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Wharton Holiday: Pictures from a Literary Side Trip
The Mount, Lenox, MA – July 5, 2013all photos @ pamela1740, Badass Romance In honor of summer vacations, a leisurely look at The Mount, the house Edith Wharton designed and built as her summer retreat,...
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Throwback Reading Rec: Rumer Has It
My Favorite Novels by Rumer Godden: Stories of Nuns, Dolls, and British India On the heels of my Betty Neels musings, I am awash in fresh nostalgia for another mid-century “modern” author who was...
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Scare Tactics: How About a Little Violence with Your Romance?
This is a post-in-progress, which is to say it’s an invitation to a discussion…. I’m still thinking through the questions I want to explore, and I’m hoping one or two fellow readers and/or bloggers...
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THE ANNOTATED TBR: an autumn collection of recommendations and reviews from...
Some badass book reviewers and my overly hopeful list of books for late fall reading… I’m trying out a new feature, which looks to be an occasional round-up of great reviews of books from my TBR. The...
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Has Romance Fiction Been Struck by Lightning? A conversation with author...
Talking with award-winning author and RT lifetime achievement nominee Cecilia Tan about reading, romance, power, submission, feminism, and fantasy Released on Tuesday, SLOW SEDUCTION is Book 2 of...
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THE ANNOTATED TBR: Winter Reviews & Recommendations
Here’s another round-up of books from my TBR — women of endurance, breaking down gender & war is hell Some of these are actually sitting on my shelves and some are on my mental list, waiting to be...
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Defaulting to the Duke: A funny fairytale romance and seeing through and...
Making an exception for ROMANCING THE DUKE by Tessa Dare I keep thinking I’m done with dukes. I read a great deal of historical romance but, like many others, I feel poor old England’s been duked to...
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Big Fat Anniversary Post: Late Bloomer in Romancelandia
In which I do some Navel Gazing and contemplate a Paper Anniversary for my Internet “Relationship” Image credit: Folded Book Art by Luciana Frigerio via Etsy; these are gorgeous! Sometime this month...
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Badass RT: Not a Duke in Sight
In which I offer impressionistic reflections on a trip to New Orleans that I sense will have far-reaching effects on my reading & blogging & thinking about the romance genre Every time I turned...
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