Review: An Unfinished Score by Elise Blackwell
Title: An Unfinished Score Author: Elise Blackwell Publisher: Unbridled Books Date (to be) Published: April 2010 Synopsis: (from publisher) As she prepares dinner for her husband and their extended family, Suzanne hears on the radio that a jetliner has crashed and her lover is dead. Alex Elling was a renowned orchestra conductor. Suzanne is a concert violist, long unsatisfied with […]
Review: Cheap Cabernet
Title: Cheap Cabernet Author: Cathie Beck Publisher: Hyperion Books Date (to be) Published: July 2010 Synopsis: (from Amazon) I didn’t know that people come into our lives, and sometimes, if we’re terribly lucky, we get the chance to love them, that sometimes they stay, that sometimes you can, truly, depend on them. Cathie Beck was in her late […]
Review: It Just Hasn’t Happened Yet
Title: It Just Hasn’t Happened Yet Author: Karin Anderson, Ph.D. Publisher: Clifton Hills Press Date (to be) Published: June 2010 Synopsis (from Amazon): It Just Hasn’t Happened Yet presents a new angle sorely needed in the Self-Help/Relationship genre–one that counteracts the tired; clichéd messages women typically field e.g. “You’re too picky! You’re too needy! You’re too neurotic, which is […]
Review: The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Title: The Day the Falls Stood Still Author: Cathy Marie Buchanan Publisher: Hyperion Books Date (to be) Published: August 2009 Synopsis: (From Amazon) Steeped in the intriguing history of Niagara Falls, this epic love story is as rich, spellbinding, and majestic as the falls themselves. 1915. The dawn of the hydroelectric power era in Niagara Falls. Seventeen-year-old […]
Friday Flops — The Weekend
Fridays are all about books that I so wanted to love, but in the end, they just weren’t up to snuff for even a mediocre eh. 2. The Weekend by Peter Cameron was actually the book that inspired this series way back when I read it and didn’t even have a blog. This little ‘gem’ was in the Bargain […]
Treasured Thursdays — Frankenstein
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 3. Frankenstein. Need I say more? Surprisingly, especially given my love of macabre/science/horror/etc., […]
Review: Wildthorn by Jane Eagland
Title: Wildthorn Author: Jane Eagland Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Date (to be) Published: September 2010 Synopsis: (from Publisher’s website) They strip her naked, of everything–undo her whalebone corset, hook by hook. Locked away in Wildthorn Hall–a madhouse–they take her identity. She is now called Lucy Childs. She has no one; she has nothing. But, she is […]
Treasured Thursdays — Generation X
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 2. Douglas Coupland’s first book, Generation X, was not a book I expected to […]
