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I don't think people realize the toll it takes on a person being a book nerd. So many emotions. So many ...issues...

Here are just a few examples of what it's like to be a book nerd:

When a review on Amazon doesn't warn you about a spoiler  

 When the main characters finally realize they're in love

The day after "Just one more chapter" turns into reading until 2am 

  Going on a date when you're "thiiis close to finishing your book"

When your favorite character dies

 

 

When the next book finally comes out

When your friends are tired of hearing "The book was so much better" from you

When they reprint the cover with the movie poster

  

 When people try to talk to you during an intense part

Best Romantic Fantasy List

 

What is Romantic Fantasy? What is a romantic fantasy?! Oh, my...if you haven't discovered romantic fantasy than allow me to introduce you to your new addiction.

These stories are filled with whimsical fantasy and magic. Bad-a heroines who can kick some serious evil tail and yet manage to be a lady in the same breath...or not (depending on her personality). These books can take you into an entirely new and different era, a new dimension...a whole new world (cue Aladdin).

If you'd like a taste of these delicious books, then here is a list to start you off with:

(ps~I don't discriminate between YA and adult...)

1. The Sevenwaters Series (Juliet Marillier)

Amazon Description
Lovely Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum of Sevenwaters. Bereft of a mother, she is comforted by her six brothers who love and protect her. Sorcha is the light in their lives, and they are determined that she know only contentment. But Sorcha's joy is shattered when her father is bewitched by his new wife, an evil enchantress who binds her brothers with a terrible spell, a spell which only Sorcha can lift-by staying silent. If she speaks before she completes the quest set to her by the Fair Folk and their queen, the Lady of the Forest, she will lose her brothers forever. When Sorcha is kidnapped by the enemies of Sevenwaters and taken to a foreign land, she is torn between the desire to save her beloved brothers, and a love that comes only once. Sorcha despairs at ever being able to complete her task, but the magic of the Fair Folk knows no boundaries, and love is the strongest magic of them all...

"Mariner writes some of the best female characters in the fantasy genre. These fantasy books are good. Really, really good. With some intelligent, complex, and interesting female protagonists and some really well handled romance, this trilogy is a gift to all women -- and men. It's Celtic fantasy with a very strong romantic element, a lush, vivid world, and some really compelling characters -- especially the protagonist (a woman). This is romantic fantasy at it's best. Read!!"

2. Poison Study (Maria Snyder)

3. Outlander Series (Diana Gabaldon)

Can have some graphic love scenes...BUT one of my all time favorites. 

4. Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Laini Taylor)

5. Graceling (Kristin Cashore)

6. Lament (Maggie Stiefvater)

7. Daughter of the Empire (Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts)

8.  Wild Magic (Tamora Pierce)

Most of these are part of a series, so I think you'll be good for awhile.

Amanda Palmer: The art of asking

I saw this on Laini Taylor's blog and I had to share it. Love it.

Be YOU tiful

I'm ready. Ready to be me. To shed the illusion of imperfect perfection.
My taste. My personality. What I do with my life...
And finally for the first time since I can remember I feel free.
Being the youngest, I would look to my sisters. Then as I got older, my best friend. Then my boyfriend. Then my husband. And then, worst of all, other women...women I had never even met before (and some that I had).

I don't know when it started, this obsession with finding our faults and our flaws. Having contests with other girls to see who wins for the worst self-image. It's a cycle: someone insults themselves and you can't say "Whoa, yeah...I totally see what you mean. You're butt has gotten a lot bigger since the last time I saw you!" so instead you say. "What?? That's nothing. Have you seen the bags under my eyes? And these wrinkles/acne/dark circles/pasty legs/unibrow! Don't even get me started!"

Well, if you're looking for flaws, you will find them. If you keep pointing them out over and over  then pretty soon you'll become your insecurities.
That's how it was for me. Years and years of focusing on flaws instead of seeing the original beauty has taken a toll, but I'm not only affecting my self-image...but my daughter's as well.

I am unique. My desires, my goals, my ambitions. My style.

And I love it. I embrace it. Now it's your turn.