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: Lessons In French
March 23, 2010 | Tuesday | 1 Comments
It’s time to announce the winner for the original artwork by Charles Rutledge offered by Laura Kinsale to celebrate the release of Lessons in French.
And the winner by the power of random selection is: appomattoxco
Congratulations on your smug bull! Email me at sarahATsmartbitchestrashybooksDOTcom with your mailing address, please!
Thanks to those who entered - I love reading about what books and scenes fascinate you, and why.
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January 25, 2010 | Monday | 3 Comments
After over 130 comments that revealed the best that language has to offer, it’s time to pick the winner! I love comment threads for contests. Y’all are so funny and awesome. Honorable mentions go to: Glynis for “Nostalgie de la boue which means “yearning for the mud.” A slangy term in French that not only means an attraction to what is unworthy, crude, or degrading, but also implies that one thinks that the yearner should be above such things.” Sounds like a few backhanded comments about romance, non? Ellen for ““Il y a un dragon dan mo lit. Je veux…
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January 22, 2010 | Friday | 136 Comments
I know some of you hate the Twitter with a hot tweety passion, but I wanted to let you know that I’m giving away digital copies of Lessons in French today, courtesy of Sourcebooks Casablanca. So if you’re online, watch for hastag #lif and see what crazy trivia I come up with today. This week we’ve done French idioms (Faire une carte de France? I better see that in a romance novel REAL soon), animal husbandry, bulls in fiction, and Regency insults and trivia. Oh, and Great Moments in Women’s History, with your host, Napoleon Bonaparte. But suppose you want…
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August 26, 2009 | Wednesday | 65 Comments
Six months from right about now, Laura Kinsale’s new book, Lessons in French will be released. But Sourcebooks asked if we’d like to see the cover they’d been keeping under wraps inside a vault behind the sofa hidden under some weird tapestry. I said, “Sure!” So: here it is, the cover for Lessons in French. Placing the couple off-center on the cover is interesting, and the colors pop in that illustration. I can’t help but think her leg is underlining the lessons, part. Lessons in French—avec leg! What do you think? Are you looking forward to reading it? Or have…
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