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Category: Current Affairs
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So… I’m going to be reviving this blog to record my reading in case that my Twitter #bookthreads disappear! Watch this space if you want to see what’ve reading!
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I binge read this series recently and wrote up a series review for Love in Panels: A great romantic suspense series needs to be able to balance romantic tension and pulse-pounding action, sustaining the momentum throughout the whole book, while crafting a believable resolution to both the intrigue and the romance. Juno Rushdan’s Final Hour series, packed…
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I reviewed American Love Story by Adriana Herrera for Love in Panels: n the American Dreamer series, Herrera has crafted three strong romances that engage deeply with political and social issues without losing their sexiness and humor. In American Love Story the failure of white LGBTQ allies to stand up for Black and marginalized people is…
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In the wake of the #ritassowhite and the growing awareness of how black authors are systematically discriminated against in the romance community, there has been a lot conversations about what we can do as readers and reviewers. For all the attention we pay to the Ritas each year most readers, bloggers and reviewers are not…
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At RWA this summer, I had the opportunity to have lunch with a bunch of amazing interesting women (Elisabeth Lane, Carolyn Crane, Joanna Bourne, Rose Lerner and Sarah Lyons) at a small french restaurant. During lunch Sarah Lyons extended an invitation to all us on behalf of Alexis Hall to write a post for this…
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My brother is seven years younger than me. As a family we frequently talk about how he grew up in a different family than my sister and I did. My parents were married, my father juggling night-school and a full-time job, while my mom was a stay-at-home mom. My parents were just generally getting started…
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This is book three of Amy Jo Cousins's mixed/crossover NA series Bend or Break for Samhain. I have not read the first two books which were M/M, and while some past conflicts and events are referenced the book stands well on it own. Cash is a former rich/jock/party boy who has radically remade his life.…
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For as long as I've been online, I've gone online to talk about books. Back in the 1990's it was on small websites and discussion boards, in the 00's on social media and blogs. The internet for me above anything else has been a place where I find other readers with which share opinions and…
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The second book in the Easy Part series by Emma Barry, Private Politics is the story of Washington fundraiser Alyse Phillips and political blogger Liam Nussbaum. Alyse didn’t always know what she wanted out-of life, only what she didn’t want. She knew she didn’t want to have a just-good-enough-marriage in the upper East Side just…
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In the last day or so there has been some discussion on twitter and Dear Author about a upcoming Kristan Higgins' book that a blogger cited as part of Harlequin's strategy to address the overwhelming whiteness of their books. The cover features to white-looking protagonists, one who is described as Irish American and another as half-Puerto Rican. As…
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