Amanda has discovered some hidden gems during her first year of home ownership.
A Quiet Passion is a strange little movie about Emily Dickinson. It works best if you don’t think of it as a biopic but rather as a meditation on the life of a prickly, strange, and brilliant person. This movie came out in limited release early this year and is finally available on iTunes for those of us who missed it on the big screen. A Quiet Passion kicks off with young Emily, played by … Continue reading Movie Review: A Quiet Passion
At RWA, I sat down with Beverly Jenkins, the recipient of the 2017 RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award. First: I will share a link to the ceremony with Ms. Bev’s speech in the show notes. Please take a moment to watch it. It is deeply moving, powerful, and incredible. I’ve watched it probably six or seven times, and I get teary. We talk about her experience at the awards ceremony and her perspective on … Continue reading 259. Slayer of Words: An Interview with Beverly Jenkins, the 2017 RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
The Splendour Falls by Susanna Kearsley is $1.99 today! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and is being price-matched! This is an older Kearsley title, originally published in 1995, I believe, and features the hallmarks of her novels: parallel storylines in the present and past, a mystery, and some romance. This book has a 3.7 star average on GR, and while some readers adored it, others felt the mix of history and contemporary plot was out of balance.
Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science is a nonfiction book that combines science, history, biography, and a dollop of poetry to cover an amazing era of scientific discovery and artistic innovation. It covers the Georgian Era in England and ends at the beginning of the Victorian. By framing the story in chapters about individual scientists, and tying their scientific efforts to the Romantic Movement in the arts, … Continue reading The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
We have new Rec League coming from SB Sarah, who is searching for a combination of unrequited love for a heroine who is experienced and confident! Sarah: I want to find romances where the hero has an unrequited love for the heroine BUT the heroine is not this innocent ingenue. Too often the hero in that scenario is rich, powerful, worldly, famous, or entirely too alpha for my liking – especially that last one. The alpha … Continue reading The Rec League: Unrequited Love with Experienced Heroines
Hey! It’s Wednesday Links! We’ve found some really fun stuff this week to help get you through that midweek slump! Let’s get started, shall we? … If you missed Sarah’s Slayer of Words announcement, we’re partnering up with Beverly Jenkins to release commemorative shirts and other items: All proceeds will be donated to the charity of Ms. Bev’s choosing, Doctors Without Borders. I (Sarah) will be reporting the profit and donation from the sale of these … Continue reading Links: Alyssa Cole, ’80s Portraits, & Western Romances
Accidentally on Purpose by Jill Shalvis is $1.99! This is the third book in the Heartbreaker Bayseries and can be read as standalone. Readers loved the chemistry between the main couple, but felt the pace of the romance dragged at times. Have you read this one?
This collection is billed as an anthology for fans of The West Wing, for fired up resistance fighters, and for anyone who’s had a crush on that guy at the protest. To be honest, I have not had any crushes on guys at protests, because the ones I tend to notice are the ones acting like fools, so there’s that. However, all of those other things describe me. There are 8 stories in this book … Continue reading Rogue Desire: A Romance Anthology
This HaBO comes from Noel, who wants to find a book that’s been driving her bonkers: It started out with a young lady not really wanting to get married, but forced to anyway. Soon after leaving her parents home, she gets sick and her new husband has to take care of her. He falls in love with her while taking care of her. During the time that she was sick and unconscious, he cuts her … Continue reading HaBO: Husband Cuts Wife’s Hair to Help Her Heal Faster
A Certain Age by Beatriz Williams is $1.99 at Amazon and Barnes & Noble! This is part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals. This is a historical fiction novel set in New York’s Jazz Age. This book was released earlier this summer and readers loved the sense of place Williams created. It’s also a retelling of an opera, which is pretty cool! However, others found the story a bit underwhelming compared to the jacket copy. It has a 3.6-star rating on Goodreads.
This HaBO is from Misha, who is trying to help out a friend: I’m asking for a male friend of mine who says it’s the only Romance novel he’s ever read, but that it was amazing. He lost the book half way through and NEEDS to find it (and find out what happened). He thinks it’s was called An Affair with an Agent. Main characters name was Beth. Beginning of the book, Beth got thrown … Continue reading HaBO: An Affair with an Agent
