Sorry for the ‘radio silence’! My sister texted me to make sure I was still alive, given that it has been much too long since I’ve posted. I wish it were because I was having way too much fun, but alas, no. Just trying to keep my head above water.
On the weekend, though, I had a few minutes to sit in the sun outside the arena where my son had just played a losing game of ball hockey. It’s in a beautiful park with walking trails, a small lake, and a community centre that was redone for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
I enjoyed relaxing on a wall, reading an ebook of Liz Durano’s Loving Ashe, in preparation for listening to the sequel of Loving Riley, which the sample tells me is narrated in a sexy English accent. I’m not really a reader of romance novels, but I enjoyed this one so much that I finished it over the weekend. The writing is good, with fully developed main and supporting characters, and they have baggage and secrets that we find out over time, as they work on getting their lives together. It’s got both very romantic and steamy scenes, but the latter are not the dominant thrust (pun intended?) of the book. I can’t wait to listen to the sequel!
I hope that I’ll have some time to post more soon. Thanks for reading.
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That looks like a gorgeous park. I wish the weather was better here, with milder temperatures. I long to spend time outside but it is a little too chilly for that.
Liz Durano – wasn’t she a very active fellow fan at some point?
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Yes. Formerly known as MorrighansMuse.
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Great. Thanks for the reminder. I thought that was her RArmy name but wasn’t quite sure 👍🏻
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Well of course yesterday it poured rain and today is cool and cloudy. That’s Vancouver weather for you.
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Typical… but it really is about time we get summer weather. Both your side of the Atlantic and mine. Well, although you are on the Pacific…
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By the way, Liz told me that she wrote the book just after having seen Pictures of RA during one of the roundtables for The Hobbit. Which explains why the long legs and blue eyes in the book put me in mind of RA.
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Yep. I distinctly remember Liz writing fan fiction. Some of it quite steamy, actually.
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She also wrote a long Lucas North story, Broken, that was extremely popular — it’s still on wattpad.
https://www.wattpad.com/story/3151343-broken-lucas-north-spooks-mi5-story-featured
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Thank you for the shout-out, Serv!
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Yes, it’s still me! MorrighansMuse is still up but it just has my poetry for now although you can still read the original short story that started Loving Ashe called Elevator. Who knew writing would be the easiest part of being a writer? You have to pick a pen name and then you have to build a “brand.” But I’m always checking to see what my fellow RA peeps are doing, just from the Lizdurano account which not a lot of people know about.
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Yay – nice to know you are still checking in every once in a while.
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I certainly do, especially on Twitter!
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Yep, that has become the platform to watch.
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Sue the park looks very serene and super lush
with nice tall trees and beautiful flowers ideal for reading and thinking about a 6’2 Brit!!
Hope things settle down soon for you and these are wonderful snippets of where you live.
I’ll have to check that book out that you were reading cuz I love romance novels!!
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Yes, it was a nice little interlude. I do recommend the book. I enjoyed the story and the characters.
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Sue, great I will def read it then. I like the word interlude. It was early this morning and I was er struggling to find the right words to describe this fabulous picture.
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Can totally sympathize with the “head above water” problem. I hope your son’s academic term is over soon!
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Still 5 weeks to go. Argh. But then high school will finally be done! We can’t wait.
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uch, that is brutal! I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you both.
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Thanks. For some reason, at the beginning of the year, he thought that taking a university-level psychology course as one of his credits would be a good idea. He’s found it really interesting, but he is madly trying to get through the backlog of work! Today I was reading some of it with him, ironically about stress and the impact on health!
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Wow — so you’re taking intro to psych, too. That qualifies you for mother of the year!
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Well, I did become his audiobook for a couple of chapters, but I’m only brought in for the boring chapters, not the interesting ones!
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That’s even worse!
IMO the surveys at the beginning of a topic are often a lot harder than the advanced courses as they cover a lot of territory.
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True enough.
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I’m so glad you enjoyed Loving Ashe! I hope you like Loving Riley. It kinda goes dark in some places but I have no regrets… well, except for maybe that slight detour the story took on Wattpad that had readers in an uproar. Fixed now, of course LOL But the narrator’s voice is just divine.
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Thanks for visiting! Yes, I just started listening to Loving Riley. His voice is really rich.
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