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#WhatchaReading ? I should be doing so many other things, but I can't tear myself away from The Billionaire's Wake-Up-Call Girl. Really fun and... fans self. I'm hoping it will justify the arrogant (romancelandia.club)
 

#WhatchaReading ? I should be doing so many other things, but I can't tear myself away from The Billionaire's Wake-Up-Call Girl. Really fun and... *fans self*. I'm hoping it will justify the arrogant billionaire by having him use his power to completely destroy the FMC's truly evil ex. ๐Ÿ˜‚

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#WhatchaReading ? I finished You Say It First by Katie Cotugno, which I seem to have liked rather more than most romance readers. I thought the mix of romance/coming of age was well done and (romancelandia.club)
 

#WhatchaReading ? I finished You Say It First by Katie Cotugno, which I seem to have liked rather more than most romance readers. I thought the mix of romance/coming of age was well done and appropriate for YA, and I liked how much the opposite-attract couple grew from being together, even though it was a somewhat fraught relationship.

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My daughter loved How to Excavate a Heart! What sapphic YA romance next?! (romancelandia.club)
 

My daughter loved How to Excavate a Heart! What sapphic YA romance next?!

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Doing a reread of Naked in Death at #Litsy and just realized the main characters are a cop and a billionaire. Wow did that not age well. ๐Ÿ˜‚ (romancelandia.club)
 

Doing a reread of Naked in Death at #Litsy and just realized the main characters are a cop and a billionaire. Wow did that not age well. ๐Ÿ˜‚

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#WhatchaReading ? I started Early Morning Riser... I'm not sure it's romance? But I really like the voice and I'm pretty sure a romance reader rec'd it so am hoping for the best. (romancelandia.club)
 

#WhatchaReading ? I started Early Morning Riser... I'm not sure it's romance? But I really like the voice and I'm pretty sure a romance reader rec'd it so am hoping for the best.

Also read Four Weeks in Winter by Jane Donnelly, which is available from the Internet Archive. Enjoyable oldie, with the main character's boss acting as her fake fiance to protect her from a jerky old flame.

Started the new Olivia Atwater but I don't seem to be in a gothic mood.

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#WhatchaReading ? I read the We Could Be So Good epilogue, "Bells are Ringing," which was perfect. They're exactly themselves, yet somehow they've also grown. Funny and awwwww. (romancelandia.club)
 

#WhatchaReading ? I read the We Could Be So Good epilogue, "Bells are Ringing," which was perfect. They're exactly themselves, yet somehow they've also grown. Funny and awwwww.

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#WhatchaReading ? I read A Mother for Christmas, a kindle freebie. A bit mawkish, but I can't say I wasn't warned by the title. The prose was quirky and had some personality to it. Could have used (romancelandia.club)
 

#WhatchaReading ? I read A Mother for Christmas, a kindle freebie. A bit mawkish, but I can't say I wasn't warned by the title. The prose was quirky and had some personality to it. Could have used more payoff at the end.

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#WhatchaReading ? I read How to Excavate a Heart, a YA sapphic romance, which starts off frothy but goes to some darker places. This is a good one for readers who get frustrated when people say they (romancelandia.club)
 

#WhatchaReading ? I read How to Excavate a Heart, a YA sapphic romance, which starts off frothy but goes to some darker places. This is a good one for readers who get frustrated when people say they prefer same-sex romance because it doesn't have all the gender politics.

Also, the first book I've ever read that doesn't just acknowledge being written on native land, but offers suggestions for reparations.

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#WhatchaReading ? I listened to Handmade Holidays by 'Nathan Burgoine after @herhandsmyhands 's rave ( https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/12/18/handmade-holidays-by-nathan-burgoine/ ) & she (romancelandia.club)
 

#WhatchaReading ? I listened to Handmade Holidays by 'Nathan Burgoine after @herhandsmyhands 's rave ( https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/12/18/handmade-holidays-by-nathan-burgoine/ ) & she was not wrong. :-)

Such a tender and funny story of queer found family, friendship & love, and the structure is simple & elegant: each chapter is a different Christmastime, and we see everything we need to see about what happened in between. (Except at the very end, where I felt I missed out.)

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#WhatchaReading ? I'm still sniffling after finishing Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender. Painful but beautifully tender and hopeful m/m romance that explores how abuse and trauma can negatively (romancelandia.club)
 

#WhatchaReading ? I'm still sniffling after finishing Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender. Painful but beautifully tender and hopeful m/m romance that explores how abuse and trauma can negatively impact a relationship. Checking the CWs highly recommended!

Excellent full cast audiobook, which does justice to the partially epistolary "multimedia" structure. One of the narrators seems to be NB, though both main characters are apparently cis.

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#WhatchaReading ? I didn't love the style and tropiness of Eight Dates and Nights, but I did love reading a Hanukkah book that was really focused on Hanukkah. And it's really cool to read about Jewish (romancelandia.club)
 

#WhatchaReading ? I didn't love the style and tropiness of Eight Dates and Nights, but I did love reading a Hanukkah book that was really focused on Hanukkah. And it's really cool to read about Jewish history in a rural area of Texas.

Favorite moment: It's not a queer romance, but the MMC has a bumper sticker with a Pride flag and the words "Shalom Y'All Means Y'All."

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#WhatchaReading ? I finished the most waste of time old Harlequin, The Wild Side by Diana Hamilton. One of those awful misogynistic old skool books that's pretty fun if you're in the right mood -- but (romancelandia.club)
 

#WhatchaReading ? I finished the most waste of time old Harlequin, The Wild Side by Diana Hamilton. One of those awful misogynistic old skool books that's pretty fun if you're in the right mood -- but then there's the most lukewarm ending! Why did I suffer through all that angst?! Where is my payoff?!

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I need a book for a "bachelorette party" bingo square. Recs please? I tend to prefer plot over steam and angst over fluff. in c/romancebooks@lemm.ee
[โ€“] willaful@romancelandia.club 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@FlyingSpudsofDooM I don't think they had much in the way of bachelorette parties in the Regency. ;-)

[\#JustFinishedReading](https://romancelandia.club/tags/JustFinishedReading) "Heartsong" by A E Wasp, one of the books in the [#VinoAndVeritas](https://romancelandia.club/tags/VinoAndVeritas) series. in c/romancebooks@lemm.ee
[โ€“] willaful@romancelandia.club 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Diva007 Sounds like a bit of a rough read!

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[\#WhatchaReading](https://romancelandia.club/tags/WhatchaReading) ? , Though only published in 2018, Lights and Sirens by Lisa Henry has sadly aged like milk, at least for this American. A cop throwi in c/romancebooks@lemm.ee
Possibly my favorite line from The Sleeping Soldier: "what do you people have against punctuation, Caleb? You haven't \*lived\* till you've used a dash and a semicolon in the same sentence." in c/romancebooks@lemm.ee
[โ€“] willaful@romancelandia.club 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No wait, I forgot this:

"Don't you think the anti-war protesters are un-American?" Bobby Dunn demanded. "They're undermining our troops in Vietnam. I bet you never had to deal with this kind of disunity during the Civil War."

Russell choked on his strawberry milkshake. "Yes," he said. "The Civil Was *was* a famous era of national unity, I guess."

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What's your favorite format for books? in c/books@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] willaful@romancelandia.club 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@ArmoredCavalry Ebooks solve so many problems for me. I'll almost never read print if I can get the ebook.

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