HAVE YOU CAUGHT THE FEVER YET?

NOTE:  JUST FOR FUN, NOT FOR SALE

As I have recently crowned myself head of our unincorporated local fever fanatics group (representing the mountains of East Tennessee), I decided what better way to celebrate a certain (*AHEM*) upcoming birthday than by gifting ourselves with a SPECIAL WISH! ;-)

So without further delay, I give to you our officially unofficial Barrons' Babe's FEVER Wish Bracelets...

...BET YOU CAN'T GUESS WHAT I WISHED FOR! HA!



QUOTE:  "One day you may kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence," -Barrons
"Right, and one day my prince might come," -Mac
"I doubt he'll be a prince, Ms. Lane, men rarely are." -Barrons
CREDIT: Karen Marie Moning, The Fever Series

QUOTE:  "God said:  Let there be light!  I said:  Say Please."  -Barrons
CREDIT: Karen Marie Moning, The Fever Series

QUOTE:  "God said:  Let there be light!  I said:  Say Please."  -Barrons
CREDIT: Karen Marie Moning, The Fever Series

QUOTE:  "Women have been repeating the same mistake since time began; falling for a man's potential.  We rarely see it the same way, and even more rarely care to achieve it."  -Barrons
CREDIT: Karen Marie Moning, The Fever Series

QUOTE:  "Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of EVERYTHING."  -Mac
CREDIT: Karen Marie Moning, The Fever Series

QUOTE:  "Fire to my Ice.  Ice to my Fever."
CREDIT: Karen Marie Moning, The Fever Series

QUOTE:  "Fire to my Ice.  Ice to my Fever."
CREDIT: Karen Marie Moning, The Fever Series



BASED ON:

 Karen Marie Moning's

THE FEVER SERIES

A NOTE TO KMM...

I was busy just "minutes" ago posting new pix and item updates when i slid across one of my favorite authors status updates on her facebook page, Karen Marie Moning (KMM) author of my all time favorite books, THE FEVER SERIES. 

The update, BTW, is a note stating that she has signed on not only to do a 'DANI' trilogy, set in the same time and with the same characters as the fever series, but TWO NEW BARRONS BOOKS AS WELL. 

(CLICK HERE FOR KMM'S POST)

I suddenly stopped, literally STOPPED doing everything i was doing (which actually was kind of important now that i think about it, jewelry business and all that *money = livelihood and fun stuff of that nature*) and had a moment relatively close to the screaming fanatic teenagers you see jumping up and down outside pop-stars dressing rooms...

...and that was it.   

It is now WELL past midnight (several HOURS, not MINUTES later) and I find myself sitting here reading post after post, blog after blog, mind boggled up and lost completely in Jericho Barrons.

When KMM wrote this beast into life she un-intentionally raised the expectations of women everywhere to the point that there isn't a living breathing man alive today that could possibly make us happy. 

No, we want a growling undefined creature pushing us to our limits, chaining us to poles, and holding us by the throats while he kisses us to the point we can't breathe.

Thanks Karen, Really! 

SO...from all of us who will forever only be satisfied by the man living in your head I not only THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart but beg feverously (FEVER *WINK*) that you keep us well fed on JERICHO BARRONS indefinitely!!


For everyone else...
here is a "P.S." for you:  Not that i am convinced there is a movie screen anywhere that is going to be able to contain him, Dreamworks has signed on to do the FEVER MOVIES...so BARRONS is literally going HOLLYWOOD! (-another rant of excited screaming-) *SIGH*

 (LINK TO DREAMWORKS ANOUNCEMENT)


*********BARRONS IN KMM'S ON WORDS:

When every other novel I was picking up in the bookstore announced: Vampire/Werewolf/Demon hero on the cover, and was marketing it on the basis of that paranormal creature’s mythic resonance, I wanted to write a story with a male center-stage character that defied labels, and wouldn’t permit one. I wanted to make the reader choose to take him or leave him without the convenience of a pre-packaged tortured-hero caricature to slap over his outline, and no easy answers about whether he was good or bad. I wanted to write a paranormal creature and never tell the reader what he was, because I believed they would ultimately see him more clearly in his everyday behavior, than through the distorted lens of someone else’s legend.
Barrons says, “Judge me by my actions” and makes the reader do the same. At the end of the series, I want the reader to answer the question: Who/what is Barrons? the same way Mac does: Who cares? He’s Barrons.
(LINK TO KMM'S BLOG)


A LITTLE SOMEHTING EXTRA:
ALSO...to torture us ever so much more KMM posted a sex scene written in BARRONS POV.  yeah. 

(LINK TO BARRONS SEX SCENE)

the wolves of mercy falls

ironically ... there is a story from my childhood that my cousin JOSH LOVES TO BLAB about at EVERY SINGLE FAMILY GET TOGETHER ... about this ONE time when i was probably around 9 and he around 7 that i tried to convince him that not only was my dog SAM (an Australian blue healer) really a WOLF, but that i was also MARRIED to him and when HE (JOSH) wasn't around he turned into a BOY! Yeah, i know ... BUT ... you can see why these books kind of hit a tender spot with me so to say :-)

KINDLE HIGHLIGHTS

You're my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall /  i spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful

Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / you see inside my head / still know that you are mine

I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy.  I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewed.  I want my will and i want to go with my will as it moves towards action.  And i want, in those silent, somehow faltering times, to be with someone who knows, or else alone. i want to reflect everything about you, and i never want to be too blind or too ancient to keep your profound wavering image with me.  i want to unfold.  i don't want to be folded anywhere, because there, where I'm folded, i am a lie."

Rilke said, "this is what fate means: to be opposite, to be opposite to everything and nothing else but opposite and always opposite"

There is no better taste than this: Someone Else's laughter in your mouth

People don't change who they are, they only change what they do with it

And what rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

"Wie lange broucht man jaden Tag, bis man sich Kennt"

"...it means 'how long it takes us, each day, to know eathother'"

"For amount these winters there is one so endlessly winter, that only by wintering through it will your heart survive"

"I'm always sure of what i do, sometimes i was just never sure there was supposed to be a happy ending"

...someone could be both God and the devil

"scent is the strongest tie to memory"

"...Like my lungs were made of lead.  like i can't even think about starting to care about anything.  like i either wish that they were all dead, or i was, because i can't stand the pull of all that history between us.  that's before i even pick up the phone.  I'm so tired i never want to wake up again.  but I've figured out now that it was never them that made me fell that way. it was just me, all along"

"...I was surrounded by adults with lives that i could never imagine living. it was the humming noise inside me that told me to do something and found nothing to do that meant anything, the bit of me that was like a fly smashing itself again and again on a windowpane.  It was a futility of aging...it was the realization that this was life, and i didn't belong here."

Evidence that we'd probably never be cured of each other, but we might be able to keep it from killing us

He was every devil and every angel

"Die letzte aller turen

Doch nie hat man

an alle schon geklopft"

the last of all doors

but one has never

knocked on all the others

... shower scene ... *SIGH*

I love HBO's TRUE BLOOD and this past sunday it dawned on me what book we are in this season. 

it has been well over a year since i devoured Charlaine Harris's southern vampire series (AKA Sookie Stackhouse novels) ... and that one ... umm, AH-HEM ... scene from the sixth chapter in the fourth book, Dead to the World, still sticks with me ...
so ... just in case you need to re-read once ... or twice ... or ten times ... to re-jogg your memory ... or in the case you have never read and need to be up to SNUFF with the rest of us ... here is a little teaser for you ...

READ ME

LIKE WHAT YOU JUST READ???
i know right ;)
- so click here to get the entire series at AMAZON









link to Charlaine Harris's Offical website (bibliography)

a vampire knight - ;)

My Kindle Highlights

quotes

"if the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it’s only because it doesn’t know that the fire can consume it"


"he most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed."


"t is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.”

"don't focus on details - magic's in the heart, not the mind - its not about words, or following a procedure - you have to FEEL it."

Jericho Barrons *breathless*

the perfect bad boy

 

the fever series. read it. 

My Kindle Highlights

quotes

"One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can’t breathe around it and you realize you don’t need air. Oxygen is trivial. Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again. "
-jericho barrons, the fever series



"And I’m sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody’s does, and you go on. It’s how you go on that defines you"

“Some things are sacred. Until you act like they’re not. Then you lose them.”

-jericho barrons, the fever series

“Most people are good and occasionally do something they know is bad. Some people are bad and struggle every day to keep it under control. Others are corrupt to the core and don’t give a damn, as long as they don’t get caught. But evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.”

"Occam’s razor: The simplest explanation that accommodates all variables is most likely the truth. "

"Each morning we wake up, we get to choose between hope and fear and apply one of those emotions to everything we do. "

“one must break with one’s past to embrace one’s future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.”

Womankind’s greatest mistakes: falling in love with a man’s potential. We so rarely share the same view of it, and even more rarely care to achieve it.


“Don’t tell me you didn’t mean to do it, Mac. Omission or commission—the end result is the same.”


Distinguish yourself, my mom had told Alina and me, in an age where girls often make themselves too available to boys, by making him work a little for your attention. He’ll think he’s won a prize when he gets it, and he’ll work that much harder to keep it. Boys turn into men and men put a premium on what’s hardest to get.

It’s our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we’re willing to die for.

“One day you may kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.” -jericho barrons, the fever series

“Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. He thinks you have the heart of a warrior. He believes in you. Believe in him.”

The most confused we ever get is when we’re trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.

You can’t change an unpleasant reality if you won’t acknowledge it, Mac. You can only control what you’re willing to face. Truth hurts. But lies can kill.

Don’t confuse intensity of emotion with quality of emotion

the heart had reasons of which reason knew nothing, the only quote of Pascal’s I remembered.

Life didn’t explode in the sunshine and pretty places. Life took the strongest root with a little bit of rain and a whole lot of shit for fertilizer.

Life’s an ocean, full of waves. All are dangerous. All can drown you. Under the right circumstances, even the gentlest swell can turn tidal. Hopping waves is for the weekend warrior. Choose one, ride it out. It increases your odds of survival.”

;)

Oh - Mr. Darcy!

My Kindle Highlights

quotes

"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago.  I was in the middle before i knew that I had begun"

-Mr. Darcy <3

from the pride and prejudice

(speaking of when he fell in love with Elizabeth)

"your sister is crossed in love, i find.  i congratulate her.  next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. it is something to think of, and it gives her a sort distinction among her companions"
-Mr. Bennett from The Pride and Prejudice