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Hey hey! Welcome back to Get Rec’d! How are we all doing?! I have another eclectic assortment. There’s a graphic novel, some literary fiction, and memoir with plenty of wry humor. I feel like I don’t recommend a ton of genre fiction in this column, as we cover a lot of that in other places of the site. Not something I see as good or bad, but merely an obseravation! Do you have any recommendations … Continue reading Get Rec’d with Amanda – Volume 42
Hey, everyone! It’s time for Whatcha Reading! We’ve reached May and the allergies are in full swing. Hopefully we’re all staying cool inside with a good book and keeping away from pesky pollen. Claudia: I’ve just finished Return to Satterthwaite Court by Mimi Matthews and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Low angst, with a bit of a mystery thrown in. The MCs are children of two couples in previous Matthews’ books. Elyse: I just … Continue reading Whatcha Reading? May 2023, Part One
RECOMMENDED: Devil in Spring by Lisa Kleypas is $2.99! Carrie gave it a B+:
Devil in Spring was so delightful that I read it slowly because I had to take frequent squee breaks. I truly cannot sufficiently express how overjoyed this book made me. That said, I don’t think it will be everyone’s catnip, because the main character sometimes seems overly young and naïve, even given her character quirks.
Verity and the Forbidden Suitor is not a stand alone book, y’all. I started reading and immediately flailed in a sea of characters that I might have cared about if I’d read the first book in the series. I was annoyed, but the book eventually settled down into an unabashedly romantic, and slightly gothic, story set in a racially mixed nobility reminiscent of Bridgerton. Dr. Theodore Darrington is a brilliant doctor with little patience for … Continue reading Verity and the Forbidden Suitor by J.J. McAvoy
Amanda and I are back, trying to shock one another, and possibly you, with astonishing covers. We have Easter and bunnies and our latest guess as to what the next monster schtupping romance trend will be! For extra fun, try to imagine what the cover looks like based on our baffled descriptions, then have a look at the show notes to see the cover in question. How close are you to the stunning reality? Music: … Continue reading 562. Cover Snark Live: May Bunny Edition
RECOMMENDED: Rare Vigilance by M.A. Grant is $1.99! Lara gave this one an A:
If you need to escape from the world for a bit and revel in a dangerous paranormal, then this book will deliver.
Content warning: Violence including gun stuff This is not an objective review because the Sookie Stackhouse novels are a foundational element of my psyche. I am positioned to love anything and everything that Charlaine Harris writes. That being said, I think I can make a pretty good case for why reading this book may be a good idea for the right reader – with a definite caveat in #4. I. A completely fresh book-world. This … Continue reading An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris
Welcome back to Links! Firstly, thank you to everyone who commented with advice about cat introductions. We did apply for a foster position last year and never heard back. However, we did wind up adopting on Saturday. TW: animal neglect and hoarding The shelter had a cat named Sam, who came to the facility after being taken out of hoarding situation with 20+ other cats. He was kept with a few other of his buddies … Continue reading Links: Good Cries, Ghostwriting, & More
This isn’t about romance or the reading community, but this here is still a blog, and it wouldn’t be here if I hadn’t read Dooce, the blog written by Heather Armstrong, back in the early days of the internet. I spend a fair amount of time looking back on the site and its history, and how romance readership and its communities have changed, and Dooce is tangled up in so much of that history for … Continue reading Heather Armstrong, aka Dooce, has Died
Some of It Was Real by Nan Fischer is $1.99! I mentioned this one on a previous Hide Your Wallet. I was definitely curious about the medium character. Did any of you pick this one up?
