Thanksgiving

Janet Evanovich's re-issued romance Thanksgiving (#126) is just the ticket for an easy afternoon read if you can snatch the time away from your own Thanksgiving preparations.

Megan Murphy is enjoying her lunch outdoors on a break from her job in Colonial Williamsburg when she realizes an enormous lop-eared rabbit is busily eating his way through her skirt.  The rabbit's owner happens to be a cute new pediatrician who has just moved to town.  When Megan has to return Pat Hunter's rabbit a second time, she's there when a distraught young mother deposits her infant son with Dr. Hunter (and Mrs. Hunter, as she thinks!) and takes off.  One thing leads to another and next thing she knows, Megan is baby-sitting Tim during the week while she works at her potter's wheel and sharing feeding and sleepovers with Pat.  Domesticity is nice, but Megan is gun-shy of marriage.  No matter how wonderful Pat is, she's determined to draw the line at marrying him.  But when her parents show up unexpectedly for Thanksgiving, and Pat's entire family joins him for a home cooked meal, their joint families assume that a wedding is in the very near future, especially if they intend to adopt baby Tim.  What's a girl with emotional baggage to do?

I like Ms. Evanovich's romances because they're light and funny.  The sex is romantic, not too explicit, which is just how I think a romance should be.  The tie-in to the holiday made it a really fun escape this week.  Check it out for yourself this year, or maybe put it away as a treat during next year's Thanksgiving rush.