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Between the Lines: Make a date with romance (The Sacramento Bee)
In the super-competitive, overcrowded world of the romance genre, few authors have been as successful as the award-winning, multimillion-seller Susan Wiggs. Her latest is "Just Breathe" (Mira, $24.95, 400 pages), an emotional roller coaster centered on a cartoonist whose husband betrays her. Undaunted, she leaves him and returns to her California hometown, where new love blossoms.
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CONVENTIONAL ROMANCE (Orlando Weekly)
Her wrinkles catch my eye. Her sex jokes capture my heart. Mary Everett, a sparkplug 60-something woman measuring 5 feet in heels on a tall day, sits next to me on the edge of the beachside sand-volleyball court.
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'Last Kiss' is an engaging tale of loss and love romance (The Oklahoman)
Luanne Rice finely crafts the best of the genre of "chick books.” The talented writer can make you laugh and make you miserable, then make you glad she did. "Last Kiss” (Bantam, $25) is about several couples in a coastal town in Connecticut. Nell is a high school senior who loved Charlie, who went to New York City after he graduated. He was murdered in that mean city, halting the young couple's ...
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An 'Exact' rendering of love (San Diego Union-Tribune)
There aren't many first novels as memorable as Elizabeth McCracken's “The Giant's House.” Her 1996 debut is one of the oddest and most moving love stories in recent fiction – the platonic romance of Peggy Court, an introverted librarian, and James Carlton Sweatt, only a kid when he wanders in the library and a true giant, at 8 feet 7 inches, when he dies at 20.
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True Blood: Undead on Arrival (Time Magazine)
Can HBO's drama True Blood reinvent the vampire story? We only wish that we could B-positive
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Sci-Cry: 10 Guaranteed SF Weepers (Sci Fi Wire)
Most people think of science fiction movies as hard and rational. But remember when the poster boy for all that is logical, Spock (Leonard Nimoy), died in 1982's Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ? Come on, admit it: You had "a little something in your eye" at that moment.
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'Women' the latest emotive chick flick (Newsday)
Given the box office success of "Sex and the City" and other recent female dramas, "The Women," starring Meg Ryan and Annette Benning, hits theaters this week.
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Cable stations, syndicates throw their programs into the ring (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By ROBERT PHILPOT TV is a monster, and pinning it down involves more than wrestling with the big five commercial-broadcast networks. So while ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and the CW pump their fall shows, others are busy rolling out their own offerings. Some are "alternative" networks, such as MyNetworkTV, which will be the new home of the popular WWE Friday Night SmackDown. But cable, PBS and ...
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Cage finds new screen life with foreign visions (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Nicolas Cage didn't wind up in Bangkok by accident.
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Dark creatures of the night pretty popular (Galveston County Daily News)
“Dark Knight” continues to draw theater audiences. However, another dark creature of the night stands poised to thrill and chill you.
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