Month: October 2009
A Quick Giveaway
I’m giving away my gently-read copy of A Highlander’s Temptation
A Highlander’s Temptation by Sue-Ellen Welfonder
Chocolate: A Love Story by Max Brenner
Waiting on Wednesday – Oct. 28

January 2010 / MIRA
$7.99 U.S. & $8.99 CAN.
ISBN-10: 0778327493
ISBN-13: 978-0778327493
A Quick Giveaway
I’m giving away my gently-read copy of Chosen By Desire by Kate Perry. You can read my thoughts about the book here.
Chosen By Desire by Kate Perry
Mailbox Monday – Oct. 26
Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week (checked out library books don’t count, eBooks & audio books do). Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists. Mailbox Monday is hosted at The Printed Page.
Sunday Summary – Oct. 25
Waiting on Wednesday – Oct. 21
To Seduce a Sinner by Elizabeth Hoyt
Jasper Renshaw, Viscount Vale, has a problem: he needs to marry and produce an heir to the title. All Jasper wants is to find a lady who will put up with him long enough to wed so he can retreat to his life of debauchery–a life that keeps the haunting memories of his past at bay. Knowing that Jasper is under pressure to marry, Melisande Flemming grasps her fate with both hands and volunteers to wed him. Although Jasper is initially only interested in producing an heir, he soon becomes entranced by his wife–prim and proper by day, wanton by night– and vows to learn her secrets.
Lakeshore Christmas by Susan Wiggs
Maureen Davenport lives for Christmas—and there’s nothing more magical than Christmas on Willow Lake.
The prim librarian is finally getting her chance to direct Avalon’s annual holiday pageant, and she’s determined to make it truly spectacular. But it might just require one of those Christmas miracles she’s always read about.
Because her codirector is recovering former child star Eddie Haven, a long-haired, tattooed lump of coal in Maureen’s pageant stocking. Eddie can’t stand Christmas, but a court order from a judge has landed him right in the middle of the merrymaking.
Maureen and Eddie spar over every detail of the pageant, from casting troubled kids to Eddie’s original—and distinctly untraditional—music. Is he trying to sabotage the performance to spite her? Or is she trying too hard to fit the show into her storybook-perfect notion of Christmas?
And how is it possible that they’re falling in love?
The prim librarian is finally getting her chance to direct Avalon’s annual holiday pageant, and she’s determined to make it truly spectacular. But it might just require one of those Christmas miracles she’s always read about.
Because her codirector is recovering former child star Eddie Haven, a long-haired, tattooed lump of coal in Maureen’s pageant stocking. Eddie can’t stand Christmas, but a court order from a judge has landed him right in the middle of the merrymaking.
Maureen and Eddie spar over every detail of the pageant, from casting troubled kids to Eddie’s original—and distinctly untraditional—music. Is he trying to sabotage the performance to spite her? Or is she trying too hard to fit the show into her storybook-perfect notion of Christmas?
And how is it possible that they’re falling in love?
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The library in the small town of Avalon, NY is on the brink of closing – forever. Can it be saved? Susan Wiggs takes a few new characters, adds a dash of some familiar, stirs in the emotions that tend to appear at this time of year, sprinkles a Christmas pageant over it all and the result is a sweet story – especially for fans of The Lakeshore Chronicles.
Library copy
Mailbox Monday – Oct. 19
Sunday Summary – Oct. 18
To Taste Temptation by Elizabeth Hoyt
Synopsis (BN)
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Earlier this year I received a review copy of book three in this series: To Beguile a Beast. I enjoyed it and knew I’d read the two previous books at some point. About a month ago I signed up to be part of the blog tour for book four. That’s when I decided to read books one and two. Still with me? That brings me back to book one: To Taste Temptation.
I thought this book was ok. It got better as it went along and by the end I found myself looking forward to the next book. That said, I remember liking book three much more. I didn’t warm to the main characters in TTT. I do like the idea of a mystery connecting four characters who’ve been deeply affected by one event. I also enjoy Hoyt’s descriptive writing. I’ll end by saying I liked this book enough to buy book two of the Legend of the Four Soldiers series.
A quick giveaway – Valeria’s Last Stand
Synopsis
A comic romp celebrating late-flowering love in a Hungarian village that will appeal to readers of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.
Valeria is a whale in a puddle. She harrumphs her daily way through her backwater Hungarian village, finding equal fault with the new, the old, the foreign, and the familiar. Her decades of universal contempt have turned her into a touchstone of her little community—whatever she scorns the least must be the best, after all. But, on a day like any other, her spinster’s heart is struck by an unlikely arrow: The village potter, long known and little noticed, captures her fancy, and Valeria finds herself suddenly cast in a role she never expected to play. This one deviation from character, this one loose thread, is all it takes for the delicately woven fabric of village life to unravel. And, for the first time in a long time, Valeria couldn’t care less. With humor and sensitivity, author Marc Fitten delivers an unexpected and entirely inspiring first novel that will leave you begging for more.
It’s a first come, first served giveaway. All I ask is that you are truly interested in reading the book. I also have to limit it to a reader from the US. So, if you would like to receive this book please leave me your email and I’ll contact you for your mailing info.
Giveaway is now closed
Waiting on Wednesday – Oct. 14

Mailbox Monday – Oct. 12