What are you reading October 30?

[Okie]

I'm starting this week with One by E. S. Carter.

[Stacey]

I read and loved The Fall Up on the weekend and now I'm reading Paper Fools. Paper Fools is interesting. It's a contemporary with a touch of mythology. Turns out that the Gods like to keep themselves amused by messing with humans lives.

[Janga]

I'm writing this week--guides to Austen's Emma, T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. My reading will be limited to evenings, but I hope to finish a reread of Elizabeth Bevarly's My Man Pendleton today and be ready to start Debbie Mason's Sugarplum Way tomorrow.

[Irisheyes]

I finished Bountiful by Sarina Bowen over the weekend. I really, really liked this book. What I liked most about it is the fact that the author never ventured into "Big Misunderstanding" territory or any other romance convention that she could have easily employed in this story. I can't wait for the next in the series. Not really sure who it is going to be about but there are so many great options... Benito, Alec, Kieran, Meg, Daphne, Dylan.

I just started Lauren Layne's Oxford series with Irresistibly Yours. I'm hoping to find another good series to jump into with a good cast of characters.

[Leigh-Ayn]

OMG THE DAY IS FINALLY HERE!!!!!!!!!!!! EJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Leigh-Ayn]

OK I am so silly! It was released yesterday ! so i am already a day behind!

[Dls]

I really loved Bountiful too. Two grownups figuring out how to deal with the twist life threw them and their feelings. No lack of communication. Good faith on both sides. And really charming.

However I’m halfway through Wilde in Love and really creeped out by the way the hero basically sexually harasses the heroine. Won’t stop touching her when she asks and when she is visibly disinterested. Comes to her room at night. It feeds all the myths that I think bolster sexual harassment and rape culture—no doesn’t meant no.

I’m obviously more aware of this because of all the Harvey Weinstein and other big cases recently. But I really don’t think most romances written recently do this. What on earth was she thinking?

He isn’t actually trying to make her have sex with him and he does stop physical activity before she does. Nevertheless it’s problematic.

[Stacey]

Dls wrote: "I really loved Bountiful too. Two grownups figuring out how to deal with the twist life threw them and their feelings. No lack of communication. Good faith on both sides. And really charming.

Howe..."

I haven't read this one yet but a few murmurs from fellow bloggers gave me that same impression. I'm holding off for a wee bit longer before I purchase. :-)

[Dls]

He does accept no more later in the book but still it’s not good. She should have never put in the persistent touching and it’s not necessary for the relationship she is trying to show. She could have made the bedroom visits at Willas invitation. Or at least with her explicit consent. It would have changed the relationship but that’s exactly the point.

[Dls]

Reading the latest Sheila Simonson. I hadn’t realized she has a new one out. This is another modern detective story but people who haven’t tried her historicals might like them.
Also for the first time I am trying a Nook free serial read. It’s a Navajo mystery by Anne Hillerman adding to her fathers series.