Last week, I was browsing the catalogue on Netgalley and came across a book called Cinderella’s Shoes and was intrigued. I liked the idea that Cinderella was a real person and that her dresses and shoes were also real. I also liked the fact that the book was set in the 1940’s. This is something I’ve …
September 2015
Video of the Day–A 40’s Era Classic
I haven’t done one of these in a long time, but in honor of the book I am reading, Cinderella’s Dress (a YA novel about a girl living in 1944 NYC, who finds out that she is the new keeper of Cinderella’s dress, which is part of a Hatfields and McCoy-esque dispute going back to the …
Review of “Return to You” by Samantha Chase
I started writing this review (in my head) at about the 50% mark and it hasn’t really changed all that much. Unfortunately. I finished this book because I was hoping that it would end better than it did and because I did care about both of the main characters. I wanted them to have a …
Review of “Snowflake Bay” by Donna Kauffman
Snowflake Bay is a Christmas book in the same way that Winter Wonderland is a Christmas song. It isn’t one. Instead, it is a wintertime book that made me want to crawl up in front of a nice warm fire (and then douse the fire in order to turn on the Air Conditioning because I am …
Review of “Falling for Her” by Sandra Owens
I started reading Falling for Her at about 8 PDT last night and finished it just under a half hour ago. Ms. Owens seems to infuse her books with a psychotropic drug as the same thing happened when I read Someone Like Her last year. (As soon as I saw Falling for Her available on Netgalley, I knew …
Review of “The Bollywood Bride” by Sonali Dev
I don’t have much experience with the Indian culture and what I do know wouldn’t fill up a thimble. (Basically, my knowledge of anything Indian comes from walking around Liberty Avenue along the Brooklyn/Queen border, trying some food at work when my boss decided to go Indian that one time, and accompanying a friend, who …
Why I Mostly Read Historicals
Many people ask me why most of the books I read are historical and not contemporary romances and until recently I never really thought why that is. What I have come to realize is that when it comes to contemporary books and contemporary heroes in specific, I have higher standards than I have for historicals. …
Review of “The Rogue You Know” by Shana Galen
“This is the story of how I died.” No, this post isn’t about Rose Tyler or The Battle of Canary Warf. Sorry, Fellow Whovians, but this story has a happy ending. There are no alternate universes and definitely no Bad Wolf–there is a cute, white dog, though.Now that that’s out of my system… I have …
Review of “Earls Just Want to Have Fun” by Shana Galen
I can’t believe I’ve never read Shana Galen before! Well, I won’t make that mistake again. Earls Just Want to Have Fun is thoroughly enjoyable and a fun read at that. It took me all of a day to finish this book and I am chomping at the bit to start the next book in …
In Memoriam of Innocence
When I was a kid, I considered myself one of the luckiest people in the world because I got to live in New York City–the greatest city in the world. Nothing, not LA, London, Paris, Rome, could come close to how amazing my city was. What defined New York City to me? The skyline. My …