ArcaneJill, most new Crusies are in General Fiction rather than Romance (I note that you said you were looking for Roberts). It's a marketing switch rather than a content switch IMHO.

I have yet to read Crazy For You and Welcome To Temptation -- looks like I have a mixed bag ahead of me.

So far, Faking It was the sexiest, and the funniest.

oh ita, Welcome is so good.

msbelle is right. Though I still like Faking It better, only because I'm *really* fond of the whole nutty Goodnight family.

I will definitely buy it then.

I'm not done with Faking It yet, and it's actually taking me longer to get into than almost any of her others, despite the fact that Tilda's voice is wonderfully wry. And the inhaler-puffing in the beginning is a great comic device (not so much for real asthmatics, I know). I loved Tell Me Lies from the opening sentence, and Welcome was also wonderful -- Phin was a great love interest. Agreeage on the plot element in question in Crazy for You -- it was a little much.

Question for all the lovely brains here: Young adult/childhood books were discussed way, way, way upthread, and last night I got into the topic with a friend as we compared what books we had book read growing up. One book I've never been able to find again was almost a time travel -- the girl "wakes up" in another century, and she's either a princess or simply in a castle, but rather than "true" time travel, she has epilepsy. I could swear the name of the book was I Hear(d) the Bluebirds Singing but I can't find mention of it anywhere. Any guesses? It either a late '60s or very early '70s book.

Picked up Annie Dillard's The Living at a library book sale last night, too, for all of a dime. Anyone read it? I had a friend awhile back who kept telling me to try her, especially Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, but I hadn't up till now.

I can't tell how much I liked Welcome to Temptation or Faking It, because of threads like this one. It's like, of course I loved them! I loved Bet Me, too -- possibly I was a little surprised because I thought folks here liked it less. Those are the only Crusie I've read.

most new Crusies are in General Fiction rather than Romance

Aha! Thanks for the heads-up -- I will have to check over there. Interesting, since I bought Crazy for You in Waldenbooks, in Romance, and they have several others of hers there. Although I don't know which ones.

I think I'm going to have to check out Welcome to Temptation (which I wanted to read anyway, after reading the first chapter in the end of Crazy for You ) and Faking It -- those seem to be well-liked.

Reading everyone's discussion makes me yearn for more time to read, especially the thought-provoking kind of books... I miss those. Although just read DaVinci Code , which (as my first suspense novel - is that the right genre?) was an interesting exercise (controversies aside).

I still need to read Bet Me. Tell Me Lies I liked less than Welcome, Faking and Fast Women, but more than Crazy.

Interesting, since I bought Crazy for You in Waldenbooks, in Romance, and they have several others of hers there.

Yeah, it varies from store to store. Last time I went looking, they were in one place at B&N and another at Borders.