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A Little Creativeness Using Chintzy Wedding Favors Can Save You A Lot Of Money.

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Selecting cheap wedding  party favour s to give to your guests will go a long way to having the perfect modern  wedding without costing you a fortune, so it is a good idea to slim down  costs wherever possible.
However, just because your inexpensive wedding favors are low cost doesn’t mean they can’t still be nice and memorable. With just a little bit of creativity and cleverness, you can give your guests a lovely token of your marriage without going over your budget.

Whatever mode of wedding you choose to have, a small wedding favor for everyone is never out of fashion. Remember, in addition to their gifts to the newlyweds, guests have also given the honor of their presence.

Therefore, it is polite to show your gratitude by sending them home with a small token of appreciation. As your guest list grows larger, so does the possible expense of your wedding favors. For this cause, many couples are taking advantage of the cheap yet beautiful wedding favors now available.

A good tip to remember when shopping for inexpensive wedding favors components is to avoid purchasing items with a distinct wedding subject pre-printed on them, That cute little box shaped like a miniature wedding cake is likely to cost much more than another equally cute favor box. Another great idea for wedding favors are to use small candles.

Candles are a very popular and fashionable at the moment, so they are just the thing, especially considering how garish they can be. Another advantage to using candles for your wedding favors is that they can also be used as part of your decorations at the reception before being sent home with your guests.

You can take it a step further by lowering the lights and burning the candles at the tables, creating a lovely candlelit ambiance for your romantic jubilation. Once you nicely decorate the candles according to your theme, added your names and the wedding date, and given them your own creative personal touch, you have made some low cost wedding favors, but still beautiful, for your special day.

The River Devil

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

The River Devil




Hal Lindsay is a decorated Union Navy hero and a riverboat captain who has built an empire around his Missouri River steamboats. Yet deep inside him lurks the pain of a dark, vicious past – one that has him determined to live alone, finding carnal comfort in the arms of women who will do anything as long as the price is right – like the sensual innocent currently masquerading as an experienced gambler aboard his boat. For once, Hall finds himself wanting more – much more…and that is a very dangerous thing…Rosalind Schuyler is appalled to be unmasked by Hall – and frightened as well. The prominent New York railroad heiress is on the run to escape marriage to a man who would kill to gain her fortune. Now it seems she’s in danger of a different kind. For Hal Lindsay is like no man she’s met before. One minute, he’s kind as a brother, hiding her from those searching night and day for her. The next, he’s a pure masculine animal, taking her to his bed and beyond what she thought were the limits of her desire. Everything he does, she wants more of, but what she wants most, she knows he can never give…

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1 Star River Devil
I found this book nothing but porn,sex from page 1 to the middle of the book,I did not finish reading it.I am not adverse to reading sex scenes but this went overboard.A women with dried seman on her face,come on.The sex was too explicit.I don’t know why she wrote so many sex scenes unless it was to fill up the book.

111 and and the sex was too explicit,I don’t know why she had to write about sex so often umless it was to fill up the book.

1 Star tedious and dull
Dull, dull, dull. If I’d wanted a course in how to pilot a steamboat, I’d have signed up for one. I don’t expect it in a romance novel. Or excuse me, erotica novel though even that part of it got boring as well and when the sex scenes make my eyes glaze over, it’s time to jump ship

1 Star Poor effort
Book turned me off quite quickly, and it is a shame. The plot had real possibilities, until the author felt obligated to insert copious physiological sexual reactions in every possible situation. Very, very sexually overdone. One can buy a sex manual if necessary, without ruining literature to be read for enjoyment. And, by the way, some of the description is anatomically improbable or impossible.

1 Star Hated it!
This was awful. Yes, like everyone mentioned there are a lot of “hot” sex scenes, but that’s it and even that seemed pointless. These characters had absolutely no personality. It was almost comical to me when the author wrote in a dog for the hero–hmmm…perhaps to make him seem like a real person? But even that didn’t fix it. How `bout giving the characters some real emotions?

3 Stars Hard to care about characters
Took me a long time to finish this book, as it just did not hold my attention. Convincing that the lead female can trick most of the males into thinking she is herself a man who loves to gamble did not fly with me.

Yes, well written intimate sections, although they seemed to be a nice reprieve through reading the story instead of flowing with it.

I appreciated the historical information of the period or era, and liked the locale of being on a river boat.

Still, I can’t hate it or love it.

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The Devils Heiress

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

The Devils Heiress




To save the home his family has owned for centuries, Major George Hawkinville has only to prove that the hussy known as the Devil’s Heiress was party to the murder of Lord Deveril and the forging of the will that gave her his fortune.

Even though his army career made him expert in investigations, Hawk does not find his task as easy as he expected. Clarissa Greystone is a most unlikely criminal, and she is connected to people of power who will stop anyone who tries to harm her.

And then he falls in love with her….

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3 Stars A reasonable tale but not completely satisfying
This was the first book by Jo Beverley that I have read, and by the end I realised that it was the third book she had written about this group of characters (The Georges) and she has also written several other books about the Rogues (who also feature in this novel). Although it didn’t matter that I hadn’t read the other books, there were quite a lot of characters to get to grips with, and they seemed rather one-dimensional in this book. I expect if I’d read the others before this I would have found them more satisfying.

The basic premise of the story is that Clarissa Greystone is about to be launched into society as a young heiress; she was formerly forcibly engaged to Lord Deveril, an unpleasant man who was killed – was Clarissa the killer? – and his Will found near the body left all his money to his fianc

The Devil and Dr Barnes Portrait of an American Art Collector

Friday, June 12th, 2009

The Devil and Dr Barnes Portrait of an American Art Collector




Albert Coombs Barnes, one of the most eccentric, controversial figures of the early twentieth-century art world, springs vividly from the pages of Howard Greenfeld’s superb biography. The Devil and Dr. Barnes traces the near-mythical journey of a man who was born into poverty, amassed a fortune through the promotion of a popular medicine, and acquired the premier private collection of works by such masters as Renoir, Matisse, C

The Devil Within Volume 1 v 1

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

The Devil Within Volume 1 v 1




Rion’s convinced that men are devils and only little boys, angels. And just when she’s found the boy of her dreams, she finds herself forced into an engagement to a trio of suitors! While fighting off their advances and trying to win over the heart of her reluctant young love, Tenshi, she discovers the shocking secret of the handsome trio… and something sinister about herself!

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5 Stars Awesome Artwork
The Devil Within is about a girl who thinks that men are devils and boys are angels. She does not date men because of this fear. Yet, she hangs out with younger boys. One day after school, her dad says that he wants her to get married. He wants a grandson to inherit his fortune. Rion (the high school girl, main character) is disgusted. How could her father do this to her? He presents her with 3 men. They all try giving reasons of why she should pick them to marry. They all want to marry her, but not for Rion. They simply want money and power. That is exactly what they would get if they married her. Rion doesn’t like any of them, although they try to be nice, for the most part. Her wicked father even gave them keys to her bedroom and a apartment key! What hell is this that I am living on?

1 Star It doesn’t work.
I’m so sad that this turned out as bad as it did. From the premise I thought it would be pretty interesting and funny. The art also looked cute.

Unfortunately this manga has very little redeeming value. It almost seems like the artist wanted to draw things she liked and the plot was an afterthought. There was no character development, 2-dimentional personalities, and I don’t think readers can relate much to a main character that’s a shouta-con :(

Spend your money on better manga, there are plenty out there.

4 Stars It’s not so bad.
I wouldn’t rate this manga as bad as some people but I wouldn’t rate it the full five stars because it most certainly isn’t the best manga out there. I happened to enjoy it, it was an entertaining read. I found it funny and interesting. I would never take it seriously or anything but it still had small quirks that made it rather unique. I have to admit I’m not the most normal of people, I say that because it’s a different kind of manga that only certain people could enjoy. If your open minded and have a weird sense of humor I would recommend this manga to you. And if you liked the way the summary sounded, it would proably suit you. But again I say its not the best of shojou’s, so I would only buy it if I had extra money. I personally will buy the second volume.

4 Stars Disturbed schoolgirl vs. Hot Bishi x4
I was first drawn to this manga by the artwork. I’m no artist, so I won’t offer a critique on the style, but I like it. As for plot, yes, it’s disturbing that a teenage girl would go ga-ga over pre-pubescent boys, but then, the popular “Lolita Complex” storylines are basically the same. Her aversion to mature men, however, would make interesting fodder for psychiatrists, as she has allowed a traumatic childhood experience competely control her life. Her adopted father, a sadistic, conniving, sly man, and also the reason for her current mental state, suddenly reappears, demanding she choose one among three brothers as her fiance. I found this highly suspicious, as he gives no explanation why it should be out of these three in particular. However, the ensuing pursual by these three bishi is highly entertaining. Each has something about him that piques her curiosity, and somtimes also convinces her of their vileness. They do succeed, however, in providing her with a reason to question her prejudice. The georgeous men are reason enough to read this, and while the handling of the plot is a bit awkward at times, it’s not half bad. I intend to keep reading the series to see where it goes.

4 Stars Teen Drama
This story is about a girl who believes that all men are devils. Reason being is some traumatizing childhood experience she had. Well, her father is trying to marry her to three guys where she has to choose one, but before she officially met them she ran into a young boy and almost immediately falls head-over-heels for him. So she has to try to fight off the three future finaces and try to win the love of the young buy. I have not completed the entire manga, but so far the drama has kept my interest.

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