Everyone! Please stay warm! Also, is it just me or does it feel like January is taking forever to end. Plus, with the added cold, I desperately want to do everything from my bed and beneath my electric blanket. As a bonus, though, I’m getting a lot of reading done with all this coziness. … E.L. James has announced her next book! It’s due out this April and seems completely separated from her Fifty Shades of Grey … Continue reading Links: The Nanny, Book Clubs, & E.L. James →
So many readers have recommended this book to me. SO MANY. It has a 4.49 average after 1,728 ratings on GoodReads and 4.5 stars after 100 reviews on Amazon. Readers on Twitter have told me how much they adore this book, how they love the hero, love the story, love every one of the 200k pages of this book (which ends on a cliffhanger and continues in volume two, Fifty Shades Darker). Alas, this book … Continue reading 50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James →
Before E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey and Sylvia Day’s Bared to You, there was Anne Rice’s New York Times best seller The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty In the traditional folktale of “Sleeping Beauty,” the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind’s unconscious. In the first book of … Continue reading The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty →
It’s Hide Your Wallet time! This is where we talk about upcoming books that release this month, and we do our damnedest not to feel the sting of overdraft fees. Below are the books we’re personally waiting to read, but here are a few others that might be on your TBR pile: Artemis by Andy Weir is out – MOON HEIST! E.L. James returns to her Fifty Shades series with Darker . Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series is still going … Continue reading November’s New Releases →
Dripping Thighs, Sticky Chicken Fingers, Vanilla Chicken, Chicken with a Lardon, Bacon-Bound Wings, Spatchcock Chicken, Learning-to-Truss-You Chicken, Holy Hell Wings, Mustard-Spanked Chicken, and more, more, more! Fifty chicken recipes, each more seductive than the last, in a book that makes every dinner a turn-on. “I want you to see this. Then you’ll know everything. It’s a cookbook,” he says and opens to some recipes, with color photos. “I want to prepare you, very much.” … Continue reading Fifty Shades of Chicken →
Welcome to Wednesday Links! As usual, here are some pretty cool things the Bitchery has found around the internet recently. Author Ilona Andrews recently wrote a blog post on the Alphahole trope in romance and it is spreading like wildfire! This construct has less to do with preconceived gender roles and more to do with the story arc. A hero or heroine’s journey must be a climb or a descent, otherwise the story has no … Continue reading Links: Alphaholes, Women in Hollywood, the Love Shack, & Romance in Scifi! →
❤ About SB Sarah ❤ Sarah’s Novella ❤ Sarah’s Nonfiction ❤ Workshops ❤ Short Bio ❤ Contact Sarah ❤ 17 February 2017 – CBS Sunday Morning (interviewed) The Seductive Allure of Romance Novels 11 August 2015 – BBC3 Radio 4 Today (interviewed) Segment on For Such a Time, at 2:50-2:57 10 August 2015 – Jerusalem Post (quoted) Love story between Nazi and Jew roils romance novel community 9 August 2015 – Newsweek (quoted) Bizarre Nazi Love … Continue reading Press Coverage →
This is a guest review from Dora, who has ranted here before. It's actually been a while since I've read a whole lot of romance, so when I decided I was in the mood to try some again, I knew were to start. (And actually picked up The Iron Duke on CarrieS's recommendation!) Before that, though, I had picked up the Crossfire series by Sylvia Day because I was bored and Sam's Club had given me … Continue reading Bared to You by Sylvia Day: A Guest Review from Dora →
Jane and Sarah discuss getting the habits and attitudes of billionaires right – and when depictions of wealth in some romances leave us laughing. We also talk about burgling Nalini Singh's home, and the books we're looking forward to in 2013. Here are the books (and shoes and handbags and documentaries and magazines) we discuss in this episode: Our music in each episode is provided by Sassy Outwater. This podcast features a song … Continue reading 39. Getting the Billionaires Right →
I normally don't read the email that lands in my inbox dealing with 50 Shades and all things tangentially related to it. For example, this picture. No, wait. Before you cilck the link, I warn you, you can't unsee it once you've seen it. So be sure you want to know about this book. Ready? Ok. Have a link. Yeah. I know. So I'm a little weary of slap-a-black-and-white-photo-on-it and ride the wave that's running out … Continue reading Links: Odd Statistics, Deals, and Being Classy →
The internet is a series of tubes you know. That book with the shades of grey? It's everywhere- including this column from contracts blogger Ken Adams on his impressions of the contract written into the story: “Grey is a telecommunications mogul, and he has evidently absorbed the semi-literate contract verbiage regurgitated by his high-priced lawyers.” 50 Shades of Grey [Goodreads | Amazon | BN | Sony | Kobo] released in paperback to massive bookstore orders – over … Continue reading Links! From Various Corners of the Tubes! →
