Sweet Disorder is a Regency romance I picked up by recommendation of Courtney Milan; I think it was on sale at the time. I didn't get around to reading it for some weeks, but when I did, I went through it in a day. I enjoyed the book a good deal. There's a great deal going on in the background with minor characters that the protagonists don't catch ( Read more... )

I'm looking for book recommendations! In particular, I'd like to read some nonfiction, preferably popular science. 20-30 years ago, I used to read Stephen Jay Gould and Oliver Sacks, and I quite enjoyed the non-academic but still informative style. The weather should be sufficiently not-bad this weekend that I can make it to the library by bike, ( Read more... )

I decided to live-tweet this book as I read it. I expected this would entertain the author (haikujaguar) and myself, and be ignored or perhaps mildly irritating to our mutual friends on Twitter. I did not expect to entertain several of our mutual friends, including making a new one who had the express purpose of reading all my Mindline tweets. In retrospect ( Read more... )

Captive Prince, by C. S. Pacat ( Read more... )

I have done a lot of reading this week! Two quick reviews, because the two after this are Not Quick:

Flight of Magpies, by K.J. Charles: The third book in "A Charm of Magpies". My favorite of the three novels in the series. It resolves well a lot of the outstanding issues from earlier books, and while the climax was a little overwrought, it hung ( Read more... )

These two books are fantasy novels with a mystery/action plot and a gay romance theme. (I think I can blame haikujaguar for this one, too. I know she was tweeting about the author, though I forget who told me the first book was on sale, which is why I snagged it.) I found the first book, The Magpie Lord, engaging from the start: I hadn't even decided that was ( Read more... )

Mindtouch is MCA Hogarth's light fluffy asexual science fiction romance about grief and the inevitability of death ( Read more... )

This book.

Trade Me is a contemporary genre romance about an impoverished college student who tells her billionaire classmate 'if we traded places, you wouldn't last two weeks in my position', and he takes her up on it ( Read more... )

Thief of Songs is set in a fantasy world, where humans have four sexes: male, female, hermaphrodite, and neuter. The latter two are created due to the effects of magic in the setting. The story feels like a poly triad romance to me, with one member of the triad being asexual romantic. The emphasis is on the sexual-and-romantic relationship between ( Read more... )

Georgette Heyer's The Grand Sophy reminds me more a Shakespeare-style comedy than of a romance: everyone's paired up for marriage at the end, but the story is about Hijinks Ensue, not about exploring romantic feelings ( Read more... )