Tag: Nora Roberts

V is for ….

V is for …. Vampires

Nobody writes vampires like Anne Rice! Over the years, I have read many a variety of vampires but Lestat reigns above them all.

A pretty good looking V stack if I say so myself. The Vampire Chronicles were not my first vampire books but they quickly became my favorite. Starting reading them in high-school and into my early 20s. I will be honest I have not picked up an Anne Rice book in a very long time. I have one on list that I am hoping to get to this year however.
The Vampire Lestat is book 2 and The Vampire Armand is book 6.

Nora Roberts’ Valley of Silence is very good as well! Book 3 in the Circle Trilogy so it’s when everything comes to a head! I really enjoyed this series but then I am never disappointed in Nora Roberts.

Looking forward to:
Violets are Blue – Book 7 in the Alex Cross series, I am only on book 2 😁. But my husband, among others, loves this series!

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🏅Top Shelf Tuesday 🏅

The adorable Easter basket that my wonderful husband put together for me. 🥰

Happy Tuesday everyone!  And Happy Easter.

This week’s pick for Top-Shelf Tuesday is:

Lawless
by Nora Roberts
Romance, Western
Paperback
Published by Harlequin

I know that I have mentioned before that Nora Roberts was my first introduction into the Romance genre.  I had always thought of Romance as those cheesy books with the half naked people on the front and the whole thing was just full sex.  I was young then, 🤣. I even enjoy those books from time to time now. 
It was Lawless specifically that I read. 

When I was in High School, I stared my first job as a barista at a drive through coffee stand and found my co-worker’s copy of Lawless.  You have lots of stop and go time for reading throughout the work day.  I decided to give it a shot and became so enthralled with it. I have never forgotten the feeling that it gave me and the blossomed love of Romance novels.

It’s been too long since I last read it to be able to provide a good synopsis so I will just provide the blurb instead. 

To Tame a Renegade Heart

The Arizona Territory was a dangerous place, but gunslinger Jake Redman was half-Apache and all man–more than a match for the wilderness. Sarah Conway was something else again. She was every inch an Eastern lady, yet she was determined to make Lone Bluff her home.

Jake was annoyed to find himself playing guardian angel to this tantalizing innocent–even more disgusted to find he liked it. Little did he suspect that beneath Sarah’s ladylike demeanor beat the heart of a frontier woman ant that her body yearned for his hard embrace, her heart for his words of love .. . . 

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Don’t Get Stuck in a Genre Rut

When I was younger I used to only read Stephen King, R.L. Stein, Dean Koontz, you get my drift, pretty much thriller and horror only.  When I was in High School, I stared my first job as a barista and found my co-worker’s copy of Nora Robert’s novel Lawless.  That was my intro into great Romance novels.  I very rarely left that comfort zone of those authors though. I had no idea the books I was missing out on. 

The past several years I have made changes in the way I choose what books to read and I have been picking up ones that I normally wouldn’t.  I join reading challenges that prompt me to choose books outside my comfort zone.  We are two months into the year so far and my genre resume has already been so vast, Literary Women’s Fiction, Contemporary Realistic Fiction, New Adult Romance, Literary Fiction, Crime and Comedy Thriller, Poetry, and Non-fiction Memoir.

Here are a few that I have thoroughly enjoyed recently:

I hope that this will give you the push to expand your reading beyond your comfort zone as well.  There is a whole world out there to explore.  Don’t be afraid to check them out.

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H is for ….

H is for …. Harry Potter if course!

“H” is another good listing! Some big names here like the Harry Potter series (only a couple shown), The Hunger Games, The Host, The Hobbit and Helter Skelter.

Hogwarts certainly is where my heart lies.  As I write this I am snuggled up in my Hogwarts blanket, with my Racenclaw socks on.  I love both the books and the movies.  I have just recently started to reread them.   My husband and I have a christmas tradition where we watch all the movies back to back.  I have 6 Red Foot Tortoises and they are all named for HP charaters, Norbert, Lily, Trevor, Dobby, Winky, and Fang.

I recently received an ARC of Hideaway from St. Martin’s Press and I am so excited to read it!  I dont think that I will be able to get to it before its publication date of 5/26 as I have a pretty packed reading schedule already but maybe I can squeeze it in somewhere.  Nora Roberts is always so tempting to side track for, though.  My favorite romance author hands down!  I am NEVER disappointed in her books.  When I have a heavy thriller/true crime spree it is so nice to break it up with one of her books. 

What is your favorite Nora Roberts book?

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