Full of the unsought advice of relatives? Ready to be at home with your actual favs and your comfy pants? Lizzie Bennet is too, y'all. Join this female main character on one more annoying carriage ride as she escapes her cousin Mr. Collins' tender and slightly belligerent farewells.
Ready to hear us dish on writers and commenters--desperate goobers full of anxiety or blindly confident weirdos? We're serving hot takes only with this post holiday bonus!
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You traveling this holiday? Lizzie Bennet too. Got relatives telling you which highways and byways and coaching inns are best? Yr girl Liz is in the same spot. Turns out time is a flat circle, and some chickens come home to roost sooner than others.
Or in this case blindspots about dads.
Enjoy your holidays!
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In the thrilling conclusion to our Western Civ I, we tackle shame. Shameless or shameful, shame has a utility. Is it worth examining in the context of romance?
You betcha buckaroo. Saddle up while we unpack this particular pair of chaps.
Why, it's Andrea Martucci of Shelf Love stopping by the Whoa!mance desk to talk about darling of her childhood, weird uncle of her adulthood - A LADY OF THE WEST by LINDA HOWARD.
Victoria leaves Reconstruction behind for The American West, and, its representative, The Major (with her kid sister and cool cousin in tow). The Major got his ranch the old fashioned way. By murdering his boss's enitre family - or so he thinks - and loosing a testicle in the process. His employee, Jake, also wants to get the ranch the old fashioned way - but with a side of revenge. And Victoria. Mostly Victoria. He also doesn't want to lose a testicle.
How can we wrestle with a book we enjoy that has harmful ideology? How can we trace the contours of conscientiousness if characters in romance don't share the text's awareness? Is Scarlett O'Hara the white woman's Patrick Bateman?
Andrea, Morgan and Isabeau have some big saddlebags to unpack with this one. Which is why it is a two-parter.
Join us for the what lies the wake of Darcy's thrilling bombshells.
While Jane Austen doesn't invent headhopping she does a bang up job of walking us through Lizzie's reaction to Darcy's screed of a letter.
Is this what growing up feels like? Who can say? Us. Us can say.
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Saddle up the Equimare and/or gas up the Autoduck - this week yr grls pass through the veil of THE UNDERTAKING OF HART AND MERCY by MEGAN BANNEN.
Marshall Hart sends a letter looking for a friend into the aether (which is not the strangest thing to do in the strange land of this book) and it lands on the desk of his nemesis - Undertaker Mercy. She also needs an anonymous friend, turns out.
Does reading fantasy romance juice your empathy or is it just so much more escapism? What makes a retelling worthwhile? When was the last time you lusted after a blond?
You'll want to check your box for this one, because we're sending it straight to your heart.
