by Shelia Roberts
If you are looking for a chaste, sweet story of new love, this is it. You'll find several new couples who have a happier holiday because they chose to stay at Icicle Creek Lodge.
From the single mom whose children just want a dog and grandparent for Christmas to the man planning to propose, the lodge is filled with hope in this holiday story. Of course, there is the mall Santa who is feeling curmudgeonly facing his first Christmas after losing the love of his life. Can his grown children help him find his spunk, or will he need the magnetic pull of someone new?
Oliva Wallace and her son, Eric have their hands full making Christmas magical for their guests. Luckily, there's enough holiday spirit to make the week special for each of them as well.
Sheila Roberts has knocked out another heart-warming tale for the holidays.
Showing posts with label resorts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label resorts. Show all posts
Friday, January 2, 2015
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Vacationland by Sarah Stonich
While some entitled people believe the planet revolves around them, the truth is that we each DO have a kind of world that circles around us - a web of friends, family, places, and acquaintances that are all connected (and maybe only connected) by you. This book, a series of interconnected yet independent short stories, is about one of those webs - a world that revolves around a way-north Minnesota resort.
Through these stories, you get a feel for the small town of Hatchet Inlet, for the guys who hang out in the coffee shop and the visitors to the resort. We see the resort in the 1960s during its heyday, and also through its decline, piece-by-piece demolition, and rebirth. Immigrants and draft-dodgers, native tribes, locals, and tourists all fill the stories with depth and diversity of view.
This is my very favorite form of storytelling, and Stonich does it incredibly well. Each story stands alone and tells its own tale, but taken together they intermesh and marry to provide a multi-faceted view of life. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
Through these stories, you get a feel for the small town of Hatchet Inlet, for the guys who hang out in the coffee shop and the visitors to the resort. We see the resort in the 1960s during its heyday, and also through its decline, piece-by-piece demolition, and rebirth. Immigrants and draft-dodgers, native tribes, locals, and tourists all fill the stories with depth and diversity of view.
This is my very favorite form of storytelling, and Stonich does it incredibly well. Each story stands alone and tells its own tale, but taken together they intermesh and marry to provide a multi-faceted view of life. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
That thing called love
by Susan Andersen
Anderson weaves a story of the prodigal son and a woman who has made it past her days of hard knocks. Said prodigal son just happens to have a child of his own, and that boy's guardian is none other than the tough girl who has made good. Andersen concocts vistas of the Northwest that make a reader feel the mist of the ocean. She also can write a steamy sex scene better than most. This woman knows her foreplay and she can drag it out for an entire chapter. It takes a while to get to that first hot scene, but then again, it takes a while to get through it, too. Really, the blush on my face as I write this is all due to the hot coffee at my side.
The actual plot:
Jake left town shortly after his young wife died and her parents assumed responsibility for the baby that scared him to his toes. The elder generation has also passed on though, and now he realizes that it is time to man up and become a father. First he has to get past Jenny. She's tough, and everyone knows it. She also can't understand how the whole town can possibly regard her as sweet. Worst of all is that Jake breaks through the defenses quickly in his attempts to soften both her and his son to the idea of taking the boy away from everything he has ever known.
Anderson weaves a story of the prodigal son and a woman who has made it past her days of hard knocks. Said prodigal son just happens to have a child of his own, and that boy's guardian is none other than the tough girl who has made good. Andersen concocts vistas of the Northwest that make a reader feel the mist of the ocean. She also can write a steamy sex scene better than most. This woman knows her foreplay and she can drag it out for an entire chapter. It takes a while to get to that first hot scene, but then again, it takes a while to get through it, too. Really, the blush on my face as I write this is all due to the hot coffee at my side.
The actual plot:
Jake left town shortly after his young wife died and her parents assumed responsibility for the baby that scared him to his toes. The elder generation has also passed on though, and now he realizes that it is time to man up and become a father. First he has to get past Jenny. She's tough, and everyone knows it. She also can't understand how the whole town can possibly regard her as sweet. Worst of all is that Jake breaks through the defenses quickly in his attempts to soften both her and his son to the idea of taking the boy away from everything he has ever known.
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