This month’s TBR Challenge theme was Contemporary and I continued my tradition of reading a contemporary romance…from 20 years ago. Hey, it least it isn’t from 40 years ago! I’ve done that too! Married by Mistake! by Renee Roszel (in ebook! but I read a paperback) is a Harlequin Romance from 1998. It’s a fake
Month: May 2018
Old School Romance for #RomBkLove
Hello and welcome to #RomBkLove Day 11: Old School! My friend Ana Coqui is hosting a month of romance recommendations on her blog, Twitter and elsewhere and asked a number of other bloggers to take on topics that interest them and host a day during the month. In a move that should be unsurprising to
Entwined Destinies by Rosalind Welles for TBR Challenge
Entwined Destinies by Rosalind Welles is definitely the first category romance written by a black woman about a black couple, but it may even be the first romance written by a black woman about a black couple. Welles was a pen name for Elsie B. Washington, a journalist who wrote for Newsweek and also had