by Laura K Curtis | Sep 16, 2017 | Books, TBR Challenge
Periodically, I like to recommend a bunch of books without writing reviews. This post focuses primarily on what I’d call mainstream fiction mixed with women’s fiction, and all of the recommended titles have a romantic element. They’re also...
by Laura K Curtis | Aug 16, 2017 | Books, TBR Challenge
Okay, so I have completely fallen down on the TBR challenge this year and for that I apologize. On the up side, I have an amazing book to recommend: Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase. (By the way, there are a zillion different covers for this book, so I chose the one I...
by Laura K Curtis | Apr 19, 2017 | Books, Romance, TBR Challenge
I do dearly love a little magical realism with my contemporary romance and women’s fiction, so when Alice Hoffman’s The Probable Future went on sale a while back I greedily snatched it up. Of course, I have no self control, so I was up until 3am reading...
by Laura K Curtis | Mar 15, 2017 | Books, TBR Challenge
Anyone who knows me knows my deep and abiding love of Mary Stewart. Every year, I re-read at least two or three of the books. But up until recently, every time I checked for The Wind of the Small Isles, it would show up in the $75 range, which put it at about $1 per...
by Laura K Curtis | Feb 15, 2017 | Books, TBR Challenge
The theme this month was to read a “new to you” author. I love this cover, and I’d meant to read Water for Elephants when it came out but never got around to it, so I figured it was time. This was a perfectly decent romance novel, but I resent the...
by Laura K Curtis | Jan 18, 2017 | Books, TBR Challenge
25 chilling short stories by outstanding female writers. Women have always written exceptional stories of horror and the supernatural. This anthology aims to showcase the very best of these, from Amelia B. Edwards’s ‘The Phantom Coach’, published in...
