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: Texas
April 30, 2012 | Monday | 24 Comments
At Romantic Times, I sat next to Jodi Thomas on the contemporary romance panel I wrote about earlier, and because I'm horrible, I got all up in her business about her position as Writer in Residence at West Texas A&M University. A romance author as a writer in residence? That's awesome! Thomas is only the second writer to fill the post. Prior to Thomas, the writer in residence was Loula Grace Erdman, who wrote novels about the settlement of the Texas Panhandle. I thought the idea of a romance author serving as writer in residence was very cool, so I…
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June 28, 2011 | Tuesday | 5 Comments
Everybody, this is Lindlee. She reviews a mo-ton of books for the RITA® Reader Challenge. This book finaled in the Best First Book category. Plot Summary: Jericho “J.T.” Tucker wants nothing to do with Coventry, Texas’s new dressmaker. He’s all too familiar with her kind—shallow women more devoted to fashion than true beauty. Yet, except for her well-tailored clothing, this seamstress is not at all what he expected. Hannah Richards is confounded by the man who runs the livery. The unsmiling fellow riles her with his arrogant assumptions and gruff manner while at the same time stirring her heart with…
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April 16, 2011 | Saturday | 22 Comments
Brooke is looking for a book that really seems familiar to me, but I can’t place it: I was wondering if you might be able to help me track down a book I’ve been dying to reread…I read it years ago. Can’t remember the author or the title but I remember the book… It was about a young woman who loses her parents (don’t remember how) and ends up being the “ward” of these brothers who own a feedlot in ?Texas? She has a crush on one of the brothers but can’t seem to make him look at her like…
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August 19, 2010 | Thursday | 3 Comments
Thank you to everyone who entered the contest to win a copy of Ellen Hopkins’ book “Tricks.” While the story of her disinvitation to the Humble, Texas, Teen Lit Fest has been picked up by a few news outlets, I don’t know if anyone from Humble has contacted her - but I hope that the end result is that she is invited back. And if that’s not possible, I hope every teen in Humble reads her book and sends a review to both the librarian who protested Hopkins’ inclusion, and the superintendent who made the decision to rescind her invite.…
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August 18, 2010 | Wednesday | 15 Comments
I have heard from a few readers here that they love Jane Porter’s books. One reader mentioned in particular her sense of humor and her friendly heroines. So when this book arrived I read it in a matter of days. It had a line up of things that I generally jump into as fast as I can: - a heroine who has picked up her old life and moved to a place that’s familiar and yet completely foreign - exchanging city life for rural life - facing real actual contemporary problems that aren’t easy - finding oneself in charge and…
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June 22, 2010 | Tuesday | 24 Comments
I bought this book because I love beach stories, romances set in small beach towns, friends-to-lovers plotlines, and, I’ll be honest, I liked the cover, too. In the end, I struggled to finish it because while the beginning grabbed me, the middle let go of realistic emotion that I wasn’t sure whether to finish it - except that I wanted to know what happened to the heroine at the end. Macey has just returned from two years away in Thailand in the Peace Corps where she used her business degree to help small family businesses develop working plans to grow…
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March 22, 2010 | Monday | 139 Comments
Nonnie’s back! Our favorite anonymous reviewer, back for more fun and reviews-in-list-formation with a look at Diana Palmer’s Iron Cowboy. The One That Made Me Cry (With Laughter) By Nonnie There are a few things you need to know before you start reading a Diana Palmer novel: There is a 95% chance biscuits will be involved. Women’s rights are a nebulous, easily dismissed issue. Any slang in the book will come straight out of the 70s, along with most clothing styles, despite the fact that the books are meant to be contemporary romances. The hero will be at least 12…
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December 26, 2009 | Saturday | 9 Comments
I totally had to Google “APRN” - I figured Accounts Payable Registered Nurse. Or Associated Press Registered Nurse, trained to treat the fallout of bad papercuts? But no - advance practice registered nurse. Live and learn - and maybe find this book for Eileen: [This] was one of the first romance stories I ever read, and I would just like to read it again at some point to figure out WHY the story has been in my head for so long! It was a short story that I believe was in an anthology. A woman drives from Oregon to move…
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November 08, 2009 | Sunday | 20 Comments
Have I mentioned that I really like Texas? I do, it’s true. They have the best beer in America there, and I say that having been raised in close proximity to Iron City, Yuengling, and Rolling Rock - so I know from crap beer. But more than just the Shiner Bock, Texas has many awesome things about it—including San Antonio. On 11 November, I’ll be at the Barshop Jewish Community Center in San Antonio as part of an evening program titled, and I’m so not making this up, Shiksas, Break Ups, Romantics & Hook Ups. I’m on a panel with…
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