Archive for the ‘pr0n’ Category
May
May
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 [...]
Nov
Nov
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 [...]
Apr
Apr
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 [...]
Mar
Mar
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 [...]
Mar
Mar
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. [...]
Mar
Mar
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 [...]
Mar
Mar
Harlequin Presents the world’s most cliched romance plots
I have a sad addiction to category romance novels – categories being those thin books available for sale in a grocery store near you. I started reading them my freshman year of college when the local More 4 (later EconoFoods) was as close as I could get to a bookstore, and while I have [...]