I snagged When I Found You from JB’s bookshelf. The book had been a gift from someone, and the inscription inside mentioned that it was a story about true unconditional love. And it is. When I Found You is a story about the bonds between humans, about the unspoken connection we sometimes find in other people, about the strength and patience it takes to love someone, even (and especially) when they are most unlovable. Accountant Nathan McCann is out duck hunting one chilly fall morning […]
Not a very shiny star…
Nora can usually be counted on for a halfway decent trilogy. Sure, it’s predictable. Sure, the timeline of true love is sped up. Sure, there’s always some Horrible Danger. Sometimes it’s an otherworldly type of danger, just to mix things up, like a werewolf or a witch or something. Sure, the men are always perfect physical specimens, tall and lanky, funny, totally at ease with women in distress, and not at all freaked out at the thought of marrying what amounts to a total stranger. […]
The Sort of Ruly and Not Particularly Passionate Passions of Eugénie R.
The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. is the debut novel from Carole DeSanti, an editor with Penguin Group. It follows the story of Eugénie Rigault, a young goose girl from a province outside of Paris, and her coming of age during the rise and fall of France’s second empire. Eugénie is a naive young girl when she runs away to Paris ahead of her lover Stephan, checking in to a hotel with his letter testifying to her good morals to await his arrival. But as […]
Should I Stay or Should I Go Now?
I’m a sucker for a good YA novel. I’m an even bigger sucker for a good YA novel where there is tragic death or dismemberment or some sort of horrible disease or a dead boyfriend. I cut my teenage teeth on Cynthia Voigt. Izzy, Willy-Nilly had me convinced that if I ever got in the car with someone who had had even one beer, I’d lose my leg, too,or even worse. And I wanted If I Stay to be good. I really, really did. But […]
Socks Mate For Life…
This book. Oh, this lovely, quiet, little book that wormed its way in to my heart and left me weeping. Peggy Cort is the librarian of a small Cape Cod tourist town in the 1950s. She’s the very definition of a spinster in her brown tweed and sensible shoes. She’s lonely, weary with it, resigned to it, defined by it. “Socks mate for life,” she says sadly, and in those words, the reader understands perfectly how desperately Peggy wants to be loved. And then one […]
Good old Nora…
Sometimes, I need something quick that I can read on my tablet, something easy that I can pick up and put down (or fall asleep to), something that doesn’t make me think. But I have anxiety over buying a book I can’t flip through, so most of the time I resort to what’s on my library’s website. Which, honestly, isn’t a whole lot. But I know that Nora Roberts is always good for a good time, so I found myself downloading Black Hills the other […]
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