Nov. 4th, 2007

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1.) Can you cook? only cakes, but I'm very good at it

2.) What was your dream growing up? finding true love

3.) What talent do you wish you had? something artistic, that make me unique

4.) If I bought you a drink what would it be? Coca and rhum

5.) Favorite vegetable? Mushroom

6.) What was the last book you read? Secrets and Misdemeanors by G.A. Hauser, finish just now

7.) What zodiac sign are you ? Leo

8.) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? No and No

9.) Worst Habit? I like to sleep

10.) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride? I think so

11.) What is your favorite sport? No a sport fan... I like to see the Olympic Games

12.) Negative or Optimistic attitude? Optimistic

13.) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me? Joke I suppose

14.) Worst thing to ever happen to you? I lost my father too soon

15.) Tell me one weird fact about you: I don't like to be too near to person I don't know (and sometime also person I know)

16.) Do you have any pets? Not now, used to have cats

17.) What if i showed up at your house unexpectedly? I offer you a coffee

18.) What was your first impression of me? A pretty pensive person

19.) Do you think clowns are cute or scary? Scary

20.) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be? My weight

21.) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience? Crime partner

22.) What color eyes do you have? Brown

23.) Ever been arrested? No

24.) Bottle or Draft? Bottle

25.) If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it? A travel

26.) Would you date me? I think you are a woman, so a date between friend yes (I like men :-))) )

27.) Where 's your favorite place to hang out? Cinema

28.) Do you believe in ghosts? Not sure, sometime yes

29.) Favorite thing to do in your spare time? Read

30.) Do you swear a lot? Not a lot, if I'm hungry

31.) Biggest pet peeve? Sorry, don't understand the question (in italian sound strange)

ETA: when someone doesn't respect a due time milestone (thanks [livejournal.com profile] margaret_leigh)

32.) In one word, how would you describe yourself? Always in hurry

33.) Do you believe in/appreciate romance? Oh YES

34.) If you could spend 12 hours with me and ask/do anything you like, what would it be? Mmmm, I like to talk of family and friends and lovers

35) Do you believe in God? No

36.) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same? Yes
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gacked from [livejournal.com profile] whydylan

1.) Can you cook? only cakes, but I'm very good at it

2.) What was your dream growing up? finding true love

3.) What talent do you wish you had? something artistic, that make me unique

4.) If I bought you a drink what would it be? Coca and rhum

5.) Favorite vegetable? Mushroom

6.) What was the last book you read? Secrets and Misdemeanors by G.A. Hauser, finish just now

7.) What zodiac sign are you ? Leo

8.) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? No and No

9.) Worst Habit? I like to sleep

10.) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride? I think so

11.) What is your favorite sport? No a sport fan... I like to see the Olympic Games

12.) Negative or Optimistic attitude? Optimistic

13.) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me? Joke I suppose

14.) Worst thing to ever happen to you? I lost my father too soon

15.) Tell me one weird fact about you: I don't like to be too near to person I don't know (and sometime also person I know)

16.) Do you have any pets? Not now, used to have cats

17.) What if i showed up at your house unexpectedly? I offer you a coffee

18.) What was your first impression of me? A pretty pensive person

19.) Do you think clowns are cute or scary? Scary

20.) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be? My weight

21.) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience? Crime partner

22.) What color eyes do you have? Brown

23.) Ever been arrested? No

24.) Bottle or Draft? Bottle

25.) If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it? A travel

26.) Would you date me? I think you are a woman, so a date between friend yes (I like men :-))) )

27.) Where 's your favorite place to hang out? Cinema

28.) Do you believe in ghosts? Not sure, sometime yes

29.) Favorite thing to do in your spare time? Read

30.) Do you swear a lot? Not a lot, if I'm hungry

31.) Biggest pet peeve? Sorry, don't understand the question (in italian sound strange)

ETA: when someone doesn't respect a due time milestone (thanks [livejournal.com profile] margaret_leigh)

32.) In one word, how would you describe yourself? Always in hurry

33.) Do you believe in/appreciate romance? Oh YES

34.) If you could spend 12 hours with me and ask/do anything you like, what would it be? Mmmm, I like to talk of family and friends and lovers

35) Do you believe in God? No

36.) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same? Yes
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First of all I have to check the meaning of Misdemeanors in my dictionary, and I didn't find it!!! I think to have understood the meaning in the context of the book, but, hey, my compliments to an author who has chosen to use it in her title!

All right, after I think five books I have read by G.A. Hauser, I have to admit that I like her books. Point. I don't know why, maybe cause she satisfies the romantic in me. Like in this one: Lyle is a 25 years old construction worker. He is handsome and nice: the first scene you read of him, I have imagined him like that hunk in the Coca Cola's ad (remember him? that lucious guy who enters in a office full of women bringing on his shoulder a big pack?). And Lyle is gay and he has an instant crush on David, the owner of the building he is working on and a big-money lawyer.

David is a 41 years old handsome nearly divorced man. Unlike Lyle, he is not the hunk type, he is more like a Richard Gere of Kurosawa's movie rather than the American Gigolo's era. And since his divorce he has had a lonely and all work life. His only joy are those days he spend with his sons. But he has a bitch as ex wife and sometime she manages to ruin also that. David is not gay, but he has no problem to admit that even him is attracted to a beautiful man like Lyle (and maybe this is the only part of the book I have found a little to fast, David sets his mind on the gay thing too fast), and when Lyle makes a move on him, he eagerly accepts the unexpected gift he is receiving. And when he has a taste of such a sweet man, he seems to be not able to go back to his old life: he wants Lyle all for him, everytime and everywhere. But now is Lyle that makes a step back: all is happening too fast and too strong, how he can give up his shitty life to live in a penthouse with a man like David, tender and caring? HOW!!! Well, Lyle, sets your mind in the right track and accepts the dreams of every women on earth! And joke apart, this is maybe one of the things why I like so much G.A. Hauser's books, the subtle (and sometime not so subtle) irony she puts in everything and the glimpses on a all-glittering world no one of us will have never the chance to see in person: money, fashion, movieland and thing like that. 

In the end my comparison to Richard Gere for David is not so strange: this story is more or less like a M/M Pretty Woman, with our David in the role of the too perfect and without a life businessman and Lyle in the role of the pennyless lover who is too proud to be kept by his older and richer "daddy".

Amazon: Secrets and Misdemeanors
Amazon Kindle: Secrets and Misdemeanors
Paperback: 186 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (August 25, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1449593062
ISBN-13: 978-1449593063

Series:
1) Miller's Tale
2) Secrets and Misdemeanors

Reading List: http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading+list&view=elisa.rolle

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First of all I have to check the meaning of Misdemeanors in my dictionary, and I didn't find it!!! I think to have understood the meaning in the context of the book, but, hey, my compliments to an author who has chosen to use it in her title!

All right, after I think five books I have read by G.A. Hauser, I have to admit that I like her books. Point. I don't know why, maybe cause she satisfies the romantic in me. Like in this one: Lyle is a 25 years old construction worker. He is handsome and nice: the first scene you read of him, I have imagined him like that hunk in the Coca Cola's ad (remember him? that lucious guy who enters in a office full of women bringing on his shoulder a big pack?). And Lyle is gay and he has an instant crush on David, the owner of the building he is working on and a big-money lawyer.

David is a 41 years old handsome nearly divorced man. Unlike Lyle, he is not the hunk type, he is more like a Richard Gere of Kurosawa's movie rather than the American Gigolo's era. And since his divorce he has had a lonely and all work life. His only joy are those days he spend with his sons. But he has a bitch as ex wife and sometime she manages to ruin also that. David is not gay, but he has no problem to admit that even him is attracted to a beautiful man like Lyle (and maybe this is the only part of the book I have found a little to fast, David sets his mind on the gay thing too fast), and when Lyle makes a move on him, he eagerly accepts the unexpected gift he is receiving. And when he has a taste of such a sweet man, he seems to be not able to go back to his old life: he wants Lyle all for him, everytime and everywhere. But now is Lyle that makes a step back: all is happening too fast and too strong, how he can give up his shitty life to live in a penthouse with a man like David, tender and caring? HOW!!! Well, Lyle, sets your mind in the right track and accepts the dreams of every women on earth! And joke apart, this is maybe one of the things why I like so much G.A. Hauser's books, the subtle (and sometime not so subtle) irony she puts in everything and the glimpses on a all-glittering world no one of us will have never the chance to see in person: money, fashion, movieland and thing like that. 

In the end my comparison to Richard Gere for David is not so strange: this story is more or less like a M/M Pretty Woman, with our David in the role of the too perfect and without a life businessman and Lyle in the role of the pennyless lover who is too proud to be kept by his older and richer "daddy".

Amazon: Secrets and Misdemeanors

Amazon Kindle: Secrets and Misdemeanors

Series:
1) Miller's Tale
2) Secrets and Misdemeanors

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading+list&view=elisa.rolle

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