Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

unfortunately, I loaned it to a friend who I don’t speak to anymore

BECAUSE SHE DIDN"T GIVE MY BOOK BACK.

No clues on the book, however it reminds me of one of my favorite movies, Last of the Dogmen with Tom Berrenger.  The movie tagline is: A People Lost In Time. An Adventure They Will Never Forget.

I have no idea what book that is but I really hope you find out because I want to read it!

Try Amy J. Fetzer’s “Dangerous Waters”.

Twentieth-century bounty hunter Victoria Mason plunges through a waterfall after a wanted man and finds herself in the Colorado of 1872. Even that won’t throw her off the track of her dangerous quarry. But it’s not as simple to fight her attraction to Christopher Waythorne, the local marshall.

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He’s Indian AND has lots of land? I can believe the Norplant but c’mon. Still, I would like to read this.

Hmmm, does sound interesting though the Norplant thing makes me snicker.

I think and he has a title somehow—and land, lots of land.

Ack ... is there anyone not singing “Don’t Fence Me In?” while finishing the description? I may not sleep tonight for the strains of a cowboy fiddle are plaintive in the distance.

You can’t say “Land, lots of land” while describing a western scene to anyone who grew up with Saturday afternoon singing cowboys.

It is unfair. I may have to play some _Riders in the Sky_ before this is over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Kx2sRe5l8

Or David Byrne might fix it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14l75vz-R9w

Yep, totally Amy J. Fetzer’s “Dangerous Waters”
http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Waters-Amy-J-Fetzer/dp/0821758063

I’m still wondering about this “peer of the realm” thing, in the U.S.  WTF?

I’m still wondering about this “peer of the realm” thing, in the U.S.

You know how those wacky European peers were back in the 1800’s.  They were all hanging out in the American west deflowering virgins and unknowingly leaving children behind.  Haven’t we learned anything from our historical “research”?

spam word: develop98 -  It’s plot development 98.  It’s an oldie but a goodie.

Yes, British, Titled, and Landowner- They’re called Remittance Men- they were usually the younger son of a titled British family who was sent to the US or Canada to make their way in the wild wild west. 

They were given the name Remittance Men because they were usually sent a remittance or allowance from their families back home.

Two books about the subject are:
Marmalade and Whiskey: British Remittance Men in the West by Lee Olson
and
Scoundrels, Dreamers and Second Sons: British Remittance Men in the Canadian West y Mark Zuehlke

And this concludes this public service announcement from the Western History Nerd Squad

Dude, I swear I don’t know. But please keep us in on the loop because I definitely want to read it!

Scratch that! It’s what I get for being a bad commenter and not reading all of the comments first.

Rhonni, my mind went in the opposite direction.

“He has…HUGE tracts of land.”  Best.  Euphamism.  Ever.

I was just looking at the Amazon reviews of Dangerous Waters and saw this…

“...and felt the story overtook the book.”

Um, how is that bad?

I always think of remittance men as being specifically the feckless younger sons of wealthy aristocratic or gentry families, sent abroad to prevent them embarrassing their relatives with their disreputable behaviour.  And I thought they were always sent out to the Colonies:  Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and maybe Canada.  I had no idea any of them fetched up in the USA!

Norplant in your wrist? I thought they went in your upper arm?

“He has…HUGE tracts of land.”  Best.  Euphamism.  Ever.

The trouble with this euphemism is, I once read a book where it was used to refer to the heroine’s breasts.  And now I cannot stop laughing at the buxom sheriff.

I thought Monty Python OWNED that euphamism! :)

this book sounds interesting.  the plot reminds me a little of Penelope Neri’s Forever and Beyond, but this one sounds a lot more fun.

norplant…{snickers}

Elizabeth, look lower!  You gotta expand beyond the Monty Python reference. 

Heh heh.  Expand.

Ah lurve you gals. (clapping hands while reading comments)

I did a “wait, what?” at the Norplant in the wrist as well. Then again, she said she read the book years ago :-)

I laughed so dang hard at this synopsis…and then went right to amazon to order it! The itchy birth control got me!

Thank you, thank you so much. This is the book. I’ve already ordered myself a copy, YAY. BTW, I couldn’t remember if she was always scratching her wrist or her upperarm. Plus, I read it when I was 14 and didn’t have a clue what Norplant is.

OK, now for the answer you want:
HEROIN is an opiate, just like Morphine or other legal drug. The difference is, it has other inpure substances in it, like dirt, poison, ground-up pills—all of which can have different effects on you, depending on the person taking it, and what substance(s) it is “cut” with.But no, in no way does it make you “strong”. It makes you feel careless, like you don’t have a care in the world, like all your problems are nothing, you can solve everything on the spot if you want to.