Smart Bitches Trashy Books | All of the romance, none of the bullshit.

Today is a super busy day in my world (Freebird is 3?! How the CRAP did that happen!?) but I still manage to grab 10 minutes at the laptop.

I noticed that I’m very much a mood swing reader, in that I’ll glom onto a particular type of romance, then turn radically in a different direction. For awhile, I’ve been feasting on contemporaries: novellas, suspense mysteries, humorous, but straight up contemporary. Now? Historical?! YUMMY. I deviated from the line up of the TBR pile (for which I am giving myself a very hard time) and taking a side route through an angsty historical I picked up idly one evening and believe I have been sucked into.

Speaking of, let me ask you a question: do you want to know what I’m reading right now? Like, if I’m reading Angsty Historical that jumps forward and back in time, and I’m not sure what I’m thinking of it or how I’d evaluate it since I’m still Getting Into It, do you want to know what it is? Until now I’ve felt like naming book titles when I’m not sure what I think of them yet is somehow rude or teasing, and I don’t want to be a book tease. But hey, if you want to know, I’ll mention things as I read them.

Of course, if I’m reading a file I’ve emailed to the Kindle, until I look up the sent mail file I might only be able to say that I’m reading NC_Oc_R.PDF and no, I have NO IDEA what the hell that is. It’s like blind taste testing on the Kindle sometimes, because with some e-ARCs that I have, the title/author info doesn’t appear at the top of the screen.

I’m not usually big into angsty historicals, but it’s a foggy, rainy day here, and I’m tucked into the sofa cushions reading until nap time ends, and chaos descends, so it’s fabulous.

It’s probably happened to you, if you’re an author, yeah? You gave a booksigning and no one was there?

Happened to Sherry Jones, author of The Jewel of Medina, too. Not even multi-national controversy and the threat of terrorism can get readers to a bookstore in the rain. 

From today’s Publisher’s Lunch:

Big Library Cuts in Philadelphia
As municipalities across the country face large gaps in their budget, Philadelphia is taking “drastic new steps” to face the “economic storm” that include closing 11 of the 54 branch libraries that comprise the Free Library of Philadelphia. Three other branches will have Sunday hours eliminated. Mayor Michael Nutter said the branches were chosen “after careful review of building conditions, utilization and distance to other libraries in the Free Library system.” Cutting 220 jobs throughout the city government, approximately one third of those layoffs will come from the library staff.

That fucking sucks for fucking hard I’m having a difficult time coming up with a response more nuanced and apt than: “Oh, FUCK that.”

Jill Sorenson had a hell of a time picking the winners of her ARC. Not only are you guys well read, but you have a huge discography of musical knowledge, too.

Jill says:

It was a lot of fun to read the comments and suggestions.  Ah, the bitchery is wise.

It was so hard to pick the winners!  Some of the ideas were very close to ones I’d already suggested to my editor (Fall Into Me).  And others made me laugh out loud (Pounce On Me, It’s My Wildlife).  But I picked these:

Missy Ann COVER ME
Alyc LAY ME DOWN
Kim Boler I FALL TO PIECES
maris_32 INTO THE WILD
Inez Kelley HUNGRY EYES, TAKE ON ME

Congrats to the winners! You can with your contact info to get your delicious, shiny ARC. Thanks for playing!

If you’re tired of the political wonkage, skip the video below the fold, which is so full of dry sarcasm that I snorted a whole mess of times. If you’re in the mood for silly: enjoy this one.