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Uncontrolled passion in medical romance
As regular readers know, I’ve been working on an academic paper on medical romances, so I’ve read just about everything published from an academic or clinical point of view on medical romances — not...
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Reading in bed: illicit, stolen, feminine?
I have a bad habit of chasing ideas down rabbit holes when I do my research. I see something interesting, and off I go. That’s how I ended up reading Reading in Bed: An Inaugural Lecture delivered...
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Thoughts about Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester
$1.99 for Kindle right now I recently listened to Sylvester or the Wicked Uncle on audio, narrated wonderfully by actor Nicholas Rowe (there is also an abridged version narrated by Richard Armitage)....
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3 Recent romance reads
Sarah Morgan’s Ripped is a just-published Christmas themed novella. You can read an excerpt on her blog. I bought this from Amazon for $3.03 because I didn’t want to pay her full length title, Sleigh...
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Connie Brockway’s All Through the Night
Whenever I’m in a romance reading slump, the answer is to go back a decade or two. Brockway’s recently digitized historical romance All Through the Night (99 cents on Amazon, or free loan for Prime...
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Johanna Lindsey’s Prisoner of My Desire
I definitely remember reading some Lindsey when I was a teen. More specifically, I remember her author photo. That super long Crystal Gayle-like hair and those short bangs are an arresting...
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This ‘n That: Long ass version
Unsurprisingly, being back in the classroom after sabbatical has hit me like a ton of bricks. I had a goal of posting once a week, but to my surprise, it’s been two weeks since my last post. I was...
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DNF Reflection: Melody Anne’s Surrender
Last weekend, I was in that familiar situation of book bloggers everywhere: 500 titles on my Kindle, and nothing to read. I decided to have a gander at the list of authors attending the Romantic Times...
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A few links and updates
Happy Ash Wednesday A few things I’ve read online recently that are worth sharing: The Impatient Reader, by David Wilk, of Federator Books, a new digital press. Wilk connects the rise in digital...
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Rereading Outlander: On Claire’s Marriage to Frank
I first read Outlander quite early in my discovery of romance, which would be around 2007. I absolutely loved it. Never a very faithful reader of book series, I eventually finished books 2 and 3 of the...
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