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    Love Overdue

    By Pamela Morsi

    3.5/5

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    Meet Dorothy Jarrow: devotedly unsexy librarian 

    Buttoned-up book lover DJ is all sensible shoes, drab skirts and studious glasses. After an ill-advised spring-break-fueled fling left her mortified, she's committed to her prim and proper look. When she's hired by a rural library in middle-of-nowhere Kansas, she finally has the lifestyle to matchand she can't wait to get her admin on. 

    But it's clear from day one that the small-town library is more interested in circulating rumors than books. DJ has to organize her unloved library, win over oddball employees and avoid her flamboyant landlady's attempts to set her up with the town pharmacist. Especially that last partbecause it turns out handsome Scott Sanderson is her old vacation fling! She is not sure whether to be relieved or offended when he doesn't seem to recognize her. But with every meeting, DJ finds herself secretly wondering what it would be like to take off her glasses, unpin her bun and reveal the inner vixen she's been hiding from everyoneincluding herself.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin MIRA
    Release dateSep 1, 2013
    ISBN9781460318027
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    Love Overdue
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    Pamela Morsi

    Publishers Weekly calls national bestselling author Pamela Morsi "the Garrison Keillor of romance." Her trademark wit and warmth enliven tightly written tales with down-home charm. Her novels, including Sealed with a Kiss, No Ordinary Princess, The Love Charm, and Courting Miss Hattie, have garnered rave reviews from critics and numerous awards including two RITA Awards, a Waldenbooks Sales Award, Bookstores that Care Favorite Romance Awards and the Maggie Prize for Historical Fiction, and Reviewer's Choice from Romantic Times maga-zine. She lives in Texas with her family.

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    • 3/5
      Dorothy Jarrow--D.J.--has just landed her dream job, director of a small town library. It's in Verdant, Kansas, the heart of Kansas wheat country, and the library, long neglected, is in desperate need of revitalization. Offered the job based on her resume with no interview, D.J. packs up her possessions and her dog, Dew (Melville Dewey), and moves from Texas to Kansas without a backward glance.

      D.J. presents herself as the librarian stereotype come to life, glasses, bun, severely modest, respectable clothes, but in her mind, she has a reason. Eight years earlier, on her twenty-first birthday, she tried to break out of her emotionally stunted upbringing and went to South Padre Island on spring break. She had an exciting one-night fling with a guy she met in a bar--and when she woke up in the morning, was utterly humiliated by what a stupid, reckless thing she'd done. This fling turns out to be central to the story, as D.J. discovers that the hot guy from South Padre is in fact Verdant's town pharmacist--and the son of Viv Sanderson, her new landlady and member of the library board.

      In her professional capacity, D.J. is open, friendly, innovative, and responsive to the needs of her library patrons. She's eager to learn about life in Verdant and the central fact of Verdant life, the wheat harvest cycle that is the town's life blood. On a personal level, though, her emotionally isolated upbringing, with parents in their forties when she came along unexpectedly, and who packed her off to boarding school as soon as that was a viable option, compounded by her embarrassment and humiliation over her South Padre fling, leaves her closed in and prone to make assumptions and leap to conclusions about other people. This includes her old fling, town pharmacist Scott Sanderson. She assumes he's an experienced player. When she learns he's divorced due to infidelity in the marriage, she assumes he was the cheater. She's understandably confused as to whether to feel relieved or insulted that he doesn't recognize her, but it reinforces her image of him as a cavalier player indifferent to the presumed parade of women she assumes he's seduced.

      This really is a charming story, as D.J. slowly learns to overcome her assumptions, learns about her new community, and makes new friends and connections--including getting acquainted with Scott in a more normal way. Scott also has his own challenges to overcome, having been hit hard by the brief disaster that was his marriage, and the more recent loss of his much loved and respected father. And it is frankly a lot of fun watching a fictional librarian be a real librarian, not just a book-lover but a woman with a professional education and experience, who looks at the long-neglected library that has been run by a rigid and unhelpful non-professional for a decade or so, and sees what it needs to be a real asset to the community. The other library employees, initially wary, and all having their own quirks, respond to her enthusiasm, insight, and refusal to be daunted by the glowering Amelia Grundler.

      Morsi does a wonderful job with all these characters. There is a huge, weird gap at the end, though. All through the book, we get interludes from eight years previous in South Padre, seeing the Scott/D.J. fling first from her viewpoint and then from his. At the very end, though, when All Is Revealed, and we ought to get two confrontations--with Scott, over D.J.'s unfair assumptions about him, and with Amelia Grundler over some trickery of hers, we instead leap directly into an epilogue, eight years later, on South Padre Island. While some of what we see there is obvious from the fact that this is a romance, other things would be serious spoilers for one of the subplots.

      Overall, it's a very enjoyable story, but it ends abruptly, and cheats the reader of what ought to be the big payoff scenes.

      Good light reading.
    • 3/5
      I wanted to like this as a librarian but I finally had to give it up. The characters were just getting to me--even the "nicer ones". OK, so you're embarrassed that you slept with this guy one night and now he's here, get over it. Mom is a total control freak and the library clerk who wants the job, been there right with them. Not necessary to bring up the painful memories.
    • 4/5
      Charming light reading. Perhaps a special delight to this reader as like the author I am also a former librarian. I've experienced being the new librarian from out-of-town in a public library setting and the foot traffic to meet the "new kid-on-the-block" is captured perfectly as are reactions to small changes within the community library. I've also had the joy of visiting a small town in Kansas - approx. 40 minutes south and east of Dodge City, Kansas - during the time of winter wheat harvesting. Pamela Morsi captures all the sights, sounds, and most importantly, a community working together in time of joy and in times of tears in a most engaging story.
    • 3/5
      Cute story set in small town with a librarian as the main character. Kudos to the author who has done some homework on the library profession! Review based on NetGalley ARC.
    • 4/5
      4 STARSI used to think working in a library would be a perfect job for me. But I would rather read the books than shelve them. I like the characters especially D.J. She accepts a job and moves to a small town in Kansas. DJ has no family but her little dog Dewey. She is excited to be in charge of her own library.She finds out that her apartment that comes with the job is actually the upstairs of Vivian who hired her. She is on the board of the library.Scott is divorced pharmacist. He met D.J. years ago and does not recongize her as Sparkle who hehad a one night stand on spring break. All he knows is that D.J. does not like him off the bat.Vivian has actually hired D.J. and brought her to town to fix up her son. She wants to see him settled before she can go on her plans.I like the town and all the different folks in it. It really makes the story to get to know so many of the characters. I would like to know more of James story.I liked the pace of the book. Once I started I did not stop till it was finished.There is a few love scenes in the book that I skipped over.The subject of suicide and the different perspectives was interesting.I was given this ebook to read and in return asked to give honest review of it by Netgalley and Harlequin.August 27th 2013 PUB by Harlequin MIRA 432 pages ISBN:0778315371
    • 4/5
      Overall a good book. I loved the librarian theme and the chapter headings were great. Each chapter was given a dewey decimal classification and that became the chapter name. That heading related very well to the contents of that chapter - very clever! DJ has come to Verdant to become the head librarian/administrator for the town library. She has been given a place to live by the head of the library board - the upstairs apartment of her home. That same lady also has another goal - to hook DJ up with her son the pharmacist. DJ is horrified to see that that pharmacist is the man she had a one night stand with eight years earlier. She is relieved (and a little insulted) that he doesn't recognize her. While her opinion of him isn't good at the beginning, the more she gets to know him, the more she comes to like him.I liked DJ most of the time. She has great enthusiasm for her job as the head of the library. She wants to make the library the best it can be. The interior is not what she expected, as it is dark, gloomy and underutilized. Her employees are quite a collection of characters. There is Amelia, the woman who has been doing the job for the last several years and isn't happy to have DJ there. She is grumpy, mean and seems to have no interest in making things any better. There are the two bookmobile drivers, Amos and Suzy. Amos is a veteran with some PTSD issues, but is overcoming them pretty well. Suzy is a nice girl who loves to know everything that is going on and to share it with anyone who will listen. James is the employee who is rarely seen but heard from often. He is mildly autistic and doesn't like change, but is very good at what he does. She is not quite sure what to make of her landlady who seems more interested in pushing her toward her son the pharmacist than in what DJ can do for the library. DJ wants nothing to do with Scott, who turns out to be the man she had a one night stand with back in college. She does her best to avoid him, but in a small town that isn't possible. She also believes that he is a player who cheated on his wife, had affairs with married woman, and preyed on women during spring breaks. But as she gets to know him, that opinion doesn't match the man she is getting to know and care for. I got rather frustrated with her judgmental attitude toward him when she didn't really have anything to base it on. I liked seeing the way that her opinion did change. Their romance seemed to develop pretty slowly as DJ got to know Scott as he really is. I loved seeing the way that she opened up to him in the wheat field. I kept waiting for her to tell him about their shared past. I loved seeing her happiness with the surprise Scott had for her when she got out of the hospital. Scott turned out to be a real sweetheart. He had been in that bar eight years ago looking for an experienced woman so he could learn better techniques in lovemaking. When he hooked up with DJ he didn't know she was even less experienced than he was, but it didn't seem to matter since they were pretty explosive together. Eight years later he's in his hometown, divorced from his wife (who turned out to be gay), and taking care of his widowed mother. There aren't many single women in town so he's not sure he'll ever find someone to love. When he meets DJ he doesn't understand why she seems to dislike him on sight. There is something about her that reminds him of the girl from eight years ago that he hasn't been able to forget. His mom keeps trying to throw them together and as she does he likes what he learns about DJ. I enjoyed seeing him show her around Verdant and introduce her to people. I loved the way he took her out in the wheat field and showed her his method of getting away, and later introduced her to what the wheat harvest meant to the whole town. His patience with her as got physically closer was great as he knew what he wanted and was willing to wait. I loved his willingness to help her with her library project. The way he stepped in to finish the project as a surprise to her while she was in the hospital was a wonderful way to show his feelings. I loved the way that he got so many others involved.The only real problem I had with the book was the ending. The last chapter ends with him seeing something that links her to the girl he knew those eight years ago, then it cuts to an epilogue that takes place eight years later. There is no discussion of that night or why he didn't recognize her. It was terribly frustrating because I really wanted to know.
    • 3/5
      meh. I work in a library and had a hard time with the stereotypical straight laced, grey suited, hair in a bun librarian that DJ was trying to be. I liked that the whole town rallied to help out at the library. The whole romance thing was ok - my theory is that every romance novel would be about 5 pages long if the man and the woman just talked to each other. This one was no different.
    • 3/5
      There seem to be loads of stories these days about people getting engaged or married in libraries and bookstores. At least this is true of the sort of news I tend to read. And for a book lover, there's very little sweeter than the idea of falling in love amongst the stacks. So when I find a romance with a librarian in it, like Pamela Morsi's Love Overdue, it's too appealing to pass up. DJ is a stereotypical looking librarian in her boxy, unattractive clothing and glasses. She seems to strive to be as drab as pop culture expects a librarian to be. She's clearly most comfortable when she's hiding in plain sight. She's moved to a small farming town in Kansas to take a head librarian position that she's very excited about. But she had no idea that the library would be so dark and unwelcoming, that one of her staff members is firmly against change and therefore against any of DJ's ideas, or that the apartment that comes with the job is in the home of the town pharmacist's mother. This last fact might not be all bad except that Vivian (Viv) is determined to set DJ up with her son Scott, who just so happens to be the man DJ had a one night stand with eight years ago while on vacation. And he doesn't connect staid and conservative looking DJ with the sexy and appealing Sparkle at all. Scott doesn't understand why the new librarian seems to dislike him on sight but once he looks past her façade, he rather likes what he sees. What DJ sees though, is a man who cheated on his wife, a man who plays the field even with a married woman, and a man who has had so many women in his past that he can't even recognize the one standing right in front of him. But even with her feelings about him, she can't avoid him in this small town, especially since his mother is on the library board, is her landlord, and keeps throwing them together any chance she gets. And when Scott shows DJ around town, explains the importance of the wheat harvest, and ultimately makes her dream for the library come true, she realizes that she's misjudged him. This is a sweet, small town romance. The misunderstanding between DJ and Scott is an embarrassing one so it is perfectly understandable that it wouldn't be addressed as their relationship begins but the fact that the story is lacking a resolution to this vital piece of their shared history, skipping another eight years into the future at the very end rather than offering the reader a view of the confrontation/realization weakens it. Both the main characters are likable and the secondary characters each have their own quirky personalities so that their presence on the page is welcomed. It is nice to see a buttoned up heroine who comes out of her shell but not so far out as to be unrealistic or untrue to her introverted, quiet portrayal. And it is equally nice to see a hero who accepts this in the heroine and doesn't seek to change her but to support her in the ways that make her happy. The chapter titles as Dewey Decimal classifications are cute and well done. Aside from the missing piece in the ending, this is a winsome romance in the traditional sense.
    • 4/5
      Charming light reading. Perhaps a special delight to this reader as like the author I am also a former librarian. I've experienced being the new librarian from out-of-town in a public library setting and the foot traffic to meet the "new kid-on-the-block" is captured perfectly as are reactions to small changes within the community library. I've also had the joy of visiting a small town in Kansas - approx. 40 minutes south and east of Dodge City, Kansas - during the time of winter wheat harvesting. Pamela Morsi captures all the sights, sounds, and most importantly, a community working together in time of joy and in times of tears in a most engaging story.