Patience Bloom says: “Around five a.m. I put on my clothes—noticing my boots are still on—and leave his apartment. The victorious rush of leaving without being asked fuels me. I am such a strong, independent woman who doesn’t need to linger. I can’t waste a second since I have an entire day in which to spread the news of my whorishness. I want to scream across the Île Saint-Louis, I just had my first one-night stand! But I don’t since it’s five in the morning […]
Clear Your Calendar, Turn Off Your Phone
Why is the very married Emma dreaming, almost every night, about another man, the handsome and rebellious Noah? Whose snarky voice echoes in her head, disapproving of nearly everything that she does? Why does she remember things that couldn’t possibly have happened, i.e., passionate lovemaking on the beach with this Noah, and that’s just for starters? And who is the mysterious Adrienne? These questions are explored — but not answered (you’ll have to read the book for that) at Heroes and Heartbreakers.
Hurts So Good
Grace Burrowes, bless her heart, makes us wait…and wait…and wait until these sad, stubborn survivors find their way to their Happily Ever After. And the wait is absolutely excruciating…but worth it. If you like Burrowes’ work in general and/or Scotland in particular, or if you just need a good wallow, you will not want to miss this book. Just be sure you have a box of tissues or three on hand. Full review is up at Heroes and Heartbreakers.
Elves Don’t Fornicate
Rùnach is an elf, and Aisling is — well, that would be telling. Maybe they don’t actually have TEH ICKY SECKS? Maybe their passion is consummated mind-to-mind in the aether, amidst the starlight and the music of the spheres? What do I know, anyway? Read the whole review here!
The Book Every Writer Should Read
With a boost from an illegal stimulant cadged from his roommate, Pete churns out his own manuscript, The Tornado Ashes Club, in which a man unjustly accused of murder takes to the open road with a recovering heroin addict/folk singer named Esmeralda, his grandmother, and the ashes of his grandmother’s One True Love, Luke. The climax occurs when the trio flings Luke’s ashes into a tornado on Christmas morning. He improbably sells this…remarkable work, and then he sits back and waits for the money to […]