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originally posted on February 14, 2010 When I first came up with idea of doing this Ten Nights of Love series of posts, I wanted to find something to illustrate them and the obvious choice was the books. As I sorted through my collection, though, I realized that they also showed a lifetime of changes in the covers themselves. So, I wanted to see a gallery of one cover for each author in one post and thought you might enjoy it, too. I included Ten Nights of Love just to keep things even although I may have sort of cheated elsewhere for the purposes of showing an early electronic cover. 😉Read More →

Ten Nights of Love

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originally posted on February 15, 2010 My ever so logical brain wouldn’t let me ignore posting a list of chronological links for this entire Ten Nights of Love series for future reference. Following that, you’ll find a few thoughts that crossed my mind as I made this journey through the years. First, here’s the full list of posts in order: The Introduction Grace Livingston Hill Emilie Loring Glenna Finley Julie Garwood Amanda Quick Dara Joy Stephanie Laurens Christine Feehan Linnea Sinclair Shelly Laurenston Cover Gallery Now for my overall thoughts completely unrelated to individual authors and simply about the journey I just took. I findRead More →

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originally posted on February 10, 2010 defending her heroines Over the twelve years since the Cynster series by Stephanie Laurens first debuted, I sometimes honestly believe I’ve spent more time defending her heroines to other romance readers online than I’ve spent reading the books. Her heroines, mind you, not her heroes. To me, that’s significant because I’m not sure what other author’s heroine’s I’d think deserved the defense. Not needed it, mind you, but deserved it. irresistible force and immovable object In the one and only review I ever wrote, I said this about Honoria, the heroine in Devil’s Bride, and in many ways IRead More →

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A funny thing happens when one takes a break from reading for a period of time. A favorite author’s backlist can multiply like rabbits, especially when we’re talking about the romance genre. At least nowadays. Case in point, a couple of weeks ago, I go out to eat with my children and on the way home we stop do some shopping. Oddly enough, or not, we all three end up in the book aisle at about the same time and start jokingly picking out books for each other. Then things took a turn into the very funny when I pick up a new book byRead More →

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I finally finished What Price Love? and I liked it. Not loved it, mind you, but even with having to struggle through (okay downright skip) parts of it, I did enjoy the horse racing scandal storyline. The romance itself picked up considerably for me when I reached the “boy loses girl” point, too, and Dillon had to follow Pris to London. Of course, since this was Laurens, boy didn’t actually lose girl. With this author, it’s more a matter of boy laying siege to girl surrounded by the Cynster clan, and everyone else, mostly, giving him their full support. Which got me to thinking about thatRead More →

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I’m still reading What Price Love? by Laurens, but I did finally give up on a section at the beginning of the book from about ch. 5 to roughly ch 10. Once I decided to give myself permission to do that, I figured out what the problem was. It isn’t the horse racing per se but the fact that they’re investigating a racing scandal and that was being held up by Pris keeping secrets from Dillon unnecessarily. Oh, she had her reasons and they’re probably pretty good ones, but I was impatient to get to the meat of the story. Now that they’re actually inRead More →

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I was in and out of the doctor’s office so fast I barely had time to get the book out of my bag, much less read anything. Truly amazing considering I as in for a yearly physical. OTOH, I think I’ve figured out part of the reason why I’m having so much difficulty reading this one. It’s the horse racing theme. Now normally something esoteric like that would grab my attention but I’m not a horse person and I just remembered I had problems getting into Demon’s book, too. So, I am seriously considering either pulling out another one of hers to reread – I’mRead More →

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I have recently been on a binge of reading/rereading a bunch of books by old favorite authors. Apparently there are several that I have books by that I’ve never gotten around to reading. What Price Love? by Stephanie Laurens is a prime example and I think I’ve figured out why. Or maybe not. I love this author. I’m one of her main defenders within romance circles online but I have to say that reading this one is like wading through mush for some reason. My mind keeps wandering. I keep finding myself jumping ahead to read other parts of the story, which are not altogether bad.Read More →

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I’m trying to be more diligent about giving heads up for any good discussions I run across and/or join into on the web. Most of the time, I figure new book finds can wait until Friday but what’s the point of waiting to tell you about the posts I’m already commenting on? That makes no sense. And sometimes those are about books. It’s a confusing conundrum so the confusion stops here. (At least for me. You could very well still be scratching you head. 😀 ) Anyway, just to catch you up, here’s what I’ve been up to lately. Book 1: Heather over @ The Galaxy Express postedRead More →

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I was thinking the other day that I hadn’t updated my list of top favorite romances in quite a while. At least not since before I started reading more ebooks than print anyways. So, it was probably time to take a look and see what was what. This is the “Top Ten” list I finally settled on, in alpha order for now because I haven’t figured out any particular ranking for them. Yet. 😀 D’Arc, Bianca: The Ice Dragon Fletcher, Donna: Tame My Wild Touch Foster, Lori: Too Much Temptation Greene, Tilly: Zandia Krentz, Jayne Ann: Shield’s Lady Laurens, Stephanie: The Perfect Lover Laurenston, Shelly:Read More →

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My reread basket was completely overflowing so I decided it was time to do a mass cleanout. And it’s a really, really mixed collection. The Traveler by Melanie Jackson – I believe rereading this one was triggered by buying The Saint in the same Nightside series, probably as much to reacquaint myself with the world she’d created as to try to figure out why I tend to skip around in her books so much. “The Major’s Wife” by Merline Lovelace (The Officer’s Bride anthology) – I love this little jewel of a story. Lovelace always does such a great job with heroes who realize whatRead More →

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I recently got a promo from Amazon for The Truth About Love by Stephanie Laurens (Vane’s brother-in-law’s book) and while online ordering it, I suddenly remembered that I’ve never ordered Linnea Sinclair’s paperbacks. Part of my procrastination on this has to do with fear that being published in print will ruin her voice but on that day I was in the right mood I guess so decided to bite the bullet. First, though, I checked to make sure they weren’t trade paperbacks. Mini-rant here – I really HATE trade size paperbacks particularly when publishers don’t come out with mass market editions quickly. Here’s a question,Read More →

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Last week I bought the Hero, Come Back anthology and devoured it almost in one gulp. All three stories – one each by Stephanie Laurens, Christina Dodd & someone new to me Elizabeth Doyle – were really good. The Doyle story was especially a pleasant surprise and I may talk about it in another blog one day. Today, though, I want to comment specifically on my reactions to the Lauren’s short story – Lost and Found, the story of how Reggie Carmarthen who appeared in On A Wild Night links up with Anne Ashford from On A Wicked Dawn – because it made me realizeRead More →