What can I say? I have a history of deliberately choosing old category romances with punctuation marks in the title because they amuse the heck out of me. So for this month’s TBR Challenge, I picked up Who’s The Boss?, a 1999 Harlequin Temptation by Jill Shalvis. I found it in a thrift store in
For this month’s TBR Challenge, I didn’t even look up the theme until I’d already finished the book I was intending to read and miraculously, it fits! Scout’s Honor is a 2015 Harlequin Superromance in Stephanie Doyle’s Bakers of Baseball series. I think this is actually book two, but I didn’t read book one and
A lot of you are probably looking at that title thinking, “Hmm…I think I’ve read that.” And maybe you have. But this is not the Mary Balogh book by the same name. This Counterfeit Betrothal is a Signet Regency by April Kihlstrom. I picked up this book expecting the standard fake engagement fare: the hero
I’ve never really done annual reading challenges besides the overall Goodreads challenge for a certain number of books (this year I’m aiming for 200) and the TBR Challenge so I’m turning over a whole bunch of new leaves this year. I did a video about it if you’re into that kind of thing. If you’re
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
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
For my Backlist Glom for TBR Challenge, hosted by Wendy the Super Librarian, I picked out Bargain With the Devil by Jayne Castle. Castle, aka Amanda Quick, aka Jayne Ann Krentz is well-reprented on my TBR pile. Despite being a long-time romance reader, I had only picked up one Krentz title. See, she didn’t write highlanders,
I took a little hiatus from TBR Challenge last year. An unintentional one since I did actually sign up in 2017. But then I decided I might try to write a book. Ha. Ha ha. Anyway I’m back now! And the first book of the TBR Challenge year was a great one. I picked up
I do a lot of used romance buying in thrift stores. I actually have a couple of amazing used bookstores in my area, but it’s always wonderfully serendipitous to arrive at a Goodwill the same day someone has off-loaded their complete collection of 1970s Harlequins. Or, in this case, a random Harlequin Romance from 2002
