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#WhatchaReading ? I'm still sniffling after finishing Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender. Painful but beautifully tender and hopeful m/m romance that explores how abuse and trauma can negatively (romancelandia.club)

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Excellent full cast audiobook, which does justice to the partially epistolary "multimedia" structure. One of the narrators seems to be NB, though both main characters are apparently cis.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's got "fake dating" and "grumpy/sunshine" tropes and does so much more with them than I'm used to seeing.

Also, I forgot to mention that both characters are Black, and Hollywood actors.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@willaful @romancelandia @romancebooks My local bookclub just read “Attachments” by Rainbow Rowell. One of the most unromantic romances novels I have ever read. It’s got an interesting premise (IT guy falls for a colleague after reading all her emails that keep getting flagged) but the FMC had few redeeming qualities (literally a stalker who had a live-in boyfriend for most of the book) and it went off the rails.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@PamelaMcMuffin Awww, I'm sorry you didn't like it. It's a big favorite of mine. I like seeing people like my husband and friends in books and it doesn't happen that often. (Not stalkers! Geeks. ;-) ) @romancelandia @romancebooks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

@willaful @romancelandia @romancebooks I loved Lincoln, the MMC. I’m a Computer Engineer and I’m the only person in my book club who wasn’t calling him a loser. I was just hoping he’d end up with someone else. 😀

Beth (the FMC) completely lost me when she told her friend that she was partially at fault for her miscarriage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

@willaful @romancelandia @romancebooks really enjoyed the unconventional romance that was Stars in Your Eyes!! Glad you loved it too!

I'm reading nothing! Sad but true. Ah well.