Great Depression

What Sunita is reading, for the week ending September 11

What Sunita is reading, for the week ending September 11

I read a bunch of novellas and short-ish stories this week, as well as returning to a novel I’d laid aside for a while. Mostly m/m with one m/f, and a number of new-to-me authors.   The Seventh Veil (The Etsey Series, #1), by Heidi Cullinan I began this back in the spring and had(…)

REVIEW: The Hat by Babette Hughes

REVIEW: The Hat by Babette Hughes

Dear Ms. Hughes, A story about the Jewish mafia in Cleveland, OH during Prohibition? It’s not everyday that someone offers me a book like this. Hell, it’s not every year that someone writes a book like this so when your publicist offered it to me for a possible review, I just had to take a(…)

Friday Film Review: My Man Godfrey

Friday Film Review: My Man Godfrey

My Man Godfrey (1935) My Man Godrey – The Criterion Collection Genre: Screwball Comedy When I see a film described as a screwball comedy, it’s usually my cue to run away, far, far away. So many try to achieve screwball status and so few succeed. I think maybe because they try too hard. Here director(…)

Books in Recessionary Times

[poll id="136"] Last week I wondered on Twitter if the recession would hurt the book market. It doesn’t look like it will hurt the romance book market. One twitterer pointed out that movies did great during the Great Depression and apparently it was during that time that the Harlequin imprint really took off. And if(…)

REVIEW: Road to Love by Linda Ford (5/08)

REVIEW: Road to Love by Linda Ford (5/08)

Dear Mrs Ford, It’s hard to read the blurb for “Road to Love” without mentally comparing it to the Mother of All Depression Era-Widow-Marries-Ex-Con-Hero novels but I think your book will stand on its own merits. Initially upon reading the blurb I thought, “I’ve read this before. I’ve seen it done excellently before. What else(…)