The Art of Romance will be a book – thank heavens! My coffee table has a burp rag, some clickers, a graham cracker, and a copy of Bar Mitzvah Disco, but does it have a paperback collection of the visual history of Mills & Boon romance covers? No! It is lacking! Oh, the sorrow! The woe!
You can order your own copy of the book, which is due out October 2008. It traces the development of the genre and provides a visual history of one of our favorite elements, the cover art. Thanks to BB for the link.
And if cover art wasn’t enough joy for your eyeballs, here is an EXTREMELY NSFW OMGHOLYCRAP link (that I saved for Saturday for that very reason) provided with thoughtful care by Sarah (not me, another Sarah). Two words that express limitless pleasure: Naked rugby. Members of New Zealand’s national team, All Blacks, participated in a nude rugby match for charity. Yeah, yeah charity. I wanna know what the Haka looked like performed by full monty rugby players.
And if nude bottoms are not on your work agenda today, try this, courtesy of Debunot: “What did you do today?” “Oh, I rescued a family of baby ducks who were jumping off an awning.” So cute my teeth hurt. *le sigh*
Speaking of teeth hurting, if this cake were mine I’d never eat it. No matter how much I wanted cake. (Thanks to Miri for the link).
Too much sweet and Selleck? Then I’ll smack you silly with a slightly late link to the Purple Prose winner for worst sex scene, from Rebecca Miller’s The Private Lives of Pippa Lee:
a pleasure ballooned from her sex, swelled to fill her body until it burst, the sensation running down her legs, and she cried out, her head falling lifeless on the mattress, her body lank as the neck of a dead swan.
That’s just comedy freaking gold right there. Wow. Dead swans and sex balloons. It’s like Lisa Frank mixed with hardcore porn.
The Art Of Romance is available for pre-order from Books-A-Million for $17.50 ($15.75 if you’re a member). The $25.00 price tag from Powells threw me for a loop!!!
I work in the financial services industry and, as anyone who has read the headlines can tell you, it’s been a rough two weeks. But if anything can make me smile, it’s haka andf naked rugby, and I thank everyone for the links. Am I the only one to think that the Scots team looks like it’s full of men who are Romance cover models in the off season—it’s just one gorgeous face after another.
My spam word: already67—not yet, but if things don’t get better soon at work, I’ll definitely feel that way.
Thanks for the gorgeous men…. Definitely adds a new spin to the term “scrum”; as in totally scrummy.
The first two examples on the list posted by Elizabeth Wadsworth are varying degrees of horrific, ridiculous, and misogynistic, and after that the rest are almost tame. I don’t even think the Winterston belongs on there. Sure, it’s a little purple, but beyond that, and the oddity of lesbian robot sex…what’s wrong with it?