I believe I started making list of books I wished to read when I was in high school. To illustrate the ginormity of my inner geekiness, I suspect I was the only 16 year old who skipped school to go to the library in order to look up books about books. From these tomes, I [...]
Chapter Up
There’s a chapter up at my other blog The Vulgar Fictions. Enjoy!
The Message of a Book: A Short Rant
This post was inspired by a discussion over at All About Romance a few months ago.
Can we just never talk about the message the book is giving to children ever again? Please. Pretty please. Or, you know what? Hey, let’s at least have like a two month moratorium on this discussion every year. We’ll call [...]
Spinsters, Bluestockings, and Other Aging Virgins
I think I might be a spinster. Is there a checklist or something I can look at to make sure? Let’s see: over-educated, check. Glasses, check. Governess, oh no but teacher and librarian sort of equals that, terrible fashion sense, nope. Phew, this close to being a spinster.
But if I am a spinster and my [...]
Epilogues or Babies + Schmoop = Puke
Personally, I like children and someday I hope to have one or two. However, children are not romantic. They are very opposite of romantic. As my father is wont to say, children are the enemy of gracious dining. I think this could be extended to most activities.
And yet, children populate the epilogues and indeed, the [...]
Books I’ve Bought: A Photo Essay
I love library book sales. I love used bookstores. I love thrift stores. Why? Cheap paperback books. I used to scour the thrift shops of the East Village for hidden romance treasures, certain in the knowledge that they knew not what they had. And indeed, they didn’t. The following proves it.
I bought this in a [...]
Fatty Fat Fat Fat
Over at All About Romance Abi Bishop has written a post on fat heroes and heroines in romance.
Fat and love. Love and fat. The question, as far as fat in romance is concerned is this: Will the reader find a fat hero/heroine believable as a romantic lead? Or does being fat preclude having an erotic [...]
Misc. Notes
On Monday I start my graduate work, both the classes that I teach (how to write to freshmen) and the classes I am taking (three plus a colloquium). As such, I will be wonderfully overwhelmed. I am already overwhelmed. Thus, I will be updating this blog more infrequently than I already do. I will be [...]
Today’s Music Is . . .
Here is a sampling of several songs I find particularly delicious. Enjoy!
“The Rake’s Song” by The Decemberists
“True Romance” by She Wants Revenge
And last but not least:
“Wicked Game” by HIM
Sacrifice & Love
Over at All About Books, Rike has posted a blog about inequality in romances and marriages. Comments, right off the bat, became very defensive about posters own marriages and what-not . . .
However, I do think that Rike has a point and as I was thinking about it, I realized that this is actually the main [...]
