Usually, when I pick up a novel, I glance at the back cover to see whether it sounds like something I might like to read. This time, however, I forgot what I had read. Well, what fun it was to read a romance and not know which guy was going to get the girl!  Normally,…

The age-old conundrum of how much sex include in one’s writing raises its head again as I prepare to dive into the new series.  The issue never came up in the Prospero Books. Miranda needs to be a virgin to maintain her power. So, I was able to ignore the whole issue (though there are…

Here is the latest Twenty for Prayer. Again, there is no scolarly or styalistic charm to it, so I don’t recommend following the link unless you are interested in praying about this month’s subject. Cheers. This month I thought we’d pray about:  Employment Quite a few friends seem to be struggling with this issue, and several have…

For my birthday, I got to go to the bookstore and pick up not one but two new (actually reissued) books by Mary Balogh, who is currently the only romance writer I feel safe reading. While I was there I saw a book that looked really charming. It was a NY Times bestseller called THE…

John’s blog has been running a discussion about women and honor. While I agree with him that women generally do not care about bravado, I do feel there are times when the challenge set forth is so hideous, so dire, that even we ladies are stirred to rise to the defense of the one challenged.…

For years, I have not liked dark, gritty, ‘realistic’ stories, but for the longest time I could not put my finger on why. I mean the kind of thing where there’s no hope, everything is covered in dirt, and terrible things are happening one on top of another like a stack of pancakes. Sometimes, these…

Here’s another article from my Mania days. It’s a bit out of date, but…Dark and lithesome ponytailed hunks, dashing redheads with long transparent hair, subtle smiles, and open shirts, blond Adonises as evil as they are handsome; when it really comes down to it, the heart of shojo anime is the bishonen. All anime fans…

Recently, a friend sent around a feel-good story that is recorded on snopes in a slightly altered form at http://www.snopes.com/glurge/chush.asp   The story is cute; the version I read was even more poignant, with the little boy dying at the end, having until his last day recalled the one time he had been a hero…

I came at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449088/faq “The first assembly cut of At World’s End was three hours. Twenty minutes were removed, not including end credits, though producer Jerry Bruckheimer maintained that the long running time was needed to make the final battle work in terms of build-up. One scene cut explained that if Calypso had greetedDavy Jones…