Legal assistant by day, reader and reviewer by night; wife and mother day and night. Laurie Damron has always been an avid reader, from Peanuts in grade school, to sweet Harlequins in her teens after a family friend gave her a grocery sack full. After reading The Flame and the Flower at 18, those sweet Harlequins were forgotten and she has devoured countless numbers of romance novels since. Laurie currently reviews for Romance Junkies and finds posting those reviews and her own independent reviews, together with personal tidbits about family, friends, and important causes to her blog, to be extremely satisfying. http://lauries-laudanum.blogspot.com/ , and she is also a columnist at Romancing the Blog http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/ .