Julia Barrett's World

Or as my guy, Andres Torres (on deck) shouted to Aaron Rowand (at the plate) about Edgar Renteria’s home run - “He tol’ me he was gonna do it!”

I never in a million years thought I’d get to go to a World Series game. For real. Amazing.

Before AT&T Park opened (as PacBell Park), my husband bought two seats, two season tickets - not because we thought the Giants were all that - even though they are - but because we love baseball and the park is brilliant. He was there for the first game of the first season - unfortunately I wasn’t because he’d promised a friend that second seat on opening day.

This 2010 has been my favorite, albeit tortuous, season…ever - I love this team of freaks, geeks, rookies and rejects. I have been holding my breath for months, hoping the Giants could pull it off, seeing the potential yet knowing how young some of these players are. We even nicknamed our puppy Buster Nosey. Well, they did it, and damn…winning is sweet.

So, catch up news…speaking of sweet, Charlie at The Smart Girls’ SciFi blog gave my science fiction romance, Captured, a sweet review. http://smartgirlsscifi.wordpress.com/

Susi, The Geeky Bookworm, read my sci fi menage - she’s such a sneak! She called it’s hawt. I have to laugh at myself, I mean, I went for it, and it’s a fun ride, but War and Peace, it’s not. One Four All - in Susi’s words:

“OMG this one was hawt. As the name implies we have a Menage à Quatre in this one. We are thrown into a foreign world and discover it’s secrets while watching this rather hot relationship develop. I loved how Ms Barrett succeeded in making her characters so real and unique. For me it’s always like reading about real persons- their conversations and behavior is something I could imagine happening in real life too, beside the actual 4 lover part- I’m not sure that this would work out- but a nice fantasy nonetheless.” She says she’ll be posting a full review sometime soon.

Sandra Cox has read and reviewed the first two books of my four-part science fiction series - Daughters of Persephone, Exile and Return. She’s posting it Wednesday at her place: http://sandracox.blogspot.com/ I know she and I would both appreciate it if you drop by - the review is short.

Oooh, I got some swag! I never get swag, but I won two books this week. Check it out!

I won a copy of Virgin River, by Robyn Carr, from Penelope’s Romance Reviews, which is totally cool because the heroine is a nurse-midwife - which is what I originally trained as.

I also won a copy of Mr. Darcy’s Obsession, by Abigail Reynolds, from Sourcebooks. Cool!

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Here’s my own quickie review of Linda Howard’s Mr. Perfect - I totally adore Linda Howard and Mr. Perfect is, in many ways, vintage Howard. There are some great visuals, ala, the sexy cop-neighbor love interest hero. I like the mouthy heroine for the most part…occasionally she comes across as a bit much. I think the biggest disappointment for me are the secondary characters. Aside from the hero, who doesn’t play the huge role her usual heroes do - oops, he kind of has a huge role, i.e. , significant attributes, I couldn’t relate to the secondary characters. Ah well…still an enjoyable read overall and one of her books I had not read before.