So if you have a very large TBR on your eReader, today is a good day to think about organizing for a new reading year. I manage my kindle collections pretty ruthlessly.
Here are some of the things on my new year's kindle maintenance plan.
Delete every sample. If you haven't read them yet & haven't downloaded the full book, you aren't going to. Bye.
Jan 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
we're so fucked when headlines can't even be honest about what's going down: "trying to remove some of the guardrails"
You know what's [not] great, that the 2019 @nytimes obituary for Johanna Lindsey makes sure to say this: "Stories built around romantic and sexual surrender — between arrogant, willful men and heroines with little power from centuries past — descended at times into rape."
While the 1977 obituary for Nabokov says this, "Intended as a metaphor for the eternal quest for innocence that is resolved in satiric terms, the book sold in the thousands as an erotic story of Dolores Haze, a 12-year-old nymphet... and Humbert Humbert, her middle-aged pursuer.
Sep 11, 2019 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Twitter Romancelandia Challenge: find an old-timey romance cover with a look that you'd wear right now. I'll start.
This is a great dress. Someone could wear this to a wedding today.
Aug 16, 2019 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
I want to talk about this rather amazing thread in light of the 60 RITA books I read and my recent trip to RWA, I guess.
Other people (Bree has a good thread, for example) have way more insight on the publishing side. I want to talk as a reader/critic.
I wish we could talk about writing quality more in romance. Maybe it's a knee-jerk response to outsiders who think **all** romance writing is terrible. Are we afraid if we start a conversation about writing quality, outsiders will jump in and say I KNEW IT?
May 28, 2019 • 78 tweets • 17 min read
Good evening. I read PART TIME HUSBAND by Noelle Adams. This is a finalist in the contemporary mid-length category.
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The heroine is Melissa Greyson. She's 28 and works for her grandfather's company. Since Pop is a controlling old geezer, he tells her that he's going to take her job from her if she doesn't produce a husband STAT.
Mar 22, 2019 • 327 tweets • >60 min read
A thread of #JenReadsRitas books, bc that's a thing I'm going to do.
Just yesterday I read THE LAST WOLF by Maria Vale. It's so strong. I bought the 2nd book on spec last week, and now I'm so glad I have it ready to go.
Good morning fellow white Romancelandia citizens, can we talk about Robin diAngelos's White Rules of Engagement? In case you don't know, we white people have been trained by society to react certain ways when we are accused of engaging in racist behavior.
But, you know, like all good training, it's not something we're really aware of. So here's a super great article that explains it all at once: goodmenproject.com/featured-conte…
