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Tag Archives: Romance
How to Knit a Heart Back Home
How to Knit a Heart Back Home by Rachael Herron. This is the second book in the Cypress Hollow Yarn series of knitting romances, after How to Knit a Love Song. This second entry worked much better for me on … Continue reading
How to Knit a Love Song
Recently (and I don’t remember where) I read about what kinds of men are attractive to straight women. I think it talked about the reverse as well, but what I remember best is that while men seem to like women … Continue reading
The Iron Duke
The Iron Duke by Meljean BrooksThis is going further into my exploration of the steampunk genre. Once again, we are in quasi-Victorian England. However, no Queen Victoria, but a young king. England (and the rest of Europe) was, some time … Continue reading
Steamed
Steamed by Katie MacAlister Jack is a computer-ish engineer in the modern era, at work a bit tired from going to a concert by the steampunk* band Airship Pirates the night before. His sister Hallie drops by to inform him … Continue reading
Beauvallet
Beauvallet by Georgette Heyer Heyer has the reputation of being the mistress of romance, perhaps even the mother of the modern romance novel. I must confess that I’d not read anything of hers before now. This is quite different from … Continue reading
Thoughts on Romance
From time to time, when I’m feeling in need of particularly light and comforting reading, I will pick up a romance book. I don’t often review them here, as I’m not sure how many of my readers are interested in … Continue reading
Casting Spells
OK… this is a really happy day for me, except for the part where LJ is suddenly reading my html as plain text. Why won’t the pretty book cover show up? [EDIT 11/9 – I finally got the picture to work.]Casting … Continue reading
Strangers in Paradise
Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore Love, friendship and the mob mix in surprising and fascinating ways in this classic graphic novel. Katchoo and Francine are roommates. Francine is broken-hearted when her boyfriend leaves her after she refuses to sleep … Continue reading
The Masque of the Black Tulip
The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig Eloise is a Harvard graduate student, writing her dissertation on English spies in France after the Revolution. She’s in England, worming her way into old family archives to find the truth … Continue reading
The Key Trilogy
Key of Light by Nora Roberts Key of Knowledge by Nora Roberts Key of Valor by Nora Roberts I picked this trilogy by the “best-selling women’s author of all time” because it claimed to be based on Celtic mythology and … Continue reading
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