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FINALLY THE END.......2007-10-09
I MUST SAY THAT BY TIME I GOT TO THIS BOOK. I WAS SO SICK OF READING ABOUT THIS FAMILY. DARIUS IS WHO I WAS SICK OF. I DIDNT LIKE THAT MARY B MORRISON DIDNT GIVE HIS CHARACTER SOME GROWTH. I KNOW HE WAS YOUNG. BUT MAN CAN A GUY BE A IDIOT FOR THIS LONG? YEA I KNOW THEY CAN BUT STILL. OTHER WISE I ENJOYED THE 5 BOOK SERIES OF THIS FAMILY. BUT I MUST BE HONEST IM GLAD ITS OVER. TO MUCH DRAMA. BUT STILL WORTH THE READ.
enjoy.......2007-09-21
(first off, excuse tha way i write, i write how i speak, [young reader]) :) ok, well..i really enjoy mary b's work, and this novel is addicting, because there's drama, and we all know that er'body enjoys readin bout somebody else's drama. :) i mean, it has like a "soap opera" feel almost, a black soap!! just cuz ur taken back n forth thru tha book. but, i would reccomend this novel to anyone who wants to read it, cuz theres a chic in this book thas CRAZY and this guy's mother is nuts too!! so, i say read it, with tha rest of tha line. (this one is tha last episode of this story line)
Crazy Ashlee.......2007-09-16
This was a good book, I will not spoiled it for anyone, but I have to say Ashlee and Darius is something else. Fancy need to get herself a better man and leave Darius alone. Ashlee need to be locked away in a crazy house.
gale's review.......2007-08-04
THIS WAS AS GOOD AS I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE,AND CAN NOT WAIT UNTIL BOOK SEVEN COMES OUT,DARIUS WILL HOPEFULLY GROW UP AN START TO BE THE MAN THAT HIS MOTHER TRIED TO RAISE.FANCY I HOPE SHE GETS THE HELP THAT SHE NEEDS TO BECOME A GOOD WIFE AND MOTHER.
LOVE HER BOOKS.......2007-06-27
THIS BOOK IS OFF THE HOOK LOVE HER BOOKS I HAVE READ ALL HER BOOKS KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
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- Mr. Hatch
- The Best Author
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Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch (Stories to Go!)
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Mr. Hatch leads a lonely life until one Valentine's Day when the postman delivers a huge, heart-shaped box of candy with a card reading "Somebody loves you." Knowing he has a secret admirer gives Mr. Hatch a bright new perspective on life -- until it turns out there's been a terrible mistake. But Mr. Hatch's new friends rally to show him that a lot of somebodies love Mr. Hatch.
Customer Reviews:
Mr. Hatch.......2007-03-09
The book is wonderful. I used it in a classroom lesson about Valentine's Day. It has a lot of good lessons on feelings and emotions too.
The Best Author.......2007-01-18
All 4 of my grandchildren, especially the 4 yr olds, loved the story and illustrations kept their attention. Eileen is the best author for children, she really relates to what they appreciate.
Heartwarming!.......2006-10-25
This beautiful book is perfect for young and old! Although not religious it would be a great asset to any church library for Sunday school or even adult collections. I fell in love with this book!
Best Valentine Story Ever.......2006-02-22
This book has such a wonderful message. Everytime I read it to my first graders I cry. It is what love is supposed to be about! Thank you Eileen Spinelli for this fantastic story.
Great story for children of ALL ages.......2005-02-15
I am 41 years old & just heard this story Sunday in church. I have told everyone I know about it & will never forget it.
Everyone has the potential to love & be loved.
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- Is this a NOVEL or a "How To" Manual?
- Morrison is the BEST....
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Somebody's Gotta Be On Top
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So says Darius Jones. At twenty-two, he's grown…but he hasn't necessarily grown up. He still thinks the opposite sex exists purely for his satisfaction. Not that he doesn't know how to pleasure a sister; he just doesn't want them telling him the way it's going to be. But trying to be on top all the time only gets him into trouble with the women in his life—including Fancy Taylor. With a regal bearing and skin like brown sugar, Fancy's definitely intriguing. Darius is sure he'd enjoy sampling what the lady has to offer, but that's all. Fancy's past precludes her from being serious relationship material. Yet fate has a way of stepping in and putting the wrong people on the right path…
Caught between pride and the call of his own untrusting heart, Darius has a lot to learn: about life, women, and what it takes to find and nurture real love. And if he's not careful, he might just end up on the bottom of everything….
Customer Reviews:
Is this a NOVEL or a "How To" Manual?.......2007-06-26
With all the business lingo and presentations I had to take in, I wasn't sure if I'd picked up a work of fiction or a manual to running and owning your own company. Don't get me wrong, It was nice to have seen someone do a bit of research on the novel's topic, however... I NEVER WANT to hear the words, PR, HR, accounts billable, contract, presentation, clause, lawyer, or multi-million EVER AGAIN! I didn't major in business, so I obviously don't have an interest in the subject. For the better half of the book you are forced to delve into the complicating and downright mind-boggling subject of corporate management. Relationships based and break on it. Mothers and Sons divided by it. Myself and readers alike continually bored by it. Although it could have been a wonderful novel... at most times it's kind of confusing. The main caracter is sleeping with so many women, that one minute he will be in bed with Ciara, the next page there are graphic accounts of sex with Kim. If it's not that it's Jada and her many baby's fathers? I'm not sure, but it seems like everyone in the novel is related by marriage... I think... I dunno. But if your the average joe, i wouldn't nessicarily reccomend as a easy read. However if you like a challenge or something different, it is worth reading at some point... Just don't forget to pick up "Business for Dummies" while your online.
Final: Buy (only if business piques your interest)
Morrison is the BEST...........2007-05-13
....I've read all of her books and I must say she uses some type of invisable glue in her books cause they will have you stuck in them. She knows just how much spice to throw in to keep you but not enough to make it tacky. READ ALL HER BOOKS....
Somebody's Gotta Be On Top, But Who?.......2007-01-12
This isn't necessarily a page turner, but it's definitely an enjoyable read. Mary Morrison is an excellent writer with imagination, depth, and a flare for really building her characters and her storyline. Even though this isn't my favorite book by this awesome writer, it's solid and well-worth reading.
Darius Jones is quite a character with a super ego. His total disregard for women makes it hard to believe that he could ever truly love a woman. His selfish, boastful nature gets him into some dangerous waters and will test the saying, "what doesn't kill you will only make you stronger."
I'm looking forward to reading the next book and finding out more juicy details about Kevin, Ashlee, Ciara, and Jada. I am also interested in finding out if Darius is going to change or remain the same self-serving prick that we've come to know and love/hate.
Loving it.......2006-07-11
This book have me wanting to read the other books regarding the charctors in this series!
Can't wait for book 5 !.......2006-06-14
My hat's off to the author, this was an awesome book. I loved the first sequel books before this one as well, but she really topped herself with this one. I couldn't put it down. Darius was just a plain mess. Typical man attitude ! Darius Jones needs to learn how to love. I hope he finds this but not with Fancy. They are two of kind but nothing good would come out of their relationship...Loved her sexual appetite in the story line. I am soooo ready for the next ! Enjoy the book, you will love it too.
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Grace Slick looks back on a lifetime of sex, drugs and rock & roll in Somebody to Love?, a wisecracking memoir featuring cameos by some mighty famous faces. As the lead singer of Jefferson Airplane (later Jefferson Starship and, still later, Starship), Slick had a ringside seat for some of the decade's most notorious high jinks--Haight-Ashbury, Woodstock, the sexual revolution, and of course, '60s drug culture. Put it this way: if the dormouse said feed your head, Slick did--again and again and again. Which leads to this memoir's principal shortcoming: it's hard to document the most important decade of your life if you can't remember it. Still, even if she's a little fuzzy on some of the details, the anecdotes alone are worth the price of admission, from the time Slick and Abbie Hoffman plotted to dose Richard Nixon to her surreal sexual encounter with a nearly autistic-seeming Jim Morrison: "Although I knew there was some pattern of events going on in his head that connected what I'd just said to what he was thinking, it never made sense." Now sober and nearing her 60s, Slick frets over her aging body, campaigns against biomedical research, and feeds the raccoons in her back yard. But she hasn't lost any of her famous feistiness. This is the same woman who flashed her breasts at photographers, pulled her skirt over her head at concerts, and even once, "having ingested the entire contents of the minibar in my hotel room," stuck her fingers up an audience member's nose. Grace Slick may have mellowed, but bless her heart, she's still running off her mouth. --Mary Park
Book Description
Grace Slick looks back on a lifetime of sex, drugs and rock roll in Somebody to Love?, a wisecracking memoir featuring cameos by some mighty famous faces. As the lead singer of Jefferson Airplane (later Jefferson Starship and, still later, Starship), Slick had a ringside seat for some of the decade's most notorious high jinks--Haight-Ashbury, Woodstock, the sexual revolution, and of course, '60s drug culture. Put it this way: if the dormouse said feed your head, Slick did--again and again and again. Which leads to this memoir's principal shortcoming: it's hard to document the most important decade of your life if you can't remember it. Still, even if she's a little fuzzy on some of the details, the anecdotes alone are worth the price of admission, from the time Slick and Abbie Hoffman plotted to dose Richard Nixon to her surreal sexual encounter with a nearly autistic-seeming Jim Morrison: "Although I knew there was some pattern of events going on in his head that connected what I'd just said to what he was thinking, it never made sense." Now sober and nearing her 60s, Slick frets over her aging body, campaigns against biomedical research, and feeds the raccoons in her back yard. But she hasn't lost any of her famous feistiness. This is the same woman who flashed her breasts at photographers, pulled her skirt over her head at concerts, and even once, "having ingested the entire contents of the minibar in my hotel room," stuck her fingers up an audience member's nose. Grace Slick may have mellowed, but bless her heart, she's still running off her mouth. --Mary Park
Customer Reviews:
Grace Slick in '08!.......2007-10-01
Ah, those misanthropic hippies, The Jefferson Airplane, slapped together one discombobulated hotrod. Meandering riffs, Arabian exotica, distorto guitar, open-mike sci-fi and degenerated jazz - plus the mighty yowl of Woodstock's pissiest broad! Impossible, irascible and insincere, Grace Slick - like contemporary Frank Zappa - plonked the love song.
Asked about her singular role and attendant recognition as a chick in an otherwise guys' band, Slick quipped, "Well, if you had five cows and a pig, you'd look at the pig, right?" Dig that genderf00cking analogy! Even when Slick exploited the sexist trip (lifting her skirt in concert, waving an exposed boob for the cover of Creem), she always exuded a macabre disembodiment of oohlala. Such coarse pranks fell in line with her other alcoholic misbehaviors, such wearing blackface for a power salute on TV (in '68!) or going onstage in Berlin wearing a Nazi uniform. (Was she drawing upon childhood recollections of her crossdressing father?)
Unlike poor, weapy Janis Joplin, stentorian Slick never put out. Her most sensitive performance, David Crosby's slippery free-love meditation, "Triad," turns male hedonism on it's gooey head, while her most rocking self-penned number, "Lawman," posits a grassed-up Slick kapowing a (male) cop to smithereens. Top that, Tania! Last but not least, the pornographic "Across The Board" has Slick caterwauling about "seven inches of pleasure" with all the powdered muliebrity of Evel Knievel.
In grammatically correct prose, Slick has another twisted ditty to sing, and here's it is.
Scatterbrained and cliche.......2007-06-19
This book is like a series of tangents. It must have been nerve-wracking for Andrea Cagan to sit and listen to all this. The thing reads like Grace was hopped up on caffeine throughout. Her export of information to the pages is eratic; for example, no clear statement of her ancestry, but she makes a comment about her parent's "Edwardian Background" (does she mean they were from Britain? Two Brits who graduated from U of W in Seattle and had babies in Chicago and the Bay Area?) and suddenly, several lines down, mid-paragraph drops this: that her folks had neither the Italian or Jewish cultural/social stamp. So, what does this particular non-sequitur mean? Where her folks Italian and Jewish? In another part of the book she says part of her mother's clan came over on the Mayflower. Italian Jewish Separatists? In another bio source, her dad's side is described as Norwegian-Scandinavian- Grace makes no mention of that either. She does make is clear that she had nothing but disdain (and apparently still nothing but) for her folk's middle-class, quesi-elitist background (father worked hard, got ahead in a career as a white collar worker with a respected firm, was able to keep his family in nice homes and circumstances his whole life) well, at least Grace didn't have to grow up in a ghetto or impoverished farm like Ottis Redding or somebody like that. And in this vein, she can really sound like a 58-year old brat. She also still harbors the tired cliche political views of her time, like we live in an "F-'d up" country, she refers to Nixon as Tricky-Dick, etc. And reveals that back in high school and college, she slept through American history classes. Well, that figures! `Cause it show in her book! And oh, we are treated to the description of how she ended up in bed with Jim Morrison and Airplane bassist Jack Cassidy: like we really need that as revelatory material, anyone who knows anything about this broad already knows before picking up this book that Grace was the most promiscous Rock babe this side of Angie Bowie. She also seems to love to drop names- and in silly, pretentious ways; like she claims to have been listening to the Miles Davis album Sketches of Spain four dozen consecutive times before writing her song "White Rabbit" and this just smacks to me of status-glomming in this age of yuppies refering to their jazz album collection like they'd refer to the Mercedes and BMW sitting in their garage.
The illustration package does make the book worth the price of admission- some good vintage photos and a few samples of Grace's own gook often spooky art work.
Too much Slick, not enough Airplane.......2006-03-07
Grace Slick's memoir is an unvarnished look at the rock star life of one of the music's toughest babes. But it's a bit too '60s for its own good. Slick was either too lazy when she wrote this, or too out of it back in the '60s when it all happened to remember much, but she doesn't describe enough of what it was like to be a member of one of psychedelia's most important bands. Her flippant personality comes through, but one wants more about the relationships that permeated the Airplane and its watered-down successor bands, Jefferson Starship and Starship. Still, what's here is a quaint look back.
Goodness Grace-ious!.......2006-02-09
Bad review title aside, I really had a lot of misconceptions about the former female vocalist of Jefferson Airplane/Starship until deciding to read this book. I know that some autobiographies can be very disappointing, or you know far more than you ever wanted to know ad nauseum about some entertainers. Grace tells you exactly what you'd expect, and then some without overdoing it. It's a fun read all about her wild, free-spirited past, and her ability to move on with her life without having any regrets about it. She reveals a strong person who is funny, tells it like it is, and is bluntly honest if often self-deprecating. If she wasn't readers would probably come to dispise her attitude as so many who read Bebe Buell's book did.
Written in a conversational style as if she is sitting down in the same room talking to you, it is a comfy and candid read that never ceases to entertain and, quite honestly, is very surprising in that she can remember so much about her younger days! I guess she had her act more together than the press ever gave her credit for, plus she has gotten past all that to being a bright, funny, mature woman who has her act tightly together, so look who's having the last laugh. Right on, Grace!
Tough to be a Rebel in a Mundane World.......2006-01-03
I have loved Grace Slick for such a long time that when this memoir first came out, I immediately bought it and read it with much glee. It is just what I expected from her and I am not disappointed at all. In fact, I am a little surprised, but not really shocked, that many did not give it better ratings. I wanted to learn more about Grace and her viewpoints and she was more than generous with her humour, wit and outlook. Honest too. What I love about Grace is the way she followed her own outlook on things. She side-stepped being defined by others and really didn't care too much about what others thought of her. In this.... she will have my love and admiration forever. True...... she didn't go deep into the personalities of the 60's icons much. She didn't give much insight into her songs and what they meant. What true artist does? But, she IS a hoot - and I bought the book because she is such a character. In fact..... I was so enamoured with this book that I wrote her publisher to say how much I enjoyed it. A few months later, I received an 8X10 signed glossy in the mail from her - postage due of course. I laughed. "That's my Grace" I thought.
If you people out there can put your egos and expectations on the shelf and read this expose from a true 60's San Francisco survivor, I think you will find many things to like. Leave your morality, your preconceived notions and your judgemental placards at the door. After all, this is Grace's world - not yours. And, thank-you Grace for all those great tunes. I still listen. And thanks for just being yourself.
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Beautiful, haunting tales.......2007-02-01
Reviewed by Shalley Malchoir for Reader Views (1/07)
Joanna Scott, world-renowned author and Pulitzer Prize finalist, has compiled a collection of ten short stories. The stories span from World War One, all the way down to the present day. The stories all tell tales of heartache, heartbreak, and true love. Scott has a timeless way of telling a tale, and this book is sure to become a classic. Each story has a quiet simplicity to it, a commodity often unseen today.
From the first story, in which a ne'er do well father finds himself trapped in the bathroom of the hotel in which he is staying, unable to atone for his past sins and attend his daughter's wedding, the reader has a sense that Scott is speaking not merely from her imagination, but, rather, that she has an uncanny ability to peer into the inmost parts of the human heart, and define what resides within. No theme is too tense, or too sacred for Scott to analyze and interpret. From lives in the tenements of New York to a beautiful wedding on a bright, sunny ocean beach, to drunken bouts, prostitution, old age, and an infant making a feast out of a cicada shell, Scott weaves ten powerful tales of love and loss. Not only is romantic, passionate love related, as in the kiss that lasts near a half-hour, but also love for family, friends, and the human race.
Although, at times, the stories in "Everybody Loves Somebody" seem a bit "wordy," Scott has a knack for taking ordinary words and sentences, and converting them into beautiful, timeless, haunting tales that the reader will not soon forget.
Short Stories About Love.......2006-12-21
Author Joanna Scott, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize with The Manikin, brings the reader captivating tales in Everybody Loves Somebody.
Her book is a collection of ten short stories that parade across the 20th century, telling sagas of love; those who find it, those who lose it, and those who keep looking.
A full spectrum of relationships is brought to the page, including love between couples, love between parents and children, and love among siblings. Many different forms of love--and the breathtaking results, struggles, and stings suffered because of love--are captured. Romantic love is not the only story within the pages of this book, rather a love that comes through struggles and the search for a tie with another human being.
Armchair Interviews says: The depth that only love can bring to a soul is captured within the pages of Everybody Loves Somebody.
Book Description
It takes a real man to love a woman right.
Meet three brothers who know how to crank up the heat in the bedroom-and the women who love them.
"Somebody's Lover" finds mother-of-two Taylor Jackson longing for the seductive touch of a good man. But when that man turns out to be her late husband's brother, can she let him into her heart?
In "Somebody's Ex," David Jackson is ready to take a walk on the wild side with gorgeous Randi Anderson, until he realizes she's looking for a happily ever after-and he has to think twice.
In "Somebody's Wife," Mitch Jackson is about to have his socks blown off when his wife heats things up in the bedroom. But when they find their visions of the future worlds apart, they will each question the very foundation of their marriage.
Customer Reviews:
Somebody's Lover.......2007-10-03
This is one of the best books I have ever read. This writer is wonderful and you do not want to miss her books. Read this book you won't be sorry. It's HOT HOT so if you are faint of heart do not enter but just think you might learn something. Do yourself a favor and take the chance you will enjoy it.
Too Hot To Handle.......2007-09-22
This is the first book that I have read by this author and it will not be the my last. First let me warn you this book is hot...okay hotter than hot...I thought my fingers were going to burn holding the book that's how hot this book is. Grab a cold drink because you're going to need it to cool yourself off. I read this book in one day...I could not put it down.
This book is about three brothers...one as sexy as the next and each story centers around a brother and theres a great ending that wraps up all three storylines.
I'm not going to get into the storylines other reviewers have done that already, but if your looking to read a burning anthology I highly recommend this book.
5 Klovers - Courtesy of CK2S Kwips & Kritiques.......2007-09-21
The Jackson family is changed forever when the eldest brother dies unexpectedly. In the wake of Lou's death, the remaining three Jackson brothers find new love, awaken a long-buried unrequited love, and renew an old love.
~Somebody's Lover~
Widowed three years earlier, Taylor knows the Jackson family can never accept another man in Lou's place as her husband and she accepts that. Still, she is still young, and three years is a long time. She longs to be something more than somebody's mother - she needs to be Somebody's Lover, if only for one night. Dropping her kids off to spend the night with their Grandparents, she drives out of town to a singles bar, where she wastes no time in both getting drunk and meeting someone.
When Jace sees Taylor in the bar wearing a leather mini-skirt and high heels, no less, his jaw drops. And when he sees a strange man putting his hand on her knee, the red he's seeing is not just her lipstick! He has loved her from afar from the first moment he saw her, but hid his feelings for his brother's wife for years. But she'll turn to another man over his dead body!
Although I loved each of the stories in this collection, Somebody's Lover is probably my favorite. Taylor was a wonderful leading lady, trying to balance single parenthood with her needs as a vibrant woman. Her resignation to live the rest of her life without a husband, out of respect for her husband's memory and his family was admirable, if somewhat misguided. Lucky for Taylor, the answer was in her own backyard, so to speak...
Jace. I could say so much about Jace. For me, he is what made this particular tale my favorite. His internal struggles are palpable, with his guilt over his brother's death, his anguish over the deep love he has long harbored for his brother's wife, and his torment at the thought of her turning to another man now that his brother is gone. I've said before that there is nothing better than watching a sexy Alpha Male clashing with a woman who can match him, but now I think perhaps watching him fight his own needs and desires in an attempt to do what he thinks is right is even better! Pair that situation with a woman who can stand up to him, and you have the best of both worlds, as with Somebody's Lover.
~Somebody's Ex~
David Jackson has never met anyone quite like Randi. She's beautiful, quirky, and completely unexpected. She has a way of catching him totally off-guard that reaches his guarded heart faster than he can blink an eye. But he's determined to keep their liaison at the level of `fling'. Too bad his heart doesn't agree...
In spite of the pain both of the lead characters have to work through in Somebody's Ex, this was an absolutely delightful story! Randi is truly a breath of fresh air, and it is easy to understand from the get-go just why David finds her so hard to resist, and even easier to understand why he falls so hard for her.
Throughout the story, each repeatedly brings each other joy in a variety of ways, both in and out of the bedroom. J But more importantly, each gives the other the strength to work out their most troublesome issues, proving that together they can get through anything.
~Somebody's Wife~
Mitch and Connie Jackson have been married for years. Mitch has always been a worrier, but since Lou's death, that worry has spun out of control. His concern over how to provide for another child has interrupted their love life for months now, as he fears they may accidentally conceive. Connie is determined to find a way to spice up the bedroom to the point where Mitch can't resist her, and finds some very creative ways to do it!
I'll just say it - I am not usually drawn to stories about a marriage that has gone stale, or is on the rocks. That said, I really loved Haynes' third story in this collection, Somebody's Wife. In fact, having enjoyed this one so much, I'll not be so hesitant to give other books with a similar theme a chance in the future.
Connie was ingenious in her efforts to seduce her husband Mitch. Her efforts are amply rewarded in the bedroom, but their problems lie deeper than that. Before the story is over, both Mitch and Connie learn that sometimes the goals in your marriage evolve and change, and that both members of the partnership must learn to adapt and compromise together if they are to keep their marriage alive.
One Wicked Anthology- The Best Yet!.......2007-09-21
With this collection of three stories about the wonderfully sexy Jackson brothers, Jasmine Haynes has made me fall in love with each of these amazing men, and added to my "Keeper" shelves.
In Somebody's Lover, Jace Jackson has loved Taylor for almost half his life. Though she married his eldest brother, Lou, and is now widowed three years later, Jace still suffers from guilt over his brother's death. He blames himself and therefore does not think he deserves a woman as beautiful and wonderful as Taylor. Until the night he spies her in a pick-up bar, Jace has never thought to do other than help care for her and his brother's children. Once he sees her trying to pick up a man, and tastes one kiss from her, all bets are off, and Pandora's Box is opened. He can't hide his feelings any longer, though he knows his family will never accept he and Taylor as a couple, he can't help but love her with everything he is.
Not only did Jace and Taylor burn up the pages with their hot and steamy love scenes, the romance drawn by Jasmine Haynes was so beautiful, I found it hard to put the book down. Jace was a hero among heroes, and gave everything he had to Taylor. His guilt and self-condemnation was heartbreaking and brought tears to my eyes many times. Somebody's Lover is a lovely and poignant story that will live in my memory for a very long time.
In Somebody's Ex, Randi Anderson returns to Willoughby after a failed marriage, trying to pick up the pieces of her life and her self-esteem once again. Her father and her ex-husband have viewed Randi as stupid and treated her as if she can do nothing right. Running out of gas on the side of the road, she meets David Jackson, after he almost runs her over with his truck. A nice "normal" guy, she begins to fall hard and fast, but has no use for a man who wants to control her, like her father and ex-husband had done. David will have to overcome his feelings of anger over Lou's death in order to move on from always being "the careful one-the responsible one" in the Jackson family. It will take almost losing Randi for David to get his head on straight...
Somebody's Ex is a charming story of two people and their discovery of love and trust as well as their own self-worth in the most unexpected places. David and Randi were fabulous characters, both dealing with feelings long buried and denied. Using a mix of wit and laughter, the author transformed the initial lust they shared into a beautiful love story. Romantic and emotional, this story had it all; I loved it!
In Somebody's Wife, Connie is afraid she is losing her husband Mitch. She wants a baby in the worst way, while he is obsessed with pinching pennies. Though married for ten years, they are still in love, but lately they have been fighting much more than talking or making love. When Connie visits a sex toy shop in the neighboring town, she has plans to shake up her marriage and make Mitch unable to resist her any longer.
Though I started out not liking Mitch or Connie's characters from the previous stories, I soon began to see how Lou's death had affected Mitch as well as Connie. Connie was a very self-centered individual who seemed to be all about "me-me-me", while Mitch seemed like a money-obsessed cold fish. It soon became apparent how wrong I was; this couple as well as the other two really burned up the pages, and showed that even the most successful marriage can grow stale without a little freshness added sometimes, and how misunderstandings and not talking to each other can breed resentment and distrust.
Bravo, Ms Haynes, SOMEBODY'S LOVER has earned a place on my "Keeper" shelves. Running the spectrum of emotions, this book made me cheer for the underdog, cry for the heartbreak, and sigh over the sheer romance of the stories and characters. This is a beautiful and poignant book about a very realistic tragedy and its effects on those closest to the victim.
Lettetia Elsasser
Prepare to get HOT.......2007-08-23
Get ready to be scorched by these tantalizing erotic short stories. I will give a little teaser of each story but you will not know what you're missing if you don't go and get your own copy of Somebody's Lover.
Somebody's Lover:
Forbidden love is always the sweetest. In this story Taylor has been widowed for three years and craves sexual attention only a man can give. She attempts the bar scene at Saddles N Spurs dressed unlike anything she has ever done before. She was all hookered out looking for a guy to give it up for a one night stand.
Little did she know that she would attract Jace, her brother-in-law, of all people. After proving she was a woman who had needs by kissing Jace in the cab of his truck; they knew one kiss would never be enough. Secret meetings and phone calls could not measure to the physical touch of Jace's working man hands.
It is all so wrong but it feels so right. Can the family accept Taylor and Jace's relationship, considering the guilt of Lou's death?
Somebody's Ex:
David Jackson needed change in his life; he planned to quit the family business because he needed some time to himself. He still had not gotten over the death of his brother, or the scene he witnessed weeks ago between his brother and sister-in-law.
That is until love literally fell right in front of him. Her name was Randi and she was the most beautiful thing David had ever seen. She couldn't cook to save her life, but she was a wildcat in the bedroom. Caviar paste sure could hold tons of possibilities.
Both had pasts that were long from forgotten, but together they could over come anything. With David's help Randi stood up to her father and would come to realize she truly was special; and in turn Randi would help David through the stress of his brother, Lou's, death.
Somebody's Wife:
Connie was tired of going without sex, and she desperately wanted another baby. The problem was her penny pinching worrywart husband, Mitch. Connie even bought sex toys to entice him and spice up their love life, in hopes of getting what she wanted. And boy oh boy did those toys light a fire, but not enough to change Mitch's mind.
Connie thought all was well and she was going to bring the baby subject up again, until she caught Mitch checking her birth control pack to make sure she was taking the pills every day. Mitch confessed he did not want another child and then Connie threw the word divorce at him.
Connie wanted a healthy happy sex life, no more going two months without so much as a single touch. She also wanted to be a happy family again, but she was just tired of being somebody's wife. She wanted much more.
These three erotic short stories are positively one of the most touching collections I have ever read. One minute you're hot, ready to pull your lover into the bedroom and have a nice romp in the hay; then the next minute you're grabbing for tissues as tears roll down your face.
Ms. Haynes had me from the very first page. If I had to choose one word to describe her writing style, I couldn't! There are many words that would fit, Extraordinary, Fantastic, Remarkable, and most defiantly HOT! All you erotica lovers out there, this is the book for you! Warning though, you will be turned on while reading Somebody's Lover; so make sure you've got a lover on standby because you're gonna need them! 5 Hearts all the way to Jasmine Haynes!!!!
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ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ.......2007-06-01
This story is about two wonderful characters, Jayne Miller, a romance writer and Tyler Lewis, a carpenter. Here is the back of the book: Romance writer, Jayne Miller, was determined to make a new life for herself and her daughter, far from the heartache she'd left behind. She arrived in a late winter storm, only to collide with a snow dusted stanger. Her neighbor, Tyler Lewis seemed to live a solitary life on his own terms, but his constant presence soon made her see past the brooding loner to the passionate man ready to break free of his brutal past. What would it take to convince Tyler that he wasn't somebody's tarnished hero, but the love of this woman's life?
But that just doesn't cover it all, their stories are so indepth and touching. Two people who have been so hurt and need each other so bad. I couldn't put it down, very enjoyable.
Ooo, YUM.......2007-03-21
Let's just put it this way - this was my first Marilyn Pappano book. Because of it, I had to go back to Amazon and buy all her other ones. Oh you just fall in love with the characters and you are so glad there are second chances in life and love. Buy this book!
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- A rambling account that could have been better
- Great personal account of 1960's San Francisco scene
- Always read the stuff by the experts who really were there!
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Don't You Want Somebody to Love: Reflections on the San Francisco Sound
Slick
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A rambling account that could have been better.......2000-12-04
My brother-in-law kindly loaned me his copy of this book. I was looking forward to reading about the genesis of the San Francisco music scene from a real insider's perspective. In it we learn that Darby Slick authored the first of the "hippie hits", Somebody to Love, and was in the vanguard of the embryonic San Francisco psychedelic music scene. We get to meet Bill Graham, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, Jerry Garcia, and others while they were still nobodies just trying to follow their dreams. Unfortunately, the book needs massive editing to make it more than a rambling collection of anecdotes that often follow one another without segue. The author's priceless stories are often less than coherent, and it seems that he rarely finishes a thought before jumping to another in a stream of consciousness style. What we do come away with, though, is a tantalizing picture of some of the key players and events that somehow managed - without a plan - to push American culture from straight to hip (at least for a while!). I'm sure that nostalgia freaks will forgive the typographical errors and loose copy editing, but we all would have appreciated a sharper focus.
Great personal account of 1960's San Francisco scene.......2000-01-08
Darby Slick, guitarist for the Great Society and brother-in-law of Grace Slick, has written an autobiographical account of the rise of the San Francisco Sound. Don't You Want Somebody to Love is a distinctly personal perspective on those times -- part self-deprecating, part self-aggrandizing, it's a priceless account, written in an authentic voice by an actual participant.
Much of the text concerns Darby's views on the development of the 1960's scene in San Francisco, and on the rise of the counter-culture in the USA in general, about which he often provides thoughtful commentary. There's also plenty of stuff on the music of the Great Society -- how they rehearsed, how and when songs were written, and who played what, on which song.
There's also a great Stanley Mouse cover, a bunch of reproductions of Great Society concert posters, and a decent, if somewhat random, selection of black and white photographs.
Always read the stuff by the experts who really were there!.......1999-04-20
What a great afternoon-and the book "Do You Want Somebody to Love;" the Reflections of the San Francisco Sound-this is what you have to read-to really put yourself into the picture. Both author Darby Slick; & artist, Stanley Mouse... "MADE" the scene here in the City. You'd see a poster by Mouse, (or compatriot) on a ubiquitous telephone pole-and stand there staring, trying your darndest to decipher the message. If you had gone in the early days to one of the shows around town-you probably would have bumped into "THE GREAT SOCIETY" which figured very prominently in our rounds. We just got left class on an afternoon like today-and were being driven by a buddy who just got a gig chauffering-in the Mecerdes, over to Darby's new place in ForestHills, they had just got back from India, the place was clean & airy. Splendid in its decor; a Tiger-Skin Rug hung on the plaster wall, there were Persian Carpets on Hardwood Floors and light colored Silk Curtains everywhere. And this was a nice place to set up the new studio with a magnificent looking Sound-System, the fancy Control Panel took up about half the room. It was a nice visit-with the local emerging music!
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SomeBody to Love : A Guide to Loving the Body You Have
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Writing is baring one's soul and this book helps you to:.......1998-10-06
give you the groundwork to use a pen instead of a fork, to rebuild your esteem, but also see how you came to the point where you are! I am in the process of doing the exercise, where i form two characters one fat, one thin. Fun exercises that give you a new twist on perceiving your view of food and your body
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