Currently, I am working a joint review with another reviewer on a book I loved and she did not. Neither is going to change the other’s mind about this work. She’d give the book a C/low B–for me it’s a DIK. We have agreed to disagree. At the same time, I’ve been deep in conversation…
It is the era of the recycled tale. So much so I often wonder whether or not any original stories are being filmed. Cape Fear, a story originally written by John D. MacDonald in 1957, has been made into two movies since its publication. Want more of what would you do for your family tale:…
Yesterday, my husband, three of our kids, and their significant others got up at 4am, piled into two rental cars, and drove 90 minutes to the top of Haleakala (on Maui), to watch the sunrise and–the real reason we were there–to see my daughter’s lovely boyfriend propose to her. It was deeply romantic and very…
It’s that time of year: Our Best of 2024 lists will start to run soon! We don’t make lists by genre but that doesn’t mean you can’t! What is your pick for: the best historical romance of 2024 the best contemporary romance of 2024 the best romantic suspense of 2024 the best romantasy of 2024…
Whatever your politics and wherever you live, this week’s American election is something you’ve been inundated with stories and opinions about. On election day, I heard from friends in India, France, and UK about how shocked they were. My Facebook feed–it is limited to those I am in person friends with–is full of sorrow, anger,…
I’m old enough to have signed up for Facebook as soon as it was available to the general public. It was 2006 and my 15 year old son and I did it together. We weren’t sure how safe it would be so my son agreed I can could look at his page with him weekly….
It’s astonishing to me there are just two months left in 2024. That adage about parenting–the days are long but the years are short–gets truer for me every year. Time is just a great WHOOSH racing by–I feel as though I’ll look around tomorrow and it will be Christmas Eve. I woke up this morning…
I’ve just finished rereading one of my favorite books by Meredith Duran–Written on Your Skin–for an upcoming review. I adore Phin Granville as a hero–he’s complex, strong, brilliant, and willing to work to win the woman he very slowly realizes he loves. He and Julian Sinclair, the hero of Duran’s sublime The Duke of Shadows…
I’m feeling like a heathen–I have no idea who Han Kang is, the author who was just awarded the Pulitzer Prize in literature. Yesterday, writing about the prize, A. O. Scott wrote in the NYT: “The great books are the ones you’re supposed to feel bad about not having read. Great writers are the ones…
A few months ago, Slate wondered if billionaire heroes were finally out in romance. Regular romance heroes could have told them, duh, yes. Other than Annika Martin’s Billionaires of Manhattan series, AAR hasn’t reviewed a romance with Billionaire in the title in five years. I occasionally run across them in contemporary romances but, even there,…
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