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August 29, 2022

Republishing Out of Print Books – It’s Not as Easy as You Think

Guest ReviewerEssays / Letters of Opinionbook publishing / reissue32 Comments

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 >

January 12, 2022

2021 Covers: The Hot…and the Not

Guest ReviewerEssays / Letters of Opinionbook-covers / Contemporary romance / cover model / guest-blogger / sexy / unsexy22 Comments

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 >

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March 22, 2021

Leah and Bran: Thoughts on Two of Patricia Briggs’s Most Enigmatic Characters

JanineBook Reviews / Essays / Letters of OpinionAlpha & Omega / bonded-mates / estranged marriage / Mercyverse / reframing / UF / werewolves54 Comments

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 >

July 20, 2018

READALONG/DISCUSSION of The Master and Margarita, Week 3

SunitaBook Club / Essays3 Comments

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 >

July 13, 2018

READALONG/DISCUSSION of The Master and Margarita, Week 2

SunitaBook Club / Essays12 Comments

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 >

July 6, 2018

READALONG/DISCUSSION of The Master and Margarita, Week 1

SunitaBook Club / Essays12 Comments

Dear readers, Welcome to the first week of our readalong and discussion of Mikhail Bulgakov’s 20th century classic. As we said last week, we’ll be reading the book in four sections, and today we’ll talk about ch. 1-9. Sunita: For the purposes of this conversation, I’m the total newbie. I’m ... more >

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