Header PromotionUnder Suspicion: Addicted to Nick by Bronwyn Jameson... QC #367
Under Suspicion: Addicted to Nick by Bronwyn Jameson, Desire, September 2002
Excellence Rating- Very Good
Steaminess Rating- Sensual
Nick Corelli's mother was an addict and a prostitute. When Nick was 8 she OD'd. Among her things they found Joe Corelli's number. Joe was a distant relative of his mother's and took Nick in. He treated Nick as part of the family, as though he was another son. While the rest of Joe's children took established jobs at the family company, Nick went out in the world and made his own success. But now 15 years later he has come home after learning of Joe's death. Joe willed him his ranch. But Nick is not sole owner, the other half was willed to the ranch foreman, Tamara "T.C" Cole. The rest of the family thinks that T.C had to have been sleeping with Joe. Is Nick thinking the same thing? Can she fit into Nick's sophisticated world? Does he want her to?
I really enjoyed this story. Nick sounded really sexy. He was willing to admit when he didn't know something and have someone teach him. That in my book made him super sexy. Tamara was a woman trying to fit into a man's world, so a lot of times she hid her feminine side. But with Nick she had to risk letting her feminine side out. The back blurb didn't ring true. This one said: "Wealthy, gorgeous Nick Corelli didn't need a new business partner like sexy, spirited Tamara Cole! He thought she must be after his money, but he couldn't resist her..." I didn't get the impression that Nick thought T.C was after his money.
Personal total- 190 ~ harl/sil- 144 ~ other- 46
Sept. - harl/sil- 19 ~ other- 6
Ratio of TBR/ new- Totals since Jan 1= 73/117 ~ Sept. = 10/15
Christa ~ Quiet Canadians ~ 2008 Challenge Blog
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You know, I do NOT need to hear about more good books!
I came over here to ask y'all a question and here is this review, making me want to try a new book. And I really want to put a DENT in my TBR! I've bo't more books than I've pulled from the TBR this year!
This has nothing to do with this post, it's just the most recent post for your team. One or more of you track your books bo't and read with a book software??? I think it's one of you. Anyway, if it is, can you tell me about it, please?
Penn, who wasn't going to ever read enough books to worry about a special software to track them. Yeah, right. Don't laugh!! I really did delude myself that way LOL!
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Penn .. tracking books
The only software I use is to keep track of the books I've read ... and that's a database file ... Microsoft has Access and Lotus has Approach .. I learnt on Lotus so that's the one I use .... for both of these there are templates for "library" ... this is the basics to which you can add on to .... Microsoft offers all sorts of templates from their website ..... now I know you're using Mac, so whatever their equalent is would work
now ... if all you want to do to keep track of them, there is a very EASY way ..... www.fictiondb.com .... sign up for a login ... I'm not sure what you get now for a free membership but for the paid membership $20 per year, you have your own bookshelf .....
every book in their database will allow you to designate it as on your Bookshelf / Wish List / Archive (for read books) / For Sale (to other members) ..... what I love the most is that they have a complete list of all the Harlequin / Silhouette lines ... their New Release section lists all the books to come out by month .... normally their list is ahead of eHarl but seeing it's near the end of the year, the 2009 database is still being built
you can bring up an Author's booklist, read all the synopsis of the books, see their covers, see what mini-series they may belong too, both multi-author and author ... and right there from the author's page you can simply add it to Library in one of the sections I mention ...
I love this ... no typing ... no bar code scanning ... I don't have to worry about accidentally deleting the list ... it's all online, accessible from any computer, any where ... in fact, they even have a mobile version of the site so you could read it on a smartphone ... how cool is that?
the webmistress there, Kelly, is always improving the site and soon she'll have another special designation on the personal bookshelf for ebooks/audio ....
oh, also ... the books you've read you can rate with a 5 star system ... you can tell the database when you read the book and even type in a brief review which you can share or keep private
your Library / Bookshelf is entirely private ... this is not Shelfari ... no one sees your list but you
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Penn- I think tripled
Penn I think my TBR pile has tripledin the last two year with all these great reviews.
I'm not really using software. I have a 2 lists of authors and titles that I keep updated (one TBR, one read) on Word and print out a new copy every 1-2 months. I also have a list over at fictiondb and one at Shelfari. I'm finding shelfari has the spice briefs and some ebooks whereas fictiondb doesn't, but I love all the information you can get on a book at fictiondb.
Christa ~ Quiet Canadians ~ 2008 Challenge Blog
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