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triviareads · 7 months

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I am loving the combo of Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone. My mind auto corrects Christmas Notch to Christmas Crotch.

Can you recommend any similar books? A modern Hallmark movie with a few hard-core scenes?

So in terms of romance novels with Hallmark vibes, I admittedly don't read a lot of holiday themed romances, but I can rec some romance novels with small town vibes that are relatively low-conflict but still have good sex scenes.

There are a few Tessa Bailey books that fit the description. Her newer stuff feels overwhelmingly tame and very made-for-booktok (her next book has a hero who is a... washed up golf pro?), and some of her older stuff is a little bit too intense to be Hallmark-y (she has a series that feels Suicide Squad-inspired; a group ex-cons working on covert ops with cops, also, she wrote a lot of cop stuff back in the day). Here's what I'd recommend from her:

Fix Her Up: This will give you all the Hallmark cuteness of the brother's best friend trope set in a Long Island suburb. Georgie is a children's birthday party entertainer (clown) who's had a long-time crush on Travis, a former MLB player. They agree to fake date in order for her to be taken more seriously and so he can land a commentating gig. There's some great dirty talk in this one, and the very first sex scene ("does underwear count as over-the-clothes?") lives rent free in my head.

Unfortunately Yours: Here is my full review; Natalie is a big city girl returning to her Napa hometown, while August is an ex-soldier struggling to revive a late friend's winery. They agree to a marriage of convenience so they can both get start-up capital. The banter is great in this one, both of them give as good as they get. There's a loooot of foreplay in the build-up to piv stuff, and I personally feel that the culmination is a very emotional sex scene in the middle of a natural disaster. Outside.

Runaway Girl: Naomi is a runaway bride who takes a job coaching Jason's sister for her upcoming pageant. Naomi is an upper class debutante pageant girl while Jason is a grumpy rough-and-ready Special Forces diver so very opposites attract. It has one of my niche favorite tropes of a angsty goodbye sex scene where one of them is leaving AND YET they know deep in their bones she's getting knocked up tonight.

Other recs:

Heartless by Elsie Silver: She's a big city girl staying in a small town for the summer, and she gets roped into nanny-ing for the guy she accidentally dropped her (spare) panties in front of. He's a gruff, older rancher single dad who is initially Not Impressed, but they come around to one another. Also, the spare panties do make a return in a pretty surprising way for a small-town romance.

Forbidden Harmony by Elizabeth Kelly: Another good-girl/bad boy small town romance except with the less-than-Hallmark addition of Addison deciding to rebel against her good girl image by getting a tattoo... and multiple piercings from the hero lolol.

Try Victoria Wilder's Strutt's Peak series; it has small mountain resort town vibes and a pretty wide range in terms of content ranging from more Hallmark-y shenanigans to death threats and corporate drama. Also worth checking out Samanthe Beck— idk how much she fits the Hallmark vibe specifically but she knows how to write a great sex scene as far as contemporaries go.

#tessa bailey #elsie silver #elizabeth kelly #book recs #romance novels #contemporary romance #ask

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warandpeas · 1 month

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#4 koma #4 panel comic #cat #cats #comic #comic strip #comic strips #dark humor #elizabeth pich #funnies #funny #god #humor #jonathan kunz #Kelly #pray #prayer #praying #war and peas #Yonkoma

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silverview · 7 months

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#iasip #charlie kelly #charlie day #mary elizabeth ellis #the janitor always mops twice #happy fat guy friday! this moment is SO important to me #along with the bits where he's like uncomfortably cradling his tummy bc of the poison aughhhhh they did that for me #my gifs #cd #fc

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didanagy · 15 days

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005)

dir. joe wright

#pride and prejudice #pride and prejudice 2005 #jane austen #costume drama #period drama #perioddramaedit #perioddramagif #onlyperioddramas #perioddramasource #elizabeth bennet #fitzwilliam darcy #jane bennet #caroline bingley #keira knightley #matthew macfadyen #rosamund pike #kelly reilly #my gifs #mine

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out-of-body-xperience · 1 year

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Sabrina (1954)

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boleynecklace · 5 months

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Elizabeth (1998) dir. Shekhar Kapur

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stephaniesblogxx · 4 months

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theivorybilledwoodpecker · 11 months

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Over one year on from Dobbs, please remember the victims of abortion bans in America. These are just the ones that made it to the news:

Marlena Stell

Amanda Zurawski

Mylissa Farmer

The 10-year-old from Ohio

The 16-year-old from Florida

The 15-year-old from Florida

Nancy Davis

Elizabeth Weller

Anya Cook

Kelly Shannon

Jessica Bernardo

Kierstan Hogan

Taylor Edwards

Kylie Beaton

Gabriella Gonzalez

Samantha Casiano

Lauren Van Vleet

Austin Dennard

Lauren Miller

Jaci Statton

Kristina Cruickshank

Tara George

Kailee DeSpain

Deborah Dorbert

Mayron Hollis

Kristen Anya

Heather Maberry

Melissa Novak

Kayla Smith

Lauren Christensen

Beth Long

Anabely Lopes

Christina Zielke

Kaitlyn Joshua

Lauren Hall

Carmen Broesder

Jill Hartle

Brittany Vidrine

Jane Doe from Massachusetts, who had an ectopic pregnancy rupture because a pregnancy crisis center told her it was viable

The Jane Doe had an ectopic pregnancy rupture after an anti-abortion pregnancy center told her she had a normal pregnancy

Emily Doe, whose fetus had lungs that wouldn’t develop and had no kidneys. The pregnancy had the potential to endanger her health…but it wasn’t endangering it yet. So she had to flee Missouri for an abortion.

Victoria Doe from Louisiana, who had to go to Oregon

Ashley Brandt

Anna Zargarian

Reverend and Doctor Love Holt

Michelle Mitchenor

Brooke High

Ashley from Mississippi, who was raped and forced to give birth to her rapist's baby. She's 13.

Nicole Blackmon

Allie Phillips

Jennifer Adkins

When we do win back our right to bodily autonomy, forced birthers will forget these people. Some have absolutely no idea who these people are. But when you tell them you hope what they force on others gets forced on them, they gasp and say you're evil. Because they recognize that what they force on others is wrong, and they think they deserve better than their victims.

If you think the "abortion debate" is merely a difference of opinion, you haven't been paying attention.

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charliework16 · 11 months

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#charlie day #its always sunny in philadelphia #charlie kelly #iasip #iasip16 #mary elizabeth ellis #the waitress

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gatabella · 5 months

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"It's hard to describe what I consider beauty in woman consists of. None of the women I consider beautiful have perfect features. If there's one thing that moves me, it's when something unexpected happens in the face or the proportions. I do not think Grace Kelly is beautiful. I do think Audrey Hepburn is beautiful. The most beautiful woman I have ever photographed is Signora Gianni Agnelli. Long necks are always beautiful. Jackie Kennedy - very beautiful. The unexpected thing is the eyes - almost too far apart. Sophia Loren is one of the most beautiful women in the world today. Marilyn Monroe? Not the usual beautiful - merely ravishing, exciting, touching. But not really beautiful. She's a strawberry sundae… Ingrid! (among older women). Joan Crawford? She makes it difficult to see her beauty, but she has the most beautiful nose in the world. Marlene Dietrich? Beautiful, but in a dull way. Ditto Ginger Rogers. Among conventional beauties, I'd select Suzy Parker."

-photographer Richard Avedon

#grace kelly #marlene dietrich #brigitte bardot #marilyn monroe #audrey hepburn #elizabeth taylor #ginger rogers #ingrid bergman #jacqueline kennedy #marella agnelli #suzy parker #richard avedon #quote #old hollywood

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triviareads · 1 year

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This month was all about contemporary romances for me. I got some excellent ARCs like Tastes Like Shakkar by Nisha Sharma (which pleasantly surprised me; review forthcoming) and Tessa Bailey's Unfortunately Yours (here's my review). I read a rather entertaining novella called Hard Wood that put me in my lumberjack era for a hot second. There was another book that tried to sell me on a hero named "Martin" (tbh his cardinal sin was eating mangos off her vaj, which is only topped off in terribleness by eating tiramisu off someone's vagina— Enzo you monster, cages are not where I draw the line, but the tiramisu is). Also read Dana Islay's Rules We Break which had me pondering why it's so hard to find dommes in romance novels (and rarer still to find well-written ones). All in all, a good month, and here are my favorites:

Looking by Katrina Jackson

This was recommended to me by @monarchies-history after I was asked for a list of diverse contemporary romance recs. Darren and Nadia are a married couple with twins. They want to open their marriage and arrange to meet with Jourdan (sidenote: all the mcs are Black; Katrina really does the most for diverse romances), who is very into both of them right off the bat, and the feeling is mutual (there is a park trail sex scene lolol). What I loved most about Looking is that it's such a joyful book. The dialogue is funny and clever, the sex is very hot in all its configurations (Darren and Nadia get to know Jourdan separately before they all get together— it's actually kinda "slowburn" in that sense; each of them gets their own POV section), and the three of them are just so happy to be together, you can't help but smile.

Serving Pleasure by Alisha Rai

@jeanvanjer was trying to get me to read Glutton for Pleasure for the longest time (which I did, and it was good; another throuple book), but I latched onto Serving Pleasure more, not only because I enjoyed the way the sex was written more, but also because the emotions REALLY got to me. It's also a pretty unhinged premise: The hero Micah is a recluse and an artist, and Rana lives across the street from him and like... constantly watches him, and even follows (stalks?) him at some point. Lucky for her he's very into it, even jerking off purposely at his window (out of spite, but then he stops midway out of guilt lolol). He asks her to pose for him and they began a no strings-attached fling.

Also, I really liked Rana's characterization: she's perceived as a "party girl" with no serious ambition compared to her sisters so she has to grapple with her self-perception vs. what outsides see, which was really quite novel for me to read in a South Asian heroine.

Compromised in Paradise by Samanthe Beck

This book is fun, light, and quite literally a beach read since it's set in a resort in Hawaii. Arden is a stressed-out heiress looking for a fling, but when the hero Nick catches her faking her orgasm, he decides to give her orgasm lessons. Like, what a saint amirite? With a premise like this, it can go a lot of ways but I appreciate Nick's dedication to centering their sex lessons around her and her orgasm, and then it took an unexpected but welcomed turn towards the end with the rare contemporary romance anal sex.

This book also made me read like three of Samanthe's other books on one shot, and they're all full of great banter and solid dirty talk. Would absolutely recommend this book, this series (called "Compromise Me" which should totally be the name of an HR series), and this author overall.

Salt in the Wound by Sierra Simone

Sierra Simone is back at it, y'all. Salt in the Wound is the (free!) prequel to Salt Kiss, which is coming out this fall. It's set in the same universe as the New Camelot series and Sierra's criminally underrated Sherwood (ft. female!Robin Hood/Maid Marian/Sheriff of Nottingham with a side of a hushed mention of bogeyman Mark Trevena). It centers around how Isolde gets engaged to Mark Trevena, former assassin, current BDSM club owner, and Man Who Never Stops Telling You He's A Bad Bad Man. Isolde wants to be a nun (she also learns martial arts at a nun dojo), but is put in a position where she needs to learn how to fake being Mark's sub in public. Cue kink lessons, and as it turns out she's very into it, and Mark is SHOOK (the way he flees at the end because he can't handle Feelings and masks it with a show of "I'm sooooo Bad you should have expected me to be a bitch about this"..... bravo. Couldn't have set up Salt Kiss better).

My favorite thing about Sierra's characters is just the level of zeal they have... for religion, for sex, for power, and this short story is no different. I am eagerly awaiting the Lyonesse Trilogy.

You Can Follow Me by Jo Brenner

This book was shilled in both Sierra Simone and Mila Finelli's newsletters in a span of a week so I knew I had to give it a shot. Another wild premise: Kara hooked up separately with three SEALs who were actually lovers (two of the three did *not* happen upon her by accident...) and now Circumstances lead to them kidnapping her and holding her captive. Listen, I fully admit I came here for the sex (fun sex, angry sex, manipulative sex, spite-because-she-won't-sleep-with-you-so-you-fuck-your-bros-in-front-of-her sex... you get the picture) but I stayed for the *journey* ok. Specifically how Kara deals with this insane loss of freedom even as she wants to jump all of their bones, and starts to catch Feelings.

Scorching to the Touch by Ofelia Martinez

Another excellent recommendation by Sierra Simone, this one is a somewhat toxic (until it isn't!) romance between a telenovela star (and she's plus sized) and a rockstar. Listen, sometimes all you want to do is read a romance with two hot people who know they're hot shit and also deeply messy individuals. Revenge oral 4% of the way into the book? Check. Stalking Tracking each other long after they've broken up? Check. Breaking up each other's engagements? Check. Him crying on his knees because he bruised her during sex even if it's probably him overreacting? Check. Obsession-induced erectile dysfunction? Check. It's fabulous. Would recommend.

Forbidden Harmony by Elizabeth Kelly

I feel like this post sums up the plot of this one excellently; In addition, I know Elizabeth is writing a series with exclusively older couples which I might try soon.

#trivia's book round-up #contemporary romance #katrina jackson #alisha rai #samanthe beck #sierra simone #jo brenner #ofelia martinez #elizabeth kelly #book recs

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freedom-apparatus · 3 months

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Green Creek Short Stories

For anyone that's new to Green Creek or just didn't know, there's three short story companions to the series on TJ Klune's blog! Please mind the spoilers :)

Lovesong: Comes after Wolfsong and Ravensong. Spoilers for both.

Feralsong: Comes after Wolfsong, Ravensong, and Heartsong. Spoilers for all three.

Lovesong II: Comes after Wolfsong, Ravensong, and Heartsong. Spoilers for all three.

Just wanted to spread the love. You may cry.

#green creek series #Wolfsong #Ravensong #Heartsong #Spoilers #short stories #carter bennett #kelly bennett #Joe Bennett #elizabeth bennett

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superstarbarbie1977 · 1 year

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