Heart of Courage by Kat Martin

Third in Kat Martin's series about the Heart to Heart Gazette. This one was the brother I was looking forward to, and coincidentally fit in for my Eye Spy Challenge of a title with "heart" in it from the book group.

Of course I was already familiar with the characters before this one and enjoyed their romance immensely.

There were a couple of times that I laughed, a moment when I almost cried, and even a "oh my gosh they are not going to let that happen to her" moment.

There is something so attractive about the idea of a Viking - or an almost Viking - thrust into a world where he has to learn his way... or maybe that's just me.

Overall a very entertaining couple of hours. I would recommend it to those who like historical romance.

Snowy Night With a Stranger - Jane Feather

To Meet the January challenge at Booklovers Group I had to read a book with Snow in the title.

This was a cute little anthology. All historicals written by authors I enjoy. A bit far fetched in the Charlie Dickens story, but I liked them none the less.

Overall the stories were sweet and entertaining, with not all that much substance. The best of the three was written by Jane Feather.

Booklovers Challenge: 12 TBR's in 2009

One of the groups I am a part of (and have been on hiatus from) is the bookloversgroup on yahoo. It's a great group run by a sweet friend of mine, Merry.

They pose different challenges during the year to keep people reading and to start conversation. This challenge was to check out your TBR (too be read) stack of books and choose 12 to read during the year that have been sitting there a while. Most of my choices have been looked over to read other books or series or because I have started the novels several times before putting them down and reading something else.

So without further ado Miranda's 2009 TBR Challenge

1. Gregory Maguire - Wicked
2. Shana Abe - The Dream Thief
3. Tanya Huff - Blood Price and Blood Trail (two story paperback)
4. Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha
5. Jim Butcher - Furies of Calderon
6. Piers Anthony - On a Pale Horse
7. Savannah Russe - Beneath the Skin and In the Blood (2 books same series I have been passing for other books)
8. Lilith Saintcrow - Saint City Sinners
9. Majorie M Lui - The Red Heart of Jade
10. The Tomb - E Paul Wilson
11. Diana Gabaldon - Outlander (yes after years and years I WILL read this book)
12. Billie Letts - The Honk and Holler Opening Soon

Shew... Now I just have to actually do this.

I wish I would have done it last year - Some of these books would have been off the list already!! :)