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December 2006

Big Love

by Avid Reader on December 13, 2006

I saw this DVD series at Target last night and bought it. I have a bad habit of doing that. Rationale for this impulsive purchase? My mom and sister had been watching the HBO show and liked it but I missed it. I started watching it yesterday thinking that I wouldn’t like it (subject matter is polygamy) and lo and behold, […]

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Kathleen Eagle is one of my very favorite contemporary romance writers. One might say she is a natural born storyteller. Her stories have kept me up late at night. Reason To Believe is no exception. It’s a story of a marriage in trouble which is one of my favorite themes. The story is described this way:

Young lovers […]

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The Bronze Horseman (2002) by Paullina Simons is one of those rare novels that leaves it’s mark on you. A novel featuring a powerful lovestory set within a WWII backdrop. Captivating. Engrossing. Touching. Moving. Memorable. All adjectives that accurately describe one of the best fiction novels I’ve had the pleasure to read and recommend.
The story is thus:

Leningrad, 1941: The European war […]

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Storytellers vs. Good Writing

by Avid Reader on December 10, 2006

As I was blog hopping I came across this post at Romancing the blog by Sharon Long that grabbed my attention:

A great story teller can make me forget everything but what’s going to happen next. If you tell me a good enough story, I won’t care if you got every detail right. I won’t care […]

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 The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly is the third book in the Harry Bosch series. This story is somewhat loosely related to previous events in a prior book in the series. I don’t much care for legal thrillers but Connelly manages to incorporate legal suspense along with a gripping mystery to make this one one of the best […]

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Greed

by Avid Reader on December 8, 2006

ABC’s 20/20 news program has exposed the greed of mankind. Man’s need for mo’ money. The con: Spam Email  being sent from other countries like Nigeria, using phone books and special computer programs to target Americans, to rip you off. I find it hard to believe that people fall for this stuff but the list of victims […]

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