Next week is Christmas. How did that happen? Next week also kicks off our Best Of content – Cover Snark, reviews, podcasts, sales, and our favorite books of the year. I love reading the comments and seeing what you were and weren’t expecting. Maybe even more so given how wild the year has been. … Whenever I get the opportunity to talk to authors, I love to ask them what they’re reading and loving. NetGalley … Continue reading Links: All Things Happy, Neat, & Weird →
Bringing Down the Duke is a historical romance set in England in 1879. It involves the early days of the women’s suffrage movement, so basically I’m all, “You had me at suffrage movement.” Every time they focused on romance drama instead of suffrage drama I got all sad but then cheered up because the romance was very good. This story excels in terms of entertaining characters, and I’d love to see a spin-off story about almost … Continue reading Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore →
Are you ready for Wednesday Links? Are you also as tired as I am? I don’t know what it is about August, but I’m cranky, have zero patience, and just want to nap. Thankfully, the boyfriend is taking me on a relaxing reading weekend next weekend where I will do at little socializing as possible. … If you loved Ruby Lang’s Playing House or Aarya’s wonderful review of it, you might also enjoy her interview … Continue reading Links: Bookstore Romance Day, Skunks, & More →
The Scandalous Suffragette is about a young woman who literally falls into the arms of a young man and ends up turning him and his sisters into either suffragists or suffragettes (more on the distinction later). She’s the heir to a chocolate factory, and he’s the heir to a crumbling family estate. It’s a promising combination, although it also made me oddly stressed and a bit disappointed. Violet Coombes is the only child of doting … Continue reading The Scandalous Suffragette by Eliza Redgold →
It boggles my mind that it’s been less than 100 years since we’ve had women’s suffrage in the US and the UK. Less than 100 years, and even after that, women were still expected to vote as their husbands decided (My grandmother once voted for Goldwater because, “Well, that’s who my dad would have voted for… I don’t LIKE him, but….” My mother is still just agog at this, and that election was over 50 … Continue reading Movie Review: Suffragette →
