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There’s a carcass composed entirely of sexual tension lying abandoned on the couch. I wonder if she can see it, too.

Dirty Rowdy Thing (Wild Seasons Book 2) by Christina Lauren

Dark Wild Night (Wild Seasons Book 3) by Christina Lauren

July 21, 2026 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

CBR 18 Bingo: Repair and Success Dirty Rowdy Thing (Wild Seasons Book 2) by Christina Lauren 3 stars I’m woman enough to admit that I’m completely obsessed with his forearms. They’re roped, thick, every single muscle defined. I want to see him haul a big net onto the deck of his ship. God, he would make majestic fisherman porn. ― Christina Lauren, Dirty Rowdy Thing Book two of the Wild Seasons series picks up shortly after the end of book one, in which Mia and […]

Just Because a Famous Guy Wrote It. . .

Peter the Great’s African: Experiments in Prose by Alexander Pushkin

September 2, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

cbr15 bingo Europe When I saw Pushkin’s name on this, it was very familiar of course, but I couldn’t remember reading anything by him. Come to find out, he may be the Father of Russian Literature, but he’s a poet, and I mostly do novels. But the familiar feeling I was getting was because he was also the go-to source for the Russian romantic composers, a genre I have always loved. Ruslan and Lyudmila? Overture by Glinka. Eugene Onegin? An opera by Tchaikovsky, best known […]

When reading replaces all of your plans for the weekend

The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

January 18, 2020 by TheShitWizard Leave a Comment

I picked up The Family Upstairs one morning intending to read a few pages to see what it was like. I put it back down again 200 pages later only to go to sleep, and the carried on in the same fashion the next day. Libby has just turned 25 and has inherited a house in Chelsea from the family she never knew – as a baby she’d been found in a crib with the bodies of her birth parents and another adult apparently dead […]

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