From the library, a new Nora Roberts hardcover, Blue Smoke. This is a single-couple novel, perhaps indicating that two- or three-couple novels are not going to be a permanent trend in her mainstream novels. It takes its sweet time getting the couple together, mind, letting one-sided "love at first sight" at around page 50, and a number of near-misses, suffice until they meet almost half-way in. The romance feels almost secondary to me, which is just fine, because I read the book as Catrina Hale's story, how and why she became an arson investigator. Despite its crashingly obvious villain, that story is more interesting than fated love at first etc.
As usual, a good way to pass a lunch and a sleepy evening; I don't ask it to be more than that and it doesn't try.
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#2 :: Kate wrote on December 5, 2005 at 1:38 PM:
_Arson_ investigator. Not tech help.
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So...does this have anything to do with consumer electronics failing in spectacular ways?
Because that's certainly my immediate thought on reading that title...