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
I cannot believe that it is almost 2010…that I’m now less than two months from turning 32. Ack! However, with the new year approaching, it’s time for the reflection, accidental oversights, and perverse favoritism that comes with a Best and Worst post! So, without further ado, here’s my year in media: Best Book: Living Dead… Read More The 2009 Wrap-Up, Best and Worst.
Practice Makes Perfect, by Julie James is one of those breezy, banter-y contemporary romances about a smart woman trading barbs with a borderline chauvinist man’s man, and the sexual tension therein. So, basically, it’s like reading a Rachel Gibson book…except that I’d actually recommend you read a Gibson book instead! James has a decent set-up… Read More Practice Makes Perfect, by Julie James
As I stood in the airport bookstore with the daunting task of picking some in-flight reading, my eyes began to glaze over. Bestsellers, entirely too many choices from the Twilight saga, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck’s books, etc. And it came down to Iris Johansen’s The Treasure and Nora Roberts’ Bed of Roses. I loved Johansen’s early… Read More Bed of Roses, by Nora Roberts
The new urban fantasy anthology Unbound, featuring short stories from Kim Harrison, Jeaniene Frost, Jocelynn Drake, Vicki Petterson and Melissa Marr kind of left me cold. Harrison’s young adult novel Once Dead Twice Shy presupposed that the reader knew the heroine from the anthology Prom Dates From Hell. And that’s the feeling that I got with several of the… Read More An unsatisfying experience with Unbound
I picked up Amber Benson’s 2009 paperback release, Death’s Daughter, from the library because A)I enjoyed her as Tara on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and B)I loved her Ghosts of Albion books co-authored with Christopher Golden. Unfortunately (and you know it can’t be good when I start a sentence with that), Death’s Daughter disappointed mightily.… Read More Bored to death by Death’s Daughter
Liz Carlyle’s 2008 release Never Deceive a Duke, leaves me with the same conundrum as Wicked All Day did: I can’t figure out what the title has to do with anything. Yes, there is a duke, but who’s doing the deceiving? Not that I’m necessarily in favor of titles that tell you exactly what’s going on.… Read More Never Deceive a Duke, by Liz Carlyle
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