In real life, it’s not usually all that funny when someone’s intellectual prowess is seriously lacking. Say, for example, you find yourself explaining to someone that Montana is not part of Wyoming (as previously believed) but is in fact a separate state. Yes, this happened to me, and the details are more depressing than amusing….
I ordered His for the Taking by Julie Cohen because after reading somewhere online that the original British title was Driving Him Crazy, I wanted to read the book that is supposed to fit both titles. To my surprise, it does. There are three chapters of “his for the taking” (in which the hero is…
Rare Breed is a book I really wanted to like. It’s an adventure tale set in Africa with a heroine who’s a park ranger fighting to save the animals from poachers. Needless to say, this isn’t exactly the kind of story you come across everyday. But the more I think about it, the more I…
I was so impressed and intrigued by Wen Spencer’s debut book, Alien Taste, that I couldn’t wait to read the next book in the series, Tainted Trail. So when it came in the mail, I dropped everything else I was reading and gobbled it up in one sitting. I was happy to spend some more…
Catch a Dream by Mary Jane Meier features a heroine, Meg, who breaks up with her fiancé (who also happens to be her boss) while on a camping trip to Yellowstone. Only after he’s gone does she realize that her purse is still in his car. Now she has no man, no job, no money,…