Great characters are what make great books, I figure. Especially if the characters have four legs, fur, and wolfish grins featuring nice, sharp, shiny canine teeth. If a passion for dogged reading is the way your literary bent leans, too, then you’re in luck. Justine Davis has a new winning entry in her “Cutter’s Code” […]
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Don’t you love the smart things human beings can dream up? When we’re not being monumentally stupid, that is. I ran across an utterly brilliant thing in a lecture on an Alaskan cruise I took this past summer. The speaker, a delightful, soft-spoken Tlingit woman, described her people’s ingenious building techniques and even got us
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I really did it this time. I fell in love with a Viking romance hero who gets seasick. We lovers of romance novels may be odd ducks. I’ll admit, if pressed, I just might be among the oddest of odd ducks. Perhaps I proved it when I happily devoured Maureen Castell’s second novel, The Viking’s
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A friend asked me the other day where he could go to make his family history look good before he handed it around. He was number ten so far this year, and I’m sure it will hit a dozen before Christmas. People do tend to ask this sort of question when they find out you’ve
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My favorite author has done it again. Mary Frame’s Some Like It Fox is a fast and funny read with characters you really, really wish would walk into your real life. I admit I didn’t think much of Taylor Fox when I first met her, but by the end I’d have welcomed her as a
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Welcome to the Love Books blog, and I dare you to say that five times fast. I can’t do it, even though I wrote it. But then I also wrote/am writing a series of short stories about a gang of senior-citizen vigilantes. I had to go and call the gang “The Grey Brigade”. I can’t say