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Shrill by Lindy West is $2.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and is being price-matched. I also encourage you to check out the rest of today’s deals too. The book does deal with Lindy’s experience with eating, rape culture, and internet trolls, so there’s some pretty heavy stuff. It has a 4.2-star rating on Goodreads.
Note from Sarah: We’re running this review and the Wedded Bliss review from Carrie together because they illustrate how one item in a larger context can ruin a book for a reader. Thanks to Poppy for submitting such a thoughtful guest review. Poppy is a long-time fan of SBTB and loves cats, books and coffee, in that order. … Confession: I spent a long time thinking about how to grade this book. Here are the … Continue reading Guest Review: The Perils of Pleasure by Julie Anne Long
Note from Sarah: We’re running this review and the guest review from Poppy together because they illustrate how one item in a larger context can ruin a book for a reader. Wedded Bliss is an incredibly enjoyable story with one horrible problem that ruined the whole book for me. I’m going to start off by describing the plot and why I liked it, and then I’m going to get into the problem. There will be … Continue reading Wedded Bliss by Celeste Bradley
I promise, this is the last RITA Reader Challenge post we’ll do until next year! But first, a mega huge thank you to all of the reviewers and readers who participated and interacted with the challenge. It’s truly a testament to this wonderful community and I look forward to doing it all again next year. For readers, we have a brief survey regarding what you thought of the challenge this year. Reviewers will be getting a … Continue reading RITA Reader Challenge – Reader Survey!
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?
