What We’ve Been Thinking About

Essays & Musings

Thoughts on books, reading, culture, and the literary life.

Mary Ann Rivers talks about loss, change, and love

July 10, 2013

This week Mary Ann Rivers released her first published work, a moving novella entitled The Story Guy. Goodreads readers give it a 4.5. I thought it was almost perfect. I…

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Six questions for Delphine Dryden

June 5, 2013

Delphine Dryden’s The Seduction Hypothesis (The Science of Temptation series) is a funny, sexy erotic romance. In it, the absolutely adorable, quite nerdy hero, Ben is trying to get his…

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To baby or not to baby: that is the question

April 26, 2013

Warning: this piece has spoilers about three contemporary romances: Sabrina Darby’s Entry Level Mistress, Joan Kilby’s Maybe this Time, and Sarah Mayberry’s Suddenly You. Last month, I read a contemporary romance by…

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ABC’s Nashville: a contemporary romance on TV

March 22, 2013

If you like reading contemporary romance, I bet you’d enjoy watching Nashville. It’s got all the ingredients one often encounters in contemporary romance. There’s a strong woman torn between the love…

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