The Blue Librarian

      I rarely come across a book that I end up reading in a day. I admit, I like funny romance books from time to time. They are relaxing, put your mind at ease after a stressful day.       It is a habit I took in college when at the end of each semester I used to have a round of eight exams almost one after the other and after all that pressure I really needed a brain eraser. And this is when the romance books come into play. It was over twenty years ago, before the times of Harry Potter, light vampire stories and tons of teenager focused romance literature. It was the time of Sandra Brown and Sidney Sheldon, and, much as it is today, those books were following the same pattern and story line so it is not quite a surprise I cannot remember much about them. After all, I was calling them brain erasers because they were having that reset effect.       Nowadays, if you do not want to read vampire or different kind of undead or supernatural ...

There is no need for many words to write a good story. There is no need for complicated words for the story to touch your soul. 'The spirit hour' is a collection of five short tales about lost souls: 'The Blue Lady', 'The Phone Call', 'Haunted Hearts', 'Blue Angel' and 'The Reawakening'. Almost every one of them is different but all  are touching your heart in a very distinctive way. You feel the loss, you feel the pain and the heartbreak. When you pick up the book you imagine you will find inside the Grim Reaper, horror stories with a twist and yes, some of them may scare or frighten you but not in the way horror stories do. You meet in these pages the ones that passed away and the ones that are left behind. You feel their loss, you mourn them and you get to cherish life and the people around you even more with every turning of the page. For me, Tara Theresa Hill's book was a memorable read and her collection of stories will be...

What do you do when you find your surgeon husband playing tonsils hockey with a nurse in the OR? You pack your stuff, move into your best friend spare cottage, hide indoors and stuff your face with cheesecake and ice cream till the severance money run out and then start working as your best friend assistant at the city morgue. OK, maybe this is not what you'd do but it is what Mattie Winston did. Former ER and OR nurse, she cannot go back working in the Sorenson's only hospital where the whole affair happened and her husband is working still so her best friend Izzy decides to use her cutting people skills and nosiness and have her help him as deputy coroner. While Mattie is a fair skinned, 6 feet blonde with a body that has a healthy layer of thermal insulation, Izzy has olive skin, is 5 feet tall, gay and as wide as he is tall. He plays house with Dom, a fair skin beautiful man with insane cooking skills and great sense of humor and provide support to Mattie in her trans...