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This feels like the Titanic, moments before it sank from view. I already did a gratitude post. I’m on mastodon, I’m on tumblr and technically, I’m on IG but I’m probably going to make a 2nd account for that. Love you all who have carried me through some pretty tough times. ❤️❤️
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Aside from being stunningly gorgeous, she is also phenomenally talented. She is great in Derry Girls and so charismatic in interviews and I would pretty much watch her in anything. Plus, she’s been very outspoken about demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. I just really love her.
“I burn for you Colin” in the Claires Derry accent was unexpected LMAOOO
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“Inserts himself? Inserts himself where???” Will never not make me laugh
this is the funniest scene to ever come out of bridgerton, the featheringtons are so hilarious 😭😭😭
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My kid had a sub today. The sub (an older white woman) mispronounced my child’s Desi name. It happens on the regular. My 11 y.o. corrected her. Politely. Firmly. Broke it down by syllables as she’s been taught to do. The sub continued to mispronounce it. And then 3 kids in her
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Just gonna say that I find Nicola Coughlan to be an absolute goddess. She is stunning and sexy and for anyone writing a hit piece saying that it’s just not plausible for someone with her body to land a guy like Colin, please seek help to unpack your fatphobia. (I intentionally
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class decided to make fun of her name. If you’re a parent, please teach your kids to be respectful of people’s names, to try and learn to say it correctly. And if you’re an educator and mispronounce a kid’s name and they correct you, please listen. It might be a small trivial
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Btw, when she ran for president, she had a plan for EVERYTHING and no one gave her the time of day and now suddenly people wanna complain Kamala is light on policy.
a politician who has consistently put the people first and has been often overlooked finally getting her flowers in this moment, she deserves the world 💙
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OR, here’s an idea, there are south Asian authors who already write romances featuring south Asian characters so how about we adapt those instead? Farah Heron, Alisha Rai, Sonali Dev, Suleikha Snyder, Nalini Singh (my god someone adapt Rebel Hard for these two!!).
He said it!!!! Now get Emily Henry or something on the phone. I have a romcom dream cast for her. Simone Ashley and Dev Petel take over.
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Her line reading of “inserts himself where” continues to make me laugh even just thinking about it. May she always know peace.
Harriet Cains (a.k.a our dear Philipa Featherington) looks absolutely beautiful
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Wow, I didn’t expect this level of response. Seriously, thank you to everyone who has commented and shared, and sending love to all of you who’ve been made to feel like your name wasn’t important or worth saying correctly. It’s important and matters a great deal. ❤️
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The fact that the Megan Follows version of Anne of Green Gables is unavailable for streaming continues to confound and irk me. Egregious enough to make me want to crack slate over someone’s head.
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I feel like explaining the Don’t Worry Darling drama of 2022 was child’s play compared to trying to explain KateGate.
OMG. Turns out, Will’s mistress Rose Hanbury’s husband has been involved for years with François-Marie Banier, who swindled Liliane Bettencourt, the L’Oreal heiress out of millions. This could not get juicier
#WhereIsKateMiddleton
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I love romance novels and I love them with high heat. Idk who said sex scenes are unnecessary (I don’t want to know either) but I love them. If you want to drop your favorite romance novel sex scenes in the comments, I would not be opposed to that.
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chose not to QT bc even that excerpt is very triggering and I’m appalled the article was allowed to be published. I hope the writer of that article has exactly the day she deserves.
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The Ted Lasso ladies were all goddesses last night and we cannot leave Dr. Sharon (Sarah Niles) out of the convo.
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Turning Red was so lovely and beautiful. I never read the review saying it’s not relatable but I find it funny you can accept movies about cowboys and astronaut toys coming to life but a coming of age story about a 13 y.o. Chinese Canadian girl is where you draw the line.
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Rom coms. True rom coms. Rated R rom coms. With happy endings.
Which genre do u hope makes a come back now superhero movies are dying. Personally I hope it’s alien invasion films
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Romance novels are for people who enjoy the journey despite knowing exactly what the destination is.
To the romance books are boring and predictable crowd, I say have you met bread? Same basic ingredients. Infinite possibilities. FUCKING DELICIOUS.
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You know what’s sad? When someone calls out a trash book for being a Nazi redemption romance but then has to clarify which one because there’s multiple books fitting that description.
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There is nothing more pure than when a romance reader is packing for a vacation and seriously ponders if the 35 books they packed/downloaded is enough for their 4 day trip.
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I hope The Fall Guy makes a boatload of money and between that and everyone watching The Idea of You and even the capybara romcom making a crap ton of $$$, Hollywood finally realizes all we want is to watch people fall in love and be horny for each other. It’s not rocket science.
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Listen it’s only day 4 of 2023 and a dead author has revealed she’s still alive and now we have yet another white conservative/Black liberal masquerading as an enemies to lovers “romance”. Should we just unplug this year and try to plug it back in?
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Nothing against science fiction tv series but I wish more people would adapt romance novels for television. Despite all the many, many, MANY problems with a certain juggernaut of a series on Netflix, it did bring in many viewers so the audience is certainly there.
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@allieiswriting
Both S and I have ample personal experience with this and I’ll be emailing her teacher with a heads up. These are the little aggressions that pile up after a while.
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That is one hell of a “not like the other girls” literary romance hot take in that LA Times article. If you’re really out here saying there’s not enough drama in romance novels, I strongly suspect that maybe you’re not that familiar with the genre. Which, I guess she isn’t.
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I am reading an arc and this character just offered the FMC kombucha and claimed it’s impossible to get outside of California and that’s why he brought a case of it back and I really need someone who does not live in CA to verify that you do have kombucha bc this is so weird.
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MAYBE IF YOU HAD MARKETED BETTER
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Is subverting genre conventions really just code for “I want that romance $$ but I don’t actually want to be known as a romance novelist”?
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Aka the 10 year anniversary of me learning that the 9 years I spent being a dedicated fan of this show were all for naught. 10 years in which my rage has festered.
The series finale of ‘HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER’ aired 10 years ago today.
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Listen, I have made some questionable choices in my life but one thing I will never ever EVER do is anything that requires THE Nora Roberts to personally explain the process to me. Nope nope nope.
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The author who tweeted insults at GR reviewers for rating her book anything less than 5 stars now has an overall GR rating of 1.63. One of the reviews is “you can’t blame me for this review, I was high” and I wish I could give 5 stars to that review. Or 4.5 at the very least.
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I refuse to QT a video containing T*cker C*rlson but if your worst “addiction” in life is reading too many romance novels, congrats on living your very best life. And if seeking escape in said books brings you peace and joy, then good for you and fuck anyone who says otherwise.
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The amount of sexual tension in this scene why is Hollywood not making more movies like this?!? (Also FFS, please put Anne Hathaway and Chris Pine in something romantic and sexy and fun post haste).
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“A little farm novel” is quite the spin on a Nazi romance novel.
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Obsessed with this Balenciaga dress on Nicola Coughlan featured in Teen Vogue. It is everything I love, floaty, romantic, floral, dramatic sleeves, and caftan adjacent.
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Matthew dying in a car accident literally moments after his baby is born on Downton Abbey.
Everybody got that one moment where they went cold turkey and stopped watching a TV show because it was a moment so stupid that you couldn’t look at the shit anymore.
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My kingdom for Netflix to adapt Beverly Jenkins and Alyssa Cole and Katrina Jackson and Alisha Rai and Talia Hibbert and Nalini Singh and a whole plethora of other authors instead of a spin-off NO ONE asked for.
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The fact that Keri Russell, who once played a Darcy fan girl
In Austenland, is married to Matthew Rhys, who played Darcy in Death Comes to Pemberley, will never not amuse me.
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Hi, my toxic reading trait is reading 150+ books a year and still naming the same 5 books every time someone asks for a rec because those are the only ones I can ever remember.
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Reading romance novels make me happy and authors who write these beautiful, hopeful books filled with messy complicated characters finding love and joy make me the HAPPIEST. Happy Sunday everyone, hope it was/is a good one.
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I’m just going to say this: If I pick up a romance and it does not end with a HEA or a HFN, I will blast that book and author all over the interwebs for selling me a lie. And I promise, I wouldn’t be the only one.
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I would love for authors with 2022 releases to do those Reddit based tweets of their books. (Please feel free to ignore if you don’t have time/inclination). I just remember the last time this happened, my TBR exploded.
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Not every romance novel MC needs some sort of sad, traumatic backstory to explain why they are emotional constipated. Emotionally open, generally happy people can also fall in love. And the third act breakup isn’t a must either.
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Not calling out any book in particular but it always strikes me a little odd when a white author writes a book set in NYC and there's a large cast of characters and there is not one single BIPOC character in the whole book. Not a single one.
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Does anyone remember the movie Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken starring Gabrielle Anwar and Jake from Sixteen Candles? The way 13 yo me was OBSESSED with that movie.
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Oooh look another edgy young author is going to write a romance WITHOUT a HEA and is calling out “older authors” for belittling their choice. Good luck when the romance readers, young and old, come for you.
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Instead of every niche streamer getting in on the Hallmark holiday romance movie action, I just want holiday romance movies with some passion and sex and chemistry between the leads instead of a pathetic kiss in the final 30 seconds of the movie is that too much to ask for?!?
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Why is everyone so shocked over the Bridgerton announcement? This is how romance works, no? The arc is completed, time for a new couple. Some of you are going to be SHOCKED when you get to Francesca’s season.
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Is it really a rom com when 1 of the MCs dies at the end???
critics are praising netflix's upcoming 'one day' series starring ambika mod and leo woodall as "a flawless rom com you'll fall for" and an addition "to a burgeoning romantic comedy renaissance"
the series streams this thursday, february 8 on netflix
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Why is this poster with that title giving off “one of these characters will die or has been dead the whole time” vibes? Which, let me just say, is not a rom com. Happy to be proven wrong but will proceed with caution.
First poster for ‘WE LIVE IN TIME’, a R-rated rom-com starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh.
Trailer releases tomorrow.
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I can honestly say I am not even a little bit interested in watching this really terrible movie but I am very interested in the BTS drama of it all. THAT is a docudrama I’d watch.
so now the tables are turning and streets are saying ms blake lively had her husband a little TOO involved with the production & promo of the movie because wdym ryan reynolds was WRITING parts of the script...maybe justin aka the director was a little annoyed by that 👀
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I like what I like. And what I like is sex in my romance novels. Sorry if that bothers anyone. Lol jk, no, not sorry at all.
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Look at me DNFing an arc! It takes a LOT for me to DNF a book but I’ve learned in this miserable year that life is short and I read romance books because they bring me joy and there is absolutely NO point in forcing myself to read something that isn’t doing just that.
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I think I somehow missed romance novel industrial complex discourse and now I’m just imagining a giant Costco filled with cover models and tropes and honestly, it’s not the worst place to be at.
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My mom passed away a few hours ago. I knew it was coming but I can’t seem to reconcile myself to the fact that I now have to exist in a world that no longer has her in it.
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Oh no. It’s happened. I don’t recognize ANY of these people.
Hollywood, meet your new A-List.
From staggeringly talented TikTokers to the Instagram stars we can’t look away from, these are the names who will (and should) be dominating the business of new and old media:
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Netflix has now done JQ and Nora and I beg someone with connections to PLEASE slip them the names of Beverly Jenkins, Alyssa Cole, Courtney Milan, Dakota Gray/Melissa Blue, Alisha Rai, Rebekah Weatherspoon, and Katrina Jackson. To just name a few. I promise, the fanbase is there.
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@TheWordN3rd
There’s a video of the actress doing an interview where she states that the actor who plays her husband has a theory that the character does know but is waiting for his wife to give consent.
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Could 2022 be the year that we stop having romance novels with infertility storylines that end with a magical baby because “love cure all”?
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I remember reading this book. The original cover is eye catching. It’s advertising exactly what’s inside. The other one, I wouldn’t even give a second glance to. I know there are a lot of people on this app who are tired of the endless cover discourse. But I feel like if we stop
from what I remember, this is the book that invented the 'man with abs' cover, so this is especially sad to me.
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I keep thinking of The Thomas Crown Affair and how I long for a sequel where Theo James plays their son who is tasked with returning a valuable painting his father inadvertently “displaced” and crosses wits with the art expert (Simone Ashley) tasked with tracking down the thief.
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I started a book last night for the first time in a couple of weeks and it was so engrossing that I actually had to force myself to put it down and go to sleep. Endless thanks to romance authors who manage to write stories that allow me to escape in the hardest of times.
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Tim Walz’s son crying is making me cry, we talk a lot about proud parents but that is a kid proud of his dad and that’s really moving.
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Damn you Le Creuset for putting this in front of my eyeballs.
I don’t need it. I. Do. Not. Need. It.
But gosh do I want it.
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I find it very weird when someone sells their home and then can’t handle the new owners using their new home differently than the original owner did. Like you sold the home…? Please move on. Literally.
Barbarian invasion.
Exhibit A: The bookcases I built housing my book collection.
Exhibit B: How the new owners chose to use the space.
(I can never unsee this.)
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My husband found a pen at work that he really liked, remembered the brand, came home and asked me about it (I’d never heard of it and couldn’t recall using it) and then he ordered me some bc he thought I’d like them too. A real life romance hero.
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Saw a nonsense take about how the number of books read this year doesn’t matter if the genre is silly and whatever, take that self-loathing and yeet it into the sun. I read 200+ books this year, all of them romance or romance adjacent and I’m proud of my number. These books kept
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Please lord hear our prayers
Dev Patel on if he'd ever do a rom-com: "Wish I could do a ROM COM! I'm a romantic at heart".
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Am I the only person who never liked overdrive and always liked Libby?
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In 2024 people are still tweeting “hot takes” like romance novels don’t require a HEA but the key difference now is I’m no longer taking that bait. Plenty of people will drag her for that bullshit. I’m just gonna go and read my romance novel. Which always has a HEA.
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Once again, pleading with Hollywood to adapt Ms. Bev’s histroms, adapt Alyssa Cole, adapt Nalini Singh and Courtney Milan, adapt Katrina Jackson, adapt Mia Hopkins, adapt Rebekah Weatherspoon.
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I just really really want someone to adapt the romance novels I actually love into tv shows or movies. There are so many I love. So. Many. And yet.
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Hear me out but what if instead of adapting toxic abusive relationships masquerading as romance novels written by racist antivaxxers, someone adapted the Kleypas Mutiverse?
Matthew Goode as Tom Severin, anyone?
@theLindashow
@allieiswriting
@kaitybella
@suleikhasnyder
I feel like he would be excellent casting as Tom Severin if they ever adapted Kleypas.
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Many of you in romancelandia knew Melinda Utendorf. She was a dear friend to many and had been diagnosed with cancer a couple of years ago. She had not been well in recent months and passed away this morning. She was a very special person. To all who loved her, I’m so sorry. 💔
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If your romance genre book does not meet romance genre requirements, lord help you bc romance readers DO. NOT. FORGET. We read in high volume and are more than happy to discard anything that sells us a bill of a goods but then doesn't deliver on it.
Is subverting genre conventions really just code for “I want that romance $$ but I don’t actually want to be known as a romance novelist”?
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@AuthorEmmaBarry
Parminder Nagra also ended up as a ER regular and become one half of one of the best romances that show ever produced and it’s baffling to me that she didn’t go on and star in more films because she is just magnetic on screen.
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Just scrolled past a crap take implying Sandra Bullock is too old to be paired with Channing Tatum and that’s some next level ageist bullshit.
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The book is very much not a romance and yet this trailer has all the appearance of a fun lighthearted romcom so I’m gonna need verification they changed the ending from the book before I touch it.
Feel... everything.
#TheIdeaOfYou
, starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine, streams May 2nd.
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You know what I love? Grumpy, taciturn, awkward heroes who somehow wield masterclass level expertise when it comes to dirty talk. Like they save up all their words to wreck compete and utter havoc with their LI in the dirtiest and filthiest of ways. It’s just the best surprise.
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I finished my arc of The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce last night and I can say with complete sincerity that it’s one of the best contemporary romances I’ve read in a long long time and will absolutely be in my top reads of the year. It’s THAT good. Part of the reason I’ve been 1/
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While we’re all still here, what does reverse grumpy sunshine even mean??? How do you reverse that?? Grumpy sunshine is when 1 MC is a grump and the other 1 is a sunshine. How do you reverse that? Please explain.
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@kateclayborn
I mean the obvious one is “not five fucking minutes” and the “I’d let you stab a knife in my heart if it pleased you…” but this part also melts my heart.
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Another day, another author asking that readers back up their 3 ⭐️ or lower ratings with a review and look, most of us read FOR FUN. Stop making this into a homework assignment.
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I know all eyes are on the upcoming presidential election but there are 34 senate seats up for grabs (1 is a special election) plus the House and a president can only do so much without congressional backing. So if you live in a state that’s had enough of your Republican
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Ending with “let the fun begin” is a bold choice to announce you faked your own death. A BOLD CHOICE.
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Correlates directly with the line of thought that anyone can write a romance novel and that it doesn’t take effort or skill or isn’t a real craft. I still don’t get why there is so much derision towards stories of people kissing and falling in love and being joyful.
Julia Roberts say it's time to stop taking rom-coms for granted: "We didn’t appreciate the bumper crop of rom-coms we had [in the 1990s]. You don’t see all the effort because it’s fun and sweet and people are laughing and kissing and being mischievous.”
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Ok but seriously, who has $19 to spend on ONE book, especially romance readers who are typically high volume readers. Frankly, even at $7.99 for mmpb, back in the days I used to read on paper, I would be very thoughtful about what books I purchased vs. borrowing from the library.
Good morning! How do we get readers to bully publishers into bringing back mass market paperbacks and to keep them at a $7.99 price point? I picked up a trade paperback romance the other day and it was $18.99. That’s a $4 increase in recent years. That is insane.
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Seriously, where did all the sex go, in contemporary romance? Are books just being marketed for the purity enthusiasts on BookTok now?
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How do these two exude more chemistry in 8 seconds than certain actors in some rom coms do? Anyway, I will obviously be tuning in.
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Give me all your favorite romance novel sickbed caretaking scenes.
I’ll start: The Devil and the Heiress by Harper St. George features 2 MCs who get into a carriage accident and he carries her for miles in the rain to seek help and then helps nurse her back to health for weeks.
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If you’re gonna write a book that involves an entire suitcase full of sex toys and none of them ever get used in the book, what even is the point?
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Listen, I will die on the hill that romance novels require a HEA (or a HFN at the very least). But what happens when you’re reading a romance and all you want to do is yeet the MMC into the sun and wish the FMC found herself a partner more worthy?
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Always amazed when the MMC buys the FMC clothing and it’s somehow a perfect fit without him knowing anything about her body measurements beyond the fact that he mapped it in its entirety with his hands. And here is me, a 42 y.o. lady who still can’t figure out her pants size.
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Randomly found myself thinking of that woman who had written a Reddit post about how she’d bought herself gaming equipment with her own money and her husband was furious over how much she’d spent and then ultimately it was revealed that he was cheating on her. She updated to say
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This is genuinely fun and brilliant marketing and yes, I will absolutely be watching this movie.
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Just explained the Folgers coffee “you’re my present this year” commercial to my husband and he cringed just based on my description and asked how any executive signed off on that commercial. And then I made him watch it and he is APPALLED. And also can’t stop laughing.
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I know there was a lot of discourse about sex scenes before 60%, but if your MCs haven’t even met 60 pages into the book, I’d question whether the book was in fact a romance. It might be a book with a romantic subplot but that’s not necessarily the same as a romance novel.
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Thank you to all the authors coming out to defend THAT book, this makes it so much easier for me to know who to add to my NEVER EVER READ list.
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