Feb 27 2013
Update: Amazon warns Apple users to NOT update the Amazon App. It is deleting books and resetting entire libraries. Leslie and Ben and Liz and Criss: NBC Comedies On Modern Marriage – I watch neither 30 Rock nor Parks & Recreation. Well, let me clarify. I have watched some episodes of 30 Rock and maybe(…)
Nov 8 2011
Who doesn’t love a small town Romance? Given Jane’s observation in her 2011 RWA wrap-up that small towns remain very popular, apparently a lot of readers do. Given the comments to that post and various lamentations from readers online, there are many readers who absolutely despise the small town Romance. While all genre devices have(…)
Mar 1 2011
Dear Ms. Pierce, I’m a big fan of Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars — the television shows at least. We’re all allowed a few guilty pleasures, right? When HarperCollins offered this book to us at Dear Author and called it Gossip Girl meets Charmed, how could I resist? When her parents died in an(…)
Oct 13 2010
Dear Ms. Schama: I approached Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of A Marriage, A Trial, and A Self-Made Woman with appreciation and excitement at the possibility of an academic study of cultural history crossing over to popular contemporary readership. The volatile story of Theresa Longworth's secret marriage to an Irish peer and subsequent battle to(…)
Feb 9 2010
In Linda Howard's book All the Queen’s Men, Louis Ronsard plays the villian. He’s a wealth arms dealer who is portrayed as completely amoral. He is targeted as the middleman who sells stolen arms to terrorists. Ronsard was a shadowy Frenchman who gave his allegiance to no one group; he was the conduit, however, for(…)
May 15 2008
Today the California Supreme Court’s decision dropped on the constitutionality of a same sex marriage ban. Specifically, the court addressed this question: The question we must address is whether, under these circumstances, the failure to designate the official relationship of same-sex couples as marriage violates the California Constitution. The Court found that the “right to(…)
May 7 2008
Mildred Loving was the female half of the seminal court case Loving v. Virginia wherein the Supreme Court found anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional. She passed away on May 5, 2008. She never intended to be a political figure or stand for anything but when confronted with not having the right to marry Richard Loving, she and(…)
Oct 9 2007
Ladies, Who doesn’t enjoy reading about a wedding? Especially one in Paris? Or the romantic city of Paris as you all felt compelled to repeat several times in each story just to make sure we got it. I got it though I did wonder if some French board of tourism had bribed you all to(…)
May 24 2007
Dear Ms Didion, I found your account of your first year after the sudden and tragic death of your husband, all while dealing with your critically ill daughter’s many admissions to various hospitals, to be deeply moving yet in some ways offsetting and disjointed. I guess that’s due to intermixing the two narratives in a(…)
Jul 28 2006
Dear Mrs. Waldron, After reading your latest book last year (Independent Heart), I had to wait for the publisher to reset the type on Mozart’s Wife before it was available in paperback form. It’s not a romance book but does tell the love story of Mozart for his darling little wife and of Stanzi Marini(…)
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