Posted by: fshk on: August 6, 2009
Title: The Phoenix Author(s): Ruth Sims Publisher: Lethe Press, 2008 Genre: Victorian Epic Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Warning: There are some spoilers in this review, mostly because the part of the book I liked the least was the last quarter of it, and I don’t think this would be an adequate review without [...]
Posted by: fshk on: July 29, 2009
Candy at Smart Bitches has a thought-provoking post up that gets into some interesting questions. I think a lot of romance readers probably have a love/hate relationship with some of the tropes of the genre, especially as pertains to gender roles. Candy certainly does, and she writes: So, in romance novels, acceptable, masculine behavior for [...]
Posted by: fshk on: July 18, 2009
I’ve been thinking for a while that I wanted to do more reviewing on this here blog, but haven’t really followed through with that. So, here’s my attempt to establish some kind of book review format. Let’s do the basics up top: Title: Cut and Run Author(s): Madeleine Urban and Abigail Roux Publisher: Dreamspinner Press, [...]
Posted by: fshk on: June 24, 2009
Either I’m ahead of the curve, or the Baltimore City paper is getting to the party late, because they’re writing about the trend of women reading and writing m/m romance. Never mind that women have been writing romances (and, okay, porn) featuring two men since slash fiction was born in the late 60s, this is [...]
Posted by: fshk on: April 12, 2009
If you haven’t already heard this, Amazon has stopped listing sales rankings for books with LGBT themes. The excuse they offer is that LGBT books have adult themes, and they are thus inappropriate for some search engines, but a bunch of bloggers have done some digging, and apparently Playboy and a whole lot of hetero [...]
Posted by: fshk on: April 7, 2009
I’ve been too busy to get a recap up, but I figured we could throw some other stuff at the blog. I read a fair amount of romance anyway, and as that seems to be my area of expertise for this blog, I’ll review as many of them as possible. Might as well put my [...]
