The wonderful Marcia has delighted us again with another review this week. She really is amazing. The following post and rating are hers alone. Thanks for sharing with us!
Taking place in Victorian England, Beyond Innocence is about loyalty to family versus being true to one self.
Edward Burbrooke is horrified to learn that his brother, Freddie, [...]

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Continue reading → Review: Beyond Innocence by Emma Holly

So how do you rate a romance novel where the romance part was exceptional but the side story was wholly unnecessary? Once again I’ve managed to pick up a story where the author seems to think that it’s a good idea to include a history of sexual perversion on kids. What’s with this? The young [...]

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Guilty Pleasures by Laura Lee Guhrke is the tale of Lady Viola’s brother and his duchess-to-be. Technically Guilty Pleasures is a prequel to The Marriage Bed where Viola and her husband John patch up their estranged marriage. On a whole this novel was much better than the Marriage Bed, but because I read the Marriage [...]

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Without a doubt, as the weather gets better and better, we are entering wedding season again. Couples do tend to choose to hold their wedding either in spring or summer, perhaps due to the fact that the weather matches their high sprits, allows for wonderful outdoor parties, eliminates worries about blue-soled Loubutins getting ruined in rain or snow and ensures the strapless wedding gowns that

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Nothing is Lost - by Noel Coward - Deep in our sub-conscious, we are told Lie all our memories, lie all the notes Of all the music we have ever heard And all the phrases those we loved have spoken, Sorrows and losses time has since consoled, Family jokes, out-moded anecdotes Each sentimental souvenir and token Everything seen, experienced, each word Addressed to us in infancy, before Before we could even know or understands The implications of that wonderland. There they all are, the legendary lies The birthday treats, the sights, the sounds, the tears Forgotten debris of forgotten years…

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I held a bottle of real perfume for the first time when I was six or seven years old. I found it in my grandmother’s bedroom drawer and I was amazed, even at that young age, at that tiny bottle with the word “JOY” imprinted on the label. It was a str…

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The poem “Thanks for Remembering Us” might seem an oddly dark choice considering thankfulness is supposed to be glowing and bubbly and positively rose-cheeked. But I am here to tell you that I am thankful for some great things (like meeting my husband) as well as for some really terrible things (like bad choices that lead to important paradigm shifts). I’m also thankful for some things I never believed I would have, like the same job for over four years and health insurance in America.

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Thanks for Remembering Us - by Dana Gioia The flowers sent here by mistake, signed with a name that no one knew, are turning bad. What shall we do? Our neighbor says they’re not for her, and no one has a birthday near. We should thank someone for the b…

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The Cinnamon Peeler - by Michael Ondaatje - If I were a cinnamon peeler I would ride your bed and leave the yellow bark dust on your pillow. Your breasts and shoulders would reek you could never walk through markets…

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The Cinnamon Peeler - by Michael Ondaatje - If I were a cinnamon peeler I would ride your bed and leave the yellow bark dust on your pillow. Your breasts and shoulders would reek you could never walk through markets without the profession of my fingers…

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The Iceberg Theory - by Gerald Locklin - all the food critics hate iceberg lettuce. you’d think romaine was descended from orpheus’s laurel wreath, you’d think raw spinach had all the nutritional benefits attributed to it by popeye, not to mention aest…

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