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Reads (mostly genre romance). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon.

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In the spirit of Mr Rogers, "be the helpers" this holiday season.

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/11/24/be-the-helpers/

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Via Andrea @Shelflove, be a Romancelandia Holiday Fairy, and help someone in need have a bit of joy.

Context and all the information you need is here:

https://shelflovepodcast.com/holiday-fairies

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Via , a fundraising effort for ; act now, for both volumes of this anthology won't be available after November 30th.

https://www.currentantho.com/

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Can we help Joy of Joyfully Reveiwed? After her cancer diagnosis over the summer, her friends organized a GFM to help her avoid financial stress over medical debt. Remember: GFM charges fees before disbursing any monies raised, so you can tip ZERO with a clear conscience.

No amount is too little, it all ads up. Please boost and share.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/joy-harris-cancer-fund

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Can we help May Peterson? She's been raising money to fight housing insecurity (and repairs on the new-to-her car she and her boyfriend depend on for work).

A one time donation or a small monthly contribution would mean the world to her.

Please boost and share.

https://ko-fi.com/maypeterson/goal?g=45

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We all know that for many small businesses in the U.S., this Black Friday weekend can be the make or break of holiday season earnings. May I suggest, if you have bookish needs, to check out small independent romance bookstores?

For starters: Love's Sweet Arrow:
"This whole weekend, in store and online, you can get 20% off to get you started on your holiday shopping AND a free gift with purchase! Use the code SHOPSMALL online starting tomorrow!"

https://shop.lovessweetarrow.com/

Shot of one area of the store, showing two comfortable reading chairs in plush brown, with a small side table in between holding books and a ceramic mug. On the walls behind and to both sides, there are pale blue bookcases all full of books.

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@romancelandia Can we help one of our own? @Limecello is still recovering from major surgery and struggling to pay off medical bills.

Remember that GFM is a business that deducts their fees before paying out any monies raised, so you can tip them $0 and maximize the benefit to those who need help.

Please boost and share.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/please-help-limecello

You can also donate to her through paypal:
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/limecello

Or send her something in her wishlist:
https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/6GM9Y6NMY6S5

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Andrea @Shelflove is once again organizing the Romancelandia Holiday Fairies mutual aid efforts!

"Romancelandia Holiday Fairies 2023 is OPEN for wishlists, for the 4th year!

Submit a wishlist and/or sign up to receive updates about this mutual aid effort for the romance reading community:"

Please boost and share; and spread joy this season.

https://shelflovepodcast.com/holiday-fairies

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alert: Beverly Jenkins' Midnight is on sale for $1.99

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003VIWNOE

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I read some hundred pages of Erin La Rosa's Plot Twist before giving up.

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/11/22/plot-twist-by-erin-la-rosa/

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ICYMI: I gave it a good hundred pages, but I ended up DNFing Erin La Rosa's Plot Twist

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/11/22/plot-twist-by-erin-la-rosa/

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I had such high hopes for this book, and it didn't go well, sadly: my review of Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord, by Celeste Connally.

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/11/20/act-like-a-lady-think-like-a-lord-by-celeste-connally/

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@romancelandia ICYMI:

Read Celeste Connally's Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord because the cover and blurb sucked me in.

Sadly, it didn't work for me.

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/11/20/act-like-a-lady-think-like-a-lord-by-celeste-connally/

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Reading a contemporary romance where the female lead--supposedly somewhere in her twenties--equates saying "I love you" to someone, with actually feeling love for that person.

And when she mentions this to other people in her life, the nod along as if this weren't the twee-est twee-ing that ever twee-ed.

(this is why I struggle so with contemporary romance)

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I reviewed Bonnie Dee's Guarded Passion,, the third in her Wyatt Brothers series.

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/11/19/guarded-passion-by-bonnie-dee/

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@romancelandia ICYMI: I reviewed Bonnie Dee's Guarded Passion, the third novel in her Wyatt Brothers quartet.

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/11/19/guarded-passion-by-bonnie-dee/

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@romancelandia In the "better late than never", here's my review of Darynda Jones' First Grave on the Right--just twelve years after the fact.

#TBRChallenge #RomBkBlog

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/11/17/first-grave-on-the-right-by-darynda-jones/

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@romancelandia ICYMI:

In the "better late than never" category, here's my review of Darynda Jones' First Grave on the Right (it just took me twelve years)

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/11/17/first-grave-on-the-right-by-darynda-jones/

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Via @tuphlos on twitter:
"My hometown library is looking for a director and the deadline is tomorrow! I posted this earlier, but here it is again. They have a brand new building and if you're looking for a small(ish) town setting, this might be your jam"

Given the short deadline, please boost and share.

https://railslibraries.org/jobs/108111

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Via @Shelflove: a crossover podcast with WhoaMance on #Readng shame: is it productive at all?

@romancelandia

https://shelflovepodcast.com/episodes/season-2/episode-151/shame

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ICYMI: the National Book Foundation is livestreaming the 74th Annual National Book Awards ceremony.

CW: Oprah mentions her rape as a child; there may be more

https://www.youtube.com/live/E4b8nqUaptw?si=b2T-Ihqt1nnC6_9S

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? I just finished Dionysus in Wisconsin and I'd feel a little delicate about mentioning it since the author is on this instance, but fortunately I loved it. 😁 It's kind of like if Neil Gaiman and Cat Sebastian collaborated on a m/m historical fantasy romance. Magic, myths, high stakes, true love.

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@willaful I've stalled in reading my TBR Challenge book--Darynda Jones' First Grave on the Right. For once, it's not the first person (Charley Davidson is a sarcastic flippant smartypants, and so far I like her) but me.

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If you are a , are associated with , or just simply a patron: go forth and bring this to the attention of the powers that be at your local library:

Actively Anti-Racist Service for Reader course through Learn with NoveList is open for enrollment!

Learn who you can--and why you should--participate regardless of where you are (librarians in red states: this is for you!)

with Robin Bradford and Becky Spratford

http://raforall.blogspot.com/2023/11/actively-anti-racist-service-to-readers.html

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I reviewed Alyxandra Harvey's The Countess Caper second in The Dainty Devils series. It's my first read by this author but it won't be the last.

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/11/13/the-countess-caper-by-alyxandra-harvey/

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ICYMI: I reviewed Alyxandra Harvey's The Countess Caper second in The Dainty Devils series. I enjoyed it so much I actually bought the first-in-series when I was just some 13% into the ARC.

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/11/13/the-countess-caper-by-alyxandra-harvey/

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Randomly thinking about Elzabeth Hoyt, whose website is gone, and who hasn't been around online for three or so years; and about Lisa Kleypas, who hasn't updated her website since before the release of Devil in Disguise two years ago (in fact, her FAQ was updated while she was still writing Chasing Cassandra, which came out in 2020, so it's been at least a full year longer than that).

I hope they are both well.

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? I listened to With Love, From Cold World and just like with Love in the Time of Serial Killers, I almost DNF'd because I found the FMC so obnoxious, but kept on and loved it by the end. Maybe her theme is even really obnoxious women deserve love? 😁 Score for me!

Liked how queer the book is for an m/f pairing, especially since it's set in Florida. (MMC is bisexual.) More red state queer books please! (Sensitive readers should note the CWs.)

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@willaful WIN! WIN!

WinWinWinWinWIn!

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@willaful FOR REAL

Given the state-imposed suffering queer people are going through, giving them good, solid joy is fucking necessary.

(aside: did you read For the Love of April French? Queer joy in Texas)

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Ok, if you're in a book club and the book really doesn't speak to you...do you force yourself to finish it?

Maybe a result of being in the middle of a lengthy and serious writing project, but I've bounced out of a lot of books this year, and a lot of them have been from book club. Maybe I should be pushing myself more, but this isn't grad school, so...I don't know.

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@pretensesoup My reading mojo is super fragile these days, so I don't force myself to read something that's not appealing. I often know I may enjoy it at a different time, and so I simply set it aside for that time; if whatever is making it unbearable now will make it unbearable later, I DNF with prejudice.

Life is short, and hard, and sometimes cruel; reading should bring joy not misery.

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ICYMI: @victoriastrauss post on SFWA comments to the US Copyright office on the matter of granting copyright to works created using artificial intelligence; as Ms Strauss notes, this applies to all writers of any genre.

https://writerbeware.blog/2023/11/10/artificial-intelligence-and-copyright-sfwas-comments-to-the-us-copyright-office/

@romancelandia #IndieAuthors #ArtificialIntelligence #Copyright

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@romancelandia Instead of finishing reading my book, this rant burst out of me last night:

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/the-white-privilege-of-stephen-king/ries

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@romancelandia ICYMI (because I screwed up the link somehow the first time around):

Instead of finishing reading my book, this rant burst out of me last night:

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/the-white-privilege-of-stephen-king/

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And once more, with feeling (re-posting the link because I'm still very angry about this)

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/the-white-privilege-of-stephen-king/

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Fuck you, Stephen King, this is how you do democracy: parents organizing to raise enough money to fight the Republican Christofascists bankrolling extremist school board candidates, and winning every. seat. up.

Pensylvannia.
Iowa.
Virginia.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/11/1212185489/election-pennsylvania-school-board

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@romancelandia instead of finishing my current book, here's the rant that burst out of me last night:

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/the-white-entitlement-of-stephen-king/

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@romancelandia @SuperWendy's #TBRChallenge is next Wednesday. I have chosen my book (stretching the theme quite a bit, but whatever). Now the race is on to see if I can get it read and reviewed!

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So the book I grabbed for this month's #TBRChallenge is engaging and all, but today has been a "what's that "reading" thing you mention?" brain day, so ugh....

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If you are curious what I'm doing rather than reading, well, this is but one of the videos I've been watching:

https://youtu.be/fzlT80jQ3lo?si=4t_toRD1QJcvFdd4

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and this...

https://youtu.be/TOsP0oBLkto?si=TCTMslKv0uJTEKt4

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@romancelandia and of course this

https://youtu.be/yb2HR47npEU?si=xGwbcaCTb5pm7JVB

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Last one of the night, this absolute marvel:

https://youtu.be/g4UZRYShjYU?si=4CpEkE_gr1G6lroB

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@romancelandia The world is a terrible place right now for far too many people, for many different reasons; when I can't hide in a book (because brain), I seek refuge in music.

This video of Simon & Garfunkel in 1967 for Granada TV has been hitting me in "all the feels"

CN: several mentions of suicide, war, violence, etc.

https://youtu.be/wgtH9_dcxs4?si=lmCpyxlXFP0aRdew

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Don't forget to fill out the suggestions form for @SuperWendy's 2024 #TBRChallenge!

Make it fun, make it weird, go wild!

https://wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2023/11/tbrchallenge-2024-theme-poll-is-now-open.html

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As we barrel on to the end of the year, please take a moment to put in your two cents: fill out the theme suggestion form for @SuperWendy's 2024

Make it fun! make it weird! Make it elaborate or keep it simple--go forth, have fun!

https://wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2023/11/tbrchallenge-2024-theme-poll-is-now-open.html

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@romancelandia I read Vanessa Riley's Murder in Westminster, the first in Lady Worthing series; I rant a bit about trad publ editors.

#RomBkBlog

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/11/10/murder-in-westminster-by-vanessa-riley/

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ICYMI: I read Vanessa Riley's Murder in Westminster, the first in Lady Worthing series; I rant a bit about trad publ editors.

#RacismInPublishing

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/11/10/murder-in-westminster-by-vanessa-riley/

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@pretensesoup The author addresses this in the text: after the dead of Pitt the Younger and the independence of Haiti, the whole world stopped abolitionist work--the fear was that too many free Blacks would do what Haitians had done and overthrow white colonizer powers.

The tide turned again, and soon, but in 1806, yes, there was backlash in the UK--the backlash in the US has never stopped.

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Dr Laura Vivanco on the "new and improved" revisionist editions of Heyer's most antisemitic works:

https://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2023/11/controversial-updated-editions-of.html

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@romancelandia I missed this lovely piece on genre romance, from the September issue of Atlanta Magazine.

https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/how-atlantas-romance-writers-are-finding-new-younger-audiences/?

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As a voracious reader who has a very tight budget and doesn't mind trying new authors: I wish to hell that publishers understood that they would get a lot more of my money, now and in the future, if they made first-in-series books accessible.

If you price all books in a series at $13 or more in digital, you are guaranteeing I won't be able to try, unless I remember to ask at the library.

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@romancelandia To contrast with the post above, here's what happens when you start an ARC for the second book in a series, and look up the first, and find out it's 99cents: you buy it, knowing nothing about it, on the strength of liking the one you are reading (and are barely 13% in).

The other book I really liked that's 4th in a series but all titles cost $13 and up, digital? Most likely I won't seek them out again.

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@romancelandia Also, that feeling when your reading has you constantly giggling, and you want to quote ALL the funny lines in your review?

::happy sigh::

(I'm reading The Countess Caper by Alexandra Harvey, and I'm only 19% in; we'll see how the rest pans out.

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