100 Arabian Nights (Anthology) by Kim Lawrence, Meredith Webber, and Liz Fielding (Mills and Boon)

I love this book! It's just so nice to see 3 different sheikh romances together. As an anthology it works sooo well. I have been reading reviews of anthologies and this one just flows together instead of being a mismatch or hodge-podge. It really feels as if the authors and/or editor worked together.

I confess, I got this book from the UK. I don't know what it is but I am just increasingly drawn to the Mills and Boon books and their website. Between these anthologies, their centenary and 6 Medicals instead of the 4 we get in NA, I just keep visiting their website. This book is for sale now at www.millsandboon.co.uk You know me....when I love books, I really love books! Liz Fielding is one of my absolute favorite romance writers and I loved another Medical I read by Meredith Webber. I haven't read Kim Lawrence before but with one author I love and another I am growing to love, how could I go wrong?

Nancy, my grandmother lived in Bermuda when I was young and I used to spend every summer with her until I was 14. That was before it got overrun with CEOS and the rich and famous using it as a tax-dodge (she paid both US and Bermudian taxes). I know technically, Bermuda is not the UK but rather a British colony but it was very much influenced by the UK and most of the food, books and everything else were imported from the British Commonwealth at least back then. I still crave New Zealand lamb and this one British pastry the bakery had! I know it sounds weird but part of me feels British which is ridiculous because the UK as changed a lot since I was young (asd has the US). Now that my dh have I do Netflix, we tend to rent UK television and films more than American ones. Not super curent but hey, Bermuda did not have live television then. Not an anti-American statement but I just think that based on my childhood, I have this deep longing for UK stuff. I just am very drawn to the UK books not available here.

I think it would be great if Harlequin would make some or these stories available in the us. Maybe for their 60th, we can have anthologies like this. However.....don't count on it and miss this book. I have been waiting for the 6 HMRS to make it here and I finally wrote M & B to see what a full subscription woulkd cost. This book is so awesome that I would hate a NA reader to miss it because they assumed it will be available in NA. 

Penn, this one is great.  Liz is an auto-read for me...whenever one of her books comes, it goes to the top of the pile.  I buy lots of books but some authors have that extra "auto-read" too.    I have only started reading Meredith Webber's Medicals but loving them.

 I meant to call you but couldn't find your phone number.  I slept til noon today.  The antibiotics are finally over but this eating dinner at midnight and then sitting up afterwards so it doesn't rot my esophagus has been horrible. I normally eat "dinner" early.  I had hoped to get up early but I really crashed!  I could not even push through the last pages of a great bok.

Liz Fielding is great. I have several authors who are auto-buys but as my TBR becomes totally out of hand, she is an author who has the distinction of being an auto-read as well as auto buy. I have read some very different kinds of stories by her but no matter what she writes, the way she writes it just sparkles in the heart. Her use of language itself is just soo fine that I smile inwardly if not on my face too when I read her.

Meredith Webber is a Medical writer I love.  Kim Lawrence is new to me.  It was really cool to see authors from different lines together. 

If they make an anthology here in the US, they should choose these authors and add Olivia Gates for Desire.

You lucky reader!  I lost 4 books last night on a chair but my dh found them for me.

Liz, thanks so much for the comments.  I would like to know about this too.  I would like to know more about this placve too.  I am really intrigued by some of the anthologies and also the extra 2 medicals and a few others that are coming to NA.  The price of shipping has been my main obstacle, esp. since gas prices are eating into our budget more and more.

This book is wonderful!  I loved seeing 3 different lines together with a uniting theme but not needing to be a continuity.  This is the best anthology I have read in many years and it sparks my interest in reading more.  

With Mills and Book having their 100th anniversary and Halequin having their 60th soon, I am sure there are lots of readers on both sides of the ocean who would like mementos of both so anything to save on postage would be great!  I would love to see Harlequin celebrate their 60th with special things like this from their top authors like the ones in this anthology!  Liz, I just love your writing.  I don't even care what the story is, I know it it is going to be great...and memorable afterwards too.  

For anyone new to the Challenge, I discoverd Liz Fielding's books by accident.  I read THE SECRET LIFE OF GABRIELLA almost as a fluke and it was just the most wonderful book and now now I feel that with each book of hers I read.  It is through that one little book that this whole wonderful world of Liz Fielding and HR opened for me.  Then I discovered Medicals lately so it was great to see a Medical romance author in this anthology. Kim Lawrence is a new author to me but her story was a great addition and way to start off this trilogy.  I like the idea of an anthology to discover new authors too. 

I really appreciate this information. There are often so many books on the Mills and Boon website and no cost shipping is a plus option with the other place, especially when I only want one or two books so the shipping doesn't get lower per book to rationalize it. I did place an order and the postage was not that bad (4 Lbs) for mutliple books. Now, if they would just tell me how much they would charge to get all 6 Medicals in an ongoing automatic subscription I would be very happy. I wrote but have not received a reply.

Thanks for the info!  I will check there more often.  I found some of my favorite Quebecois musicians on DVD there so I do shop there.  It is very hard to get Quebec items in the US too.

Nancy, that's what we had to do.  I never broke it until the last night but my French was fairly advanced by that point.  We had one student in the family who had only started studying French 2 weeks before.  The 2nd day she got lost and had to go door todoor figuring out how to get home...and no one she met even spoke English.  She did make it back.

I did an immersion progam one summer at Middlebury before the Chicoutimi one.  It is a good program.  Lots of professional people go there for their jobs so it has a good reputation.  Honestly, however, the French school just did not seem as good.  The other students were uppidity, flaunting wealth and snobs.  Some NC friends were in the German and Russian schools and they enoyed Middlebury more.  Honestly, I learned more French, my fluency made greater strides, and I just had so much fun and love of French coming from the program offered by the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi.  It's been a long time since I did it but if it is still going, I would recommend it very highly for college age kids.  There are differences between Quebec and France French of course, and my class talked about that but if there is place that makes a person in love with French it was Chicoutimi.  I had an academic class plus there was one on culture where we listened to music and saw films and went on field trips to historic and geographic areas.  We also had optional classes in French and I took one on making dye designs on paper.  We had this cool thing during a break (lunch?) calld Improvisation where studentsd and teacher we given things to act out. It was sort of like charades but much coller.  One was surgery and they used a person's legs as the scissors.  Plus lots of time to explore the town and really do things in French which we did not do in Middlebury.  Chicoutimi just was more fun in every way.

This really does have something to do with the book too.  I love reading about new places, real or fantasy.   Also, this book had a cool mix between exotic culture and more personal.  Loved the 3 different tones of the stories---they fit well together.  When I got to the end of this book, it sort of reawakened in me that same kind of wonder that in erlier times made me go to immersion schools.

Nancy, I love the side track!  I think great books open up a longing or a means of sharing with others.  That is one of the things I really find so wonderful about books!  Just thought I would make that connection more obvious.

Liz Fielding's romances always make me want to talk and share because she opens up doors.  This was my first time reading Kim Lawrence so I have less experience with her but loved the story enough to want to try another by her.  And this was my second Meredith Webber whose romances I am starting to love and eagerly await. 

I don't mind getting sidetracked at all! I think it is so cool about your dd and somehow the sidetrack maybe told me why the sheikh romances appeal to me.  Before the sidetrack, I really did not have a clue---I just have enjoyed the ones I have read.

Thanks! I love books ---how they are so expansive. Always a new insight to them from different readers and the good ones just expand outwards and inwardly. Liz Fielding and Olivia Gates---two very different authors (!) --- both have a way of writing stories that have nothing to do with my life but always somehow they open these doors to my memory and making connections with my life.  

Immersion schools arer great for learning a language. It is when I made the jump from being able to translate at lightening speeds to thinking in the language. One bad thing is that sometimes my mind short circuits and I spell words in English wrong or I say something like "homeworks" in English. I enjoyed Chicoutimi more than Middlebury because there were so many activities in French versus mostly book learning and talking to other students only at Middlebury.