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A new obsession?

April 28th, 2010 | 3 Comments

Lately, I got in the mood to read something that wasn’t romance. Okay, blame it on watching too much Doctor Who. And maybe a healthy dose of the Ghost Whisperer, although it has a heavy romance thread. So someone explain to me how I ended up reading Storm Front, the first book of the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher (2000-04)? Weird. All I can figure is that it was just laying around the house because my son had picked it up after the series was on the Sci-Fi network, read it and then left it for me years ago.  I was suddenly curious the other day, didn’t have anything else to read and wasn’t truly in the mood for a romance novel for once. And there it was, staring at me. I mean just look … Read entire article »

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Lois Lane, super heroine, role model or… sex symbol?!?

January 23rd, 2010 | 2 Comments

I’ve never made a secret of the fact that I’m a Superman fan – my favorite incarnation being Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman – but I’ve also probably never given as much attention as I should to the one Superman character that I love as much as the big guy. That would be Lois Lane. I mean, let’s face it, she’s the only other main character that was created with him in the first issue of the first superhero comic of all time, Action Comics #1, 1938, and they’re still together to this day, no matter how many times the comics tries to tear them apart. So if he’s the reigning king of superheroes, doesn’t that make her his queen? Which is fascinating considering the fact that she doesn’t have … Read entire article »

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Harlequin Presents: Hidden Object of Desire

January 14th, 2010 | 3 Comments

I couldn’t resist. Particularly after I found out I already had a game point from Big Fish Games that allowed me to get it for free, so I went ahead and got that Harlequin Presents: Hidden Object of Desire that I was Oh my word-ing about several posts back. So, here’s the scoop and keep in mind – I don’t do reviews. As a hidden object game, which is basically a memory challenge, it’s not bad. Pretty normal for the type, actually. Although my son was rather, um, struck, shall we say, that there were no time limits or other conditions that actually allow one to lose. I keep telling him the puzzles weren’t bad but he only rolls his eyes at what he saw as the insult to romance … Read entire article »

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The First Harlequin

July 22nd, 2009 | 7 Comments

I thought it somehow fitting to find a beginning point for the industry I’m rather devoted to buying, consuming, devouring–well, you get the idea. One of them anyway. Originally published as A John Crowther Publication in London in 1946, The Manatee by Nancy Bruff was republished in paperback as Harlequin #1 in 1949. So far the only description I’ve found is from an ad on eBay that says it’s taken from the back cover: This robust, powerful novel is the story of Jabez Folger, savage, romantic man of the sea, with a sinister secret in his past. Against the colourful background of Nantucket in its great whaling days, Nancy Bruff has set this bold, sweeping drama of vibrant love and corrosive hatred. On Jabez Folger’s first whaling voyage he had a dark and evil experience that … Read entire article »

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Oh, wow

January 22nd, 2007 | 4 Comments

I finished Games of Command by Linnea Sinclair last night and have to admit I was just blow away by how she back-tracked and expanded the story. It wasn’t at all what I expected. It was so much better. Tighter. Developed. Put it this way, for those that have read Command Performance in ebook, the thought that went through my mind after the point they got stranded on the planet was “Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore.” That about sums up the changes as far as I can see but in no ways spoils anything either. Now, maybe later after I’ve had time to fully digest it or even read it again, I may pull out the old checklist and tell you more about what I thought. In the … Read entire article »

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The Captain’s Woman

April 2nd, 2006 | 2 Comments

Since The Captain’s Woman by Merline Lovelace came out in 2003 it’s moved right up to the top of my personal comfort reread list (surpassing even The Bride by Julie Garwood some of the time I might add, which is saying quite a lot) for the simple reason that it has it all- an intelligent but not so much spoiled as indulged young heroine who goes on both an emotional and physical journey/adventure, truly growing up in the process a not-so-old but definitely more mature hero who is extremely honorable if somewhat dense at times who also does his share of growing and changing a unique setting that makes it stand out in one’s memory on almost any list because the hero is one of Roosevelt’s Rough Riders and she follows him through … Read entire article »

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Return of the Warrior

May 28th, 2005 | 2 Comments

This is the first book I’ve read in months that I literally devoured in one gulp. Yeah, that just about sums it up . . . so much so that I’m almost tempted to stop right there. I won’t simply because that would be cheating. Right? Well, right? Okay, okay. Here’s the quick summary interspersed with why I liked this one so much. (And this is as close to a review as I get so enjoy. ;-p) Return of the Warrior  (2005-05) is a second in Kinley MacGregor’s Avon Books medieval romance Brotherhood of the Sword group and I didn’t mind at all that I might have missed anything. Primarily because I don’t think I did miss anything because this one felt like a true spin-off even if a pre-planned one. I can live with … Read entire article »

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