Romance readers love series books. Favorite characters featured in one story will play supporting characters in the other tales. So, like life, the initial love affair continues on.
Summer is a good time for reading romance series. You can read them all in a row – a most satisfying venture!- or you can begin a series [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘romance’
May 27, 2009
The Love Connection
August 18, 2008
Shelf Examination: GLBT Fiction
Today’s installment of Shelf Examination highlights the GLBT fiction collection, which combines genres to please the various reading tastes within the spectrum of people who identify as lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual, intersexed, or otherwise queer. So, whether you’re looking for a good mystery, an inspirational heart-warmer, or a supernatural thriller, you’ll find it here, written by, for, and [...]
May 8, 2008
Romance Redux: Another Perspective
I am an unabashed romance reader and have been since I was a girl. Each summer, my neighbor Kathy and I would go to the Woods Run Branch. She’d check out her 6 books and I’d take mine. Rosamond du Jardin, Lenora Mattingly Weber, Maureen Daly…we’d read them all and then switch books, thus filling our [...]
March 31, 2008
Just another manic Monday?
The Monday morning blues – hardly anyone’s immune to them, even if you happen to have the best career on the planet. Weekends can be so much fun, it’s hard to shake off the recreational vibes and get back to business. Maybe you went bowling this past weekend, or attended a cultural event. Either way, [...]
March 26, 2008
The “It’s all good,” all-you-can-read, Eleventh Stack book buffet
Frequently, we library folks are asked to recommend a “good” book. While we’re always happy to do this, the definition of “good” sometimes becomes a sticking point.
For example, in my personal readerly universe, the prospect of spending a few hours with Chicago’s only practicing wizard, Harry Dresden, is decidedly “good.” You, however, may prefer old-school [...]
February 25, 2008
Pittsburgh reads.
Congratulations, Pittsburgh: you’re the ninth most literate city in America. I knew Steve Jobs was wrong when he said people don’t read anymore. He just doesn’t know you like I know you, Pittsburgh.
You see, I see you everyday at the library, with your arms, briefcases, and backpacks full of books. I know you check out other things too, and [...]
