The Madness of it All!

I have spent the last three days flat on my back. I've been so sick I could barely move. It appears that I can't catch a break I guess it could be worse in the sense that at least I didn't get the strep throat, however I did have to call out of work yesterday and now I will definitely be reprimanded today and put on a First and Final for attendance. What that means, people, is that I will be unable to be sick for the next 6 months!

Which is whatever, I should have been well, I shouldn't be working this hotbed of disease that I call work, however I do and I did, so it is what it is. Hopefully I won't get sick again. Go figure! I will just start to ask off for a day every two to three weeks and do what needs to be done then. Hopefully I will be working from home this week and won't have to wonder what the hell is going on when I can't stand up and walk.

I think I am running a temperature so please disregard anything I have written thus far.

I just finished reading a book by Victoria Alexander called Desires of a Perfect Lady. I liked some things about this book, didn't much care for others. The book is about Olivia who was in a bad marriage with a horrible man who abused her horribly. Well he was murdered in another book (had his throat slit, ick!) well anyway in order to gain her inheritance (the man was filthy rich with a emphasis on filthy) she has to complete three of his art collections. Apparently he was a huge art collector, including Titian, Egyptian artifacts and things of that nature. The thing is the man was crazy so he is trying to make his wife finish the collections which in his mind she would never have been able to complete therefore keeping her on a shoestring budget the rest of her life. He liked torturing her.

So Olivia had to turn to her ex-love. The man who abandoned her when she needed him. She was to have married the Earl of Wyldewood when they were young, but her father made her marry the crazy Lord Rathbourne instead. She wrote letters to the Earl but he was such an idiot that he never read them. If you can tell I am not a fan of the Earl of Wyldewood. I found him kind of self centered, very needy and a lot immature. After what Olivia went through I would have hoped he would be man enough to handle her but I have a feeling he is not the best man for our heroine. Anyway, she had to go to him, simply because she couldn't afford to take on the taste of completing the art collections with the budget her dead husband set her up with. Anyway, this undertaking takes our couple from England to Egypt to Italy and along the way they have to fight their feelings for one another, then give in, then fight some more,  before we see our happy ending (It's a romance novel so of course there is a happy ending!)

The one thing I didn't understand was that twice in the book Olivia is attacked at night in her bed but nothing ever came of it. We don't know who did it, we don't know why, it just happens and then it disappears like it never happened. Go figure! I completely do not get it. Also the Earl is boring. I was so terribly bored by him that at one point I put the book down and read another book entirely before picking it up again. I like my men either humorous or take charge and hot and the Earl is neither. Olivia I liked, she persevered through some really hard times. She survived with her mind intact. She just has horrible taste in men!

If you are curious about this book there is a first one about the Earl's treasure hunting brother The Virgin's Secret of course I never read things in order so I haven't read this one. There is another brother who I am sure has a book already or will have one but I can't locate a third book so who knows.

Thanks for reading my randomness.