May 2011
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Today in "What the Fuck Is This Shit?" →
A life coach tells the internet that romance novels are as addictive as pornography (with backup from Focus on the Family), and warns that women can become “dangerously unbalanced by these books entrancing but distorted marriages.”
She earns the righteous fury of Sarah over at SBTB.
Unleash your anger, Tumblr. Open season.
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More Thoughts on the Chesapeake Bay Saga by Nora...
I. CAN’T. STOP. I spent most of the weekend blowing through the end of Ethan’s book and onto Phillip’s. I told myself I would stop there, but I caved before I was even halfway through the last of the original series and bought the fourth book, which La Nora added many years later.
If that paragraph confused the shit out of you, go here for my original thoughts, or read...
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on deciding not to read a book
mfred:
Everyone go and read this and then come back, because I have a lot of feelings:
Guest Post | Stina Leicht on ‘Writing Urban Fantasy without Vampires, detectives and tramp-stamped chicks’
It’s perfectly fine to not like the Romance genre. It’s perfectly fine to be the kind of girl who grew up reading Tolkien and not La Nora. It’s perfectly fine to be a woman and write a male...
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New Galley!
Woooo hooooo! Just got the galley for Charlotte Featherstone’s upcoming release, Seduction & Scandal. I have high hopes for this book, y’all. Ms. Featherstone wrote the delicious, decadent, sensual Lust, for HQ’s Spice line, which I adored, and I’m waiting to discuss w/Shelly and Katie. If you like historicals and you’re tired of just plain old boinking in books…and you want to savor a...
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Progress Report: Chesapeake Bay Saga Book 1
Ali reviewed it, too, so check this shit out. I thought about doing a full review for each book, but after reading the first book, I don’t really feel like it’s necessary - it’s pretty obvious this is going to be a continuing story, and I’m going to continue to read it. So! First book. The hero and heroine are cool, but not like, MY FAVORITE OF ALL TIME. What makes this worth reading is the...
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Impromptu Review: The Girl in the Steel Corset by...
Katie: And here we are… once again… into the breach. This time it was Heather who picked the book. Obviously this resulted in a rather sharp decline in the amount of extraneous wang in the story.
Heather: Sorry about that.
Katie: No, really it’s a good change. I was getting tired of wondering where multiple cocks the size of baseball bats would fit into the heroine’s anatomy, aside from her...
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Goddess of Spring (Goddess Summoning Series #2) by...
In A Nutshell
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Chick-Lit, Parallel Universe
Notes: My favorite of the entire series.
Recommended for: P.C. Cast fans, and those who love a good Greek mythology/contemporary crossover.
If you thought you knew the story of Persephone and Hades, think again … This was the first P.C. Cast book I ever read. I remember that it was the only one of this series, at the...
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Talk Me Down & Start Me Up by Victoria Dahl
In A Nutshell
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Chick-Lit, Mystery Romance
Notes: Perfect books to bring to the beach and get lost in – or – perfect books to give your brain a break from super serious books.
Recommended for: People who like their romance with fun, laughter, smut, and a little mystery to stir things up.
Cotton candy has its place on the food chain, just as these books do...
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Baby Bonanza? More like Boring Bonanza!
My baby was thrilled to hear from the good people at Romance Club that “Baby Bonanza” was available for free download. My baby has fallen on some difficult times financially, as his general incompetence and pesky child labor laws tend to get in the way of gainful employment.
“But you know who’s flush with cash? Shipping tycoon Nick Falco!”, my baby explains...
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More romance authors on Tumblr!
Guess who’s on Tumblr now? Shiloh Walker! http://shilohwalker.tumblr.com/
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Turn Up the Heat by Isabel Sharpe - One Minute...
Harlequin Blaze line; contemporary; 1st in series. Marie owns a web-dating service which has a title so long I didn’t want to type it, plus it has the word Milwaukee in it, and I’d probably misspell it, and she’s made it her goal to hook her three closest friends up with the men of their dreams. Of course, all her friends have relationship issues—e.g., I hate men, so why...
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Too Many Dicks on the Dancefloor
Morgan’s Surprise: Powertools [OMG SERIOUSLY?], Book 2, by Jayne Rylon
My feelings about this story can be summed up thusly:
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
But to the “plot.” So Morgan has just opened a bakery, and is doing some building remodeling as a result. Also, she is lusting after one of the hunky construction crew members, Joe. Her friend Kate is dating Mike, another member of the...
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Impromptu Review: Sabine...and the Beast, by Moira...
Sabine…and the Beast has a hot, hunky Scottish werewolf as the hero. Go buy the book.
What? You need to know more than that? All right, all right. The book begins with our hot Scot werewolf, Ciar, looking for his mate. He has finally come home from a war with the Lion shifters, having finally formed a peaceful alliance. Ciar expects Sabine to be waiting for him, but she is not there. Unbeknownst...
