Category Archives: LUST-list
LUST (June 2009)
The Gotta-Have-It Book of the Month: Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel The Tease: She was easily distracted. She had a photographer’s fascination with quality of light. An upside-down CD reflecting rainbows on the bedroom ceiling, a glass of red wine catching the light of a candle, the Empire State Building piercing […]
LUST (April 2009)
The Gotta-Have-It Book of the Month: Busy Woman Seeks Wife by Annie Sanders The Tease: ‘So,’ said Gavin, looking back at her now. ‘Sorry I couldn’t make it to Toronto in the end. Bit of a cock-up I hear. Shouldn’t have let you on your own after all, should I?’‘Er…’ She was a bit suspicious […]
LUST (March 2009)
The Gotta-Have-It Book of the Month: Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman The Tease: Something among them had caught his eye anew. He turned around and picked up Claire’s canteen. It had belonged to her stepbrother Dominic, who’d purchased it years ago from a camping and military surplus store. It […]
LUST (February 2009)
The Gotta-Have-It Book of the Month: The Makedown by Gitty Daneshvari The Tease: Men have an innate lack of understanding when it comes to jealousy.Don’t be that girl. What Ben doesn’t realize is that we are all that girl. Every woman who has ever uttered the words ‘I like you,’ ‘I love you,’ ‘I give […]
LUST (January 2009)
The Gotta-Have-It Book of the Month: Rock Bottom by Michael Shilling The Tease: ‘My stepdad is a musician,’ Sarah said. She wore chunky heels and still barely cleared five feet. ‘He plays the ukulele and the guitar. Folk music mainly. I think that he wanted to be a professional musician too, go live in a […]
LUST (December 2008)
The Gotta-Have-It Book of the Month: This One is Mine by Maria Semple The Tease: ‘I figured out about you.’ Teddy slid into the booth across from her. ‘You’re a Deadhead who took some really good acid and your life is now one big magical hallucination.’Violet caught that Goodwill whiff again. ‘I’ll think about that,’ […]
LUST (November 2008)
The Gotta-Have-It Book of the Month: Divine Justice by David Baldacci The Tease: ‘Danny, is there any place around town I can do some work? I’m a little short on cash.’‘I’ll see what I can do.’Danny led him upstairs and a few minutes later an exhausted Stone was asleep on the small bed there.A few […]
LUST (October 2008)
The Gotta-Have-It Book of the Month: The Gifted Gabaldón Sisters by Lorraine López The Tease: ‘How come you’re talking in Spanish?’ pipes Cary.Loretta and Rita can be so stubborn I have to pound bruises into their arms, but at least they know when to keep quiet. Not Cary. He’s the all-time, family champion, blabbermouth king […]
LUST (September 2008)
The Gotta-Have-It Book of the Month: By The Time You Read This by Lola Jaye The Tease: My heart rate accelerated. ‘He never mentioned it in The Manual.’ I thought back to the way I’d carelessly unwrapped the paper. My dad had wrapped this with his bare hands, and if I’d known I’d have unfurled […]