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March 30, 2011 | Wednesday | 50 Comments
Carrie S. has been struggling with something. I’ll let her explain: When I’m not reading romance, I’m slogging through The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins. Most of it is quite entertaining, but the section on embryology was just brutal. I am almost as entirely clueless about embryology as I was when I started the chapter. As a perk, however, it did provide me with several exciting new vocabulary words. Check this out: “In neurlation, as in gastrulation, invagination is much in evidence.” Invagi-what? Seriously? I’m just going to start saying that, all the time. People will either think…
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September 27, 2010 | Monday | 822 Comments
Hello. Ah am Gracie. Ah am one of Sarah’s cats. Ah am one of two girls in this house. Everyone else is a boy. That is the disgusting. Here is me. Am Ah not pretty? Ah am pretty. You can send me the tributes. Ah like the Pounce. Sarah asked me to write the entry today because Ah have not ever done so, despite sitting on many, if not all, of Sarah’s romance novels. Mah Gawd, they are everywhere. Piles of them. Ah like to drape my hairy backside - ahem - beautiful puffulous posterior across as many as possible,…
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August 09, 2010 | Monday | 11 Comments
I seriously could not read the comment thread for the Maybe This Time giveaway alone in my house without the dogs near me. CREEP-TASTIC.
I love the ghost stories - and your reasons for not believing. But alas, I can only pick 5 winners. So, without further ado:
Pam
Carrie
CT
Anna Richland
Teri C.
Please email me at sarahATsmartbitchestrashybooksDOTcom with your mailing address - congratulations! Thank you to all who entered!
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May 20, 2009 | Wednesday | 53 Comments
Back in March, Candy and I were interviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered, and oh, what a glorious thing. “Magic Hoo Hoo” and “heteronormativity” were said within moments of each other - on NPR? Win. The producer of the show that day, a marvelously savvy woman named Petra, is a romance fan, but alas, the host, Rebecca Roberts had never read a romance novel, and wasn’t sure what to think of them - aside from all the negative stereotypical things one usually hears about romances. When Candy and I recommended a few during the course of the interview, we weren’t…
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February 28, 2009 | Saturday | 11 Comments
Scrinnameless, who I call “Scrin” for short, is a 22 year-old geology student who is curious about romance, and at my suggestion has taken to reading Lois McMaster Bujold’s The Sharing Knife: Beguilement. Bujold! (snrk) We have an intermission and recap of the book. I’m halfway through the book, so I’m finding it appropriate that I recapitulate my views on the book so far. World-building: Given that this is a very small part of the world, seen from the eyes of two people (usually), what I’ve seen is pretty limited. Most of it’s actually been about the Lakewalkers. Of course,…
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February 11, 2009 | Wednesday | 23 Comments
I was looking forward to this book and was eager to read my copy when it arrived because if there’s one thing I enjoy about these authors’ writing, it’s the undergarments of their fiction. While some stories are pretty straightforward and consist of one layer, whether that layer is brocade or linen, books featuring Crusie, Stuart, and Rich as authors are different. These writers usually dress their stories in multiple layers, and the undergarments are key. The undergarments are usually, forgive me, rich and complex, with themes threaded through that only appear intermittently, but ultimately influence the whole of the…
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