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Good Monday morning! I'm starting the week with The Magnolia League by Katie Crouch.

Over the weekend I finished The Sweetest Thing by Jill Shalvis. It was a fun and surprisingly poignant read.

Now I'm reading Roxanne St.Claire's Face of Danger and it is smokin' hot! And I'm only about 100 pages in!

I have so many fantastic new books in the TBR, but I'm taking a little break from romance to read Connie Willis's Blackout. It's the first of a two-part series. Got those both from the library after a friend swooned over them, and so far it's fantastic. Her brand of sci-fi is perfect for me: she writes time-travel between 2060 Oxford and different points in the past, and her stories are very character-driven (not techy at all). Her research is just staggering. Lots to love for a fan of historical romance.

I read The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor this weekend which is a YA book. It is a new take on the Alice and Wonderland adventure. I liked it, so I am going to jump into the second book, Seeing Redd, today.

A couple of the contemps I've picked up lately just haven't been doing it for me so I'm downloading some more Cheryl St. Johns and I think I'm going to finally read BEAU CRUSOE by Carla Kelly. Maybe if I switch genres that will help.

Found out some very good news by browsing websites the other day - Mary Balogh is starting a new 7 book series. The good news is she is trying to get them released one after the other like her Bedwyn and Simply series. The bad news is the first one isn't to be released until 2013! Something to look forward to...

Hm. I felt like My One and Only was two books. One--the reuniting of the divorced couple--I loved. I thought it was beautifully done. The other was the gee, how silly and stupid can the H be relationship with the boyfriend she's involved with as the book starts.
TBH I feel like Higgans doesn't really trust her own writing--she can write some beautiful moments (In her last book too, or maybe book before last?-- the way the brother of the heroine's dead husband treated her was amazing) but she seems to feel that she has to do super silly humor and make her heroine seem foolish to keep her audience. Someday, I suspect, she'll write a book that totally drops that--and it will be amazing. I keep reading her waiting for that day and loving the parts where she gets it right.

Irisheyes said: Found out some very good news by browsing websites the other day - Mary Balogh is starting a new 7 book series. The good news is she is trying to get them released one after the other like her Bedwyn and Simply series. The bad news is the first one isn't to be released until 2013! Something to look forward to...

Yay! This sounds fabulous! Though 2013 is a long way away:( Hopefully she'll have some re-releases in the meantime to tide us over.

It looks like she has a new book out this July and about 8 re-releases spread between now and Jan '13.

I tried Touch of a Thief and only got a few pages in--I really didn't like it. I'll try it again but right now I'm reading Eleven Scandals, which starts out well. I also have been reading more Jodi Thomas (two Texas hearts, which I liked) and I read both of the Susanna Fraser books--I liked A Marriage of Inconvenience a lot.

What books are you all looking forward to? Right now on my list for May and June all I have is the new JQ and Loretta Chase (and I already have Vanessa Kelly's book.)

I have finished Rachel Gibson's Any Man of Mine, whcih is great! I think I'll start Untamed by Elizabeth Lowell

Finished Roxanne St. Claire's Face of Danger and it was awesome! My favorite of her latest trilogy. Sooo good.

Tonight I'm going to start Pamela Clare's Breaking Point

Just finished Dragon Bound by Thea Harrison it's great!

I just finished Kris Kennedy's Defiant, which I loved. I was going to read Cloudy With A Chance of Marriage by Kieran Kramer next, but based on Manda's recommendation, I may read Face of Danger first.

As for June, in addition to the JQ, I'm looking forward particularly to Elizabeth Boyle's Lord Langley Is Back in Town, Susan Sey's Money Shot, and Erica Bauermeister's Joy for Beginners. I loved Bauermeister's ,i>The School of Essential Ingredients, which I read upon PJ's recommendation.

Janga wrote: "I just finished Kris Kennedy's Defiant, which I loved. I was going to read Cloudy With A Chance of Marriage by Kieran Kramer next, but based on Manda's recommendation, I may read Face of Danger fir..."

Janga, I second Manda's rec of FACE OF DANGER. Roxanne St. Claire told me it's the hardest book she's ever written. I happen to think it's also the *best* she's ever written!

I'm also looking forward to MONEY SHOT and JOY FOR BEGINNERS. Bauermeister writes so beautifully!

Glad to hear you enjoyed DEFIANT!

I just read Follow My Lead by Kate Noble. Really liked it--her other books were funny but this one is both funny and moving.

Just learned about the last invasion of England, in 1797, which is one slapstick error after another, and in which jemima Nicholas captured 12 French soldiers with a pitchfork and imprisoned them in a church. I really wish someone would write a book about that!

I liked Any Man of Mine too. I didn't think I would at the begining...buy she made it work.

I am struggling with Captured by the Highlander. I don't say it's not nice, it hasn't captured my attention though...

Started on Anna Campbell's Midnight's Wild Passion the other day. I am about halfway through it and it is awesome so far.