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The China Bride (2000) by Mary Jo Putney

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

This post is spoilery if you’re like me and are about ten years behind in your reading. I’ve been pondering otherness in romance novels a lot since the RWAs. I have a project on the backburner that explores racial otherness, among other things, that had its genesis after I attended a reading by Beverly Jenkins. [...]

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Reading Like a Girl

Thursday, August 7, 2008

This post was inspired by a post by Sarah on Smart Bitches. The stereotypical romance reader is so easy to conjure that tongue-in-cheek blog posts and magazine articles don’t even bother to describe her. A woman lies, bathrobe-clad, on a couch in an untidy room with As The World Turns blaring in the background or [...]

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