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Hello! It's good to be here...

PostPosted: September 1st, 2011, 2:46 am
by laila_6045
Hi again everyone in RP, im glad to discover this wonderful online community who share my passion for books. My name is Laila from the Queen City of the South "Cebu", currently im a stay at home wife. My love for books started with the Sweet Dreams Series which were popular in the 1980's and in the 90's. My aunt gifted me one book entitled "Too Close for Comfort" and i discovered the world of teen romance and since then I'm such a homebody i closeted myself with a book or two almost everyday...now i have expanded my reading interests to a variety of topics and theme...but i will always be a romantic at heart...historical romance was my first love and will continue to love it. In highschool I devoted myself to reading any historical romance by Johanna Lindsay and Judith McNaught, later on I moved on to the works of Lisa Kleypas and Julia Quinn (whom i think is a very witty writer and never fails to make me laugh with some of her character's banter and her stories don't come out too cheesy and angtsy on the romantic scenes esp with historical romance type of novels).
Anyhoo, I hope that in the long run i will get to discover more books to read upon the recommendation of my fellow book lovers here and maybe i will discover new other books of interest that i might enjoy.

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PostPosted: September 1st, 2011, 9:33 am
by Wanda
Hi laila! Welcome to RP! Im really happy to have you join us! And from Cebu, wow our little community is really growing! Im also a stay home wife actually and yes, i remember those sweet dreams books! Though i never read judith mcnaught and johanna lindsay, i read sweet valley high, and sweet valley twins, and barbara cartland! Hehe Were you able to read those? welcome again and i hope you will enjoy and discover a lot of new stuff here!

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PostPosted: September 1st, 2011, 10:05 am
by lizzie23
Oh em gee!!! A historical romance buff like me!!! Hi laila and welcome to RP!!! Im a die hard fan of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, and Sense and Sensibility! Have you tried reading Jane Austen? If you want newer ones i just read Christi Phillips' the Rossetti Letter, its a historical romance too which you might like!

Heres what i wrote about it! viewtopic.php?f=9&t=22#p42

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PostPosted: September 1st, 2011, 11:51 am
by hirer
Welcome! I read biographies and sometimes architecture :D

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PostPosted: September 1st, 2011, 4:05 pm
by laila_6045
Wanda wrote:Hi laila! Welcome to RP! Im really happy to have you join us! And from Cebu, wow our little community is really growing! Im also a stay home wife actually and yes, i remember those sweet dreams books! Though i never read judith mcnaught and johanna lindsay, i read sweet valley high, and sweet valley twins, and barbara cartland! Hehe Were you able to read those? welcome again and i hope you will enjoy and discover a lot of new stuff here!


Hello Wanda! thank you for the warm welcome...yes i did get to read sweet valley high and sweet valley twins, coz my younger sister was crazy about it in her teen years. I also used to read loads of Barbara Cartland! and I was into comics like Archies too back in highschool. he3x! good times...
I have to say that I get to take a look at your lovely yellow library, I hope to have one of my own someday. So i just make do for now for this small book shelf that my good father-in-law made for me he painted it with my color of choice brown. In this shelf I put all my special collections of books, although nowhere near as many as your collection of 700! And someday I hope that I will get to hand it down to my child/children in the future and enjoy it as I did.

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PostPosted: September 1st, 2011, 4:27 pm
by laila_6045
lizzie23 wrote:Oh em gee!!! A historical romance buff like me!!! Hi laila and welcome to RP!!! Im a die hard fan of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, and Sense and Sensibility! Have you tried reading Jane Austen? If you want newer ones i just read Christi Phillips' the Rossetti Letter, its a historical romance too which you might like!

Heres what i wrote about it! viewtopic.php?f=9&t=22#p42


Hi Lizzie! I'm afraid I haven't been able to properly read a printed book copy of the works of Jane Austen, but I have seen the movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility. I have read Jane Eyre my grandma had a copy of it and she lets me read it and it introduce me to the world of Classic romance literature. I once also owned a copy of Wuthering Heights, but half way through I didn't like finishing it coz I couldn't get through the love/hate relationship bet. Heathcliff and Catherine...so I just made do with the movie adaptation instead. I think I have come across in a bookstore a book by Christi Phillips but I haven't pick up a copy of her work. I will look her up in the bookstore next time, thanks for the recon. I would love to discuss more historical romance with you too!

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PostPosted: September 1st, 2011, 4:51 pm
by laila_6045
hirer wrote:Welcome! I read biographies and sometimes architecture :D


Hello there! those are very interesting stuff to read...i have read a couple of biographies myself but mostly about royalties from different countries, most esp. The Romanovs of Russia, because of the controversy and mysteries that surrounded the end of their era. I just find them fascinating, and how vastly different their world is.

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PostPosted: September 2nd, 2011, 4:03 pm
by Memnoch26
HI Laila,

This site is great and is really growing as we speak...

You can learn a lot of stuffs/info about books.. I sure did.... This site expanded my reading scope...

Hope you can share your inputs as well for the books you have read..

cheers !!!

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PostPosted: September 2nd, 2011, 5:05 pm
by laila_6045
Memnoch26 wrote:HI Laila,

This site is great and is really growing as we speak...

You can learn a lot of stuffs/info about books.. I sure did.... This site expanded my reading scope...

Hope you can share your inputs as well for the books you have read..

cheers !!!


Memnoch26: Thanks for that great welcome! I'm looking forward to sharing my thoughts too...currently I'm expanding my interests to fantasy. Can you recommend any good book lately in this genre?

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PostPosted: September 2nd, 2011, 5:17 pm
by Memnoch26
well... hmmm....am no expert..

but I would recommend Dexter series.. of course.. my favorite...
try the Hunger Games Trilogy. Its good. Movie is also coming soon.

I have made a lot of inputs on the Sci Fi section and Movie Tie in section of this site. Check them out.