Gossamer Obsessions

It's that time of year again. Time to clean up the torn wrapping paper and throw away the spent bookstore gift cards and take stock of...

Coming off the disappointment of rereading Sing the Four Quarters , I was overjoyed to discover that time ( five years, to be exact ) has ...

Principle Cast: Annice: A former princess, who was cast out of the royal family when she chose to become a bard. Ten years later, she...

Principle Cast: Roy Straightley: An aging professor of Latin who worries the new school reforms will force him into retirement before he...

I was fairly excited to read this novel - it had a great cover, a fabulous premise, and lots of my blogger friends had read it. I figured ...

The Protagonist: Anne Shirley. Now 16 years old, she teaches the children of Avonlea while looking after her guardian, Marilla. Her Angst...

Mary Balogh's bundled Christmas Bride/Beau  is an interesting book because it clearly establishes what Mary Balogh does well - and wha...

The Primary Cast: Shandi Pierce: A young woman with a 3-year-old son who decides to finally find out the truth behind her son's conc...

The Protagonist: Leonard Peacock. Today is his birthday, and he plans to go out the same way he came in - with a lot of blood and screamin...

The Chick:  Kitty Wilder. Tired of living in the slutty shadow of her brothel-owning ancestors, she's planning on leaving her hometown...

The Protagonist: Liyana. As the vessel for her clan's goddess, she has been chosen to die so that her goddess may live in the physical...

The Chick:  Dr. Jane Darlington. A brilliant super-genius who longs to have a baby of her own. The Rub:  In order for her baby to be ...

The Primary Cast: Crowley: A Fallen Angel who wears dark glasses and drives a Bentley. Aziraphale: An Angel (unfallen), who collects a...

Please excuse this brief introduction to my October round-up - I've started National Novel Writing Month ! But I still took a break from...

The Protagonist: Beatrice. Called a "robot" by her own mother because of her inability (or unwillingness) to make firm attachmen...

The Protagonists: Madge: When her sister is murdered by a member of the privileged Gregory family, she decides then and there that she...

The Chick: Rachel Wade. A convict who's just been released from a ten-year prison sentence for the murder of her abusive husband. The...