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March 08, 2012 | Thursday | 25 Comments
It’s time to get back to my roots- a hot pink (HOT. PINK. With bonus rearing horse!) Zebra romance I picked up, oh, ages ago- somewhere between my high school heydays of romance, and coming back to the fold a couple years ago. It was clearly from a free pile somewhere, and it’s everything you’d expect from a late 1980’s Zebra romance and MORE. No Texan Viscount, though- I feel like that stays in it’s own category of crazysauce. I think I picked this up something like seven years ago, and read it, and (apparently) liked it enough to…
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October 01, 2011 | Saturday | 41 Comments
It’s time for the October book club pick - and we’re going to be reading another historical, but a More Different Historical. The Caribbean! Pirates! AND cross dressing! ETA: I’m opening the contest for an additional day since the site was down this weekend - have at it! The October book is Darlene Marshall’s Sea Change. Here’s the summary: American privateer Captain David Fletcher needs a surgeon for his wounded brother. But when he captures a British merchantman in the Caribbean, what he gets is Charley Alcott, an apprentice physician barely old enough to shave. Needs take priority over skill,…
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June 30, 2011 | Thursday | 0 Comments
I have two RITA® Reader Challenge reviews for this book, which finaled in the Inspirational romance category. The first is from Gail, and the second is from ReadinginAK. Gail gave this book a B, while ReadinginAK gave it an A. I’ve averaged those two to a B+. Plot Summary:His plan was simple—convince Caroline Hudson to take in his children as wards. Widower Tyrone Justice is stunned when the Nantucket schoolmistress requests a wedding instead! But really, what could be simpler than a marriage of convenience? Tyrone’s children will have stability, Caroline will have security…and neither Tyrone nor Caroline will have…
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May 27, 2011 | Friday | 39 Comments
Midknyt sent me this link, from BBC America explaining the intricacies of Law & Order UK.
Link!
May your weekend be full of excellent scarves!
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December 15, 2010 | Wednesday | 60 Comments
If actual physical gifts are not your cup of tea this year, you always have the option of charitable donations in honor of someone, anyone, or everyone. Charities are feeling the pinch as much as anyone in a tight economy, so every tiny bit helps. So while I’ve been doing goofy, silly, and ridiculously bizarre gift ideas, I also wanted to feature a few charitable organizations that I like, and ask which ones you direct donations toward. As Newark Mayor Cory Booker said on the Rachel Maddow show last April, too often we allow our inability to do everything undermine…
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November 25, 2010 | Thursday | 59 Comments
First, it’s Thanksgiving here in the US, and I’m thankful for you. Yes, you, right there. Hi! Thank you for coming here to talk romance and books and general wittery and asshattery and wtfery, and for making this site so fun and very, very pink and red. You’re awesome. I hope wherever you are, you’re having a good meal. In your honor (yes, YOU) I’ve made a donation to Feeding America, the national network of foodbanks here in the US. I hope your appetite for the funny and the silly and the romance and the heuristic discussions of mantitty have…
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January 28, 2010 | Thursday | 24 Comments
Grab your lasso and your chaps, because we’re going back to college to round up some romance in academia links. First: on 23 February at 12:30 pm at Brandeis University, documentary filmmaker Laurie Kahn, who directed Tupperware!, a documentary about Tupperware and the women behind it, for PBS’ American Experience, will be talking about her new work-in-progress, “Creating the Popular Romance.” From the press release, sent to me by awesome reader Michael: The world of romance novels (who writes them? who reads them? who publishes them? why are they so popular? and what do they say about our culture?) is…
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December 09, 2009 | Wednesday | 70 Comments
I’m embarrassed to admit there was gaping hole in my werewolf romance reading, but I’m so glad I fixed it by reading these books. Anna is an abused werewolf, changed against her will and subjected to hideous abuse and assault by her former pack. Charles is the son of and executioner for the Marrok, the werewolf who is alpha over all the the packs in North America. When Charles was sent to clean up the mess of Anna’s pack, his arrival set off a series of small explosions in their private world. Charles’ wolf chose Anna as his mate. Anna…
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November 09, 2009 | Monday | 9 Comments
Trudy writes: There was a book that came out, maybe in the 80s or early 90s - the basic plot is: It’s a time travel. An earl, during Regency era, is attacked by someone and travels thru time to the present. He meets up with a gal from Virginia (I think) and she tries to help him solve what happened to him. They do all this research and find out he was murdered (unsolved) and was the end of his direct line to the earldom. At first he’s anxious to get back but the two fall in love. She arranges…
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September 24, 2009 | Thursday | 27 Comments
Bitchery reader Quizzabella writes: I read the book around the year 2000 but it was second hand so probably published earlier than that. The plot centred around the son of an English nobleman in the 1800’s (?) who had an affair with a woman of good breeding and either killed or wounded the husband of the woman (who turned out not to love him at all - cue all women are evil bitches lament). He goes off to either America or Australia and sets up a farm. One evening when he’s drunk his friends sign him up for a mail…
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September 06, 2009 | Sunday | 4 Comments
Before I begin the review in detail, I want to say something to Harlequin. Thank you for my gift certificate! While I’ve been a romance reader for years and years, I hardly ever read category novels. Nothing against them personally, I just got most of my books from my library and we don’t buy that many category novels. So, I didn’t read that many. I can remember reading only a couple, from friends who wrote or for school papers. I regret that now. I am now a converted category reader. I’m horrified to think of how much money I’ve given…
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