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If you think it's more important to ostracize and terrorize trans kids than protecting kids from school shootings you're an asshole and I hope you get hit in the mouth with a lug wrench Repeatedly

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

Every so often I like to take on a project that’s too large for me to handle. My latest: I recently bought a bunch of old Romantic Times online and decided to see if I could analyze the HistRom settings for all the reviewed books to figure out how the settings had changed over time.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I received a 12 issue lot if Romantic Times from 1999 in the mail today, and one of them has an article about Jennifer Crusie. My favorite quote: “Laughing out loud is powerful and sexual; it demands attention and announces knowledge, not innocence.”

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

To avoid obsessing about the world, I am obsessing about Elizabeth Hoyt’s Maiden Lane series, which I think can be divided into 4 seasons: 1. Orphanage 2. Ghost of St. Giles 3. Pleasure Garden 4. Lords of Chaos The final book of each season sets up the subsequent season. #romancelandia

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

I’m reading my way through the next 24 hours, starting with The Chocolate Temptation by Laura Florand. It’s an old favorite. I am taking no chances with quality at this time.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

A month or so ago I saw a post by someone saying "we should all admit that Neil Gaiman has always been a shitty writer." That whole knee jerk revisionism. No, man, that's part of the whole horror. He's an internationally recognized writer. Objectively a good writer. But he's also a fucking monster.

submitted 57 days ago • 56 comments

I am impressed anyone can remember how much they paid for their first apartment. Mine was a 2 bedroom/2 bath with 5 of us crammed inside in State College, PA in 1991. I think it was $900…but that seems both too high for the time and too low for my memory of how broke I was.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

I made reading resolutions for 2025. Somehow I’ve already forgotten them.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

I finished My Season of Scandal by Julie Anne Long last night, and I was struck by what a great read-along it would make for Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas. #Romancelandia

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

I finished 100 books this year - 11 nonfiction and 89 fiction. The majority of the fiction were Romance, with Jennifer Crusie being my most read author.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

I miss genuinely horny Romance covers.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

There are a lot of genres out there. If you say you want a Romance without an HEA or one that’s about a friendship rather than a romantic relationship, what you want is one of those other genres. Seriously, you can find what you want without shattering the genre conventions

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments