Dear Readers, I wanted to talk about cliffhangers. According to the site literary devices.com/cliffhanger/ “A cliffhanger is a plot device in which a character or characters are left with a difficult dilemma or a shocking revelation at the end of a chapter or section. Authors use cliffhangers in order to ... more >
When I began posting reviews of Dinah Dean’s long out of print Russian Series set during the early years of the nineteenth century, it was with the knowledge that Ms. Dean was deceased and that I had seen no signs of her books being digitally released. But then – a ... more >
NOTE: Today DA commenter DiscoDollyDeb has a post for us on the sexy (and not-so-sexy) book covers of 2021. Enjoy! –Janine Dear Readers, When it comes to romance novel covers, I have opinions—mostly of the type that could be whittled down to “Bring on the shirtless cover models with the ... more >
PLEASE NOTE: This post contains SPOILERS and I am opening the comment thread to spoilers as well. There may be triggers in the comment thread, too. Dear Readers, There’s a lot to talk about in Wild Sign, Patricia Briggs’s most recent book, and in addition to my review I wanted ... more >
Dear Readers, Welcome to the third week of our readalong/discussion of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. You can find the introductory post here, Week 1 here, and Week 2 here. Sirius and I will be talking about everything through Chapter 26, which takes us more than three-quarters of the way ... more >
Dear Readers, Welcome to the second week of our readalong/discussion of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. Our introductory post is here and you can catch up with last week’s discussion here. We’re now halfway through our four-week project, at the end of Book 1. I was frequently lost last ... more >