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Love Minus Eighty

Melting for Love Author: Will McIntosh You guys know I’m a total cheapskate when it comes to books. So it’s high praise indeed when, the moment I finish a (library) book, I march right over to the computer and buy another copy! (In this case, it was for a friend who I thought would really enjoy it. Not that I wouldn’t mind owning my own copy.) That’s exactly what happened with Love Minus Eighty, which was named the best science fiction book of 2013 by the American Library Association, and which I can safely say is the only cryogenic romance [...]

2016-12-31T17:55:17-07:00May 6th, 2014|Tags: , , , |

Veronica Mars: The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line

Nancy Drew, She Ain't Authors:  Rob Thomas & Jennifer Graham SPOILER ALERT: This book is set after the events in the Veronica Mars movie and contains some spoilers about what Veronica’s been up to since the show ended. While I hesitate to describe myself as a “Marshmallow” in any respect other than my physique, I’ll cop to being a big fan of the Veronica Mars TV show. I own the DVD box sets; I went to see the movie when it came out; and OF COURSE I was going to read the novelization as soon as I could get my [...]

2016-12-31T17:55:18-07:00May 2nd, 2014|Tags: , , , |

Russian Winter

Amber Allure Author: Daphne Kalotay You guys know I’m a sucker for a book about jewels. Throw in an exotic WWII-era Russian setting, beautiful ballerinas, and a genealogical mystery, and who could resist? Slowly and deliberately offering up its long-buried secrets (and a bit of romance), Russian Winter is almost as tantalizing as the real-life historical mystery of the Amber Room. Old and terminally ill, Nina Revskaya, a former star of the Bolshoi Ballet who escaped Russia for the U.S. decades ago, is auctioning off her legendary jewelry collection in order to pay for her medical care and to begin [...]

2016-12-31T17:55:25-07:00April 4th, 2014|Tags: , |
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