Our managing editor Camryn Johnson shares her thoughts on the romance genre this Valentine’s Day.
Tag: romance
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Bad Dates, Painful Humor, and Genuine Connection: An Ode to Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
Editor in Chief Rylee Thomas reflects on love and relationships during this Valentine’s season with her reading of Dolly Alderton’s “Everything I Know About Love.”
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A Figure Skater On Figure Skating Stories: Reviewing “From Lukov With Love”
Read on to know what Rylee Thomas, a real-life figure skater, thinks of “From Lukov with Love,” Mariana Zapata’s bestselling figure skating romance novel (hint: there’s a lot of gushing involved)…
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Dream Me The World: A Review Of “The Raven Cycle” By Maggie Stiefvater
If you’re looking for a dreamy, atmospheric contemporary fantasy series, Rylee Thomas cannot recommend Maggie Stiefvater’s “The Raven Cycle” highly enough
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Romance Novels: A Safe Space For Female Representation
Rylee Thomas passionately defends romance novels as a place for positive representation and female joy…
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Romance on the Upswing: Chick-lit is making a comeback
If you keep up with the world of commercial fiction, you may have noticed that the genre of the rom-com is making a bit of a comeback, in more ways than one. Romance was one of the most popular genres in literature in the 2000s, with big names such as…
*—Top 10 Romantic Movie Lines for an Awful Poem—*
Each verse gets worse– a last-ditch effort to disseminate some quality teen angst before Valentine’s Month is over: I want you to draw me like one of your French girls But I am nobody’s little weasel. They say bread is life. And I bake bread, bread, bread….