It’s not easy to combine a compelling legal drama with a rom-com and not have it feel like all the worst stereotypes of a Hallmark movie, but Michael Scott Clifton does it with style and a little bit of actual wand-waving in The New Year’s Man.
There’s something bittersweet about discovering a series just as it’s coming to an end. Lift and Let Die is the sixteenth and final installment in Helen Golden’s A Right Royal Cozy Investigation series, and while I had no trouble following the mystery as a newcomer, I couldn’t help feeling that I’d arrived rather late to a very entertaining party.
I love a good RomCom. I especially love a good second-chance RomCom, or one featuring lead characters who are past their twenties. Even more, I love a good Christmas RomCom. So when I was offered a review copy of Stuck with You for Christmas by Jen Smith, well, obviously, I said yes.
I’m new to Liz Fenwick’s work, but based on my recent devouring of The Last Christmas, I’ve been missing out on some incredible storytelling.
But while Cole is the central character, this “novel in stories” is really about the women he encounters. Each is distinctly herself. There is no particular type, no interchangeable parade of romantic interests. Hale gives these women agency, personality, and histories of their own, while allowing us to experience Cole’s story through their eyes.
Cool shot; is that yours?
I new it was a gyroscope like device before it read it above the picture.
I have an old one that was given to me by Santa way back, it is almost antique.
Motorcycle wheels act like gyroscopes too, they try to keep pointed in the direction they came from.
I found that out the day a muffler popped up from under a car I was following at about 80 mph.
The bike kept straight ahead!
I’d like to have a device like that one. Nice picture.
Happy WW!
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i was thinking gyroscope, too, but wasn’t too sure until i read Jim’s comment (I didn’t read the shot’s title, hahaha).
cool!
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Great photo!
Hmmmmmm, some kind of doo-hicky. Am I right?? lol…Happy WW.
first time to see this,nice shot, thanks for sharing and visiting me..happy WW!
some kinda Mac Gyver stuff?lol
cool entry..thanks for visiting .
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Great picture! Happy WW!
I had a gyroscope when I was a kid, loved it…it wasn’t htis big though, nice shot…could be something the Borg left for Jean Luc Picard…
That is just SO cool. I love how the light plays off the curved gunmetal surfaces. Science meets art.
Interesting! MY daughter recently did something to do with gyroscopes for school – to be honest it was the first time I ever heard of them!!
what a treasure that is!! I love that. My son would love one of those.
Because some people asked… I took this picture with my Samsung Blackjack Cell phone, following a friend’s tenet that the best camera for the job is the one you have with you.
It’s a navigational gyroscope from a dirigible (airship), and I snapped the picture at the Frontiers of Flight museum at Dallas’s Love Field on Saturday.
That’s pretty cool! Nice shot too:)
Cool dude!
happy ww!
that’s one cool gadget!
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Interesting!
happy ww. nice tec photo whatever this is.
i had a gyroscope when i was a kid. brings back memories.
Thats is cool!