Welcome back to Soggy Bottoms! This is where I test my baking might by participating in The Great British Bake Off’s technical challenges. So far, all of the recipes have been new to me and this is one no different. I wouldn’t say this is my first challenge fail, but the results weren’t as positive as my previous ones. Typically, I talk about my process and what it was like to ham-handedly muscle my way … Continue reading Soggy Bottoms: An Unkindess of Plaited Loaves →
This HaBO comes from Julia, who is looking for a category romance: From back in the 90s, I read a category romance (I think?) where the hero was a gorgeous model who was average (or less) intelligence. The heroine was a brilliant business woman, maybe a photographer or ad exec. Their jobs brought him into her sphere for a photo shoot. She initially views him as a beautiful but empty-headed dude. But as she gets … Continue reading HaBO: Model Hero Viewed as Empty-Headed →
The Immortals by Jordanna Max Brodsky is $2.99! This is the first book in the Olympus Unbound. Sarah gave the first book a B grade. I highly recommend reading Sarah’s review to get a full sense of whether this book may be for you.
When I started reading it, I had a really difficult time putting it down. The world building made for addictive reading, even when I was reading things I usually don’t read.
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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!
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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?
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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 →
