Mar 29 2011
Dear Ms. Lane, Harlequin Historicals will still occasionally branch out beyond Regencies and I’ve come to look for your books to be among those branchees. I’d started reading in this series two years ago with “The Borrowed Bride,” but will be honest and say that I’d lost touch with it since then. Now, a few(…)
Jun 11 2010
The Rage of Paris (1938) Genre: Romantic Comedy (slightly screwball-ish) Grade: B I put this one in my Netflix queue because it was linked to another film in the “if you like that you may like this” manner. I didn’t have great expectations for it but thought, “eh, it’s only 78 minutes and it has(…)
May 28 2010
Trouble in Paradise (1932) Genre: comedy Grade: wonderful The first time I watched “Trouble in Paradise” I fell in love with it. It’s smart, sophisticated, cultured and urbane. And it’s about two crooks who meet, fall in love then take advantage of a situation to instill themselves into the household of a wealthy widow in(…)
May 1 2010
Dear Josh Lanyon, As our interview with Lorelie Brown says, the Roaring Twenties/Prohibition seems to be “in” now. I know I’ve just recently got three books set in this era and I couldn’t be happier about it. When Samhain offered us your latest novella, “The Dark Farewell,” I jumped at it. But despite a good(…)
Apr 22 2010
Dear Ms Marton: I honestly had no idea what I was getting in for when I read Blackwolf’s Redemption. It was a Harlequin Presents and 8 of those are delivered to my Harlequin digital account monthly via my subscription. I assumed that it was just another HP but instead it’s a time travel, only this(…)
Apr 15 2010
Dear. Ms. Brown, If Prohibition/Jazz Age is the new Regency, I say bring it on. This is actually the third book I’ve read recently using this time period and, as far as the era goes, I’ve enjoyed them all. One is m/m, one is m/m/f but readers looking for a m/f story with great conflict(…)
Jan 28 2010
Dear Ms. Gabaldon, Though the classification of your first book, Outlander, as a romance has apparently been a bone of contention for you, I have to say that it was Outlander that started me on romance reading 15 years ago. I had joined a mail-order book club, one of those where you get nine books(…)
Jan 14 2010
Dear Ms. Smith, When I told some friends I was reading your YA novel, Flygirl, and what it was about, one of them directed me to this article at The New York Times. It’s about the awarding of Congressional Gold Medals to the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), who provided the United States Army with(…)
Dec 18 2009
Sunday in New York (1963) Genre: Romance/Comedy Grade: B Hello early 1960s morality. It’s ‘Sex and the Single Girl’ as it hasn’t been for a long time. Eileen (Jane Fonda) arrives in New York City on a Sunday morning having been recently dumped by her almost fiancé Russ (Robert Culp) in Albany because she won’t(…)
Sep 27 2009
Dear Ms. Seidel, Your 1983 category, The Same Last Name, begins when three cars arrive at New York State’s Frank Lake State Park. One of the park’s forest rangers, twenty-five year old April Ramsey, greets the man who registers this group of six visitors. April directs the tourist to the best campsites for a group(…)
Sep 7 2009
Dear Ms. Holly: The problem I’ve run into with reviewing this trilogy is discussing the book while trying to avoid spoilers. I’ve decided that it’s close to impossible. You’ve been warned . . . Saving Midnight begins soon after the events of the second. Edmund has been rescued thanks to Graham, Pen, Estelle, Ben and(…)
Sep 4 2009
Dear Ms. Holly: When I first decided to read and review your latest upyr trilogy, I had the idea that I would write a single review of all three books together. Two paragraphs in, I realized I was going to need more space than a single review allowed. Breaking Midnight begins shortly after the ending(…)
Jul 1 2009
Dear Ms. Hart, Bess Walsh needs time away from her unhappy marriage. She finds it at the beach house she inherited from her parents. There, in the water, Bess fantasizes about Nick, the boy she loved and lost twenty years before. She touches herself and soon she feels Nick touching her. The lovemaking is intense,(…)
May 20 2009
Note: This is Janine’s entry for Keishon’s To Be Read challenge. Dear Ms. Frierson, It is 1953 in Plumville, Georgia, and seven year old Benjamin Drummond considers four year old Coralee “Ceelee” Simmons his best friend. Little Bennie loves to read to Ceelee and is determined to protect her from the bullying of Tommy Birch.(…)
Mar 18 2009
Dear Ms. Rutland, Your book, No Crystal Stair, came to my attention a couple of years ago when I was perusing Library Journal’s best books of the year lists from previous years. Back in 2001, Library Journal designated No Crystal Stair one of the five best romances of 2000. I was intrigued enough by that(…)
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