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Simple Jess
Simple Jess by Pamela Morsi is $1.99 at Amazon. This is a classic historical tagged as a “western” with a 4.2-star average at GoodReads. Set in Arkansas in 1902, Simple Jess is about a young widow with a young son in need of a husband, and a small town in the Ozarks determined that she should have one. Her choice is Jess, a mentally disabled man who approaches her initially about buying her dogs. Jess is first introduced in the first book in this series, Marrying Stone, which is also on sale for $1.99. This is the kind of historical that readers still sigh over years after they’ve read it. The reviews are really something else. Have you read Simple Jess?
The last thing widow Althea Winsloe wanted to do was remarry. Unfortunately, her meddlesome mountain neighbors had other plans. So, one autumn night they banded together and gave Althea a shocking ultimatum: She was to find herself a husband by Christmas…or the town would do it for her!
Althea knew she had her choice of any single man in Marrying Stone, Arkansas. Yet the only one she felt truly comfortable with was Simple Jess.
Sweet and gentle, Jess wasn’t as smart as your average man. But his tender manner stirred Althea’s heart in ways she had never dreamed possible.
It would take a miracle to find a husband in Marrying Stone. But sometimes miracles are right under your nose.
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Much Ado About You
Much Ado About You by Eloisa James is $2.99 at Amazon and Google:Play, and $5.99 elsewhere – so I’m crossing my fingers for some price matching. This is book 1 of the Essex Sisters series, and was published in 2004. This book has a 3.8-star average, and readers really loved the funny and real familial relationship between the heroine and her sisters.
When you’re the oldest daughter, you don’t get to have any fun!
Witty, orphaned Tess Essex faces her duty: marry well and marry quickly, so she can arrange matches for her three sisters — beautiful Annabel, romantic Imogen and practical Josie. After all, right now they’re under the rather awkward guardianship of the perpetually tipsy Duke of Holbrook. But just when she begins to think that all might end well, one of her sisters bolts with a horse-mad young lord, and her own fiancé just plain runs away.
Which leaves Tess contemplating marriage to the sort of man she wishes to avoid — one of London’s most infamous rakes. Lucius Felton is a rogue whose own mother considers him irredeemable! He’s delicious, Annabel points out. And he’s rich, Josie notes. But although Tess finally consents to marry him, it may be for the worst reason of all. Absurd as she knows it to be, she may have fallen utterly in love . . .
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Paris in Love
RECOMMENDED: Paris in Love by Eloisa James is $1.99 at Amazon and Google:Play. Come on, price matching fairies! This is a nonfiction memoir about the year James and her family relocated to Paris. Carrie reviewed this book and gave it an A, writing: This book is a glorious, frothy confection with subtle emotional depths. I gobbled it up, but it deserves to be lovingly savored. This book is fun, and lovely, and delicious. Because it is written in short, journalistic entries, I could pick almost any quote to share and it would give you a good feel for the book.
In 2009, New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James took a leap that many people dream about: She sold her house, took a sabbatical from her job as a Shakespeare professor, and moved her family to Paris. This memoir chronicles her joyful year in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Eloisa revels in the ordinary pleasures of life—discovering corner museums that tourists overlook, chronicling Frenchwomen’s sartorial triumphs, walking from one end of Paris to another. She copes with her Italian husband’s notions of quality time; her two hilarious children, ages eleven and fifteen, as they navigate schools—not to mention puberty—in a foreign language; and her mother-in-law’s raised eyebrow in the kitchen (even as she overfeeds Milo, the family dog). Paris in Love invites the reader into the life of a most enchanting family, framed by la ville de l’amour.
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Simple Jess is a keeper of mine. Jess is a wonderful hero: his disability is just one part of who he is, rather than something that defines him, despite the nickname people gave him when he was younger. He’s got goals in life (a dog, a gun and a wife of his own). He works hard, learns from his mistakes, and always keeps his word, yet he never comes off as saintly or unrealistic. I loved watching his relationship with Althea deepen as they slowly discovered more about each other. This is a book I could read over and over.
OOOOhhh Simple Jess. I love this book so much. I read it so many times when I was a kid. I am pretty sure that was the first book I ever read where the hero has a disability. Jess is sweet and lovely. I read the book again a few years ago and it was just as good as it was the first time. Better actually, Since I had read The Marrying Stone in the interim (decent book, though not as good. The heroine is Jess’s sister).
MUCH ADO ABOUT YOU is still showing as $5.99 at Amazon. Hopefully the price will be different tomorrow. 😉
DAMMIT BUGGER. Also, I just typed BUTTER so I’ll add that, too. I’m sorry about that.
Love in Paris is cute. My book club read it as our last hurrah before my founding partner/good friend left to travel around Europe for a year (like you do). It’s definitely on the light side of things. The book club was evenly split over it; half of us enjoyed it and half of us detested it. I fell into the former camp. It was easy to pick up and easy to put down. I found myself picking it up at night before I went to bed, knowing that it wouldn’t keep me awake until 2 AM.
I saw that the price on MAAY had gone up again on Amazon but, luckily, I was still able to snag it for $1.99 due Matchbook. Yay. I’m trying to weed out/replace my paperback hoard so that worked out.
Paris in Love pricematched at Barnes and Noble! I bought it in a heartbeat-a friend lent me her copy and I loved it, so I’m glad to get one of my own at a sale price. 😀
YES! I love price matching. LOVE IT. Thank you for the heads up!