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October 08, 2010 | Friday | 57 Comments
It’s not summer, so I’ll get a new icon for the bookclub, but it’s still Sizzling, so it’s time for the next pick in the Smart Bitches Sizzling Book Club for October! You ready? I tweeted about it over the summer while I read it, painstakingly typing in each line that rocked me, and there were a LOT of them. Prepare yourself for good writing, really really GOOD writing, mayhem, diabolical plots and Romancing-the-Stone-esque adventure: the October book is Scoundrel by Zoe Archer. The description: The Blades of the Rose are sworn to protect the sources of magic in the…
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June 06, 2010 | Sunday | 22 Comments
Dusk writes a very sad tale, with bonus shapeshifting WTFery: Horror of horrors my computer gets a HUGE fucking virus, causing me to have to re configure my computer. and in the process lose ALL of my Ebooks. I was reading this one and i had only gotten a little into it but what i had read should be enough for SOMEONE to identify it (having spent the last five hours trying to find this books name I’m desperate) I can’t remember all the characters names but here is what i know - It’s a M/M/F Erotic romance number where…
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February 13, 2010 | Saturday | 4 Comments
Sonya Bateman has picked two winners from the really entertaining Urban Fantasy: What’s Weird, What’s Next thread. I loved this thread.
So: LadyRhian and KingFisherEyes, email me at sarahATsmartbitchestrashybooksDOTcom with your mailing address. An ARC is all yours for the reading and enjoying.
No one has yet started the Sheel-na-gig romance I’m hoping for, which is a crying shame because that is one HELL of a magic hoo-hoo, yo.
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February 03, 2010 | Wednesday | 0 Comments
It’s equal opportunity NSFW time! First, from Gry, a translation of this link, Reklamerte for overfylt badebukse ... noen ganger kan det bli litt for mye pølse from the original Norwegian: Ad for over-filled swimming trunks ... sometimes there can be too much sausage. The German sportswear store might have selected slightly larger size for the model. One of the readers of the Swiss online news page Blick.ch discovered the potent ad picture in the web store of Sportcheck, a german sport equipment retailer. One of the models is shown wearing a classical pair of swimming trunks from Adidas. But,…
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January 29, 2010 | Friday | 59 Comments
One of my college professors passed away this week. Dr. Harris Parker was a professor of religion at my alma mater, but I took a freshman orientation course from him, a course I was so convinced would be a complete waste of time. But because of Dr. Parker, it was the opposite. I applied for college during a blizzard, so I applied to schools where there would be a very small chance of snow, if even a chance at all. I ended up at Columbia College of South Carolina, a women’s college of, at the time, less than 1000 students.…
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June 21, 2009 | Sunday | 6 Comments
Starting today until 6 July, Traci Hall’s Her Wiccan, Wiccan Ways is free for Kindle-folk to download. This book is a YA contemporary about a psychic prodigy who decides to use magic to get back at a mean girl who is tormenting her.
Happy downloading, Kindle-folk!
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March 06, 2009 | Friday | 18 Comments
Be still our little ebook-lovin’ hearts. The Suvudu free library from Random House offers the first book of several popular series for free, baby, free! Titles include Blood Engines from T.A. Pratt, His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik, Settling Accounts: Return Engagements by Harry Turtledove, Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, and Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb. Coming soon: Terry Brooks’s Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold! and Elizabeth Moon’s Trading in Danger. I am all over that Novik freebie like static-prone socks on hot flannel sheets. SonomaLass says, “I personally can rave about the Robin Hobb and the Naomi Novik series,…
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March 03, 2009 | Tuesday | 126 Comments
From my experience with Gail Dayton’s Compass Rose trilogy, I know that Dayton’s hallmarks as a writer are vivid world building, seamless use of the senses in her writing, and some smooth character development. In this new series, she plays with the concept of power and control, and of mastery and slavery in relationships. Amanusa is a magically talented woman who lives on her own in the woods in the late 1800s, precariously “protected” by a local band of rebels in exchange for her healing talents. A man named Jax stumbles out of the woods, bound to her, unable to…
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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 12, 2009 | Thursday | 9 Comments
Brandi sent me a heads up to these awesome frames, which hang on the wall and show off paperbacks without having to tear off the cover. They measure 5.5” wide by 8.25” tall, so we’re talking mass market paperbacks—but who wouldn’t want a wall of retro man-titty? I mean, I would. I’m already picturing which books I’d hang on the wall: my wayback machine copy of Midsummer Magic, with that swan flying out of poor Hawk’s ass? Or is the 1.5” depth of the frame too shallow to contain the passionate ardor of my old skool mantitty collection? Perpetual Kid…
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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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January 18, 2009 | Sunday | 37 Comments
First, thank to N. and Brandyllyn for sending me the second best line to ever appear on the internet, right after “I’m in ur ass, savin ur life.” Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog reads an episode of Tarot and the best thing to ever happen to my day occurs at the bottom. Enjoy. Seriously. Not work safe, but fuck that, it’s Sunday. And suppose you need a getaway for the holiday weekend (if you’re in the US and in a state that grants Monday off), consider the FantaSuites hotel chain, located in Wisconsin, Indiana, and, my favorite, Bumsville, Minnesota. (Bums? Oh, yah,…
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December 30, 2008 | Tuesday | 6 Comments
The ARCs themselves are not Fragile, but we do have winners who each get a copy. Woo! Thanks to Shiloh for offering the copies and judging the winners in our What’s that Smell? contest? Midknyt who said Why, it’s the new Burger King Flame scent, of course. That’s what the look over the shoulder is from - “Mmm…Burger King? No, something…different.” He really shouldn’t need to use that much though. Jen C who said: Now, I think that it is actually a good smell. I suspect that the smell has to do with “that manly scent, soap, hard work, and…
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December 23, 2008 | Tuesday | 362 Comments
If you follow the site, you know that I’m Jewish and Candy is Agnostic Badass but it’s Christmas season here, there, and everywhere, and Hachette’s Forever Romance wants to make sure you have a whopping pile of books to read this holiday season. It’s still Hanukkah, it’s nearly Christmas, and there’s ample time to read, right? So let’s get going with a Holy Big Honking Ample Prize offering. Leave a comment between right this minute, describing one thing you’d really like, esoteric or literal, this holiday season, and I’ll draw one random winner from the group. Comments close at midnight…
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December 23, 2008 | Tuesday | 7 Comments
Way back in the day, years and years ago in internet time anyway, there were Magic Hoff Posters of humor, vitality and strength - not unlike The Hoff himself. I had the winners all picked out, and thought to myself, “Self, why don’t you find someone at Hoff’s HQ and see if he’d personally autograph some Fine Hoff Swag or give you a Cease & Desist email or something?” Note to self: stop making things complicated by trying to harass busy celebrities during the holidays when they are busy being celebrities and traveling a lot. So, pardon the unavoidable delay:…
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