I’m Laura J and I love to read.

You should send that into Reader’s Digest. They have a page for people like you. – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Once Upon a Time I was one of those kids who was always reading books until the wee hours, under the covers, with a flashlight. I always thought my mom didn’t know how much I sneaked my reading, but have since learned she knew alllll about it and just didn’t mind – she was just [...]

Okay, so, about me…let’s see. I love reading, I love books, I love holding books, buying books, sharing books, and even just looking at my books.

Most days I feel like I’ve been skulking around the online romance community forever. But Sybil asked me to properly introduce myself, and who am I to deny Sybil? So here it is – Super Librarian 101. I discovered the joys of reading through mystery novels, which to this day are my first love. I [...]

Dreaming with Sandy M – a very short story Once upon a time Sandy dreamed of living in a lighthouse on the California coastline. Well, she still does, but that ain’t happenin’ any time soon. So instead she’s moved to a small town in Central California where folks roaming downtown on a beautiful spring evening [...]

Welcome to the Pond We got fun and games, we got everything you want, honey now tell us your name uh well not really but close   I have made each reviewer do an intro and in true do as I say not as I do sybil fashion have never done one myself. So I [...]

I like reading. Always have, probably always will. It started with easy stuff, like Nancy Drew and the Animorphs. Then my third-grade teacher gave me Watership Down by Richard Adams. I almost always list that one on my favorite books list because it changed my life. Watership Down is about four hundred pages long. At [...]

I’m Laura J and I love to read. Well, it hasn’t always been that way. Thanks to an over zealous teacher back in third grade, who made us only read non-fiction historical or biographies, my reading experience was pretty much nil. Fortunately, a good friend of mine told me about a book she thought I [...]

So I am one of the newbie ducks around these parts, and I thought it would be nice to answer some questions I have received from alert readers so you can get to know me better. Or stalk me. It all amounts to the same thing. 

Sandy M’s Daydream Once upon a time a TGTBTU reviewer was a young (snort!) girl named Sandy who lived in a lighthouse on the California coastline. Sandy loved to read thanks to an elementary school teacher. She loved Trixie Belden and Nancy Drew as a kid, but after a while, life began to change for [...]

Once upon a time I learned to read Who’s Afraid of the Dark by Crosby Bonsall and I was off!! A whole new world opened up. I read everything I could get my hands on, from my mother’s Good Housekeeping magazines to Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume. Talk about a [...]

Once Upon a Reviewer: Gwen Once Upon a Time I was one of those kids who was always reading books until the wee hours, under the covers, with a flashlight.  My mom never did understand why I always seemed so tired.

You should send that into Reader’s Digest. They have a page for people like you. – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Once Upon a Reviewer: Lawson Once upon a time a young rabid reader named Lawson was searching for something good to read. Being young at the time, dear Lawson did not have many [...]