Archive | 01. Feb, 2010
REVIEW: Ravishing in Red by Madeline Hunter

REVIEW: Ravishing in Red by Madeline Hunter

Dear Ms. Hunter:
Ravishing in Red begins a set of stories about a home for beguines. As the book describes it, “They were common in medieval France. Lay-women would live together as we do. Some would take employment outside the walls, and none took vows, but they lived communally.” After the war, many women [...]

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REVIEW: Eyton by Lynne Connolly

REVIEW: Eyton by Lynne Connolly

Dear Mrs. Connolly,
At last, at last. The continuation of the series faithful fans have been waiting for. It all started years ago with “Yorkshire,” “Devonshire,” “Venice” and “Harley Street” as we watched the aristocratic Richard Kerre, heir to the Earldom of Southland, and Rose Golightly, daughter of the gentry, fall in love at first [...]

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Monday Midday Links: The Macmillan Amazon Fight Post Mortem Continues

Here’s a recap if you don’t know what is going on. Macmillan’s contract with Amazon was up.  Macmillan decided that it wanted one of two things:
1. Old pricing scheme in which it would sell to Amazon at list and Amazon would decide at what price point to resell to consumers but Macmillan would [...]

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