May 13, 2016

Jayne’s Reading List for late spring

JayneBook Reviews / Reading Lists / Recommended ReadsAmerican Navy / autobiography / Contemporary / Doctor / England / Farmer / feminism / medicine / non-fiction / World War II12 Comments

Dear County Agent Guy by Jerry Nelson In the tradition of Mark Twain and Jean Shepherd, Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor, Jerry Nelson is a humorist whose beat is the American heartland, a small-town world of pickup trucks and Sunday night pancake dinners, dropping in on neighbors and complaining about ... more >

May 11, 2016

REVIEW: Breaking Cat News: Cats Reporting on the News that Matters to Cats by Georgia Dunn

JayneA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readscartoons / cats / Humor / news / reporter8 Comments

Cats reporting on the news that matters to cats with stories such as The Vacuum Cleaner Is Back!, The Woman Is Cooking Bacon!, and The Ceiling Cats Are Everywhere Tonight! Cynical, no nonsense Elvis and shy, sweet, sensitive Puck are the reporter kitties in the field, while the adventurous jokester ... more >

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsCanada / Contemporary / Small-TownNo Comments

Dear Vivian Arend, I made grabby hands when I heard this one was up on NetGalley. I love your Coleman books and the Thompson & Sons spin-off series, set in Rocky Mountain House, Canada. Troy Thompson is the second youngest of five children. When their mother died, Troy was 14. ... more >

May 3, 2016

REVIEW: Hard Candy by Amy Jo Cousins

KaetrinBook Reviews / Recommended Reads3 Comments

Dear Amy Jo Cousins, Readers first met Vincent Lim and his best friend, Austin, in Level Hands. They and Rafi and Denny are all on the junior varsity rowing team at Carlisle college. Vinnie is uptight and closed off. Austin is out there and loud and they tend to act ... more >

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsPhotographer / romantic-suspense / Serial-Killer / Small-Town11 Comments

Dear Nora Roberts, I look forward every year to your stand alone romantic suspense books. Not all of them work as well for me as others. Last year’s offering, The Liar, was great but it read to me more like a contemporary than a romantic suspense book and the year ... more >

April 24, 2016

Open Thread for Authors (Author Promo) for May 2016

JayneMisc / Need A Rec!Author Promotion / Open Thread / Promotion6 Comments

.Welcome to the Promotional Thread for Authors. What’s this you say? I read quite a few blogs outside the romance blogosphere and many of the big ones have a daily open thread where the commenters drive the bus. The rules for Author Promo Night Open Thread are as follows: The ... more >