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It’s time for another edition of Stuff We Like! This month: a few things that have made my life easier, including one I bought in 2011 and is still going. Want to see? Just click that image above or click right here, and come shop with us! And if you’d like to browse some more, we have a complete Stuff We Like archive, including past Gift Guides and other posts of our favorite items. View the full article
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Black Boy Joy Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood, edited by Kwame Mbalia, is $1.99 as a KDD. This book was an immediate NYT bestseller, and is an anthology of stories with an intended audience of ages 9 and up. There are fantasy stories, comics, and poems from 17 Black male and non-binary authors. It has a 4+ star average on Goodreads, and I have just purchased a few copies as gifts. THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • FIVE STARRED REVIEWS Celebrate the joys of Black boyhood with stories from seventeen bestselling, critically acclaimed Black a…
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This HaBO request is from Tara, who hopes to find this contemporary romance: I read this book in the early nineties. (I know!) It’s one of those books that’s always stuck with me, and I’d love to reread it again. What I remember: – It was a contemporary romance. – The heroine lives in an old house that she loves, but the house costs a lot of money to maintain. Her father and two siblings also own a portion of the house, and they want to sell, but she does not. – The hero is a developer of some kind, I think? He makes an offer for the house, but for various plot reasons, he shows up at the house, pretending to be the heroine’s sister’s boyfriend. – Hero and heroin…
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Night Broken Night Broken by Patricia Briggs is $2.99! This is book eight in the Mercy Thompson series, which is a re-reading favorite among many, including people in my house who aren’t me. This book has a 4.4 star average (wow!) on GoodReads, too. If you’re looking to fill in your Mercy collection, here’s a great opportunity. An unexpected phone call heralds a new challenge for Mercy. Her mate Adam’s ex-wife is in trouble, on the run from a stalker. Adam isn’t the kind of man to turn away a person in need—and Mercy knows it. But with Christy holed up in Adam’s house…
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B+ The Boxing Baroness by Minerva Spencer October 25, 2022 · Kensington Books Romance To my great delight, The Boxing Baroness is about a female prize fighter in Regency England, and yes, that was a thing. This sumptuous historical romance has great characters and a swooping, gorgeous romance. The plot gets a little wonky but overall I enjoyed this book. Marianne was adopted as a small child by her uncle who owns a small traveling all-female circus. It has the fabulous name ‘Farnham’s Fantastical Female Fayre.’ Mar…
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Good morning! I’m steering the S.S. BoS the next few days, which is always hilarious for me because Amanda remembers ev-er-y-thing regarding books, data, titles we’ve mentioned in the past ten years…whereas I am never sure what year it is. Let’s get started with today’s sales! The Haunting of Brynn Wilder The Haunting of Brynn Wilder by Wendy Webb is currently $1.99! Elyse featured this book in November’s Hide Your Wallet saying it “sounded delightfully spooky.” It has a 3.86 -star average on GoodReads,…
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Our latest bestseller list is brought to you by confetti, bubbly drinks, and our affiliate sales data. Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas Amazon | B&N | Kobo Wait for It by Jenn McKinlay Amazon | B&N | Kobo Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey Amazon | B&N | Kobo You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi Amazon | B&N | Kobo The Wolf in the Shadows by Maria Vale Amazon | B&N | Kobo The Singles Table by Sara Desai Amazon | B&N | Kobo Sea of Ruin b…
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http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/WP/wp-content/themes/smartbitches/images/posts/hide-your-wallet.jpg If you’re new to Hide Your Wallet, this is where we list new releases we’re pretty excited for in the coming month. Each reviewer has a book maximum (five per person), and we’ve separated HYW into two parts. The first HYW of the month will cover books that release from the 1st to the 14th. The second HYW will cover books released from the 15th to the end of the month. We also think this will help us feature books from smaller publishers who don’t have buy links up as early as the bigger trade houses. As always, if we missed any books that you’…
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It’s the first Whatcha Reading of 2023! How are we all starting off? Strong? A big of a slump? Shana: I just glommed I Like You Like That by Kayla Grosse ( A ) in a day. I don’t read a lot of bodyguard romances, but this hit the spot for me. Next up on my TBR is Asia Monique’s Flower Sisters series ( A ) . Each book is themed around a heroine’s love language. I’m starting with the “words of affirmation” sister. (edited) Sarah: I am currently reading Rest is Resistance, alongside An Unseen Attraction by KJ Charles. ( A | BN | K | AB ) I had meant to read Rest is Resistance over winter vacation but it was Not a Restful Time (we flew Southwest). So I am catching up. A …
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The transcript for Podcast 545. The Art of Good Apologies with Marjorie Ingall and Susan McCarthy has been posted! This podcast transcript was handcrafted with meticulous skill by Garlic Knitter. Many thanks. ❤ Click here to subscribe to The Podcast → View the full article
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Love Songs for Skeptics Love Songs for Skeptics by Christina Pishiris is $1.99! This is a contemporary romance that seems to have a lot going on. What I’m unsure of is whether there’s a true love triangle here with the introduction of work enemy Nick versus childhood friend Simon. Have you read this one? “Voicy, heartfelt, hilarious, propulsive…this book is brilliant.” -Christina Lauren, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author For fans of Josie Silver and Emily Henry comes a debut romcom about the life-changing magic of second chances. Zoë Frixos gets the wh…
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A | BN | KMarjorie Ingall and Susan McCarthy are the authors of a new, dishy, and fascinating book, Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: The Case for Good Apologies. We’re going to talk about public apologies, celebrity mishaps, and the psychology of what creates a good apology. If you’ve been thinking of making amends, or are writing a good grovel, this is a perfect episode for you. … Music: purple-planet.com Listen to the podcast → Read the transcript → Here are the books we discuss in this podcast: …
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Lizzie and Dante Lizzie and Dante by Mary Bly is $1.99! Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe this is Eloisa James’s pen name or rather real name. This is more women’s fiction than a contemporary romance. The insightful, audacious, and deeply romantic story of a woman whose life turns upside down after she meets an enigmatic chef on vacation in Italy–perfect for fans of Beautiful Ruins or Under the Tuscan Sun . On the heels of a difficult break-up and a devastating diagnosis, Shakespearian scholar Lizzie Delford decides to take one last lavish vacation on Elba, the …
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Thanks to PamG for sending in this Rec League: I have a slightly weird and persnickety request for the Rec League, but I’m having trouble framing it clearly. Let’s call it sex adjacent hilarity. Every so often I come across a romance in which the love scenes may have variable heat levels, but are both engaging and funny. The result is a hybrid of giggle and sigh, with an occasional side of energetic face fanning. There is a sense that sex is sometimes just so naturally and inherently silly that it makes the moment more real and, somehow, more moving. I find this combination rare and joyous, but hard to define. It’s easier to say what it isn’t. It’s not rom coms, per se.…
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Welcome back to Wednesday Links, everyone! We had our first D&D session of the new year, continuing our Curse of Strahd campaign. I made a cake because we had a ton of leftover baking/dessert ingredients from holiday cookie making. I’m playing a cleric, which is the first casting class I’ve played and I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. I think I gel much better with a ranger and its subclasses. Are you a D&D player? Do you have a favorite class? … Katee Robert has announced her next series and it features…PIRATES! … A lot of online puzzle games debuted in the last year like Wordle, Framed, and Heardle. I love them all. Lately, I’ve been playing Movie …
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When Sparks Fly When Sparks Fly by Helena Hunting is $1.99! This is a friends to lovers romance with two BFFs who are roommates. I thought this one was just okay, though felt the main characters annoyed me more than usual. Have you read this one? Charming, hilarious, and emotional…When Sparks Fly is Helena Hunting at her very best! Avery Spark is living her best life. Between her friends, her sisters, and Spark House, the event hotel her family owns, she doesn’t have much time for anything else, especially relationships. She’d rather hang out with her best friend a…
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It’s sharing time! Over the past few years, we’ve shared different versions of this reading tracking spreadsheet and each year it’s been improved by one of you! And I’ve received so many email messages and requests for more options from readers who absolutely adore it. This past few years has been a difficult one for reading for many people. Sometimes reading was all I wanted to do, and sometimes I struggled to get into a book. I still used my tracking spreadsheet, though, and adding new titles gave me a little boost every time. The value of keeping up with my reading tracking each year is that it helps me maintain two habits that I value: Logging my reading each wee…
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The Jasmine Throne The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri is $2.99! This is Suri’s latest series and many of us were big fans of her debut fantasy romance Empire of Sand. I’m hoping this has the same balance of fantasy and romance. Author of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri’s The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy set in a world inspired by the history and epics of India, in which a captive princess and a maidservant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies on a dark journey to save their empire from the princess’s traitor brother. Imprisoned …
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This HaBO is from Linnea, who wants to find this romance.: I read this a while ago, probably before 2000, but not sure. It is a Regency. The hero is madly in love with dramatic and beautiful lady, but he’s an impoverished aristocrat. He must marry for money to save the estate he inherited that is on its last legs. He marries the daughter of a wealthy businessman. She is not beautiful, but starts helping him fix the estate. Meanwhile, the other woman marries an older but attractive lord, who puts up with her and indulges her. By the end, hero falls in love with and appreciates his wife. The other woman and husband come to visit. The hero finally realizes that he loves h…
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Garden Spells RECOMMENDED: Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen is $2.99! This author became an auto-buy for me after I read this book as a part of a GoodReads reading challenge. I would liken this book to women’s fiction with a magical realism slant. It’s heartwarming and beautiful. I even wrote a Keeper Shelf squee for it; that’s how much I love this book. In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit. In this luminous debut novel, Sarah A…
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