#backlist book

[togetherasap]

the serotonin released after reading any ali hazelwood book is unparalleled

[the-forest-library]

Beat the Backlist Challenge 2024

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

I'm the anon who has sent the ask about the majority of the votes being "no" and because some people in the comments seem offended by it I want to clarify that I too read about 50 books per year and many of them are usually classics and I have voted "no" or "haven't heard of it" for the majority of the polls as well! It's really just the "so many books so little time" phenomenon at play but out of context the polls just look like nobody on here has ever read a book and it's the IRONY that's so funny to me (because the target audience of this blog is avid readers who probably read a lot more than people who don't follow this blog)

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[mermaidsirennikita]

trying desperately to listen to a new author versus another S.M. LaViolette audiobook

especially since I am in fact putting off an ARC I need to read (and am very excited about!) in order to eyeball read His Valet, which is, uh, SCORCHING

[thebacklistbook]

Backlist Book Awards 2024 What is it? The Backlist Book Awards are for people to nominate all their favorite books to be recognized and celebrated. once the list is compiled then the vote gets started. Voting is open all over the world. The only rule for nominating is that books cannot be new releases. any books from last year and older are fair game. Nominating period The nomination window will open on May 15th and will close on July 15th. That means two whole months to organize your thoughts and decide what awards suits your favorite books.  Please include book and series titles, as well as author information for all entries. For the two character based categories please add the names of the specific characters being nominated. 

Click here for the category guide.

Click here to nominate.

Voting Period The Voting window will be from August 1st through 15th. Voting can be accessed here: Vote Now. via Blogger https://ift.tt/fWhJeAi May 13, 2024 at 01:24PM

[a-ramblinrose]

JOMP BPC || January 1 || Reading Goals:

To slow down. The last few years I've noticed that I was paying more attention to number goals and aesthetic books stacks at the end of every month instead having fun with fiction or learning something from nonfiction. I wasn't sitting in wonder with poetry or lingering on comic art. I want my reading to be about the books, the story, the words painting their pictures in my imagination! Reading is joy and it's time I remembered that!

[ebookporn]

RALPH DENNIS: THE LOST 'HARDMAN' CLASSICS

On Rescuing a Classic Crime Series from Paperback Obscurity

by  LEE GOLDBERG

My expensive, life-changing addiction began six years ago when a man approached me in a nameless hotel in a city I don’t remember.

“You’re really going love this,” Bill Crider said, almost in a whisper. “And I’m not going to let you leave here until you buy it.”

We were standing in front of a used bookseller’s table at a writer’s conference. I looked down and saw that Bill was holding a yellowed, brittle paperback out to me. It was entitled Hardman #1, The Charleston Knife is Back in Town by Ralph Dennis. The slug line across the top of the cover read “Brace yourself for broads, bullets, and bare-fisted action!”

It was obvious from the numbered title that it was one of those cheap, men’s action adventure paperbacks, a genre I knew well, having written, under the pseudonym “Ian Ludlow,” a series called .357 Vigilante in the mid-1980s for the same publisher that released this book. While there were some gems in the genre, most of them were hack work, badly written excuses for explicit sex and graphic violence that were sold in grocery store spinner racks nationwide. And a book called “Hardman”—wink, wink, nudge nudge—promised to be among the worst of them.

Bill must have seen the skepticism on my face so he smiled and said, “Trust me. You won’t regret it.”

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[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2023: PNIN by Vladimir Nabokov.

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Princess and the Fangirl

YA contemporary prince & the pauper set at a convention

follows a fan who wants to save her fave character from being killed off, and the actress playing her who’s desperate to be free of the intense franchise

when they’re mistaken for each other they instantly hate each other - but after a script is leaked, they swap places to try solve each of their problems - and start to see the fandom from the each other’s perspective

light (since they know each other for like 2 days) f/f & m/f

this is so deeply mid-2010s fandom tumblr. lmao.

[bookishlyvintage]

Blood Sisters by Jane Corry [x]

[mediashadowreads]

°․✶ JANUARY WRAP & FEBRUARY HOPEFULS

[the-forest-library]

Queer AF - Okay, Cupid

2023 Debut Novel - One Night in Hartswood

That's Not My Name - The Marvelous Magic of Miss Mabel

Good Vibes Only - Infectious Generosity

Bird is the Word - Elf Dog & Owl Head

On Your TBR 5+ Years - The Silver Chair

Between 300 and 400 Pages - A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem

Name That Tune - The Breakup Tour

Dance the Night Away - The Ladies Rewrite the Rules

Four Word Title - All the Hidden Paths

These Woods Hold Secrets - After the Forest

Coauthored or Illustrated - Winter

Neon Colored Cover - Karma

Prominently Features a Desert - Places We've Never Been

Hotel, Mansion, or Castle - The Glass Castle

Retelling of a Classic - Most Ardently

Creature Feature - Shady Hollow

Written By or About a Celebrity - A Book of Days

[nightwardenminthara]

putting grimdark on the shelf of terms people use without understanding what it even means

[booktineus]

I knew this book was an older release (I first read the series in 2008), but I didn’t realise it first came out when I was 6 years old.

Still a fun reread though.

[princessofbookaholics]

BACKLIST READATHON TBR

I'm participating in the backlist readathon for the week which encourages reading books that have been on your tbr for a long time! I'll be reading the books below for the prompts!

a backlist hyped on booktok or social media: ask for andrea by noelle w. ilhi

a backlist with an even number of pages: home field advantage by dahlia adler

a backlist that's a goodreads nominee or winner: every last secret by a. r. torre

a backlist that's a 5 star prediction: didn't see that coming by jesse q. sutanto

the highest rated backlist on your tbr: the princess and the grilled cheese sandwich by deya muniz

[bonus] a backlist you borrowed multiple times and haven't read yet: once upon an eid by s.k. ali and aisha saeed

[mermaidsirennikita]

Can you recommend historicals with the plot being the heroine wanting the brother/cousin of the hero?

Well, When He Was Wicked comes to mind--I maintain that while Francesca loved John and may not have been fully aware of her attraction to Michael when John was alive... she was attracted to him. You just don't ask your hot friend/cousin-in-law about his conquests while walking alone with him at night... platonically. It's weird.

Obviously, The Earl Takes All by Lorraine Heath. Again, I don't really think Julia was conscious of the attraction when Albert was alive. But Edward DOES kiss her when he's alive, and there's obviously a spark.

Waking Up with The Duke by Lorraine Heath has Jayne have an affair (for baby-making purposes and with her husband's consent) with Ainsley, her husband's cousin. Again, I think she sublimated a lot of the attraction for as long as she could... but it was absolutely there, and I think that first kiss for sure awakened her.

Notorious Pleasures by Elizabeth Hoyt has the heroine have an affair with her fiancee's rakish brother, and it is HOT.

Beyond Scandal and Desire by Lorraine Heath has the heroine fall for her fiancee's brother... not that she or her fiancee KNOW at that point. Mick knows he's fiancee's brother, however, and that's WHY he starts it, lol.

His at Night by Sherry Thomas has a bit of a variation on this in that the heroine is TRYING to compromise a man she wants to marry, but she ends up accidentally doing it to his brother and having to marry him. Her new husband (who's a spy pretending to be an idiot, lol) absolutely knows what she was doing and has a very low opinion of her at first. He.... comes around.

The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian has the heroine fall for her husband's illegitimate son, lol.