Tag: mary balogh

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JANUARY book photo challenge

January 16–”Out of Print”

This trilogy of romances by Mary Balogh are out of print, published under the good ol’ Signet Regency label.  I remember hunting for these books on Amazon and paying much more than their original price tag in order to collect them! 

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Currently reading A Regency Christmas IV, a romance anthology from 1992 with stories by Mary Jo Putney, Mary Balogh, Sandra Heath, Marjorie Farrell, and Emma Lange. If Putney’s contribution about an over-worked gentleman who discovers a homeless French seamstress in his hotel bed and a hungry cat in his closet is any indication, this might be one of the best entries among Signet’s once-upon-a-time yearly holiday anthologies 🙂

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I love the “Regency Christmas” books Signet used to publish! I got this lil’ copy for my mom waaaaaaaaaay back in 1995 ;o) which she later passed on to me.  I believe it’s Regency Christmas VII; five talented authors and five beautiful stories, my favorite being Edith Layton’s The Rake’s Christmas–where a newly returned (and battle-scarred) soldier has nowhere to go for Christmas, but takes the place of a “rake” and attends a house party where he falls in love with the rake’s intended prey, a mousy, plain-jane heroine who starts off shy, but reveals a passionate spirit the more she and “the rake” get to know each other over the course of the party!

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OCTOBER book photo challenge

October 19–”howl at the moon good”

Bespelling Jane Austen
by Mary Balogh, Colleen Gleason, Susan Krinard, and Janet Mullany

Romance authors try their hand at taking some of Austen’s beloved tales and giving them a slight “paranormal” twist.  My personal favorite is Colleen Gleason’s “Northanger Castle” which takes my fav Austen story of Northanger Abbey, and gives us all the ghosts, vampires, and things that go bump in the night that Catherine loved to read about!

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AUGUST book photo challenge

August 14–”Back to School”

The Simply Quartet by Mary Balogh (Simply Unforgettable, Simply Love, Simply Magic, and Simply Perfect)

For anyone ever looking for a “school teacher” romance, I present this series to you, in which we follow four teachers from Miss Martin’s School for Girls in Bath. My personal favorites are Simply Love (which has strong beauty and the beast elements) and Simply Perfect, starring the headmistress herself (who’s *gasp* 35 years old!)

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AUGUST book photo challenge

August 9–”Favorite Author”

There
are *many* romance authors to whom I love and would label a “favorite”,
but if I had to choose one, I think it would have to be Mary Balogh;
it was her books that really launched me into the romance genre, and
introduced me to many of the “typical” tropes we see in Regency-era
historical romances. And of course, she authored the Bedwyns, so that’s
always a plus ;o)