Description: When Elise Beckett’s long-distance beau, Stuart, offers her a dream job in organic horticulture research, she’s torn between the opportunity of a lifetime and her responsibilities at her family’s River Bend vineyard. But before Elise has time to make her decision, Uncle Edmond–the family’s money-loving and temper-toting black sheep–is… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books I Would Love To See As A Movie/TV Show (in a perfect world, where they do the movie right.) I tried to choose a mix of my favorite… Read more »
The Sunday Post is a meme sponsored by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. Hiking in… Read more »
I’ve signed up for the Tackle Your TBR Read-a-thon hosted by Colorimetry and Tressa’s Wishful Endings. I haven’t set a specific goal in numbers; I just want to make a dent in the pile of ARCs on my list! Honestly, I have no idea how many books I can squeeze… Read more »
Huzzah! According to a tweet about 10 hours ago from Bookmarks, the ongoing book festival taking place in North Carolina this weekend, Deborah Harkness announced that the third book in the All Souls Trilogy will be called The Book of Life and will be released in 2014! I haven’t… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: The 2013 Hugo Award winners were announced this week. John Scalzi (currently president of… Read more »
Sometimes a Rogue Series: Lost Lords #5 on August 27, 2013 Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Not Quite a Wife, Not Always a Saint Sometimes. . . Even the most proper young lady yearns for adventure. But when the very well bred Miss Sarah Clarke-Townsend impulsively takes the… Read more »
After three and a half weeks, almost 5000 miles and more hours on the interstates than I care to calculate, we are finally home. Phew! It was a good trip but a tiring one, both physically and emotionally. We got home late Sunday night. View from the trail, Jemez Mountains,… Read more »
Striding Folly by Dorothy L. Sayers Narrator: Ian Carmichael Series: Lord Peter Wimsey Published by BBC Audio on 2002 (this audio recording; story collection first published 1972) Genres: Mystery Format: Audiobook Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble | Audible | Chirp Also in this series: Whose Body? Also… August 30, 2013 Lark_Bookwyrm short stories, Striding Folly 6 ★★★★
I used to turn my nose up at romances on the theory — fueled by exposure to Harlequin and Silhouette series books when I worked in bookstores years ago — that they were formulaic, trite, and not very well written. The fact that they then were commonly referred to as… Read more »
