Tag: Other Stuff

Guest Blog: Foreign Languages in Novels

Guest Blog: Foreign Languages in Novels

Est-ce important pour vous que l’orthographe et la grammaire des langues étrangères soient corrects dans les livres que vous lisez ? Si oui, est-ce très ou peu important ? Is it important for you that the spelling and grammar of the foreign languages be faultless in the books you read? If yes, how important is […]

Sex Sells, But I’m Not Buying It

Sex Sells, But I’m Not Buying It

Lately I’ve been in the mood for straight up romances. No romantic suspense, no paranormal, no erotica, just two people finding themselves and each other, falling in love and living happily ever after. I think part of the reason I’m so obsessed with those particular stories right now is because I just came off a […]

Our Top Three Tearjerkers!

Our Top Three Tearjerkers!

So Labor Day weekend, while the kids were swimming and my sisters and I were unwinding from our hellish day in the sun, we got to talking about romance novels. A topic, I never shy away from. If someone is going to bring up reading and romance novels, I will talk their ears off and […]

Guest Blog: Identity

Guest Blog: Identity

There is a line in the movie “You Got Mail” where Meg Ryan says, “When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.” I can’t help nodding my head in agreement every time I hear it- because […]

Booking Through Thursday

This week’s Booking Through Thursday question: Buy a Friend a Book Week is October 1-7 (as well as the first weeks of January, April, and July). During this week, you’re encouraged to buy a friend a book for no good reason. Not for their birthday, not because it’s a holiday, not to cheer them up–just […]