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The moral of this story is: be careful what you wish for. In my case, I wished for a great book to read, and I found it! This book was so much fun, even with some plausibilty problems that weren’t really noticed until after the book was finished. I laughed throughout and even shed a…
The casual bookstore browser who happens upon Pink Slip and buys it based on the back blurb is likely to be surprised. It begins with the words, “Lisa Diodetto’s mother may be ready for her to get married but Lisa isn’t” – and goes on to imply that the book is another Bridget Jones clone….
This is a love story written by a gay man, Paul Monette, about his lover and longtime companion, Roger Horowitz, who is dying of AIDS in the late 1980s. Paul himself is infected with HIV and will die of AIDS in 1995 which he will recount in the memoir which follows this one. For this…
“I woke in such a good mood this morning. There was a dress floating about in my head; almost ready, almost there. Cream silk, the skirt trimmed with tiers and tiers of rough cream lace and the bodice tuckered but unadorned except for a single rose.” So begins 36-year-old Susanna Weber’s diary and Eva Ibbotson’s…
I first fell in love with Sharon and Tom Curtis when I read The Windflower four years ago. I bought their entire backlist but didn’t read anything that could rival, or even compare to, that masterpiece. That is, until I read The Golden Touch, written under the name Robin James. The plot of The Golden…
Perhaps I wasn’t in the mood to read another time travel where an ultra-feisty, ultra-American, ultra-attitudinal chick goes back in time and tries to bring a dark, brooding, unsmiling, tormented hero from the 13th century into the 21st – or at the very least, the 14th. However, in spite of my own personal reservations, I’m…
One of my favorite books of all time is Lynn Kurland’s This is All I Ask. One of my least favorite books ever is Kurland’s Another Chance to Dream. While The More I See You doesn’t match the poignancy and feeling of the former, it (thankfully) doesn’t drown the reader in bleakness like the latter,…
The plot involving a bastard of a nobleman marrying a pristine noblewoman who eventually succumbs to his charms is not a new one, but when done well, as in The Barbarian Earl, you end up with engaging characters and a book that leaves a smile on your face. Years ago, the Earl of Stratham pursued…
The first series romance I ever read was given to me by my sister, whose taste in books (and movies, and clothes, and men . . .) is miles apart from mine. Needless to say, it was years before I picked up another one, but if I were to recommend a series romance today, I…
Feel the Heat begins Kathryn Shay’s America’s Bravest trilogy, and what a beginning it is. An enjoyable relationship between two very likable people makes this one a winner; I’ve already reread it once. Feel the Heat and its sequels The Man Who Loved Christmas and Code of Honor put Shay on my auto-buy list. When…
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