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I like it! Very nummy. The book will be out next year too. What do you think?
Bad Puppy was lucky he didn't actually eat my (now found) Saintcrow book. I wouldn't have been a happy mommy because I don't like the new Saintcrow covers. I have the original one, with the girl's back and a sword against it. That cover was the reason I bought the book and tried her. Her new covers, with the weird Brit-inspired Bond girl art, aren't bad, but I wouldn't have picked the book up that first time.
So that's proof that I'm a cover girl when it comes to impulse book-buying! The pretty covers always get my attention, and then I pick them up...and then, who knows, I might buy them.
So you want to hear more about Ranger Buddy. Well, after skydiving, he's now taking ballroom dancing lessons, as you know.
After work, while taking off the toolbelt and generally walking off my perpetual limp, I got to watch the man go one-two-three, one-two-three, step-back, run-run-run, and one-two-three, step-back. See, I even have the damn steps in my head now. He made me practice with him once, which was very, very funny, because he wouldn't let me look at him and insist that I'm dancing too close. His instructor told him that we have to look dead ahead and not to mug each other. I get it--I have taken dance before--but heck, I'm just helping him practice, not taking the lessons too, LOL. The run-run-run part almost did me in, since I felt like a kindergartener doing squaredancing for the first time.
But the man, he's fifty-seven, and seems to be growing as a person.
Last week, he went to a local community college to take his Aptitude tests. He's thinking of taking night classes next year to become a nurse. The housing business is going downhill and probably won't be good for the next few years, so I suppose he's thinking that he'll be a nurse.
Which sounded very cool to me. A man his age usually don't have that kind of energy to start over, you know? But what cracked me up was...he went to take the test and it was given on the computer and he didn't know how to use it. LOL. He told me he was the last one out of there because he daren't shut the thing off.
I'm very proud to boast that his scores were spectacular. He was especially proud of his language skills scores ;-). The instructor was shocked at his age and of course, went on to ask him about how to get "muscles like his." I tell you, everyone brings up the same topic with Ranger Buddy--young and old, they eventually ask, "What do you eat/do to look like you do? I want washboard abs like yours too!"
They should just ask me ;-). Don't take any gravy ever. Have fries once a year. Don't eat anything but meat for dinner, which must be before 7pm. Wear a Kevlar-like suit with small removable weights in the pockets AND DO a million sit-ups with it. Do pull-ups using the beams in the construction sites every evening. Ride the bicycle at Level 12 for half an hour. And, oh, work on the roof from 8am to 6pm, seven days a week for 35 years.
Sigh. It's not easy being Ranger Buddy. ;-P.
I watched Bionic Woman for the first time last night. Is that DR. BURKE hiding out there from his Christina and Mommy Burke?!!! And I really need some of those bionic parts for my body, I really do. It'd save me from climbing up and down those damn ladders.
The latest trend in covers--pretty female backs/side of face showing (usually with an intricate tattoo somewhere), with a sword/stake/weapon in one hand--is nice but I'm getting confused with whether I read the book already or not. Especially when there are so many urban fantasy series coming out lately. I'd look at the cover and try to remember whether I've seen it or bought it, and then put the book back on the shelf because I wasn't sure. And of course, when I'm home, I'd forget to check. Repeat vicious cycle.
When they put out a spate of covers that look so similar (like the matchstick running couple with the car headlight in the background), after a while, my brain seems to shut down and my eyes sweep over those books and I tend not to want to read them. Is it psychological? I know what the marketing department is doing by putting out visual similarities like that, but it reminds me of the ice-tea trend. Remember there were freaking 1001 fruity-type ice teas when Snapple was the craze? I like my ice tea, so of course I bought them to try. Some were good and some tasted like they stirred in 10 lbs of sugar in a four ounces of water. They were all packaged to sort of look like Snapple too, with funky labels and names for the tea.
Then, after the initial interest, my brain shut down and when I went to the store, my hand just automatically reached for...the good old-fashion ice tea staple I usually had before the craze. And after a while, those new tasty sweet stuff disappeared. Trend over.
Remember the cover trends of just one body part? The muscular arm with the tattoo, for instance?
I am now going to make a prediction. Next: Sexy tight asses in skimpy briefs/bikinis with tattoos on one cheek. ;-) Oh, and next to a hand holding a stake/gun/sword, so you know what genre it is. Heh.
What cover trend do you remember? Date yourself!
MAY 07
