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luciehercndale · 4 months

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2023 books - happy place by emily henry

It doesn't matter how busy life's been, how long the five of us have gone without seeing one another: meeting at the cottage is like pulling on a favourite sweatshirt, worn to perfection. Time doesn't move the same way when we're there. Things change, but we stretch and grow and make room for one another. Our love is a place we can always come back to, and it will be waiting, the same as it ever was.

You belong here.

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hussyknee · 7 months

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The Career-driven Emancipated Woman Can Barely Boil Water trope is extremely sexist and white feminist. I've been waiting thirty years for feminism to move past this classist girlboss bullshit and I'm clean out of patience. Even aside from the gross devaluing of traditional female labour, grown-ass adults should be able to feed themselves and their families regardless of gender. If you're abled and have had the resources to learn basic life skills but you've elected not to because you think you can always pay people to take care of your ass, you're a privileged nitwit who's trying to weaponize incompetence.

#sorry not sorry #generations of women have not worked themselves to the bone to keep your ungrateful asses alive #for you to wear being an incompetent adult-toddler as a badge of honour #cooking cleaning and laundering aren't rocket science #girlboss feminism needs to be killed with fire #writing #tropes #feminism #internalized misogyny #chick lit #romance #strong female characters have done untold damage to intersectional feminism #knee of huss #classism #white feminism

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ginasdiary · 1 month

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Lana Del Rey vibes | dark feminine aesthetic 💋

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lizardgoats · 7 months

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She was an articulator of the post-sixties bohemian bad girl. Not a hippie but a kind of art thug. Kathy [Acker] was the girl who knew she had something to say that mattered, who loved sex and music and refused to be obedient. Later cultural movements like punk girls, riot grrrls, rockers, goths, and even, weirdly, the deadly chick lit, can trace their origins to the territory she pioneered and the devoted followings she inspired in her day.

The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, by Sarah Schulman

#the gentrification of the mind #sarah schulman #kathy acker #punk #riot grrrls #goth #chick lit

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oscarwetnwilde · 1 year

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James Wilby & gay roles.

#James Wilby #This took me all day to make #James McCready #Maurice Hall #Milord Runbiff #Siegfried Sassoon #Geoffrey #Julian Rowan #Alfred Redl #Trial And Retribution #Maurice #The Siege In Venice #Regeneration #Chick Lit #Clapham Junction #A Patriot For Me

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desdasiwrites · 2 months

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– Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

#book quote of the day #mariana zapata #from lukov with love #sports romance #na books #chick lit #Jasmine Santos #Ivan Lukov #figure skating #standalones

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a-skirmish-of-wit-and-lit · 10 months

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Book Review: Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

Forgive me for starting with a physics pun about a physicist romance, but this was Big Bang-ing cute!

While Hazelwood does serve up a couple familiar tropes from her previous STEM works, she subverts them in fresh and entertaining ways, making it so she's able to strike a delicate balance between navigating academic politics, fake dating shenanigans, and rivals falling in love. There's something about that combination - and the manner in which it's applied here - which gives the story moments of real gravity as well as moments of quirky acceleration.

Like I said, it's a good balance. Makes for a fun, tender, science-filled escape which pins a theoretical physicist against an experimental physicist in more ways than one...😏

The premise is simple yet catching: Elsie Hannaway is a woman who's living a double life. To most, she's an adjunct professor hoping to land tenure somewhere so she can finally afford health insurance, which she needs as a Type 1 diabetic. To others, thanks to her people pleasing expertise, she's a freelancing fake girlfriend who chameleons her personality into whatever a client wants or needs, a job she takes to make extra money so she can pay her bills. (Academia ain't paying much, folks!)

Things start to look up when she gets an interview at MIT for her dream job.

However, as to be expected, things don't run smoothly. Elsie faces an obstacle. A big, tall, muscle-y one named Jack Smith, who not only happens to be an experimentalist who has undermined theorists everywhere, but is also the older brother of her favorite client. Ruh-roh!

Lets just say it makes for quite the nuclear fission!

Anyway, what starts out between them as rivalry, as academic sabotage, soon devolves into something more atomic and quantum, with Jack being able to pierce through to the nucleus of who Elsie is and becoming someone who can give her a safe space to be her authentic self. In a similar vein, she helps him to take accountability for some of his past actions and behaviors, which is long overdue. It makes for a lovely give and take. Not to mention lots of dynamism in terms of growth, characterization, and plot.

As a couple, Jack and Elsie were adorable. I liked how they were a grounding influence for one another as well as an impetus for positive change at times. They kept the smiles coming and those electrons firing! My only complaint is I found some of the steamy scenes between them to be awkward. However, that may be more a matter of preference than anything because I had a similar sentiment when I read The Love Hypothesis.

On the whole, though: RADIOACTIVE WITH CUTENESS!

A big thank you to NetGalley and Berkley for the ARC in exchange for my review.

4/5 stars

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#ashlee bree's book reviews #love theoretically #ali hazelwood #contemporary #contemporary romance #romance #chick lit #recs: ashlee approved!#read january 2023 #coming june 2023 #bookblr #booklr #book reviews

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chicklit-aesthetics · 2 years

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#chick lit #chick lit aesthetics #aesthetics #autumn #plaid #flannel #fall

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enchanted-moura · 8 months

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The house, like Amba, smelt wonderfully erotic. And though it was classically decorated, there were occasional touches of flamboyance – an elaborate hookah pipe here, a Chinese opium bed there. Beautiful music was playing softly in every room they walked through.

It seemed to Edward like his own private cave, and he felt his senses heighten as the anticipation grew to unbearable levels. He could smell Amba everywhere. The total effect on him was a powerful aphrodisiac - Infidelity, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson

#fiction #chick lit #femme fatale #serpentine #perfume #seductress

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indynerdgirl · 10 months

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Stuff Your eReader Day!

If you have an ereader and enjoy romance novels, then mark your calendar for tomorrow, June 30th! 😄 Over 1,000+ free ebooks for platforms such as Amazon Kindle, Kobo, B&N Nook, and Google (some of the books are already free today!). Plus you don't have to sign up for any kind of newsletter or anything like that. These are all no strings attached!

#stuff your ereader day #stuff your kindle day #stuff your kobo day #stuff your nook day #free ebooks #ebooks #romance novels #kindle unlilmited #amazon ku #free romance novels #chick lit #contemporary romance #romance books #paranormal romance #urban fantasy #romantic comedy #rom com books #historical romance

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babes-and-books · 2 months

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She's retreated to her book-cave

#books and reading #girl reading #warm and cozy #chick lit #reading #books #books and libraries

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blurryantu · 1 year

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Categories within youth literature

From the booktok hype, many terms arose like enemies to lovers, grumpy x sunshine.

If you are new to the world of reading, it is possible that you do not know these aspects and if you have been around for a while, you probably know them but do not understand them very well or do not know how to identify them.

In this post I will be identifying each one of these categories, I will explain what they are about and I will also give you some examples of each one.

Dark Academia

Enemies to lovers

Friends to lovers

Chick lit

Epic fantasy

Forbbiden love

Fan-fiction

Flashback

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archivenroses · 2 years

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“She’s All That” (1999)

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rockislandadultreads · 1 year

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STEM Romances: A reading list

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project - a literal dream come true - Marie would accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward. Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school - archenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away. But when her equipment starts to go missing and the staff ignore her, Bee could swear she sees Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas... devouring her with those eyes. The possibilities have all her neurons firing. But when it comes time to actually make a move and put her heart on the line, there's only one question that matters: What will Bee Königswasser do?

The Hookup Plan by Farrah Rochon

Successful pediatric surgeon London Kelley just needs to find some balance and de-stress. According to her friends Samiah and Taylor, what London really needs is a casual hookup. A night of fun with no strings. But no one—least of all London—expected it to go down at her high school reunion with Drew Sullivan, millionaire, owner of delicious abs, and oh yes, her archnemesis. Now London is certain the road to hell is paved with good sex. Because she’s found out the real reason Drew’s back in Austin: to decide whether her beloved hospital remains open. Worse, Drew is doing everything he can to show her that he’s a decent guy who actually cares. But London’s not falling for it. Because while sleeping with the enemy is one thing, falling for him is definitely not part of the plan.

My Mechanical Romance by Alexene Farol Follmuth

Bel would rather die than think about the future. College apps? You’re funny. Extracurriculars? Not a chance. But when she accidentally reveals a talent for engineering at school, she’s basically forced into joining the robotics club. Even worse? All the boys ignore Bel—and Neelam, the only other girl on the team, doesn't seem to like her either. Enter Mateo Luna, captain of the club, who recognizes Bel as a potential asset—until they start butting heads. Bel doesn’t care about Nationals, while Teo cares too much. But as the nights of after-school work grow longer and longer, Bel and Teo realize they've made more than just a combat-ready robot for the championship: they’ve made each other and the team better. Because girls do belong in STEM.

Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner

When Cassie Klein goes to an off-campus bar to escape her school’s Family Weekend, she isn’t looking for a hookup—it just happens. Buying a drink for a stranger turns into what should be an uncomplicated, amazing one-night stand. But then the next morning rolls around and her friend drags her along to meet her mom—the hot, older woman Cassie slept with. Erin Bennett came to Family Weekend to get closer to her daughter, not have a one-night stand with a college senior. In her defense, she hadn’t known Cassie was a student when they'd met. To make things worse, Erin’s daughter brings Cassie to breakfast the next morning. And despite Erin's better judgement—how could sleeping with your daughter’s friend be anything but bad?—she and Cassie get along in the day just as well as they did last night. What should have been a one-time fling quickly proves impossible to ignore, and soon Cassie and Erin are sneaking around. Worst of all, they start to realize they have something real. But is being honest about the love between them worth the cost?

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humnooshop · 4 months

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Emily Henry Book Club

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#emily henry #bookish #chick lit #booklr #romance books #beach read #happy place #book lovers #bookblr #people we meet on vacation #booktok #book tumblr #book things #book club #bookworm

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desdasiwrites · 1 year

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– Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

#book quote of the day #lucy score #things we never got over #knockemout #runaway bride #chick lit #romance novels #contemporary fiction #new books #identical twins #book quotes

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