A Bunch of Harlequins, Part Two

Here are some more books I read last month while I was neglect­ing the TBR Chal­lenge.
Wed­ding Night with a Stranger by Anna Cleary.  Har­le­quin Presents Extra, August 2010.  Australian-born Ari­adne was orphaned at a young age and taken in and raised by her older Greek aunt and uncle.  After a scan­dal that included leav­ing a man at the altar, her uncle

A Bunch of Harlequins, Part One

I’ve pretty much fig­ured out that I fail at TBR 2010 Sum­mer Edi­tion.  It’s not that I haven’t been read­ing, it’s just that I haven’t been read­ing any­thing with an eye to review­ing it.  Some books I know I will review as soon as I start read­ing it and oth­ers are just too much work.  I have a degree in Eng­lish and since

TBR Challenge Today!

Dear read­ers,
Yes, I’ve been remiss with blog­ging lately espe­cially at this blog. If you are not aware, I am now run­ning two blogs now. One for mys­tery and one for every­thing else. I am right now more inter­ested in read­ing mys­tery than romance these days but will def­i­nitely try to tackle some of the romance nov­els that

The Sleeping Beauty, Mercedes Lackey

The Sleep­ing Beauty is the lat­est in Lackey’s Five Hun­dred King­doms series. The Five Hun­dred King­doms are bound by The Tra­di­tion, a force that can and does manip­u­late peo­ple into var­i­ous fairy tale roles, good and bad. In this instance, Princess Rosa’s mother, Queen Celeste died, leav­ing a griev­ing king who has spent years fighting

Thank You, Hurricane Alex [Not Really]

Even though Hur­ri­cane Alex didn’t exactly make land­fall in Texas, the storm did man­age to dump a lot of rain just as a hello and to make sure we didn’t feel left out. It took me almost 3 hours to get home after I left work yes­ter­day. One hour was spent in traf­fic that went nowhere and the other