I was tempted to make a list of my favorites among the 2019-published books I read this year. In the end I decided to focus on my favorite 2019 reads (first time reads; I didn’t include books I had read / reviewed in prior years) without regard to their year ... more >
Dear Beth O’Leary, I read your debut contemporary two weeks ago, a book I think many DA readers would like. It’s an epistolary romance called The Flatshare. Tiffy Moore needs to move out of her cheating ex-boyfriend’s apartment, but can’t afford the rent in London. So when she stumbles on ... more >
Who knows the ins and outs of romance better than a Harlequin editor? A surprising and exhilarating look into Patience Bloom’s unexpected real-life love story. At some point, we’ve all wished romance could be more like fiction. Patience Bloom certainly did, many times over. As a teen she fell in ... more >
Scribd Announces Major Changes to Subscription Service – While Nate Hoffelder characterizes this as Scribd “gutting” its ebook subscription service, that’s like more the case for the so-called “power reader” than for the reader who can read one book a week, max. Scribd is pushing this as a more “sustainable” model ... more >