The Duke Gets Even by Joanna Shupe (Amazon Link) Just after midnight on Tuesday last as I was finishing up Lorraine Heath’s Waking Up With the Duke and London’s Greatest Lovers series (review forthcoming), my Kindle synced and BOOM—a new Joanna Shupe novel plopped into my feed like a bomb and I squealed like aContinue reading “Book Review: The Duke Gets Even by Joanna Shupe”
Pandemic Diary—What I’m Listening To
On Listening to Sean Illing and The Gray Area): The Church of the Celebrity was really good. Men and Boys are Struggling had me rolling my eyes—feminists want gender equality and have been conveying that in like forever; are men not listening unless other men tell them? Don’t @ me—that was hypothetical. A Veteran ReporterContinue reading “Pandemic Diary—What I’m Listening To”
Pandemic Diary—On Being Blonde, Age, Beauty Standards, etc.
On being blonde: Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom wrote this essay in the NY Times about the social status of blonde. As always, her knowledge and wit combined with her empathy and writing skills, transform her subject into a clarity of self-examination and a philosophical treatise on beauty and social status. She’s masterful at cracking andContinue reading “Pandemic Diary—On Being Blonde, Age, Beauty Standards, etc.”
Book Review: The Devil’s Delilah by Loretta Chase
Book Review: The Devil’s Delilah by Loretta Chase (Amazon Link) I would like to continue writing about the Chase regency books because I don’t feel that I gave them enough reverence in the previous review. In order to fully appreciate the male protagonists in the second books, you will need to read the first booksContinue reading “Book Review: The Devil’s Delilah by Loretta Chase”
Book Review: The English Witch by Loretta Chase
The English Witch by Loretta Chase (Amazon Link) I haven’t loved a book so much and yet been more irritated with it. This is one of Chase’s first books and you can tell right off that she’s a brilliant, charismatic, and cerebral writer—one of my favs. Her wit and intellect shatters every sentence, especially whenContinue reading “Book Review: The English Witch by Loretta Chase”
Dear Diary 20NOV2022
I started this diary entry on the 15th but got pulled away by work before I even wrote a sentence. On The West Wing: I’ll probably do a new thorough review but I heard something on my rewatch of The West Wing this time that I had not previously and I dunno if I wasn’tContinue reading “Dear Diary 20NOV2022”
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