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The Early TV Cooking Stars
I recently re-watched Julie and Julia, and it’s got me thinking fondly of the old days of television cooking shows. Before the Food Network and the Cooking Channel existed, the main venue for cooking shows on…
Book Bully
This summer I had quite the shock when I discovered that my son’s peers could actually influence his reading choices at the tender age of eight. Clothes were already an issue, but poor, naïve me didn’t…
Upcoming Author Book Signings
This has been a banner month for me for book signings. In late October I attended a signing for a debut mystery author, Gary Corby, at my local mystery book store. He was charming, and ended…
The Best? Or the Favorites?
When I submitted my entries for the 2007 Top 100 Romance Poll, my exposure to romance novels was still fairly limited. But in the past three years my reading has expanded in both breadth and depth,…
A quiet evening
At the moment, I need to work a lot, which means often I sit at my desk until rather late in the evening. So it was a great pleasure when I could take yesterday evening “off”…
Speaking of Audiobooks: When Books Succeed but Audios Fail
Discovering earlier this year that more of Lisa Kleypas’ backlist was scheduled for future audiobook release, the romance audio enthusiast inside of me was ecstatic. Back in my first days of reading romance I read every…
Mac or PC?
I’m starting the long process for shopping for a laptop, and man is it fun. They’re all so shiny and new, and I get giddy just thinking about it. (Yeah, I’m a geek.) Anyway, the big…