I have a slightly OCD reading rule: series must always be read in order. Reading as many romance novels as I do (rough estimate is 13 out of 43 so far this year), this has proven a useful rule since series tend to build on each other. Then, our very own crystalclear read and hilariously reviewed Any Duchess Will Do and I asked to borrow it, because I could, and ended up reading the fourth novel of the series before having read any of the […]
Book Exchange Goodies from Crystalclear
I want to send out an enormous “THANK YOU!” to CBR’er CrystalClear for the wonderful book exchange gifts. I love them! Dan O’Brien is an editor over at Cracked.com, but he used to have a weekly column that I very much enjoyed. His writing was largely irreverent, geeky, nerdy, juvenile, etc, but he also has an incredible fascination with US Presidential history. I have been wanting to read this book for a long time. I read Ned Vizzini’s “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” sometime last […]

