Dear Author » Susanna Kearsley

Sunita’s Best of 2011 List

Sunita — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:00:30 +0000

In alphabetical order by author’s last name:

If It Ain’t Love by Tamara Allen (my review here)
The Only Gold by Tamara Allen
Vienna Waltz by Teresa Grant
The Rifter by Ginn Hale (Janine’s and my joint review of 1-5 here; my review of 6 & 7 here)
The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley (my review here)
Come Unto These Yellow Sands by Josh Lanyon (my review here)
A Night of Scandal by Sarah Morgan (my review here)
GhosTV by Jordan Castillo Price
Petit Morts #11-#17 by Jordan Castillo Price, Sean Kennedy, Josh Lanyon, and Clare London
Death By Misfortune by A.M. Riley
The Penhally Bay Series by Various Authors (my post on Books 1-8 here)

Reviews of unlinked books to come.

Dear Author Recommends for October

Jane — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:00:55 +0000

It’s October. I know, I can barely believe it either. The following are our recommended reads in October. Here is a catalog of October releases. The November and December catalogs are fairly up to date although the December one doesn’t have the category releases yet.

Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson, recommended by Jane
You Are My Only by Beth Kephart, recommended by John

Fiction

The Orchard by Theresa Weir, recommended by Robin

M/M

Room at the Top by Jane Davitt and Alexa Snow, recommended by Sarah F

Historical

Just No Proper Lady by Isabel Cooper, recommended by Lazaraspaste
Unclaimed by Courtney Milan, recommended by Jane
A Beginner’s Guide to Rakes by Suzanne Enoch, recommended by Jane (review to come)
The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley, recommended by Sunita

Contemporary:

Heartstrings and Diamond Rings by Jane Graves, recommended by Jayne (review to come)

Category:

S Before the Ex by Mira Lynn Kelly (caveat, the plot is fairly inane. I recommend for the emotional tension. Review to come)
The Doukakis’s Apprentice by Sarah Morgan, recommended by Jane

December Recommended Reads

Jane — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:00:56 +0000

Jayne reminded me I hadn’t posted these. !!! This month has been crazy for me and I apologize profusely. The good thing is that all the books are available now.

From Sarah F:

Not Knowing Jack by KA Mitchell (review by Sarah F)
His for the Holidays by Josh Lanyon et al. (Kindle link)
The Nobleman and The Spy by Bonnie Dee & Summer Devon (link to Loose Id)

Jayne:

Unforgivable by Laura Griffin (Amazon link)
The Hating Game by Tolli Roland (Amazon link)

Sunita:

The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley (Amazon link)

Jane:

Explosive by Beth Kery (review by Jane)
Holiday Sparks by Shannon Stacey (Amazon link)
Daring Proposition by Jennifer Greene (Amazon link)

John:

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (review by John)

Arnold Schwarzenegger Forces California to Go E

Jane — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:14:31 +0000

California is having a terrible budget crisis. One of the ways Governor Schwarzenegger is attempting to reduce educational will be to eliminate purchase of print textbooks and require the use of electronic textbooks.

The pilot program will be launched next August. High school students will be provided an ebook reader to access the math and science textbooks.

Despite the fact that I am a big proponent of digital books, I don’t believe that there are devices out there that adequately meet a student’s need for learning. There is limited interactivity with the current devices. At best, you can highlight but annotation is difficult unless you have the very high end Iliad.

The good part of this plan is that by next August, there might be new digital readers including a tablet style netbook with a transreflective screen that mimics eink but also has the functionality of a computer. The bad part of this plan is that we just don’t know what the future holds for digital devices.

(Thanks Susanna Kearsley for the link)