Rosario's Reading Journal

Laura Lee Guhrke is a bit of a buried treasure. You don't see her discussed all that much online, and yet all three of her books that I...

Just testing this Hello service to post pictures to my blog. Let's see how it works. Like the pic? It's Barbalib, from the Barbap...

Caridad Piñeiro was kind enough to send me her book, Darkness Calls , herself, and I'm glad to report that I really, really liked it! F...

I'm not a big fan of romantic suspense, but once in a while I feel like reading one, and Elizabeth Lowell seemed like a good bet. I...

It seems like a bit of a waste to buy an anthology for just one story, but that's what I did with Hot Blooded . I got this one only beca...

I used to read Elizabeth Adler years ago, when I basically read whatever books in English my local bookstore decided to stock. Her novels w...

Why, why, why isn't MPM publishing any more books under her Barbara Michaels pseudonym? As much as I love her Amelia Peabody books (a...

Too Wild To Wed? , is one of the last category novels written by Jayne Ann Krentz . Around the time this one was published (1991), she was w...

Before she started going in a more "suspens-ey" direction, Kay Hooper wrote a few almost-gothic mysteries. I read Finding Laura ...

Except for the Harry Potter books, I'm not really into books intended for children or teens. I don't read much in the genre, but I ...

Emma Holly is fast becoming one of my favourite authors. It's not only her love scenes, I really like her characters and stories. The l...

Christmas Kisses did not look like the kind of anthology I'd enjoy, but it contained the only story I hadn't read in Linda Howard ...

I recently got my hands on a pile of Black Lace novels, and I'm trying to space them out. The first I read of that batch was Captive F...

Yet another book I have no idea why I bought? Maybe for the childless angle? When Tomorrow Comes is my first book by Regan Forest . The wh...

I was in a Linda Howard kind of mood, so I decided to reread Diamond Bay . He was barely alive. Someone had shot him twice. Trusting her in...

I'd bought Compromising Positions , by Beverly Bird as soon as I'd read the very good review at All About Romance , but it wasn...

Chick-lit books, being mostly trade paperbacks, are very difficult for me to get. There are usually no cheap copies used, the shipping costs...

I recently finished The Accidental Duchess ( excerpt ), by new-to-me author Jessica Benson . Dear Reader, I married the wrong man. I had ev...

I'd previously read only one book by Brenda Novak ,and that one had been a very typical Superromance. Cold Feet ( excerpt )is nothing...

99% percent of the times, I don't buy books unless someone's recommended them. The rec can be a review at a place I trust, someone...