Once again I bought a book without reading the sample because it had a black woman as the heroine. I looked at the cover – which I really liked the playful, happy vibe it gave off – saw that it… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: April 2014
Links: Tuesday, April 29th
The Tale of the 1970s Fashion Apocalypse X is for X-Chromosomes: The Gender Binary (Part 1) – Resisting the urge to link all of Waite’s posts has been a Herculean effort. This post on gender essentialism in romance is particularly… Read more »
My Last Day Without You (2011)
On a one-day business trip to New York, a German business executive (Ken Duken) falls in love with a singer-songwriter (Nicole Beharie) who exposes him to her Brooklyn world and emotions he has never experienced before. Starring: Nicole Beharie, Ken… Read more »
Resources For Readers
In light of recent discussions about romance lacking a literary canon and being a difficult genre for new readers to get started in, we’re attempting to compile a list of resources for readers fairly new to the genre. These are… Read more »
Links: Saturday, April 26th
Cat in a hat. Le Sheikh C’est Chic? Not So Much! – Suleikha Snyder gets on her soapbox and lays into the sheikh romance. I’ve never been comfortable reading them and she puts her thumb right on it. Why aren’t… Read more »
Links: Thursday, April 24th
The noble hound. Little Miss Crabby Pants Fires The Canon – There’s been a lot of reaction to Noah Berlatsky’s Salon article but I really liked this response from Wendy the Superlibrarian. First, no book anywhere is going to be… Read more »
Murdering My Youth by Cady McClain
When I purchased Murdering My Youth I didn’t expect it to be very good. With very few exceptions celebrity memoirs are awful. I ordered it anyway because I love memoirs and Cady McClain was once part of my fictional therapy…. Read more »
Dudesplaining, The April Edition
Last night I was linked to Yet Another Genre Thinkpiece By Someone With A Penis Which Is Therefore Worthy Of My Time No Matter How Uninformed The Author. I ranted on Twitter (as one does) and filed it in the… Read more »
Links: Tuesday, April 22nd
How to Give Dolls “Natural” Hair The genre debate: ‘Literary fiction’ is just clever marketing – Not the most coherent post, but I’d agree that genre definitions are often marketing distinctions rather than assessments of the books’ content. “Genre fiction”… Read more »
Hush by Carey Baldwin
(NOTE: Between writing this review and posting it the author has corrected the Amazon page to reflect that it is a reissued work.) I DNF’d Carey Baldwin‘s Hush for reasons that didn’t have much to do with the story. One… Read more »
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