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My Personal Rita Reading Challenge
I have a long-term relationship with the Ritas. I had no friends who read romances (or at least admitted that they did) when I began reading romances in the 1990s. So soon after I finished Jayne…
Speaking of Audiobooks: May 2012 Releases
May 5th will mark three years for the Speaking of Audiobooks column. What started as a mere opportunity to give my opinion that audiobooks are All About the Narrator, rapidly grew to a twice-monthly feature here…
Sherry Thomas Book Celebration and ARC Giveaway (Contest Closed)
Since Sherry Thomas first burst onto the scene in 2008 her reputation has grown as one of the most literate and lush writers of romance. Now, after a wait of two years (during which Sherry switched…
Complicated song titles
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=552nkpBaCIEThe song title that got me started on this topic is not even real, it’s fictional: In Marcia Muller’s Sharon McCone mysteries, Sharon’s brother-in-law Ricky Savage is a country star, and his first big hit in…
Guns
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncGi-sRZqKM For the most part my life tends to run on the same cogs. Go to work, come home, do housework, play with my dogs, socialize. Every once in a while there is something that happens…
Pandora's Box: About That Night
We’re back with another Pandora’s Box, this time featuring About That Night by Julie James. We have lots of Julie James fans here, so we thought it would be fun to get two reactions to her…
Least Favorite Household Task
I hate laundry. Always have. One reason is that I have always lived in homes with inconvenient laundry rooms. At my parent’s house it is in the basement, down a very steep flight of concrete steps.…