Jane Litte's Blog, page 148

REVIEW: Beach Read by Emily Henry

A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.

Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.

They’re polar opposites.

In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring bea...

REVIEW: Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, Book 5) by Martha Wells

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Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effect.

You know that feeling when youre at work, and youve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And youre a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, youre Murderbot.

Come for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the...

Film Review: Office Romance by Eldar Ryazanov

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Office Romance (Russian: , romanized: Sluzhebnyj roman) is a Soviet comedy film directed by Eldar Ryazanov. It was filmed at Mosfilm and released in 1977. The films plot is based on the stageplay Co-workers (Russian: , romanized: Sosluzhivtsy) written by Eldar Ryazanov and Emil Braginsky, and tells the story of Ludmila Kalugina, head of a statistical bureau, and her subordinate, economist Anatoly Novoseltsev, who come from mutual aversion to love. Office Romance was a box office success, the...

REVIEW: Who Ate the First Oyster? : The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History by Cody Cassidy

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Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? Who invented soap? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations.

Who invented the wheel? Who told the first joke? Who drank the first beer? Who was the murderer in the first murder mystery, who was the first surgeon, who sparked the first fireand most critically, who was the first...

NEW RELEASES: Week of May 12, 2020

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JOINT REVIEW: Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett

Janine: Since Sirius and I both enjoyed Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennetts first novel in his Founders Trilogy, we decided to review the sequel, Shorefall, together.

Here is the novels blurb:

The upstart firm Foundryside is struggling to make it. Orso Igancio and his star employee, former thief Sancia Grado, are accomplishing brilliant things with scriving, the magical art of encoding sentience into everyday objects, but its not enough. The massive merchant houses of Tevanne wont tolerate...

REVIEW: Home for the Wedding by Elizabeth Cadell

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Beautiful Stacey Marsh made a mistakeshe should never have come home for her wedding. She had forsaken her hometown of Dorsham, England, long ago because it was too quiet, not at all the kind of place for the likes of Stacey.

Stacey met Jules Charbonnier in Paris and planned to marry. As soon as Stacey returns to Dorsham, the town was frantic with upcoming activity and Staceys grandfathers ghost has come back to haunt them. As for the boy next door, Nigel is simply too handsome for his own...

REVIEW: The Yeggman’s Apprentice by CK Crigger

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ITS 1905 IN BUTTE, MONTANA AND SPARKS ARE FLYING
A fearless safecracking heroine and a hero whos a wanted man team up to stop a law firm full of embezzlers. But theres a problema hired killer will chase them all the way across Montana to shut them up.

The goal now: make it out of Montana alive!

Dear Ms. Crigger, 

Well, it has been awhile since Ive read one of  your books.  Looking back over past reviews, I think I started reading the first one shortly after Dear Author was started....

REVIEW: Where the Heart Is by Sue Moorcroft

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Malta 1968: Sylvana Bonnicis parents are dubious about her marrying Rob Denton, a British army staff sergeant, but Sylvana dreams of being an army wife and travelling the world in mini skirts and big hats, like Jackie Onassis.

Sure enough, Rob is posted to exotic places like Singapore and Gan Island but, unfortunately, the army dictates that he must leave behind his new wife. Sylvana has little choice but to live with her parents, who have moved to the UK.

In 1971 Rob is finally offered a...

What Jayne is reading and watching Spring 2020

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The Right Sort of Man: A Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery by Allison Montclair

In a London slowly recovering from World War II, two very different women join forces to launch a business venture in the heart of MayfairThe Right Sort Marriage Bureau. Miss Iris Sparks, quick-witted and impulsive, and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, practical and widowed with a young son, are determined to achieve some independence and do some good in a rapidly changing world.

But their promising start is threatened when...