I raved last year about Christopher Pike and the Last Vampire series, and how one benefit of the Twilight phenomenon is that stories I read as a teen are being re-released. Now, as I make my way towards the end of Pike’s second compilation, Thirst: No. 2, I have mixed emotions. First, reading as an adult,… Read More Perne notice: The Last Vampire and racial representation
Praise for Butterfly Tattoo, by Deidre Knight, swept the romance novel blogosphere last year, and since I didn’t want to get an eBook from Samhain (I’m old-fashioned, I like to hold a book in my hands), it took me a while to find a print copy. I started reading it last night and finished it… Read More Butterfly Tattoo, by Deidre Knight
Upon finishing Carrie Lofty’s new release, Scoundrel’s Kiss, and its 2008 predecessor What a Scoundrel Wants, I have that sense of frustration I often get with romances: Why do such great books have doofus-y covers? Especially ones where the shirtless dude doesn’t look a thing like the hero? And being a lifelong reader, you’d think I’d… Read More There aren’t enough scoundrels in your life.
As I pack up my things and get ready to head back to the city from my week-long hiatus in the Midwest, I feel like I got very little accomplished. Of course, I was out of commission due to illness for much of the time and that definitely sapped my creativity. Nonetheless, I added about… Read More The last week of the year, in review.
Is the increasing use of bookstores as places not just to buy books but to sit around reading them contributing to the decline of the modern lending library? I’ve been thinking about this a lot, especially since I tend to frequent both the Mid-Manhattan branch of the New York Public library and two booksellers: the ubiquitous… Read More Barnes Ignoble: Are libraries a thing of the past?
Courtney Milan, whose “This Wicked Gift” was the highlight of the recent holiday anthology The Heart of Christmas, delivers the full package with her debut novel Proof By Seduction. Milan’s writing is crisp, original and full of surprises, and her protagonists are anything but your run-of-the-mill historical romance hero and heroine. The emotionally stunted, science-minded… Read More Proof By Seduction, by Courtney Milan
People sleeping with their brother’s wives. Threesomes. Murder. Intrigue. Sex changes. Gambling. Near-rape (possible actual rape, but I haven’t gotten to those parts yet). Teen pregnancy. Killing your relatives. No, I’m not talking about an episode of Passions, but rather the Mahabharata, by Veda Vyasa. Largely acknowledged as one of the oldest epic poems in the… Read More The Mahabharata: a neverending story
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