Agreed. That show is A-MAH-zing. And Jane & Brad are my favorites, for sure.

Elle Kennedy is MUCH better than Jaci Burton. Jaci's stuff really lacks a central conflict, but she writes hot sex. I am so jealous that you get to start Elle's Out of Uniform series for the first time. Her last book was so f***ing good I am wishing away months of my life until the next in July. :) Also: Emma Holly's…

Amen!

I am the same way. If I mention an author I have read them all (or most, anyway) too. I mix historical and contemporary. And also more erotic. I don't do paranormal at all. My list (which overlaps so hugely with yours!):

I hear ya, but my story is a tiny bit different. 15 years ago (5 after I read my first romance novel) I was a magna cum laude English major at Harvard who wrote a feminist senior thesis on the divided self in the lyric poetry of Christina Rossetti and Emily Bronte —-all while reading romance in my spare time. The…

Amen!! So, what are your favorite books?

This is a fascinating point, one I had not considered. Thank you. And it also explains why I really didn't like one book from a favorite author- she refused to get into the male character's head until the last 20 pages and it was too little too late.

I hate people who dismiss romance novels as brainless anti-feminist shit. First of all, there are so many insanely good romance writers (Eloisa James, Susan Elizabeth Philips, Loretta Chase, Susan Andersen, Linda Howard, Julia Quinn, I could go on and on and on), many with decidedly academic and "high brow" resumes.…

I thought so. I hate gratuitous Fox bashing because it makes the legitimately horrible stuff they do all the time easier for other people to excuse as a liberal witchhunt....

I hate FoxNews as much as the next liberal, but let's be fair: the girl's name was said during the live video of the verdict/sentencing. I suppose we can blame Fox for not redacting it in this later broadcast, but that could have been oversight too, and they weren't the only ones: I certainly heard the girl's name in…

"Don't call me Jeezy Creezy! Look Dad, I went down there, I taught 'em to be hang out, be groovy, drink a bit of wine, they split into different groups!"

I think that headline is in the dictionary under "irony."

I loved that article and have posted it here and elsewhere. Well-written and SPOT ON. Thanks for sharing it again.

"It enrages me to no end the amount of bullshit that goes on in our justice system." Truer words were never spoken.

I made a similar point at Gawker on that solitary confinement post and got so much vitriol about how I was only sympathetic to murderers (not victims, because clearly sympathy is zero sum) and why didn't I just let them live in my home if I cared that much, and what a shitty human being I am for not seeing that…

Where would you have her meeting this "normal, non-famous, age-appropriate adult male"? I know I met my boyfriends in college (she's not in school), in a bar (I can't see her doing that, and good for her!), online dating (again, probably not an option for her) or through work (ding ding ding! which is where she is…

Seriously. And also: I don't think it's irrelevant it happened in India. There are likely significant cultural and socio-economic reasons that this violence against women is perpetrated there that need to be discussed/debated/understood, and hiding behind a sheen of political correctness does not help.

We have to take what we can get. Republicans lack empathy for anyone not like them. It's part of why they are Republicans. So the only way to get progress from them is to have an issue hit close to home. It's part of the reason gay marriage is at such a Gladwellian tipping point, as likely most conservatives know…

As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." So thrilled that our House Speaker apparently has the littlest mind of them all.

Really? You have more respect for someone unwilling in the face of new information to ever change an entrenched position than one who is willing to admit he is wrong and adapt? As RW Emerson said, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds..." don't make yours one of them.