May 25 2011
The first book I assigned my continuing education class on Georgette Heyer at NC State was Regency Buck. The second was Cotillion, which I actually taught last week. As one of my students said, “It’s just delightful.” Cotillion shows up on “Favorite Heyer book” lists all the time, and I never really understood why. I(…)
May 14 2011
Dear Mr. Edward. The mysterious and elusive Dr. Laura Vivanco sent me the link to your book, as an example of a meta-romance. Even better, a meta-m/m-romance. I love romances about romance authors and I especially love those about the m/m romance world, considering its own peculiar fucked-upped-ness and stranger-than-fiction history (Z.A. Maxfield’s Send to(…)
May 12 2011
I volunteer to teach a continuing education class at North Carolina State University’s Encore! program, which is a non-credit program for those 50-and-over. Once a year I get to teach a course of 6 classes on anything I want to, with students who really want to be there, without having to grade a damn thing.(…)
Mar 17 2011
Dear Ms. Sherwood. I didn’t really expect to like this book. I love menage stories, especially m/m/m menage. So I read the book because of that, not because I was blown away by the excerpt. I thought the excerpt was too thinky, didn’t have enough dialogue, and the characters looked a bit flat. But I’m(…)
Mar 10 2011
Dear Ms. Lorenz. I don’t read werewolf books. I just don’t. If I see a m/m shifter book, I usually just move right along. But one line in the excerpt sold me on this book: "Don't give me any back talk, son." She waved her spatula at him as she talked around a cigarette dangling(…)
Feb 15 2011
Dear Ms. d’Abo. I became interested in your writing after seeing that Jane had accepted one of your stories for her Agony/Ecstasy anthology. So I hied me on over to Ellora’s Cave and bought these two stories. I’m glad I did and I look forward to your anthology story even more now. Commanding Acquisitions Simon’s(…)
Feb 14 2011
Dear Ms. Cullinan. I adored this book. It’s utterly and completely over the top. It’s exuberant. It’s angry — no, it’s furious. It’s totally steeped in dirty nasty sex. It’s leaking angst all over the place. It’s political and powerful and brilliant. And I think most people will either love it or despise it with(…)
Jan 27 2011
Dear Ms. March. I loved the excerpt for this book: prostitution! angst! unrequited love! m/m romance! It hit many of my not-so-sekrit Buttons of Hottness and Readerly Pleasure. And I very much enjoyed the book, even if I wanted to beat one of the heroes and not in a fun, sexy way. Jasper Reed, a(…)
Jan 20 2011
Dear Ms. Crow and Ms. Fox. I’ve had a hard time writing this review. I made it a Recommended Read for January and it’s been a best-seller at Carina since it’s been out. But it’s such a subtle book, so simple and yet so complicated, I’ve been lost for what to say about it. This(…)
Dec 28 2010
Dear Ms. Dee and Ms. Devon: This was a December Recommended Read for me. I enjoyed the characters, I liked the plot, I liked the historical feel. Just in general this was a good solid historical romance. The year is 1866. Jonathan Reese is a spy, a former soldier who didn’t know how to re-enter(…)
Dec 24 2010
Dear Ms. Davitt and Ms. Snow. I have previously enjoyed your novels, both those I’ve reviewed and those I haven’t. And I had this book in my review pile for a while. But…someone (can’t remember who, sorry) jumped it way up my list by saying how wonderful it was and I spent most of Thanksgiving(…)
Dec 15 2010
Dear Ms. Speedwell. I considered this book when it first came out in May, but I read the first bit of the excerpt and decided it was just a bit too much, too over the top, so didn’t request it. But, well, flattery will get you at least a reading. Thankfully, what I read, I(…)
Dec 9 2010
Heidi Cullinan, Special Delivery Heidi Cullinan, Double Blind K.A. Mitchell, No Souvenirs K.A. Mitchell, Not Knowing Jack L.M. Turner, Resistance Jez Morrow, Force of Law James Buchanan, All or Nothing Harper Fox, Life After Joe Marie Sexton, Strawberries for Dessert Harper Fox, Nine Lights Over Edinburgh No order. If I had to give my favorite(…)
Dec 7 2010
Dear Ms. Mitchell. This was not the book I was expecting. At all. Which doesn’t make it bad, at all. It just…threw me a curve ball pretty early on (not that I have any idea what that metaphor actually means) and just kept them coming. That said, I adored it. I adored Tony. I adored(…)
Dec 6 2010
Carina is putting out three (invitation only) holiday anthologies, one contemporary, one paranormal, and one male/male. It is apparently possible to buy the stories grouped in the anthology, but also separately, individually, which I think is a fascinating choice. I was thrilled when I saw the m/m lineup: L.B. Gregg, Harper Fox, Josh Lanyon, and(…)
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