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An overdue library book

Have you ever returned a library book late? How late? A week? A month?

Try 68 years.

The Girl You Left Behind by Jo Jo Moyes

OK, it's official. I really, really, really don't like war stories (Casablanca excluded). I usually enjoy Jo Jo Moyes, but I couldn't get through the French WW2 part of "The Girl You Left Behind".

A collage of romance

7 habits of highly successful readers

Want to know what books readers buy? Have a look here.

Leap Year, the movie

I tries the first 20 minutes of it. Too predictable. :-(

Sought: Reviews of Spicy Somethings

If you'd like to review "Spicy Somethings" by Eve Summers, please send an email to bestseller at xtra dot co dot nz.

Sad Cypress

Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie is first and foremost a who-dun-it. But on a whole different level, it's a love story. The murder mystery is just as good as the romance plot.

10 songs with the word "love" in them

Lessons in loveLost in loveAll out of loveMaking love out of nothing at allLove is in the air (is this really a song?)Love me doWhen I fall in loveLove you inside and outFirst love (from The Pirate Movie)It must have been love

29 February

Leap year! I still have to see the movie by the same title, but here's a peace of trivia for you, straight from the movie: "according to Irish tradition, a man who receives a marriage proposal on a leap day must accept it."

But why does February traditionally have only 28 days? Blame the Romans, Caesar Augustus wanted "his" month to be as long as Julius Caesar's, so he stole a few days from February to make August as long as July.