His Lordship’s Mistress is a marvelous book. I had a copy several years ago and lent it my sister Anne, who true to her title as The Pickiest Reader In The World did not like it. Then she lent it to someone else who lost it. Thank goodness it has been reprinted. I read it…
Sometimes judging a book by its cover pays off. I picked Mr. Commitment up because of the colorful toothbrush cover and bought it because of the witty chapter titles and a quote comparing it to the British Men Behaving Badly, which used to be my favorite TV show. I expected lots of funny guy talk,…
Have you ever read something and suddenly realized that it is the book you’ve been waiting for your entire life? That’s what Turtle Moon is to me. Naturally, I think everyone should read it, but especially people who like Christy Yorke’s work. Alice Hoffman has been doing “magical realism” longer, and I believe she’s the…
Connie Willis has received several Hugo and Nebula awards for her skillful writing and she’s got two previous DIK reviews on AAR. Uncharted Territory is different in tone from both Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing Of The Dog but no less intelligent. Findriddy and Carson are explorers who boldly go to where no man…
Blythe: Few people who knew me in high school would have guessed how much I loved Pride and Prejudice. The image I cultivated was more sarcastic and smart alecky than romantic, and I definitely preferred jeans to prom dresses. But deep inside I was really a closet romantic who knew every word of Mr. Darcy’s…
A famous, wealthy, fabulously attractive, professional football star driving down the road in his Aston Martin sees a sweaty woman marching down the side of the road in a beaver costume and decides to give her a ride. Attractive scenario – huh? It hardly inspired me to continue but this is, after all, Susan Elizabeth…
If an author has done her job, I will be swept away into another world and introduced to people I would like to know in real life, and when I leave this fictional world I will have been moved in some way. With The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn has most definitely done her…
I just turned the last page of Virginia Kantra’s latest offering, after reading it in one sitting, and thought, “Ms. Kantra is going to the top.” Maddox Palmer was the bad boy of the small town of Cutler, North Carolina. Called “Mad Dog” because of his skill on the football field, the name stuck through…
“Richness” is the word that comes to mind when I think of By Design. This is what happens when an author comes along and takes something familiar – the medieval setting – and brings it to the next level. A proud young woman stands selling her crafted pottery and statues, her poise setting her apart…
I was bit worried when I started hearing all the positive word of mouth for this book, because when I had skimmed it initially, I hadn’t wanted to dive right in. I was pleasantly surprised to discover The Duke definitely deserves its buzz. Robert Knight, the Duke of Hawkscliffe, is called the Paragon Duke. Robert…
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