Dec 27 2012
Dear Ms. Milan: When your books and novellas work for me, they are among my favorite historical romances. When they don’t, it’s not always clear to me why, and often I wonder if it’s my reading approach rather than the book itself. I wanted to read your latest novel for a couple of reasons: it(…)
Aug 29 2012
“When the unexpected death of Sir Gerald Monteith placed his wife Melanie and daughter Sara in financial trouble, their only hope was to quickly find a husband for Sara. They thought it would be easy, for she was as beautiful as could be. They hoped her beauty would make up for her lack of brains.(…)
Oct 15 2009
Dear Ms. Warren: I went out and bought this book for myself. *runs around in circles* A while back I blogged about the seeming dearth of werewolf books, at least books that focus on the pack dynamics and the myths of the beast. Another reader suggested I try Christine Warren’s Big Bad Wolf. I admit(…)
Dec 8 2008
Dear Ms. Moran: While I was reading your new novel, The Heretic Queen, I kept thinking about Shelley’s poem about Ramesses II, “Ozymandias,” especially these lines: `My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’ The theme of Shelley’s poem is the impermanence of human power, which is echoed(…)
Nov 10 2008
The Newsweek 7 chapter epic on the election was posted last week but apparently an expanded version will be in book form come Januar y. I thought that the Newsweek piece was fascinating and this is one non fiction book I'll be buying as soon as it is on the market. Please let it be in(…)
Nov 4 2008
Nov 3 2008
There were reports of electronic machines switching votes last week because the machines weren't correctly calibrated. Given the problems people have had with the computerized voting machines, some states are returning to the tried and true voting method – paper ballots. This lead to the headline at Ars Technica of "Paper Ballot: The New Killer(…)
Oct 27 2008
It has been rumored that Bin Laden has hired a ghost writer to pen a memoir about how evil the Western world is to the Muslim community. There are so many snarky and probably offensive things I could say about this given the election, but I’ll refrain. What I do wonder, though, is what US(…)
Oct 25 2008
While most of the literati seem firmly in Obama’s camp, the AAP sent out a warning about what an Obama presidency could mean for publishing (bad, in other words). AP is concerned, for example, that based on their past academic relationship, Senator Obama might choose among his appointments a divisive figure such as Larry Lessig(…)
Oct 23 2008
Keith Olbermann reported that Joe the Plumber has hired an attorney to shop around a book deal regarding Joe’s experience in this year’s election race. Given that we know so much about Joe’s life right now (and by so much, I mean, more than I ever wanted to know about a plumber, ever) do we(…)
Oct 16 2008
I admit to not knowing the breadth of privacy laws in every country (I barely know them here) but I have to say I was completely surprised to read a report that Great Britain is laying out a plan that would allow its government to allow “state surveillance to cover every phone call, email, text(…)
Oct 11 2008
It’s long puzzled me that there are individuals out there that want to prevent the gay and lesbian community the joys of divorce, boring sex, and marital infidelity by enacting constitutional amendments to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Why should the gay and lesbian community get all the benefits(…)
Oct 7 2008
Remember when you were a kid and your parent told you to eat your food because there were people starving in (insert your own favorite depressed third world country here)? That is essentially what my post is about. Everyone who lives in a democracy has the responsibility to vote because it is a treasured right(…)
Oct 1 2008
The Vice Presidential debate is scheduled for tomorrow evening and with expectations low on Sarah Palin (who I think will likely do quite well in the debates due to those lower expectations), Michelle Malkin has questioned the moderator's impartiality. Gwen Ifil, of PBS, has a book coming out called "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in(…)
Sep 29 2008
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