A little delayed, but in case anyone (stateside that is) needs an emetic after overindulging tomorrow:

You may remember we last saw Larkin and Blair involved in a little esoteric masochism, well, now we get the follow-up:

She vaulted onto him. "Let's fly, cowboy ( Read more... )

Nora Roberts doesn't know the difference between rock crystal and alabaster. We learn this in 2002's Reunion in Death.

With no way out, Eve took off the lid. Inside was a statue of a woman, perhaps eight inches highgh, carved from some nearly transparent crystal. Her head was tipped back so that her hair rained down almost to her feet. Her eyes ( Read more... )

for Nora Roberts. It's not just me, which is a relief. But it is millions and millions of other US women, unfortunately.

The scenario I posited yesterday is the "love story" [sic] of 1/3 of the "Key" Trilogy, Key of Knowledge, the one with Celtic gods Rowena and Pitte [sic] and Kane - and follows on the first book where Dana the Librarian (at the ( Read more... )

Question for female readers who might have been in this situation themselves: if your ex, who had dumped you hard without so much as a sign that there was a problem, just "Oh by the way, I got a job in another state that I didn't tell you I was looking for, have a nice life, bye!" and run, suddenly came back into your town and your life and ( Read more... )

"Is it all still in your hands? The land ( Read more... )

For Deiseach, especially, because I know how much this will mean to you - a little window into the American mind. (I Did Not say "twee." I didn't say it, dammit! --I also didn't suggest forwarding this to all your friends and relatives just for kicks, either. These are not the droids you're looking for ( Read more... )

aka Remedying a Serious Oversight

Surprisingly, given that I not only worked for years in libraries and a bookstore and in publishing, and spend a not-insignificant proportion of my discretionary income, such as it is, on books, and thus a likewise not-insignificant proportion of my discretionary time such as it is in bookstores even when not ( Read more... )

...means getting a lot more paper reading done, that's for sure ( Read more... )