the paddock chewing their cud (no offence to the cows, I’m sure they are solving the worlds biggest problems with there blank stares).
3. I have an obsession with list making. I need to plan ahead and have everything worked out. I don’t like the thought of important events, being screwed up because I didn’t plan for the unexpected pops up.
4. The order of my cutlery draw and dishes. I like it to go bowls on the left then bread and butter plates and then dinner plates. Cutlery should go spoons, forks and then knives. It bugs me no end when my boyfriend does the dishes and just puts them away in any order or and space he can see.
5. This last one isn’t very good because I could think of any more but I’m obsessed with checking my email. I have messenger so everytime I get and email it makes a little noise. I can’t hold out for very long before I have to check it. It is generally spam which annoys me no end.
Well there you have it my obsessions, I wouldn’t say they are very exciting or very neurotic. Some I think I even developed from my mum (always got in trouble for not putting things a way in the proper place and she always makes lists), maybe I will pass them on.
Now I tag Mr Zhisou and Anthony
Good Luck.
I decide I would break up my literary quest with a romance novel. Not the trashy Mills and Boone, Fabio shirtless on the cover sort but the more teenage love struck kind. I sometime indulge in this kind novel where the romance is sweet, generally predictable and within a day you have finished the whole book, still wanting more. The kind where once you have put it down a small sigh escapes you lips and you wonder why can’t relationships and men be like they are in the book.
I read/devoured this book in one day. I could not put it down; the story was easy to read, cute and satisfying for a cold day.
Millie Barnes has just finished her medical residency and moved back to her childhood home of Cape Cod. Not only does she move back to partner the local doctors practice and see her family but to snag the man of her dreams Joe Carpenter the carpenter. Millie has been in love with Joe since the age of fourteen when they attended the local high school. After years of research and reconnaissance missions (similar to stalking, the good kind) Millie is adamant that she will capture Joe’s attention, heart and make him hers forever. However could the local cop with lots of compilations throw a spanner in the works?
As I stated this book was an enjoyable way to waste an afternoon. There is no literary breakthrough here and I doubt it will win any awards. However, this is not the reason why you curl up with these books. You read these stories to escape your life and live in the shoes of someone else for a little while. It is almost like reading 379 pages of female adolescent daydreams.
If you like the quick easy to read stories give this ago, if you want something more challenging in the romance department, go for an Austen novel.
