Some excellent reading this month. I also started a number of books that I couldn’t finish. The authors of the books I couldn’t finish seemed to have no sense of pacing. They wrote beautiful chapters, but the chapters didn’t make me want to read the next chapter. It was strange and a bit discouraging. Good thing I found all this other wonderful stuff. Balogh, Mary, Simply Perfect, Delacorte Press, 2008. I have loved Mary Balogh’s romances since I first read a novella of hers in the early 1990s. The novella sent me searching for her novels, which I read as fast as I could. Simply Perfect is her latest release, an excellent book that I had trouble putting down. It’s one of her … Read entire article »