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This HaBO is from Melissa and she’s looking for an older romance: Hoping someone can help me find the book that got me hooked! I read this book in the late 80s when I was in 7th grade. My aunt had sent a box of romances home with my mom, and during our 12 hour drive back home I ran out of reading material. Since my parents couldn’t see what I was reading in the … Continue reading HaBO: Doing It in a Grotto with Rainbows
Welcome to Monday. It’s the first day of the work week for me, and also the day when I come home, get drunk, and watch The Bachelorette so you don’t have to. Clearly, I love you guys. This season has been a garbage fire so far. Last week Jean Blanc gave Becca some perfume, told her he loved her, and then when she told him she didn’t feel the same way, asked for the perfume back … Continue reading Elyse Watches The Bachelorette – Episode 5: Wayne Newton
This Wednesday, June 27th, I will be hosting an awesome romance event at Down the Road Beer Co. in Everett, MA! Down the Road just came out with a Rosé-Colored Spectacles, which is a rosé raspberry sour and seems perfect for romance reading. We’ll have our own private room to hang out and read passages from our favorite romance novels. Participants will be able to choose a blind date with a book and will be in … Continue reading Boston Area Bitches: Romance and Rosé – Blind Date with a Book
The Changeling by Victor LaValle is $1.99! This is a fantasy horror novel that has been recommended to me several times. Content warning, though, as it does deal with portrayals of mental illness and children in peril. Have you read this one? I think I might see if my local bookstore has this in stock!
Wanna Bet by Talia Hibbert is a friends-to-lovers romance and it features–get this!–adults who have to do actual adulting in order to be together! Holy shit! Emotional accountability FTW! I am personally so sick of books that feature “all my emotional hangups are resolved because I want to put my dick in you!” as the solution to any internal conflict. In Wanna Bet? the hero and heroine had to do actual work on themselves in order to … Continue reading Wanna Bet? by Talia Hibbert
Welcome! It’s time for Cover Snark! We hope it’s a good addition for your Monday morning. Amanda: I feel like he might be a Ken doll down there. Sarah: Dude, do you really have to pee that badly? Elyse: He’s gonna make sweet sweet love to that wall. CarrieS: He looks like two people glued together to make one very long person (torso-wise). Amanda: My brain is having a difficult time processing all of this. … Continue reading Cover Snark: How Many Hands?
Circe by Madeline Miller is $4.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and it’s being price matched. I know $4.99 is a little higher for books we feature on sale, but everyone and their mom has been loving Circe lately. I want to say that half of my book group has read it by now. Have you read it? Does it live up to the hype?
It’s Whatcha Reading time! I feel like it’s been ages since the last one. Or perhaps we’re all just in desperate need of some cozy book talk. I’m not sure about you, but I’ve been struggling with what to pick up lately and I’ve been having some major issues finding something that grabs me. Is anyone else having that problem? Sarah: I have a surfeit of books, too. I am currently reading Lunch in Paris . … Continue reading Whatcha Reading? June 2018 Edition
Y’all. Y’all. Garlic Knitter did the Lord’s work with this one.
We’re so happy to have this guest squee of Set It Up, a new romantic comedy on Netflix! This squee is from Darbi Bradley and you can find her on Twitter (@darbibradley). Darbi is a romance reader from Toronto, Canada currently living in Washington, DC. She hasn’t thought about moving home since November 2016. Not once… … I am supposed to be studying for my Business Law final (I like to stay very #onbrand as a member … Continue reading Guest Squee: Set It Up
Long have we bemoaned the fall of the Romantic Comedy genre, and we aren’t the only ones. Chrissy Teigen feels our pain. Netflix felt that pain and seems to be willing the entire genre back into our hearts. Thank god, I know I need a bit of wacky hijinks and perhaps more screwball in my life right now. Set It Up is a Netflix original starring Zoey Deutch and Glen Powell as Harper and Charlie, … Continue reading Movie Review: Set It Up
