Content Warning I picked up Greener Pastures when I was trying to break a late-night doomscrolling habit, and found it to be solid bedtime reading, if a bit dull. It’s a wholesome fish out of water romance where women fall in love over farm chores. The romance is solid enough to be distracting, but moves so slowly that it’s easy to put the book down and get some sleep. The most important thing you need … Continue reading Greener Pastures by Aurora Rey →
It’s time in the northern hemisphere! You know, when the days get shorter, the temperature at night drops to a level that annihilates all the bugs that want to bite me, and…. The SEASONAL FLAVORS have ARRIVED! Let’s start with the one that’s in my house: That’s right, PUMPKIN. SPICE. OREOS. Please note: any and all disparagement of pumpkin spice is not necessary. Please also note: I did NOT get to try one of these, … Continue reading Seasonal Oreos and Books →
This Rec League comes from longtime commenter, Kris Bock on Shana’s Greener Pastures review. Thanks, Kris! “It’s built for bedtime reading; sweet enough to give you happy dreams, and quiet enough to let you fall asleep easily.” I feel like this could be a whole marketable category of books. Sarah: Mmmm sleepytime books. A Psalm for the Wild Built, though it has some emotional moments, is very soothing for bedtime reading. I also often re-read … Continue reading The Rec League: Bedtime Books →
Are you ready for September to be over? Or is it too soon? I love October, but I’m not sure how I feel for 2019 to end already. At least we have books, right?! Shana: I’m reading The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite. It’s been on my list since Carrie’s review. Women slowly falling in love over conversation is the perfect chaser to all the m/m novels with emotionally inarticulate men that … Continue reading Whatcha Reading? September 2019, Part Two →
August is nearly over! Let’s talk books! Catherine: I’ve just finished reading This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar , which I loved to bits – I adored the relationship between the two protagonists, and the way the time travel plot was so perfectly structured that you could almost here the click as it came together at the end. I had to read it twice. And now I’m … Continue reading Whatcha Reading? August 2019 Edition, Part Two →
In this week’s podcast episode, we’re looking at the book reviews for the July 2004 issue of Romantic Times, aka RT Book Reviews. Special and massive thanks to Kay Sisk for sending me this issue! Ready for an absolute mile and a half of cover art from nearly 20 years ago? Oh, this is a weird memory lane, y’all. Brace yourself, hold on to your butt and maybe also grab hold of someone else’s to … Continue reading Romantic Times Rewind: July 2004 Reviews →
PEGGY IS BACK Y’ALL Previously, Peggy was the best. We open much like we did last season, with a dark haired woman in a red hat in a sea of grey suits walking into a bank. It’s Dottie! She pulls a gun, and like, EVERYONE that’s a customer in the bank is on her crew, and she has them open the very prettily arranged vault. Peggy is in there! And everyone working in the bank … Continue reading Agent Carter Season 2: The Lady in the Lake and A View in the Dark →
Here is a text transcript of DBSA Podcast 75. What We're Reading, and When You Re-Read a Series. You can listen to the mp3 here, or you can read on! This podcast transcript was constructed of excellence by Garlic Knitter, who is a wicked-fierce transcriptionist. Here are the books we discuss: Sarah Wendell: Hello, and welcome to another DBSA podcast. I’m Sarah Wendell from Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, and with me is Jane Litte … Continue reading Podcast Transcript 75: Reviews and Responses, Plus Listener Email and Recommendations →
This week's podcast is a mix of topics. We talk about when we quit reading a book and why, and we discuss the price points of books and whether that influences our quitting – and our buying. We discuss New Adult as a permanent genre, and the similarities it shares to other established genres of romance. Plus we talk a bit about what we're reading lately. Here are some of the books we mention during … Continue reading 63. Stopping, Buying, New Genres, and What We’re Reading →
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This request comes from Aurora, who remembers a few things about a book, and these things are all… well, just read on: On the library shelves between Judith Krantz and Anne McCaffrey lies a historical romance set in Scotland. The hero and heroine were childhood enemies of a fierce and devilish nature, so horrible that the youthful feud culminated in her tying a jar of bees? wasps? to his family jewels (which supposedly results in … Continue reading HaBO: Bees and the Family Jewels →
Last week I received an email from Open Road Publishing telling me that Andrea Kane had published her historical romance backlist and that a whole pile of books were now available. The problem: I had never read Andrea Kane. I mean, it's not like that's a hard problem, since I can go read one of her books, but there's fourteen of them. So I asked on Twitter if anyone had read Andrea Kane's historicals, and … Continue reading Andrea Kane’s Historical Backlist: A Giveaway →
