I’ve got my cranky pants on today. First of all, I’ve always loved contemporary romance. And there are many – many – writers of contemporary romance I love. Really love. Welcome to Temptation is my touchstone…
A few weeks ago, I blogged about how I discovered romance in the exquisite pages of Gail Carson Levine’s classic children’s novel, Ella Enchanted. A few years later came a different book that showed me another…
I admit it: I am a Malcolm Gladwell fan girl. I don’t stalk his blog or anything, but I’ve read all his books – two of them twice – and found them all fascinating. I recently…
I nearly always find writing the Reviewer’s Choice Column affirming (in a “See? There WERE some good books this year!” kind of way). And it’s always nice to have a column with unabashed gushing; often we…
If you live in Laredo, Texas, shopping for books just got a lot harder. On January 16th, with the closing of its’ sole bookstore – a B.Dalton – the city of a quarter million people became…
If you spend much time around romance, particularly historical romance, you know that mistresses show up fairly often. Many, especially in older books, take the form of the woman that was kept by the hero before…
As promised, here are the randomly selected winners of a The Golden Season, the new historical romance from Connie Brockway: Mary, J. Perry Stone, BethanyA, Victoria S, SusanDC, Kathy W, willaful, MaryK, Eva M, and My Linh…
As part of the ongoing discussion about reading or really the lack thereof, I must admit that I’ve been in a major reading slump for the last few months. Obviously, I’m not the only one. Recently…
First of all, congratulations to our Laura Kinsale winners! Out of 250+ entries, we got 10 winners, courtesy of random.org – KJ, Wendy M., Jen W., Eleanor R., Laura, Bree, Elaine K, Nicole M., Kristie(J) and…
This past week, I read The Mane Squeeze by Shelly Laurenston. About halfway through the book I realised the heroine’s best friend was black and though she had previously struck me as slightly annoying, I finished…