A Literary Black Friday at the Galleria

The reputation of The Galleria precedes itself, n’est-ce-pas? As a ginormous high-end retail complex in an upscale mixed-use development in downtown Houston it is not only the 7th largest mall in the country but is generally known as The Place for the hoity-toity of Houston to shop. I first heard of it in a romance novel, Paradise by Judith McNaught. The [...]

Library Loot: stocked up for travel

Remember back in the day when you used to rent moves from a brick and mortar store? (I just felt like using that phrase for some reason, sorta lame) So many Fridays in high school would find me with my girlfriends or my sister scoping out the local Blockbuster and inevitably we would run into [...]

Not Quite A Husband, by Sherry Thomas

Title: Not Quite a Husband  Author: Sherry Thomas Published: May 2009 Pages: 352 mass market paperback Standalone or series: Standalone, has a few characters from previous novel, but not the current, nor related to any prior, Heroes or Heroines. Source: Library romance section, recommended by many on my earlier post when another Sherry Thomas book [...]

Gift ideas for the bibliophile in your life

Granted it was because of my birthday, and winning a contest, but I recently received some GREAT  bookish gifts. Although I am against starting Christmas too early (I’m looking at you – retailers of America) I do ADORE the holiday season, so why not jump on the bandwagon of all other advertisers and give y’all [...]

A Reliable Wife, Robert Goolrick

Title: A Reliable Wife Author: Robert Goolrick Pages: Hardcover 291 Published: March 2009, Algonquin Books Why did I read this book: It was on the end cap of my library’s New Release section and the title sounded vaguely familiar. NOTE TO SELF: stop picking up books with no research! Set in 1909 Wisconsin the story opens in [...]

Friday Finds (Nov 13)

What great books did you hear about/discover this past week? Share with us at FRIDAY FINDS! Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading. This was a good week for me catching up on reading blog posts and I was all over the twitterverse getting great recommendations and book discussions! So even though this is [...]

Old Journal Entry redux

We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled lusty reading program next week (I have something special in mind) but just for fun (pourquoi pas?) I’m typing up my last handwritten abroad journal entry before I switched to typing them in my now deceased laptop. This chronicles my first exposure what are now commonly known as hipsters, and [...]

It’s my birthday and I’ll blog if I want to

So even though this is a bookish themed blog (with a side of lust) since today is my beeday (yay!) I decided I can blog about whatever I want. And today I want to copy Becky from Steam Me Up Kid (she made me RL LOL into my chai latte once), she had this brilliant [...]

Black Silk, by Judith Ivory

Title: Black Silk Author: Judith Ivory (aka Judy Cuevas) Pages: 480 in paperback Published: By Avon in 2002 Series?: no, standalone Bought it myself Lovely Lusty Reader reader Christina suggested this title based on our mutual love for more old school romances (my list of my favorite 16 has 10 books published before 1995) even though Black Silk [...]

October 2009 re-cap

It’s that time again! Here is my list of books I read this October, none of which I wrote a review for. I pinky-swear I’m going to soon. At least four, okay maybe three? If I’m good? So I can rest easy. All in all a pretty diverse group: 5 Regency romance 3 Fantasy/futuristic earth (1 YA, [...]