Reading List - April 2010 & Monday’s Hot Couple

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I’m back and exhausted, lol! But we had a great time! :D
Today was back to business as usual and although a lot of work was waiting for me at the office I did manage to visit a lot of your blogs in between the boring tasks to catch up with all the, sometimes multiple, posts. I didn’t have time to leave comments though, but I will be back in the ‘comment saddle’ by tomorrow night the latest, I think :)

We had a wonderful long weekend, although I missed being online a lot ;) And Queen’s Day (or Koninginnedag as we call it) was one big exhausting party! I took some pictures but it rained part of the time, so there weren’t as many boats as usual in the canals. Here's a little visual impression:

Still, everyone was in a good mood and lots of music was played and we were having a good time until far after midnight, for three nights in a row. We stayed for the rest of the weekend to meet with some other friends, have dinner with them, go out dancing and to the Casino and do some shopping.

And I bought me some ‘real’ books, that is, not of the digital kind but of the dead tree type. I know, it’s a shock! ;) I had these gift certificates, so I was looking for some English paperbacks to spend them on, and I stumbled upon the Night Huntress series by Jeaniene Frost and Soulless by Gail Carriger in the biggest bookshop of Utrecht. I must say that I’ve never seen any of these books before in our local bookstore, so it was a surprise to find those authors. Look at them, being pretty on my desk!

Hubby looked at the Night Huntress covers and asked ‘Are those the smutty kind of books too?’, and me ‘No, *g* eh, maybe, why?’ and he, looking at the covers again ‘That’s one hell of a good looking chic!’ I couldn’t help laughing and teasing him with ‘So, you want them to be smutty!’.

Which reminds me, I have to wrap up my April smut reading month. Here’s my reading list:

Only Yours by J.R. Patrick, 3.5 stars
Dangerous Distraction by Mia Watts, 3.75 stars
Two Steps Up by Sean Kennedy, 3.5 stars
Her Vampire Husband by Michele Hauf, 3.75 stars
Oleander House (Bay City Paranormal Investigation #1) by Ally Blue, 4 stars
What Hides Inside (Bay City Paranormal Investigation #2) by Ally Blue, 4 stars
Ratchet (Deviations, #2.5) by Chris Owen & Jodi Payne, 3 stars
Pineapples & Chocolate by E.M. Lynley, 3 stars
Twilight (Bay City Paranormal Investigation #3) by Ally Blue, 3.5 stars
Closer (Bay City Paranormal Investigation #4) by Ally Blue, 4 stars
An Inner Darkness (Bay City Paranormal Investigation #5) by Ally Blue, 4.5 stars
Where The Heart Is (Bay City Paranormal Investigation #6) by Ally Blue, 4 stars
Happy Ending (Men of Smithfield, #2) by L.B. Gregg, 3.5 stars
Icing On The Cake by Shayla Kersten, 4 stars
Perfect Man by Shawn Lane, 4 stars
Another Chance by Shawn Lane, 4.5 stars
Trust by Shawn Lane, 4.5 stars
Heart and Soul (Assignment, #4) by Evangeline Anderson, 3 stars
Turquoise and Leather (Collared, #1) by Kim Dare, 3.5 stars
Centrefold by Kris Norris, 3 stars

It’s a total of 20 titles, but a lot of them are shorts and novella’s. Not a single 5 star rate this month, but still a good average and I enjoyed all the stories.
I hope you all had a great month too!