True Love Means Stealing a Body: Book Chick Recommends A Certain Slant of Light

If you thought you had problems when it comes to love, then get in line. Because the characters in Laura Whitcomb’s A Certain Slant of Light have got it much worse. For starters, she’s a ghost. More like a vapor, or a wisp maybe. As for him, well, he was a ghost and then he stole a body, but hey, he’s not a thief because the previous occupant had already vacated the body. Anyway, he can see her and she can see him. And once he lays human eyes on her and once she lays ghost eyes on him, she knows she’s gonna need a body too. Because you can’t really kiss a ghost or a vapor or a wisp. She finds a body she can take, but oops…Maybe it wasn’t the right body to take since the new girl’s parents are pretty wacko. Anyway, the long and short is A Certain Slant of Light is full of complications, conflict, drama, lust and love. All the makings of a good read. Oh wait, add more thing it’s full of — ghosts! Which makes it a winner for me.

These Books Are Teasing Me

I just received a new shipment today from Amazon and now all these tantalizing novels are calling out to me, whispering, luring me into their pages. No, no, I must keep them at bay for I have a manuscript to edit! But they beckon, all of them. There’s Eclipse, which I have to hide under other books so I’m not tempted to tear into the next installment of the Bella and Edward post-modern love story. (Um, yeah, just kidding on the postmodern thing. I meant VICTORIAN. But every feminist bone in my body still loves it). And now I have Replay calling out to me, A Certain Slant of Light saying my name, and The Grift wanting a piece of action too. What’s a book lover to do? I want all of them, all at once! What do you do when multiple books call out to you and beg to be read?