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...
by Laura K Curtis | Aug 17, 2016 | Books, TBR Challenge
Well, I completely flunked on this month’s theme. I did read a Phyllis A Whitney from long ago, but it was a re-read, so I can’t count it as part of my TBR elimination. Instead, I went for the boook I think has been hanging around my TBR longest. I had...
by Laura K Curtis | Jul 18, 2016 | Books, Writing
This past week was the RWA national conference in San Diego. I’ve gone to national for mmmmppph years and I’ve always had a good time. Some years are more useful than others, but I have a lot of friends in the organization so it’s always fun. But...
