Not even with someone else’s boobs. Nope, no thank you, get thee behind me, Satan.

She’s auto-buy for me now. I think you will like her work if you like James & Kleypas. I have laughed out loud in bars while reading her stuff. LOUD. LAUGHING. Her work has a great sense of humor.

Seconding this call - and it’s Carrie who does most of the sci-fi themed reviews, if I remember right. You should be able to search the site by reviewer, right?

10/10 would read that article, if you write it.

LOVE both of those authors. Thoughts on Courtney Milan? She was my gateway author for Regency-ish novels.

Find one that has elements of your preferred genre! That’s how I got into romance :) Some of my recommendations for sci-fi/fantasy/romance crossovers:

Did you mean to respond to me?

Agreed!

Doctoral students (and profs!) need brain breaks, too. A dear friend of mine, who is one of the smartest people I know and a professor at another university, watches all of the Real Housewives shows obsessively. We both listen to a podcast about it called Bitch Sesh - it’s done by two of the women behind Hulu’s…

HOLY CRAP BATMAN. It was AWFUL. I made it maybe 15 seconds in.

Exactly. Right now, for example, you can watch all of Party Down with a Hulu Plus subscription, but you can’t watch Black Sails. A year from now, that could be reversed, or you could have one season of the latter and none of the former, or something else entirely. I am finding that most of my content needs are pretty…

Please let this be an early April Fool’s Day joke, or the second round of that Jessica Lowndes person’s promos for her terrible album.

SERIOUSLY. Companies, stop putting the interns and newbies in charge of your social media! They aren’t prepared to embody your organizational message in such a public arena! Grr....

Y’all, I’m not going to lie. He and his band are coming stupidly close to me on tour, and I was half convinced that I would go see them, because of some lingering pants-feelings for Kiefer here. Watching this, though, nope. He could be doing some great alt-country stuff in the vein of Justin Townes Earle and Jason…

Which is amazing, given that members of the party frequently call it the party of personal responsibility. Argh.

I really wish I could wear warm, woodsy scents. I keep trying samples, but they just never smell right. I think I am doomed to wear primarily white florals. Curse ye, body chemistry!

This proves my theory that Axe is actually pepper spray, and no one should actually wear it on their bodies.

This is exactly the problem with reading level measures (which literacy, accessibility, and usability experts have been pointing out for years). Trump’s language is fucking nonsense: it’s nearly impossible to parse out any meaning from it. Still, Flesch-Kincaid puts it at a 7th-grade reading level. Just because…

I held off on watching this all weekend long, because my husband was away. All he wanted for the last horrible month was to sprawl on the couch and watch this movie like he watched the show when he was a kid. It would have felt like a betrayal to watch it without him. Happily, we’re getting to watch it tonight!

Nah, he’s pretty predictable. Just pick the worst/most obnoxious thing he could possibly say, and you’ve got it. You picking up on his pattern is just smart.