Ocean City Free Public Library Book Blog

     Do you remember your first time picking up a romance novel? The thrill and joy of picking up that novel and discovering something new. Wanting to read all the stories that ends with a Happily Ever After. The Bromance Book Club  by Lyssa Kay Adams brought back that feeling of discovering a romance novel.       This book was a slight miss with our readers during this past meeting of OCFPL Book Club. Some readers enjoyed it, others did not. We truly did enjoy the fact that it was a group of men,  aiding a friend in winning back his wife. What greater re source for this endeavor than a  romance novel. It was ridiculous and over the top. Yet, we did love  the grand romantic gestures of love and devotion. Some of us did not enjoy  the main character but enjoyed the side characters more. Not a true home run this time around.         While this book was not a total win, I still suggest to pick up this ...

        Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari is a hilarious and thought provoking book about dating in today's tech savvy society. Aziz Ansari is a comedian and actor most know for his role in Parks and Recreation  up with the idea with his own downfall in his dating life. The anxiety of not receiving a text back from a woman he had an interest in caused a whirlwind of thoughts but it soon became an ah-ha moment for Anarsi. He knew that other people must be facing the same thing as him. So he decided to take what just happened and put it out on stage. Soon it became the outline for a book. Travel with him through as he venture out to experience various dating cultures, mishaps, and success.        The book was hilarious and the audio book was just as great. I enjoyed it and found it hard to put the book down once I started it. Treat yourself with this book.        If you want to read Modern Romance  by Aziz Ans...

       Landline is the latest novel by Rainbow Rowell, and author who has written both adult and YA romance novels. Landline follows the story of TV writer Georgie McCool as she struggles to balance her work life and her home life, while the state of her marriage declines. When she attempts to postpone a family holiday vacation as the result of an emergency at work, her husband, Neal, insists on taking their children home for Christmas anyway without Georgie. During the holiday week, Georgie tries to call Neal at his mother's house--however Neal's habit of never charging his cell phone leads to Georgie resorting to her parent's old rotary land-line phone to call Neal's mother's land-line. What Georgie soon realises is that this land-line connection allows her to call Neal in the past before they were ever married. Georgie now has an opportunity to either fix her marriage before it begins or to end it and see if they would have been better off never being marr...

So apparently I was the only member of the library staff that hadn't read this book. Despite my tendency to shy away from historical romances, after hearing everyone in the lunchroom discuss which actor would play which character, I decided to give this novel a shot. This is the 1st in a series. It's 1945 and World War II had ended. While on a 2nd honeymoon, Claire accidentally stumbles onto an ancient ceremonial ground and gets sucked back in time to 18th century Scotland. While there, she crosses paths with a group of Scottish clansmen and is immediately whisked into their group. One of the members of this group includes Jamie, a big beefy outlaw with a price on his head. To save her life, Jamie must marry Claire and the rest, as they say, is history. What starts out as a mutual friendship evolves into a very passionate love affair. Will Claire make it back to 1945? Will she want to? There's a lot of sex in this book, though it's never portrayed in a gross or gr...

Just look at the cover on this book.....it alone makes you want to crack it open and settle in. It's a quick, pleasant read, a romance for us middle aged people. Will North is an accomplished writer and with his first novel has scored a hit. The main characters are essentially good people, who fall in love and end up doing the "right thing" even though it's not easy. I suspect that this could be one of the "great beach reads" for this year. --Reviewed by Pauline Brady