DragonDreamsJen’s #CBR7 Review #1 Our First Christmas by Lisa Jackson Every year, during the school break and holidays, I indulge in one good Christmas themed romance novel for sheer entertainment. This year, after finishing my B.Ed degree and the 15 week teaching internship that went along with completing the last stages, I finally had time again to read MORE books for the sheer pleasure of it and decided to sign up for a CannonBall challenge again. Our First Christmas is actually a 435 page anthology […]
May your days be merry and bright…with fire.
This marks what I believe is my fifth year in a row of reading this as my annual holiday tradition. This year for a new spin on it I actually read it aloud to my boyfriend, who had never read it before, or anything else of Moore’s (one of my favorite authors). Is there anything more fun than sharing something you love with other people? If so, I don’t know what it is. And I discovered that reading out loud to someone is pretty fun! […]
Another 11th Doctor Adventure
This is another of the 50th Anniversary books re-released in 2013 (I’m a year behind, I know). It’s Christmas time, and the Doctor, Amy, and Rory are supposed to be heading home (to Leadworth, that is) for Christmas. But of course they are sidetracked to where they’re needed (thanks, Idris/Tardis!). They end up somewhere Earth-ish, and it’s definitely winter. When they’re exploring, Rory turns back to get a warmer coat. (Why does he do that? He should know better than to get separated from the […]
A Lone wolf finds his mate just in time for Xmas
I have to admit the tagline from Terry Spear’s A Seal Wolf Christmas (Heart of the Wolf 12) gave me pause. “He can handle murder…but mistletoe?” Why do the two have to be mutually exclusive (or inclusive for that matter)? We are introduced (or re-introduced if you are familiar with the series) to Bjornolf and Anna rescuing a rich family in the Colombian jungle. The two werewolves have met once before on another mission. As soon as they are reunited they sense a heat between them, but these […]
This Seemed an Appropriate Christmas Day Review
I’ve read everything John Green and Maureen Johnson have ever written. I own their catalogues and evangelize their books. Yet, somehow, this one always slipped through the cracks. I meant to get around to it, really, but never managed to. One day last week, I needed some Christmas cheer and decided this was the way to go; I was ever so glad I did! I’m not too surprised I enjoyed the first two stories in this linked trilogy, and the third was also really well […]
A young adult novel that everyone can read
Thirty-eighth book reviewed as part of the 130 Challenge. People often don’t take the ‘adult’ part of ‘young adult’ seriously (myself included) and that is why we have so much sappy literature in this genre. We can definitely do much better. But despite that expectation, when I saw that ‘Oranges for Christmas’ was about the hard life in Communist East Germany, I thought it was being far too ambitious and I feared that it might turn out to be a drab post-war story. The story […]
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