Conversations With My Husband

[ladysprite]

The Scene: Barnes and Noble's Science Fiction section, as part of a bad-day book-buying binge, with me staring at a paperback novel in frank disbelief.

Him: Whatcha got there?
Me: Apparently, mediocre Laurel K. Hamilton-wannabe urban fantasy.
Him: That good, huh?
Me: Oh, yeah. Any book that feels the need to tell me as part of its back-cover copy that it is dark and sexy is clearly trying to prove something.
Him: It doesn't actually say that, does it?
Me: Yep. Not even as an endorsement quote, just part of the description. "[Title Deleted] is a dark, sexy, adventure-filled novel."
Him: Wow....
Me: That may, in fact, be the stupidest thing I've ever read on a book. What else am I going to mistake it for - a dark, sexy, adventure-filled cannoli?


I am endlessly lucky that I have found this man, because few other people would be able to put up with me and my personal absurdity on a 24/7 basis....

Comments

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

"What else am I going to mistake it for - a dark, sexy, adventure-filled cannoli?"

Cannolis can be sexy. And if you make it with chocolate, it could be dark and sexy. And depending upon what you do with it, it could be "a dark, sexy, adventure-filled cannoli".

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Apparently editors have cut back on buying real SF and instead are buying Harlequin romances with werewolves and vampires.

A local author who writes hard SF recently had a publisher approach her with a three book contract to write "Sex and the City" with demons. She took the offer, but she's going to publish it under an alias.

[hermitgeecko.livejournal.com]

"a dark, sexy, adventure-filled cannoli"

I want one. It sounds like it should have fudge in it, and fudge is good.

[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

Leave the gun. Take the dark, sexy, adventure-filled cannoli.

Nothing to do with novels or cannoli

[new-man.livejournal.com]

but I'm in LJ and too lazy to switch to send you private email (my god, how lazy is that?).

In any case, you saw they've extended the Pennsic class booklet deadline to June 1?

And are we seeing you guys on Saturday? I know there's this wedding in the evening...

Re: Nothing to do with novels or cannoli

[umbran.livejournal.com]

As for Saturday - quite probably. We have some friends coming into town for the Earthfest concert earlier in the day, but my expectation is that we'd be free in the eveningtime.

And my memory is notoriously weak for social schedules, but I don't recall anything about a wedding.

Re: Nothing to do with novels or cannoli

[new-man.livejournal.com]

A bunch of my LARP pals are headed off to a wedding. Since you guys LARP more than I do, I assumed you were going.

It'll be lovely to see you. We can see if that breast plate fits you.

[flaviarassen.livejournal.com]

I am endlessly lucky that I have found this man, because few other people would be able to put up with me and my personal absurdity on a 24/7 basis....

Hey, I got me one of those, too!
Aren't they just the bestest?

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Cute!

(BTW, let me know if you want to take us up on the garden offer... we'd love to have you over there!)

[zebediah.livejournal.com]

I would make a comment about now wanting a dark, sexy, adventure filled cannoli, but many people appear to have beaten me to it.

I wonder if there's a form of divination that involves reading cannoli, amd if it more closely resembles reading tea leaves or reading entrails.