Jennifer Crusie and Mary Kay Andrews and Cheez Whiz

fake cheese on fake crackers… shoplifted and served with warmed over leftovers. Shame on the publishers.

19 Years of Reviews

fake cheese on fake crackers... shoplifted and served with warmed over leftovers. Shame on the publishers. Jennifer Crusie and Mary Kay Andrews and Cheez Whiz

It is not inconceivable that the prime minister should don a cheap blonde wig, heels and a little a after his first name , in order to ride on broken trains, wait on soda-machine queues, lie untreated in a public emergency rooms, drink and flirt in roadside pubs, and re-connectNumber 10 by Sue Townsend read by Barbara Rosenblat

Cynthia Darlow always lends coziness and warmth to stories about Southern life, Southern manners, and Southern towns. Like many, this story begins with an inheritance: the old Farrington mansion along with its papers, pictures, and privy things. This time, the heir is a 45 year old single mother andFirst Impressions by Jude Devereaux read by Cynthia Darlow

A happy surgeon falls over face down into an open gall bladder and is exiled from his caste of four: the AMA, the Hospital, the HMO, the elite medical partnership operating out of Boston. The sad misadventures of a circus of medical accountants, gatekeepers, technocrats, and insurance agents sets theThe Society by Michael Palmer read by J. Charles

Imagine a Cobbled Court Quilt Shop. A Blue Bean Bakery. A For the Love of Lavender Herbal Boutique. Farms, handiwork, handicraft, prudent, helpful, hardware-toting neighbors, dainty small town gossip, happy volunteers, lavender soap: the fantasmatic drift of post-Madoff sub-urban female regret. What does a pretty pacified community look like whenThreading the Needle by Marie Bostwick read by Hilary Huber, Bernadette Dunne

Whatever falls from the sky above, thou shalt not curse it. That includes the rain. No matter what might pour down, no matter how heavy the cloudburst or how icy the sleet, you should never ever utter profanities against whatever the heavens have in store for us. Everybody knowsThe Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak read by Laurel Merlington

A pleasant lyrical description of the minute details of English country life presents the full world of a small town's folk, in all their deep old habits, their social quirks and irritabilities, and their precious sense of the finite order of inherited obligations. Mrs Willett can tackle a hundred jobs withoutA Storm at Fairacre, Village Diary, Changes at Fairacre by Miss Read read by Gwen Watford

"Look, Preacher, I don't need saving; I'm not interested in dating, and I'd just as soon not be your friend. So why don't you go peddle 'let's be friends' somewhere else," she tells Noah when he tries talking to her at lunchtime at school. We have the perfect subject of theJodi Thomas Welcome to Harmony Narrated by Julia Gibson

The real lover is, as always, God.... Unerring, abundant, furiously hopeful story about the possibility of loving a woman to whom one is wed. No religiosity, just a well told well detailed tale of Irish Catholic erotic marital life. Greeley is as always superb.A Christmas Wedding by Andrew Greeley read by Jonathan Marosz

Charlotte, a romance writer who has recently broken her engagement to an unfaithful beau, moves to a small town and makes friends with her neighbors and the local pastor. Very pleasantly narrated by Crystal Sershen. Story well written but a little slow. Crispens Point by JoHannah Reardon narrated by Crystal Sershen

Imagine yourself in every drawing room of mature Washingtonian society, amidst the pouffy hair, the polka dot dresses, the over-used jokes, and the starchy defensive hawkishishness of 1973. The wives, too, are overused. Pat Nixon is brittle; Dorothy, wife of the ex CIA agent and Watergate burgler E. Howard Hunt,Watergate by Thomas Mallon read by Joe Barrett

Ed McBain's DOLL (Pouty D, drag the O, tongue heavy on the L.) is bedtime reading. The warped, lusty, utterly female voice of this slut-goddess kicks you in the groin, cuffs you to the radiator, and feeds you sex and ham sandwiches. You, or rather Steve Carella, who rarely gets tangled up withDOLL by Ed McBain read by

An acoustical hog. There is no one as good as Griffin on the hearts and minds of the Military, and no one as bad as the histrionic, oversyncopated, overamplifed, over-the-top Dick Hill reading him. A pity. Where is the outstanding Michael Russotto? By Order of the President by W.E.B. Griffin misread by Dick Hill

From the very first paragraph, when she almost breaks her tooth on something hard that her mouth found in her peanut butter cupcake, Emily is interesting. Yes, she says yes to an engagement ring. But this is not another goofy romance in which the female not only saves the universeThe Coroner by Jennifer Graeser Dornbush read by Sophie Amoss

There is more than one mystery here. First, how does one make sense of the handful of quotes from Plato's Republic which are scattered about this book like annoying commercials for a new Greek candidate? Especially when there is no candidate. Plato's ideas are credited with breeding aThe Fifth Vial read by Michael Palmer read by J. Charles