Rosario's Reading Journal

I don't usually pay much attention to a book's publisher. I actually never even looked at that before I decided to start tracking th...

The first Kathleen Nance book I read, Day of Fire , blew me away. At last, a futuristic world that actually did feel futuristic, not some k...

Considering the trouble and time it takes to get books all the way here, it's no surprise that 2005 books were only a small part of my 2...

For AngieW's January TBR Challenge , I dug into my TBR and found The Sparkling One ( excerpt ), by Susan Mallery . The TBR Challenge fo...

With the increase of genre-bending books, some of which manage to combine quite a number of genres or subgenres, the classification of books...

My only reading resolution for the year that starts is that I'll work on clearing the old books in my TBR. To do that, I've decided ...

I rate books I read not so much using technical criteria, but on how much I've enjoyed them. Of course, many technical issues will affe...

In the August 1st, 2005 ATBF column , one of the AAR reviewers listed her favourite Trad Regencies and why they were favourites. One of them...

Yesterday I blogged about how much I'd read last year, and how it compared to the previous years. Today I'm going into how many of ...

Barbara Samuel , who also writes as Ruth Wind, has written one of my favourite romance novels ever: the wonderful, wonderful In The Midnigh...

Being a database freak, I track every single detail of what I read, so I just can't not do a "year in review" thingie! I can...

Return To Me ( excerpt ) is a stand alone book for Shannon McKenna , completely unrelated to the series of books about Seth Mackey and the ...

I adored Lydia Joyce 's debut, The Veil of Night , loved the plot, the characters, the writing, everything! Therefore, the minute her la...

Kristie started it. I've actually only read 31 2005 titles (they take time to get here, unless I pay to have them couriered), so I thou...

This is amazing. Whenever I think I've reread all the Nora Roberts books I've forgotten about or never read at all , I always find ...

In spite of the fact that I'm extremely leery of early Elizabeth Lowell titles, I bought Love Song for a Raven because I heard it has ...

My first Shannon McKenna , Behind Closed Doors , blew me away. I just couldn't believe I'd enjoyed it so much, mainly because the he...

The Forbidden Daffodils is a short story by Mary Balogh , published in the Blossoms anthology. Kate Buchanan was ruined when she was 18. ...

Winterset is the third book in Candace Camp 's Moreland family series, of which I read the first book, Mesmerized . Mesmerized was my...

Ok, I'm about to start Kiss of the Highlander ( excerpt, etc. ), by Karen Marie Moning . If you take a look at my index , you'll se...