Part One I’m just coming off a very ill-timed Harry Potter bender. My children are getting out of school amid a flurry of end-of-the-year activities, and one of them had a birthday and recital on top of that. I’ve had a million things to do, and all I want to do is read Harry Potter….
When you think romance, Dean Koontz probably isn’t a name that springs to mind right away, but I find many of his books deeply romantic. The first Koontz book I ever read was Watchers and I was very moved by the tender romance between the loner Travis Cornell and Nora Devon, who thinks of herself…
How would I describe The Wedding Officer? In a word – beautiful. I so enjoyed this book that I wanted more of the wonderful characters and setting. Anthony Capella does an amazing job of describing wartime Italy, the seductive beauty of the Southern part of the country, the richness of Italian food, the horror of…
The Girl in Times Square is a sequel of sorts to Paullina Simons’s earlier mystery, Red Leaves, with more suffering in store for her hero, Spencer O’Malley. Lily Quinn is a 24-year-old art major whose life is drifting along, disturbed only by her struggle to financially survive in New York City. She lives with her…
Despite the perks, being the Queen of Vampires isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. True, her Vampire Highness Betsy Taylor gets to live forever, is perpetually thirty, and is about to marry vampire hottie, Eric Sinclair, but even a Vampire Queen has to deal with unpleasant house-guests, relatives, wedding plans, and bad hair…
I picked up The Stork Reality because the premise – a young, married professional woman dealing with an unexpected pregnancy – was intriguing to me. I admit that I was a little afraid that it would suffer from what my husband and I jokingly call the “Newsweek covering the baby boomers” phenomenon; or in other…
Long-buried secrets from the Vietnam War come to light in Invisible Girl, Tess Hudson’s involving tale about the lingering effects of the past on the present. Growing up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, Maggie Malone was exposed to the darker side of the world at an early age. Her mother Mai, who her father met…
Lucy Armstrong, a successful director of television commercials, has supposedly been given her big break to direct the filming of the last four days of action shots for the movie Don’t Look Down. Few directors would want to finish up someone else’s movie, but the money is too good to pass up. Also, since Lucy’s…
There are a few writers who have created a character whose name has become a by-word for a certain type of person. If we describe a man as a “regular Sherlock Holmes”, everyone knows what kind of man he is. Until recently, a popular search engine was named Ask Jeeves.com. Jeeves is of course the…
For the past three months I’ve been reading like a madwoman for the local library’s “Let It Snow” adult reading program. There are all these categories you have to read in order to qualify for the final drawing, and one of them is this year’s “One Book One County” selection: My Sister’s Keeper. As a…
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