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Whatcha Reading? October 2025, Part One

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Hide Your Wallet

September 2024 Queer Romances

This month is positively overrun with A+ choices, and these five are just the tip of the iceberg. As we usher in a new season, remember that nothing’s more delicious with a pumpkin spice latte or apple cider than a great queer romance!

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631. RT Rewind: September 2015 Reviews

We’re going back to September 2015, and I want to ease you into this knowledge, so take a breath, center yourself: that was nine years ago. I don’t get it either but apparently it’s true? JR Ward is on the cover, and there’s all kinds of good stuff inside! Come with us to visit some reviews that are word salad, and some that made me say, a few times, “Way harsh, Tai. Way harsh.” Don’t … Continue reading 631. RT Rewind: September 2015 Reviews

Romantic Times Rewind: September 2015 Reviews

Smart Podcast Trashy Books Romantic Times Rewind

In this week’s podcast episode, we’re looking at the book reviews for the September 2015 issue of RT Magazine. Thank you to Shannon Stacey for this issue! You can also find all the RTRW content at our category page for Romantic Times Rewind.  And, most importantly, if you want to listen and follow along with this entry, we have more detail in the audio, but you can click play and listen and read and absorb … Continue reading Romantic Times Rewind: September 2015 Reviews

Books On Sale

Ice Cream, Octopus, & More

Books on Sale: Forget Me Not by Julie Soto & More

Forget Met Not by Julie Soto is $2.99 and a Kindle Daily Deal! This was Soto’s contemporary romance debut and I mentioned it on a previous Hide Your Wallet. I liked this one! The book does switch between past and current events to show more of the main couple’s previous history, but I understand it could be a jarring format for the reader.

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The Rec League: Supportive Through Body Dysmorphia

The Rec League - heart shaped chocolate resting on the edge of a very old book

This Rec League came from Babelfish. Thank you so much! Hi y’all – you did a wonderful post a while back on fat-positive historical romances, and generally y’all are super cool about calling out fatphobia where you see it. The book I’m looking for may not exist, but if it does, I thought you’d know. (I’m a librarian and I’m coming up empty, so I’m turning to the experts!) I’m looking for books for *partners* … Continue reading The Rec League: Supportive Through Body Dysmorphia

Links: Cover Songs, Cover Models, & More

Workspace with computer, journal, books, coffee, and glasses.

Welcome back to Links! I very much enjoyed the collective snarking in the comments last week. I love it when a community comes together! For those in the States, I hope you had a pleasant Labor Day weekend. For us, it was mostly a weekend of rotting, jut hanging and vegging out at home. How did you spend your weekend? We’re starting to feel a hint of fall in New England and I am so … Continue reading Links: Cover Songs, Cover Models, & More

What was YOUR Book of the Summer?

A view of part of my backyard with a dogwood tree and a gourd shaped bird house, a metal fan, some very healthy hostas, and a wooden fence that curves down between the fence posts. it's very green back here

I know summer doesn’t technically end until September 22, but for me, the few days after Labor Day are the finale. It’s still plenty warm, but Joann’s* has Halloween out the wazoo and down the hall, and Costco is already starting to get decorative if you know what I mean, and I think that you do. Alongside the 10 pound bags of Halloween candy (100 Grand or bust!) there’s…signs of sparkle. But while I think … Continue reading What was YOUR Book of the Summer?

Elyse Watches The Bachelorette–S21 E8: So Boring

Elyse Watches The Bachelorette with Kraken Rum and Coke with a big rose at the bottom

Rich and I are both going into The Bachelorette tonight sick. We have some kind of virus  (luckily not Covid) and have taken all the cold medicines. Hard to say if that’s going to make this better or worse. As usual, Picasso says “How you doin’?” It’s Fantasy Suites week and we’re in Hawaii. The first date goes to Devin who has already told Jenn he loves her. Jenn has not reciprocated yet. They start out … Continue reading Elyse Watches The Bachelorette–S21 E8: So Boring

Help A Bitch Out

HaBO: Car Accident on the Way to a Waterpark

This HaBO is from Chelsea, who wants to find this book. Content warning for the death of a family: So I read a romance novel a while ago on a laptop that I no longer have. In the book, a young woman’s family all died in a car accident on the way to like a waterpark or something like that, and she stays in the house but never touches their things. Then a man moves … Continue reading HaBO: Car Accident on the Way to a Waterpark

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