What can I say? I have a history of deliberately choosing old category romances with punctuation marks in the title because they amuse the heck out of me. So for this month’s TBR Challenge, I picked up Who’s The Boss?, a 1999 Harlequin Temptation by Jill Shalvis. I found it in a thrift store in
For this month’s TBR Challenge, I didn’t even look up the theme until I’d already finished the book I was intending to read and miraculously, it fits! Scout’s Honor is a 2015 Harlequin Superromance in Stephanie Doyle’s Bakers of Baseball series. I think this is actually book two, but I didn’t read book one and
A few months ago, I finally tried Single Malt by Layla Reyne. It’s the first of the m/m Irish & Whiskey series. It came very highly recommended by literally everyone who read it, which immediately made me so suspicious that I put off picking it up for ages. Why am I like this? Except it
This month’s TBR Challenge theme was Contemporary and I continued my tradition of reading a contemporary romance…from 20 years ago. Hey, it least it isn’t from 40 years ago! I’ve done that too! Married by Mistake! by Renee Roszel (in ebook! but I read a paperback) is a Harlequin Romance from 1998. It’s a fake
Entwined Destinies by Rosalind Welles is definitely the first category romance written by a black woman about a black couple, but it may even be the first romance written by a black woman about a black couple. Welles was a pen name for Elsie B. Washington, a journalist who wrote for Newsweek and also had
I took a little hiatus from TBR Challenge last year. An unintentional one since I did actually sign up in 2017. But then I decided I might try to write a book. Ha. Ha ha. Anyway I’m back now! And the first book of the TBR Challenge year was a great one. I picked up
I do a lot of used romance buying in thrift stores. I actually have a couple of amazing used bookstores in my area, but it’s always wonderfully serendipitous to arrive at a Goodwill the same day someone has off-loaded their complete collection of 1970s Harlequins. Or, in this case, a random Harlequin Romance from 2002
Wanted, A Gentleman is new territory for one of my favorite authors, KJ Charles. I think it’s her first Georgian romance and it’s her first that I’ve read with a man of color in the lead role, though I believe her next release in February also has a character of color, a trend I’m encouraged
I’ve been reading a lot lately, relatively low-angst stuff that manages not to be totally conflict-free. So today here are a few mini-reviews of books I have found low-key and satisfying over the last couple weeks: The Governess Was Wild by Julia Kelly, A Copper Ridge Christmas by Maisey Yates and Too Hot To Handle
