What makes British accent so attractive?

"Afternoon, sir, ma'am. Hope you had a nice trip."

Philip had an urge to kiss the pilot hard on the mouth for no other reason 
than his cheerful British voice. 

Sweet Revenge

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People tend to think a foreign accent is more interesting and more sexy, says Guy Winch, a psychotherapist from Britain who's long been in the United States, “because in general we tend to value what's less common.”

Americans associate a British accent with someone being “more intelligent, more sophisticated and more competent – and those are all qualities that a lot of people find attractive,”

Journal Gazette

Feeling depressed after reaching a big goal?

For a moment she could only kneel where she was, the key still in her hand. 

All of her life she'd been driven toward this moment.

Now that it was here, she couldn't move.

"Addy?"

"It's a little like dying, you know? 

To finally accomplish the most important goal in your life. 

To know that when it's done, it's done, and nothing else 

you ever do will have the same impact." 

Sweet Revenge

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By N 3 14 15 92 65 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59330459

Our society is goal-oriented, from Olympic athletes' competing to bring home the gold to entry-level employees seeking to earn a promotion. But why would achieving those goals leave someone feeling empty rather than elated, and how can that let down be avoided?

Desert News

Nora saw it coming

Fahid studied the matawain who shouted at the lone woman and shoved her roughly out of the suq. He disapproved of such things, but he was not yet king. "It is sometimes difficult to find the balance between what is best in your world and what is best in my own. If Jaquir is to survive more progress, more compromise will be necessary. The laws of Islam cannot change, the traditions of men must."

Sweet Revenge

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Saudi Arabia's crown prince promises to lead his country 'back to moderate Islam'

YAHOO!

Brides around the World

She took his breath away. There was no other way for him to describe it. One moment he was breathing, thinking like any man, and the next, the moment he saw her, everything stopped. Even his fingers went numb. The nerves he thought he didn't have reached up and grabbed him by the throat.

Sweet Revenge

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By Faisal Akram from Dhaka, Bangladesh - Maheer & Progga, CC BY-SA 2.0,

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31632036

From India to Indonesia: 

Beautiful pictures of brides show how traditional wedding dresses look around the world

• Many people associate weddings with white dresses and veils
• However, wedding traditions are in fact very different in how they look
• FEMAIL documents some of the most beautiful ceremonies and traditions
• Some brides don colourful garments; others paint their faces and skin

DAILYMAIL 

Mentions in Nora's Novels

At GoodReads, today, someone was saying how details aren't important in Novels... someone had been pointing that some less rigorous detail in one NR novel that kept distracting her from the story... two members jumped in saying that it wasn't important... I beg to differ... we all love Nora Roberts' Books BUT details DO matter.

When reading a novel - as much deep into it I am - I can't help but having my mind flying away with the several mentions that show up. It is easy for a song, a singer's name, a place mention to send me away from the book into the internet to search for what Nora's trying to show, bring, evoke... that way I can return to the book knowing where and with whom I stand ;)

On one salmon-colored wall was a Maxfield Parrish sea nymph. Noting it, Philip had affirmed that Adrianne was more of a romantic than she wanted to admit.

The Sweet Revenge