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January 05, 2011 | Wednesday | 34 Comments
This is another I Read This To Push It On The Unsuspecting Bitchery. It’s older, and not totally a romance, but it is a favorite of mine. It takes place in Feudal Japan, and is a version of the story of the 47 Samurai. I remember someone in the comments of… something… asking if both characters in Impulsive were Asian, and that’s it’s rare to get both main characters to be a minority. So here we are (although I planned to do this one long before that conversation even happened). Cat is the daughter of a daimyo and…
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May 04, 2010 | Tuesday | 27 Comments
Usually with any conference or event I attend, there’s always one memory or item I remember best, something that sort of encapsulates the entire event. Sometimes, it’s not a good thing (Pittsburgh’s RT, while hosted by my home town, was a hot mess of groping and asthma attacks for many) and sometimes it’s something outside the script, like at RT in Orlando, when Beth Ciotta turned to Heather Graham and remarked that she couldn’t believe Heather’s daughter, who had just danced onstage, was no longer 3 years old. That moment reminded me that although many people disagree about RT and…
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April 06, 2010 | Tuesday | 37 Comments
It’s like a visit to Wonderland, folks: a photographic tour of some of the best of Heather Osborn’s romance collection. Seriously, it’s like a library of awesome up in here. Hi all, I’m Heather Osborn, editor of the Tor Romance line. But I don’t just edit romance – I’m a life-long fan of the genre. As such, I have amassed quite the collection, one that has followed me across the country from Southern California, to Ohio, and now to New York. Sarah asked me to give you a peek into my collection, so I’ve picked some of the…
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July 27, 2009 | Monday | 111 Comments
He’s back! After the splendid members of the Bitchery recommended many, many books for Dr. Turtle, aka SBiT Patrick, the choice was Dark Lover by JR Ward. Behold: Chapters 1-5. Let the mhahgic begihn! If you’re not familiar with the styling’s of DocTurtle’s romance blogging, he reviews the book chapter by chapter. Ergo: SPOILERS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD ARE BELOW THE FOLD OK?!?!! Hey, all! DocTurtle…or SBiT Patrick…or whatever we decided I should be called on this blog…here, ready to say a few words about my latest reading assignment for SBTB, J.R. Ward’s Dark Lover, the first of a…
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July 25, 2009 | Saturday | 39 Comments
Ahoy, it’s Simon Kernick is Awesome Photoshop Contest time! Behold, the entries. So much awesome, all in one place.
The poll below will record your votes - and the entries, all 38 of them, are below the fold. Enjoy - so much humor, snark and groaning, all in one place.
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June 19, 2009 | Friday | 97 Comments
Sometimes we caption a cover. Sometimes, Candy and I commit acts of random snark on a particularly bizarre romance cover. And sometimes, I can’t figure out what the hell is going on in a cover, and I have to turn to you able folks. Jennie forwarded me this image, and let the following words warn you as to what you are about to behold: Dara Joy is re-releasing “That Familiar Touch” in e-book form, with a new cover. One might think that nothing on the planet of Photoshop could possibly improve this cover, right? But no, there’s more. A new…
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February 17, 2009 | Tuesday | 36 Comments
This week’s cover snark is dedicated to the editorial assistants of the world. Y’all work hard for not a whole lot of money, and given the trend of layoffs, your work world probably just got a lot harder. So, in grateful thanks to the editorial assistant who sent me a steaming, shiny, altogether brilliant pile of these cover cards, and to all the editorial assistants who kick ass and take names, this snark’s for you. Sarah: The Guardian of the war butterflies watches as two mutated specimens pry each other from their silky cocoon. But it’s way, way too early.…
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January 01, 2009 | Thursday | 17 Comments
I’m taking the day off away from Ye Olde Laptop of Wonderment, but here are some things to look forward to here at the Pink Palace of Man-Titty: 2009 brings: The Smart Bitch Book and hella piles of promotion and giveaways. Seriously, could there be a better publishing market than right this minute? I mean sheesh! This is going to be cake! And by “cake” I mean, next up, Candy and I will be baking a 15’ tall cake and jumping out of the middle naked wearing clown wigs and She-Ra breastplates. We’ll let you know when it’s scheduled and…
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December 29, 2008 | Monday | 6 Comments
Yay Doc! Yay Turtle! Yay Heyer! Part 4: Chapters 14 through 19 May it please the Bitchery to know that immediately after writing my previous post for SB Sarah, I sat down to read the next chapters of Heyer’s novel and found chapters 14 and 15 to be positively delightful, by far the strongest so far. The first of this pair was genuinely hilarious, betraying hints of an almost farcical humor, perhaps not unlike that underlying Heyer’s other works the SBTB commenters are always talking about. The second of these chapters sees the maturing of Heyer’s subtly exquisite characterization of…
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December 26, 2008 | Friday | 70 Comments
DocTurtle, the math professor with the golden compass and a long, long winter break, is back with more Heyer.
Part 3: Chapters 9 through 13
Oh, the intrigue! This most recent installment of my Regency Romance Cliff’s Notes finds Bab flirting with Peregrine Taverner, her brother flirting with Lucy Devenish, Charles more and more busied by the buzzing of a quick-coming war, and the Duke of Wellington continuing to bitch about how ill-prepared is his infamous army for Napoleon “Don’t Call Me ‘Boney’” Bonaparte’s onslaught of Belgium.
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December 01, 2008 | Monday | 21 Comments
Here’s the final episode of DocTurtle’s snarking of a contemporary category romance novel: a mathematician reads Kathleen O’Reilly’s Sex, Straight Up! Almost there, folks. It’s been a few weeks since I last snarked on this book, and even longer than that since I read the chapters I’m supposed to be snarking, so I’m finding myself re-reading the book trying to recapture my feel for it. As I admitted in my last post, I finished reading the book in one sitting one morning before heading off to class. Although it would be a stretch to call the book’s ending thrilling, I…
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November 21, 2008 | Friday | 63 Comments
Entertainment Weekly has a round up of reviews from all over. But I was taken with finding the most snarky element of each one. Two of my faves: The Star-Ledger’s Stephen Whitty: In turning Meyer’s words into images, however, the movie sometimes makes them a bit absurd…. The special effects—with the undead leaping about like something from “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Vampire”—are more silly than surreal. The spiky dyed hairdos suggest metrosexual monsters who live not on blood, but styling gel. I have a little crush on Roger Ebert thanks to his review of Twilight: “She has questions. “How did you…
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