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Cheating on My Blog: Bound by Your Touch by Meredith Duran
Monday, 15 June 2009 12:04 P GMT-05
I have a new DIK review up at All About Romance for Bound by Your Touch by Meredith Higgins. Check it out . .
Once More with Feeling Series: Mr. and Mrs. Wrong by Fay Robinson
Wednesday, 10 June 2009 9:02 A GMT-05
Mr. and Mrs. Wrong Fay Robinson Harlequin Superromance #1012 9/2001Rating: B+ "Lucky and Jack Cahill have been married for less than a year when Jack decides to move out. The two of them love each other very much, but they can
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Once More with Feeling Series: Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
Monday, 25 May 2009 9:44 A GMT-05
Remember Me? Sophie Kinsella Chick Lit 2008Rating: B "Sophie Kinsella's newest book, Remember Me?, dangles from an interesting premise: What if you woke up tomorrow and everything that you didn't like about your life was transformed
Once More with Feeling Series: Fifteen by Beverly Cleary
Saturday, 9 May 2009 9:08 P GMT-05
FifteenBeverly ClearyYA 1956Rating: A "There is something about adolescence, those teenage years, that marks you and leaves its brand for life. It's a time of an enormous breadth of feeling; breathless excitement, staggering humil
Cheating on My Blog: Catch of the Day by Kristan Higgins
Wednesday, 29 April 2009 2:39 P GMT-05
I have a new DIK review up at All About Romance for Catch of the Day by Kristan Higgins. Check it out . .
Once More with Feeling Series: His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Monday, 20 April 2009 8:00 P GMT-05
His Majesty's DragonNaomi NovikFantasy 2006 Rating: B "His Majesty’s Dragon is straight fantasy, no romance whatsoever, but it does have, at its heart, a very lovely and emotionally rich relationship between a man and his newly ha
Once More with Feeling Series: Laws of the Blood: Companions by Susan Sizemore
Tuesday, 7 April 2009 9:36 P GMT-05
Laws of the Blood: Companions Susan SizemoreVampire Fiction 2001 Rating: B "I am always up for a good vampire story, and if a little romance is thrown into the mix, so much the better. Until now I was unaware that Susan Sizemore wrote a vam
Once More with Feeling Series: I Am Not Esther by Fleur Beale
Wednesday, 1 April 2009 8:01 P GMT-05
I didn't know exactly what to expect from Can You Keep a Secret?. Becky Bloomwood, the heroine of Kinsella's previous books, the Shopaholic trilogy, struck me as an irresponsible twit, but Kinsella's writing was enjoyable. So this time I was hoping f
Once More with Feeling Series: Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella
Sunday, 22 March 2009 8:02 P GMT-05
I didn't know exactly what to expect from Can You Keep a Secret?. Becky Bloomwood, the heroine of Kinsella's previous books, the Shopaholic trilogy, struck me as an irresponsible twit, but Kinsella's writing was enjoyable. So this time I was hoping f
Once More with Feeling Series: Miranda Blue Calling by Michelle Curry Wright
Saturday, 14 March 2009 1:20 P GMT-05
Miranda Blue CallingMichelle Curry WrightChick Lit 2004 Rating: B "A friend of mine recommended Miranda Blue Calling to me, comparing it to Tim Farrington's The Monk Downstairs . Since I enjoyed that book so much I was eager to try Mich
Once More with Feeling Series: Blindsided by Leslie LaFoy
Saturday, 7 March 2009 9:46 A GMT-05
BlindsidedLeslie LaFoySilhouette Special Edition #1716 2005Rating: B "Catherine Talbott is stuck in a pit not of her own digging. Her husband left her and their twelve-year-old son, Kyle, taking all of their money with him. Her brother Tom
Cheating on My Blog: Fortune and Fate by Sharon Shinn
Monday, 23 February 2009 2:34 P GMT-05
I have a new review up at All About Romance for Fortune and Fate by Sharon Shinn. Check it out. .
Once More with Feeling Series: Nick's Kind of Woman by Margot Early
Monday, 23 February 2009 8:45 A GMT-05
Nick's Kind of WomanMargot EarlyHarlequin Superromance #724 1996Rating: B+ "I came across Margot Early's name in an online recommendation of her book The Keeper, a very unique category romance dealing with mental illness. As
Cheating on My Blog: Fractured by Karin Slaughter
Wednesday, 18 February 2009 1:18 P GMT-05
I have a new review up at All About Romance for Fractured by Karin Slaughter. Check it out . .
Once More with Feeling Series: The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce
Friday, 13 February 2009 9:56 P GMT-05
The Darkangel Meredith Ann PierceYoung Adult Fantasy 1982Rating: B "Myths and fairy tales have a soft spot in the heart of many a reader. I remember very clearly whiling away my childhood hours with Edith Hamilton’s Mythology or
Once More with Feeling Series: The Last of the Honky Tonk Angels by Marsha Moyer
Wednesday, 4 February 2009 10:27 P GMT-05
The Last of the Honky Tonk Angels Marsha Moyer Women's Fiction 2004 Rating: A- "The Last of the Honky Tonk Angels is a true sequel to The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch in that the action of the story picks up right where the first o
Once More with Feeling Series: A Rose for Maggie by Kathleen Korbel
Thursday, 22 January 2009 8:12 P GMT-05
A Rose for Maggie Kathleen KorbelSeries Romance 1991Rating:B+"I picked up my copy of A Rose for Maggie at the UBS on one of those I-can't-find-anything-but-I-need-to-buy-something kind of days. I'd seen it before, had scanned the back co
Once More with Feeling Series: The Wedding Party by Robyn Carr
Tuesday, 30 December 2008 9:21 P GMT-05
The Wedding PartyRobyn CarrWomen's Fiction 2001 Rating:B+ "Charlene Dugan, family lawyer extraordinaire, is very much in control of her life. And then one day. . .she isn't. On one spring day, April 1st, everything seems to fall apa
Once More with Feeling Series: The Emerald Necklace by Diana Brown
Sunday, 21 December 2008 12:00 A GMT-05
The Emerald Necklace Diana BrownSignet Regency 1981 Rating: B+ "Lady Leonora Fordyce finds herself involuntarily engaged and subsequently married to a man not of her selection nor to her taste. Etienne St. Clair Lambert is a financial up
Cheating on my blog commentary: Romance's Foster Kid Ubiquity
Thursday, 18 December 2008 10:44 A GMT-05
Today I wrote a new piece for AAR's blog discussing the ubiquity of foster kids and former foster kids in romance novels. Here's a snippet:"I just finished reading Wolfsbane and Mistletoe, a werewolf Christmas anthology edited by
Cheating on my blog commentary: Hard Times
Wednesday, 26 November 2008 10:50 A GMT-05
Today I wrote a new piece for AAR's blog discussing the idea of romance novels as remedy for what ails you. Sometimes reading the trials and tribulations of other people really helps me put it in perspective. I may have had to pay $4
Once More with Feeling Series: The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch by Marsha Moyer
Thursday, 14 February 2008 10:30 P GMT-05
The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch Marsha Moyer Women's Fiction 2002 Rating: B "Lucy Hatch's life turns upside down when her husband, Mitchell, is killed in a farming accident. Her marriage was far from perfect and far from happ
Once More with Feeling Series: Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Velde
Wednesday, 5 December 2007 8:43 A GMT-05
Companions of the Night Vivian Vande VeldeBook $5.95 2002Rating:A "Kerry Nowicki is sixteen and the de facto caretaker of her little brother, Ian, since her mother abandoned their family last year. The book begins with Ian asking Kerr
My 2007 Top 100 Romances ballot
Thursday, 18 October 2007 11:53 P GMT-05
Here's my Top 100 Romances ballot for All About Romance:1. The Windflower by Sharon and Tom Curtis2. The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons3. The Shadow and the Star by Laura Kinsale4. Fifteen by Beverly Cleary5. Morning Glory by LaVyrle Spencer6
Once More with Feeling Series: An Debt of Honour by Diana Brown
Sunday, 9 September 2007 11:39 P GMT-05
A Debt of Honour Diana BrownSignet Regency 1982 Rating: B+ In inputting this book into my Library Thing, I noticed that I am the only person there with a copy. The only one! Do you know how many people have copies of the craptastic
