Waiting For Clark (2015) by Annabeth Albert is a short novella. Albert wrote this story as part of a Goodreads M/M Romance event called “Don’t Read in the Closet.” As part of this event, authors are given a photo and a letter to guide their story. For this story, the photo was: “In a cartoon drawing, Batman and Superman are locked in an embrace, kissing. Superman is taller and clutching Batman to him. Batman has more muscles and has visible tattoos on his arms. Superman has […]
Slavery and “freedom” in the new world
There has been a lot of buzz surrounding The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead. It was, of course, on my most-used book list this year: NPR’s Best Books of 2016. But just in case that’s not enough, it also won the Pulitzer Price and the National Book Award. I’d heard a little bit about it before reading it, and I have to say I wasn’t sold on it. A real underground railroad during slavery? I couldn’t understand why Whitehead would feel the need to add that fantastical […]
Clever retelling of Sherlock Holmes
I think I’d seen A Study in Scarlet Women (2016) by Sherry Thomas both in Cannonball reviews and on NPR’s List of Best Books of 2016. This book is something of a retelling of Sherlock Holmes, except that the famous detective is actually Charlotte Holmes. She helps to solve crimes using an old friend, Lord Ashburton, as an intermediary to bring information to and from Inspector Treadles. Full disclosure: I have never read the original Sherlock Holmes. It is on my Kindle because I found it for free […]
Romance and Mystery in Egypt and England
I can’t remember where or how I found Bound by Your Touch (2009) by Meredith Duran, but it’s another historical romance that didn’t quite do it for me. On paper, it looks like I might like it. There’s a strong, smart, independent heroine, a tortured hero, and some mystery thrown in to spice things up. But I couldn’t get attached to the characters and the mystery didn’t make any sense to me. In the end I was disappointed. The book started out very promising. Lydia Boyce, expecting […]
Stockholm Syndrome in America
My book club chose American Heiress: The Wild Saga of Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst [it physically hurts me to not put a comma after “Crimes”] (2016) by Jeffrey Toobin. I remember seeing a famous picture of Patty Hearst holding a gun during a bank robbery, but I never really had a good understanding of what had happened to her. I was looking forward to learning more. On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore at Berkeley, was kidnapped at gunpoint from her home by […]
Love is in the stars
Star Dust (2015) by Emma Barry and Genevieve Turner is another one of those romances I read that was good, but not one of my favorites. At this point, I can’t remember where I first heard of it or why I picked it up. My best guess is that it was free on Amazon Kindle (which it still is), and I decided to try it out. Star Dust is Book One of the Fly Me to the Moon series. Unfortunately, this first book did not suck me in […]
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