Hello, everyone! It’s been too long! Happy New Year! As we start 2025 with all of the uncertainty that brings, I want to reiterate my appreciation for this community. I hope your holiday celebrations were exactly as you envisioned them, whether big or small. I personally have been on a campaign for “quiet Christmas-ing,” a phrase coined by one of my friends. Instead of traveling for the holidays, she stayed home and made smashburgers. My … Continue reading Links: Cat Cams, Music, & More →
Hi all! I can’t believe it’s Wednesday already! In exciting, personal news, my partner and I are moving in together. Our lease was supposed to start April 1st but things happened and now we’re moving March 1st. The next Links post will be compiled from our new place! Definitely equal parts excited and stressed. It’s also supposed to get icy in New England. I wish I could say I’m surprised, but late February and early … Continue reading Links: Yarn, Research, & More! →
Happy Wednesday! The Northeast is due for another snowstorm and I was woken up by my cat biting me this morning. Is anyone else having the same crappy day? Anyway, here are some links to calm you down or to channel your rage! … I was glued to the Twitter mystery of Candace Jean Andersen trying to track down a woman of color who attended the 1971 International Conference on the Biology of Whales. Give … Continue reading Links: Muses, Tom Hiddleston, and More →
Happy Wednesday! Can you believe it’s June? How are we halfway into 2016 already? First, I’d like to give a big, huge thank you to the romance community. It’s been about a week since Redheadedgirl and Sassy teamed up to start a GoFundMe, and over $7000 has been raised! So thank you to those who have donated, those who have shared the GoFundMe page, those of you who have sent positive vibes and prayers. Seriously, all … Continue reading Links: Color Palettes, Knitting, & Cocktails! →
Welcome to Wednesday Links! Hope you all are doing wonderfully! Me, I’m in the throes of Spring allergies – and it isn’t pretty. Some divers had quite the surprise when the found a 17th century silk dress buried in the sand: Made of silk damask with a pattern of flowers, the dress was probably for everyday use because it does not have silver or gold embroidery, the museum said in a press release. Other … Continue reading Links: Tourism, Swear Words, & More! →
Happy Wednesday! We’re all back from RT16 in Las Vegas and trying to return to our daily routine. (It’s harder than it looks.) Before we begin, a quick housekeeping note from Sarah! She just discovered a horrible filter in place in her inbox that was diverting a lot of the inquiries and requests for recommendations to the wrong folder, and is horribly upset about it. If you’ve emailed her looking for a recommendation or about … Continue reading Links: Tarot Cards, GBBO, The Ripped Bodice, & More! →
SB Sarah: This rant/review/analysis comes from Vedrana, who found a 2008 BBC movie about Mills & Boon, and watched it online. It would be an understatement to say she found it frustrating. Dear Smart Bitches, I’m a listener from Australia, and I know how the Bitchery likes to pick apart representations of the romance genre, its authors and its readers in the media, so I was wondering whether anyone else had seen Consuming Passions: 100 … Continue reading Guest Rant: BBC and 100 Years of Mills & Boon →
Welcome to Wednesday Links, where we celebrate that the week is half over by sharing some pretty neat things we’ve found on the internet. Thanks to Reader Gry for passing this Rewire article on romance novels along. I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of reading things that celebrate the genre: Take it from bestselling writer Jennifer Crusie, the pseudonym of author Jennifer Smith, who nails the anti-woman bias of critics, noting that because most romance … Continue reading Links: Periods, Magicians, & Cool Leather Journals →
