Status Updates From Where Seagulls Cry

Guess what came in the mail today? Woo hoo! Paperback I ordered. Happy Weekend to me. 1977 vintage HP. I'm thrilled!

S Africa seems to have an abundance of bitchy uber-beautiful OW

2nd HR in a row set in S Africa

"...she saw his eyes become cold flints of steel." Again with the eyes!

What is it with British Harlequins and omelettes for supper?

Problem the second: there's just no detail! It's her wedding day and virtually all we get is this: "Her wedding gown, which had cost her a trip to Cape Town by train besides the unearthly price she had had to pay for the dress, was of a soft white satin that accentuated her youthful slenderness"

....and that's it

Problem the first: "The proof of her success was in the glimmer of a smile that lurked in his eyes; eyes that had a great deal to do with the peculiar weakness in her knees."

Um, eyes that CANNOT SEE?

So, by page 25 heroine loves blind hero. Um, maybe I missed something? Or an entire chapter got lost on conversion to ebook? I know I skimread, but I can't have missed THAT much.

Now she's heating up warm milk, this just gets better and better!

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Dr. Adam Granger! she thought angrily.

Bwahahahahaha!!

"If you don't shake off your defeatist attitude, your life will become worthless," she told him sharply.

Don't hold back, there, Kim - say what you really think.

Now he's lighting a pipe! (Hugs self with happiness)

'If the room appears rather untidy you must forgive me, but I spend my days here listening to records or just doing nothing." What does it say about me that reading this line gives me warm nostalgic fuzzies?

Been a while since I've read an old Harley, thanks Karla!