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B Reviews / MangaJManga3 Comments
Title: My Darling Kitten Hair Story and Art: Haruko Kumota Publisher: JManga Genre: BL (Boys’ Love A.K.A. yaoi) Rating: M for Mature Length: 1 volume (168 pages) Dear Readers, I can’t deny it was the title that caught my attention. What on earth does My Darling Kitten Hair mean? I didn’t ... more >
B ReviewsCasual Gaming30 Comments
I was pruning my hard drive when I stumbled across a game labelled Matches and Matrimony: A Pride and Prejudice Tale. I somehow forgot I bought this game last year. Since I was in the mood for a game set in Jane Austen’s fictional universe, I was all for it. Even ... more >
A couple of months ago at a news site for mixed race readers, one commenter self-identified as an “Asian Cajun”, which got me remembering my journey of assumptions and corrections years ago as a romance reader. At the time a few years ago, a huge number of “Cajun romances” – ... more >
I’m a volunteer for a literature project that aims to list every novel with a specific theme or trope in a reference database, and I’m involved with two databases: ‘Deaf Characters in English-Language Literature’ and ‘Non-Caucasian Characters in British Literature’. When I joined the ‘Deaf Characters in Literature’ (DCIL) project ... more >
Interviewsinterview / steampunk22 Comments
Let's suppose I'm an innocent lamb that somehow ends up at your signing table in a bookshop. After winning me over with a dorky smile, how would you summarise Here There Be the Monsters (a novella from romance anthology Burning Up) and The Iron Duke? You know that times are ... more >
Letters of Opiniongenre critique / marketing47 Comments
I just had a debate with author Ann Somerville about book titles. I'd complained I found some of her book titles hard to memorise, such as Somatesthesia (book info at Samhain and a dictionary entry at Dictionary.com) and Interstitial (book info at Samhain and a dictionary entry at Merriam Webster). ... more >