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Feminism and Romance

Bitch Magazine has an interview with Sarah and Candy of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, and it’s pretty awesome.  My favorite quote from it is, undoubtedly:
MV: Why should feminists read romance novels?
SW: It’s a 50-plus-year-old industry comprised mostly of women writers operating their own businesses and producing a genre about women’s self-actualization, pursuit of autonomy, and [...]

In which we wish for a pro-choice romance novel

I have thus far spent my weekend writing a small amount of fanfiction (for Merlin, BBC series and my new obsession) and reading Harlequin ebooks, and I have come across something that really annoys me: whenever there is an unexpected pregnancy (and as this is Harlequin, and Unexpected Pregnancy is right up there with Seducing [...]

Pseudoreviews: One Silent Night

It can be problematic reading – and writing, I suppose – a romance novel about the series’ villain.
That’s what One Silent Night is though, and while I didn’t enjoy it as much as Sherrilyn Kenyon’s last several Dark Hunters novels, I did enjoy it, and I think it does work.  The reason for that is [...]

Somehow I doubt this is what John McCain had in mind

Just a guess.

Book stuff: Acheron

So after work yesterday I walked to the closest B&N and got the very last copy of Acheron on the shelves in the store (mind you, there were probably additional copies in the back).  This is a romance novel the size of a dictionary, people, and I finished in almost one sitting – I had [...]

Books on the train

Until I get my DSLite, the way I survive the forty minutes on the train surrounded by grumpy looking men in suits (in the morning) and half-drunk men in suits (in the evening) is by plugging in my iPod and reading.  A lot.  I read fast, so I’m usually almost finished with a book after [...]

E-Books

I’ve resisted e-books for a long time.
At first it was because the formatting frankly sucked (and still does for the most part) and because I couldn’t quite swallow the idea of reading an entire novel on my computer – never mind that, as an avid reader of fanfiction, I read extremely long stories on a [...]

Saiyuki

I went through a period after college where I read nothing but translated manga and Terry Pratchett novels until I burned out on it and picked up real books again. I’m picking up manga again, starting with Saiyuki, by Minekura Kazuya.
Saiyuki and I go way back. I first watched the anime in college [...]

Dream Chaser

I just started Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dream Chaser this morning, the latest in her long line of paranormal romances. I’ve been putting it off because by and large I don’t like her Dream Hunter novels as well as her Dark Hunter and Were-Hunter ones, but so far this one’s vastly better than the last. [...]

My Google-fu kicks ass

For a couple of months now I’ve been wanted to read a book I read back in college – my first semester of college in fact, ten years ago, so frankly it’s amazing it’s stuck with me as much as it has. It was a category romance since that’s what was available at the [...]