vocabulary

Review: Defining Twilight by Brian Leaf, M.A.

by Keira 09.29.2011

I’ve said before about how romance novels will improve your vocabulary and that they were responsible for my high SAT scores. Now it’s time to show how that’s possible… Brian Leaf is brilliant. He takes Twilight and pulls from it the words most likely to be seen on a standardized test. The book is very [...]

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The Top 10 Hero Types:

by Keira 09.05.2011

Who is the ultimate hero in your books? Bad Boy Hero: The Bad Boy hero is in a league of his own. More heroines and readers/viewers have fallen for the Bad Boy than any other hero. He is the ultimate rebel: mysterious, seemingly indifferent, and hard to get. He starts off behaving badly and unrepentant. [...]

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Review: Devil’s Cub by Georgette Heyer

by Keira 02.21.2011

Devil’s Cub by Georgette Heyer is enchanting and will assuredly transport you to another world. Georgette Heyer, praised to be the new Jane Austen, was born in 1902 and her tales are quite old but hold the same classic feel as any one of Austen’s novels. I can picture the whole novel as a movie [...]

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The Language of Literary Sex

by Keira 11.17.2010

For this article we’re going to skip over the titillating parts about raging tumescence and disintegrating virginal barriers otherwise known as land of frankness and euphemisms. We won’t be discussing weeping fluids, honey, dew, or the elixir of love. We’re doing this American and bypassing all foreplay and going straight for the mechanics of making [...]

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Get into Bed with Sharon Lathan (Author Interview)

by Keira 12.17.2009

Sharon Lathan Q&A Mr. & Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy ~ Two Shall Become One LRP: Would you say your versions of Darcy and Elizabeth match closer to the actors’ portrayal of the characters in the 2005 movie of Pride and Prejudice or to their personalities in Austen’s original writing? Sharon: Ah, the controversial question right off [...]

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