Well, the blog reading went well, and I got my reader down to one hundred and something. And then I took my eye off the ball and it’s back to 1000+ again. I don’t help myself by subscribing to more blogs, of course. Oh well.
Today’s choice is the marvellous Smart Bitches, Trashy Books – if you don’t already read it, you should. It’s a blog about romance novels, and based on the premise that there are some good writers writing romance and some intelligent people reading romance and that’s OK. It’s fantastic. If you like romance then the reviews are useful and help you find good books and avoid appalling ones. If you don’t like romance then it’s worth reading the bad reviews because they’re often very funny. As in, hysteria-inducing, tears-down-the-face, Oh-my-God-I-can’t-breathe funny. Check out the review of The Playboy Sheik’s Virgin Stable Girl if you don’t believe me.
She also frequently finds awful covers and runs caption competitions and posts about developments in the publishing world and there are funny videos on a Friday. Go to it.
There’s also a book by SB Sarah, which is on my to-read list:
Source: smartbitchestrashybooks.com via Sally on Pinterest
SBTB and Beyond Heaving Bosoms gave Kyra Kramer and me a term which we used in our anthropological study of the bodies in romance novels.
I thought, ‘Oh, please let it be the Mighty Wang! Oh, please!’
And it was. You rock!
(And I fully intend to read the article, esp as you discuss a book I’ve actually a) read and b) can remember.)