All right, kittens! Friday Personal Ad time! Guess the heroine’s name, the title of the book and the author correctly, and you get to have your very own Smart Bitch title.
Love In the Time of Bubonic Plague
Beautiful single shiksa, into herbology and folk medicine, looking for hot, progressive Jewish doctor for intense clandestine love encounters. Ability to differentiate between me and my identical twin sister definitely a plus. We have to keep our liaisons secret, though--my father’s betrothed me to a goy.
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BED OF SPICES by Barbara Samuel? It’s the only one I could think that fits that blurb.
YES! WE HAVE A WINNAH!
Congratulations, Maili. Ohhh, we’ll have to pick a GOOD one for you, heh heh heh.
Oh, wait! Heroine’s name first.
I mean, you have to provide the heroine’s name as well.
God I’m so brain-dead today.
Eek!? Frederica aka Rica.
Please don’t ask me for her surname because I don’t remember at all. Unless—am I allowed to google? :>
Hey, if I can’t remember her last name, I guess I can’t make you remember it either. I want to say “Der Esslingen” but fuck if I know that’s right.
Anyway, coronation ceremony coming up in, ohhhh, 45 minutes or so.
According to google, you’re right. Almost. It’s “Frederica der Esslingen”. :>
Is A BED OF SPICES one of your favourite BS books?
Yes. That and Lucien’s Fall. I don’t normally go for the instant attraction, “ohhhh we are soulmates forever” sorts of books because it’s difficult to convince me that it’s more than just horniness, but these two books portray it really, really well. Barbara Samuel is a wonder.
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OTOH, I can’t tell whether she’d deliberately trying to make Beaufort Books look skanky with the OJ Simpson reference, or whether the circumstances under which the book was eventually published are well enough known that she wouldn’t need to clarify.…
From Flag on the Play
RfP, I agree that it doesn’t sound to me like she’s saying ‘all romances are mediocre’, she’s saying ‘this book is mediocre’. She even talks about a dynamic where a woman needs to be put in their places by a…
From Flag on the Play
I can’t believe I’m thinking of finding this. I read this when I was in junior high and loved it. I have a big place in my heart for the secret baby.
It’s not what he’s grasping that has me wondering; it’s what’s the matter with his hand. Is he the victim of medical experiments that grafted two hands into one, with a special deformity of his index finger? Oh, the poor,…
This sounds like she knows there’s a difference between bodice ripper and romance.
a second-rate bodice ripper or, rather, a second-rate bodice ripper-style romance (it doesn’t really have sex scenes)
She does qualify that it’s a second-rate one. It’s not…
From Flag on the Play
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