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OMG. I have been down with this stupid cold for a good week now, after trying to sleep it off Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday, and I am still tired and stuffed up and my throat hurts so much sometimes that I dread swallowing. I just want to run around flapping my hands at it telling it to just let me get better kthxbai. Or at least let me breathe unhindered?

In other news, I wasted the entire weekend by sleeping through most of it and reading trashy books when I wasn't sleeping.

Jewel, Carolyn - historical romances

So far, two hits, two misses, and one in the middle. Jewel so far tends to focus on the male POV and on male pleasure during sex, which is relatively different. As such, sometimes it has the man losing control during sex, but not always, and the focus on male pleasure while sometimes outright ignoring female pleasure takes away from why I like romances in the first place. Still, her later historicals focus on people who are not conventionally pretty and/or handsome, and there's a lot of character-driven romance without many Big Misunderstandings or other plot devices.

Alas, the one and half paranormals I've read by Jewel kind of suck.

( Indiscreet )

( Lord Ruin )

( Scandal )

( The Spare )

( Stolen Love )

Worth reading: Scandal (probably best of the bunch), Indiscreet if you can stand the evil pashas and the Orientalism, Lord Ruin if you can get past the dubcon set up.

Yagi Norihiro - Claymore, vol. 16-17

Several people reading this is making me want to catch up too!

I figure the cut-tag text is not spoilery if you are reading shounen...

( Spoilers face even bigger bads! )