It’s that time of the year again. Time when all residents of this little island nation can unabashedly express their love for country, and home. While taking a brief respite after lunch, and waiting for the big show tonight, I pondered the questions that the organizers tossed us: When you think of the words ‘Live [...]
Book Review: Fire and Ice, To Die For
Another round of backlogged book review, this time on two romantic suspense novels. One by Anne Stuart, whose ice series I’ve been following, and the other by Linda Howard, who is not new to me, but has yet to capture my interest – maybe it’s the choices of her books I’ve made which influenced me. [...]
Book Review: The Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Now that the busiest period at work is over, it’s time for me to pick up my posts where I left off. First up is a long overdue review of a book that I originally read for Keishon’s TBR Challenge for March. Title: The Firebrand Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley Genre: Historical Fiction/ Fantasy Publisher: ROC [...]
It’s the New Year, and time for me to catch up on that backlog of book reviews, over the next couple of weeks (I hope!). One post that has been sitting in my draft folder for the longest time, is that follow-up to the Great Western Drive spearheaded by Kristie, Sybil and Wendy some months [...]
One of the key elements I look for in a romance novel is humour, and IMO, Georgette Heyer and Julia Quinn have got this down pat, and none quite so evident as in these two books I read recently. When I first blogged about the reissue of Georgette Heyer books, False Colours intrigued me with [...]
Since picking up Somewhere I’ll Find You by Lisa Kleypas some ten years ago, I’ve never looked back. Ms Kleypas has created many unforgettable, and unconventional characters who engage my emotions, strong heroes and heroines from vastly different worlds, who bravely embrace each other’s differences and go on to forge new beginnings, who seared my [...]
It took me quite a while but I finally finished reading Jane Austen’s Emmajust before I flew off for that family vacation. Emma Woodhouse may be witty and imaginative, but she’s spoilt and snobbish to a certain extent, and so wasn’t easy to warm up to. There were quite a number of occasions when [...]
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