The two bloggers behind snarky romance review blog Smart Bitches, Trashy Books wrote this. I don't know if the book matches the expectations of their readers, since I don't read the blog, but it is definitely snarky and full of man-titty, swearing, and double intendres ( Read more... )

This is a post for Intl. Blog Against Racism Week.

My terms, definitions, and disclaimers.

50books_poc is a community for people trying to read 50 books by POC in a year, be it from IBARW to IBARW or a calendar year. I had half-heartedly committed to it when it was announced during IBARW last year, but upon doing my 2007 book write up, clearly I needed to ( Read more... )

Original postI'm a little behind on comments, though I am thoroughly enjoying the discussion. I also wanted to clarify some points that I realized in comments and throw out further thoughts. I note that much of what I reference in terms of social constructs of femininity is a white, middle-to-upper-class social construct, and that I'm using that ( Read more... )

I found "Alpha Male or Stalker?" on Colleen Gleason's (author of the Gardella vampire books) website ( Read more... )

Because I am having a very interesting conversation with Justine right now ( Read more... )

Description: After the untimely death of the great writer Octavia E. Butler, some have asked who will take her place. A panel of African-descended women currently writing genre fiction addresses this question, talking about Octavia's oeuvre and their own: similarities, differences, market forces, and the pressures to model their contributions to ( Read more... )

rachelmanija has this great post with people suggesting their cool bits, aka, what they love reading about, and I have decided that my perfect, absolutely insane, could probably only be done by Yuki Kaori or Laura Kinsale level of cracktastic thing to read would be:

("cool bits" in blue)

During the ongoing war between a corrupt Heaven and rebellious Hell, an ( Read more... )

Addenda to 15 things about books (aka, I cheat! Muhahaha ( Read more... )

It's fifteen things about books! How could I possibly not do this?

Also, I adore reading everyone else's version of this meme, because there's so often that "Me too!" of recognition when I thought I was the only one neurotic bibliophilic enough to do it. (I have a lot of neurotic habits.)

( Fifteen things about books )

chi_zu has interesting thoughts about global pop culture and genre in non-English-speaking countries; while I have some very shallow answers with regard to Taiwan and Japan, anyone who knows more should definitely join in! I am curious as well!

telophase is a wonderful person for linking to these leather lace front pants for guys. Guuuuuuuuuh. I felt like ( Read more... )