I get where you're coming from. The whole thing with Randall isn't at all something I gave any thought to until, well, now. Which of course doesn't mean it's not a valid point, and I think when put that way it is a very valid critique of the first book. I don't know when you read them, but I read them probably around…

I'm glad to hear it, I just hope you'll like it better the second time around.

I'm also really excited to see how he pulls off the two Randalls, based on his work in Rome and in GoT. Sam Heughan (Jamie) I've never seen, so time will tell!

I mostly agree with you. I first read it as a teenager with zero sexual experience other than with myself (:p) but the beating/spanking scene also came off for me as Jamie not having much of a choice in the matter. Her reaction to it afterward seemed to me rather sufficient, with perhaps the exception that she…

Jamie's flaws are put on the forefront a bit more in the following books, I find. Especially as he ages and becomes a bit less flexible cognitively and psychologically speaking. But it's true that in the first books, his major flaws are basically that he's pig-headed, possessive and tone-deaf. That's pretty much it.…

I can't believe people are really putting it in the romance category either. It's...just not! How many books have a well-developed love story and yet are not romances either? To me it's primarily historical, and if you read it that way I think some of what people find problematic goes down better. You can't really…

Yeah, she has also been "attacked" or at least criticized by romance authors and fans for not writing proper romance or whatnot. But it's just not romance strictly speaking, it's more of a historical novel with sci-fi/fantasy and romance elements to it.

Fair enough! First off, I'll admit to having a serious case of rose-coloured glasses regarding this series, as I read it in my mid-teens, as an avid reader of historical novels as well, and a teenager in search of good "feels/sex" material. I'm more than ready to admit it does have certain flaws, which I'm personally…

Fellow Canuck here. Apparently it will be on Showcase.

I'm a huge Outlander fan myself, but you're more than entitled to your own opinion, so I won't pile on any shit.

Not much to do with the "antiquated trash", but if you're doing the whole dinner reception thing, start the fun/music/dancing early, even between courses. We did that, and people really enjoyed themselves and to this day are still telling us about how much fun they had (although I do realize they might just be saying…

My mom always gets us a bunch of socks each xmas. It used to be regular socks with various patterns, these past years she's taken to getting us really good woolen socks. It's probably the one thing I couldn't stand not getting for xmas!

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Richelieu by Kanuk, 3/4 length parka (slightly adjusted) with hood and optional fur trimming. Mine was regular price 695$, but I got it 40% off for about 450$. Adding a fur trimming made it come to almost full price. They have a sale…

I second you on Soia & Kyo! I live in Montreal, and last year I wore mine all through the winter, including -30C, and it was fine. It's more of a "city coat" in the sense that I wouldn't consider it warm enough to, say, walk around for 2h. It's more for daily activities like getting to and from work, but it is really…

Same here, one seems almost suspicious of it and just avoids it, while the other one just really likes to rub against the lower branches. It gets needles all over, but that's much less annoying than broken ornaments or hearing a crash in the middle of the night. Major relief! :)
Ours is a natural tree, and honestly I…

Thanks :) It was mostly green and ivory with some plum/aubergine accents. Light pink eventually creeped in, since finding flowers in plum is a bit more limiting (and to top it off my florist received the wrong variety of rose in the wrong colour so she had to improvise) and also my shoes ended up being pink.

Our colours were shades of green, plum and ivory. I browsed a few magazines and pictures and then knowing the time of the year and the general vibe of the event, it took us about 5 minutes to choose...and we ended up choosing colours almost identical to our bedroom colours, so apparently we just both gravitate towards…

There are many many comments on the still tiny risk of a thrombotic event and the usefulness of NuvaRing for a lot of women, so I won't repeat it here.
However, to answer Vanity Fair's title question...Of course, to assume it has nothing to do with financial reasons would be naive. However, that is far from the only…

Does your capacity as a researcher mean you know what the risk, prevalence and incidence of thrombotic events in young women are? They are really really low (certainly not 10% or 25%). Even doubling the risk, it stays so low that for the vast majority of women it would never come up as an issue.
While I can agree that…

Yeah, I really love that in the *anecdote* reported, they're pretty much inferring that it must have been NuvaRing because of an offhand comment from the physician. Which, because *every HBC pill comes with a higher risk for thrombosis*, probably meant more that he wasn't surprised she was taking HBC, not that he…