For today’s Caturday, we want to present this delightful gallery, where Game of Thrones characters are paired with their feline counterparts. Of course Tywin is a sphinx cat!
And while we’re thus amused, let us know — do you think Jon Snow is really dead? (I totally do not).
Sonali Dev’s highly-acclaimed debut, A Bollywood Affair, is down-priced to $2.99! It’s a contemporary romance that includes an arranged marriage, a forbidden brother, and a woman who’s trying to figure out her present as she charts a course to the future. Here’s the synopsis:
Mili Rathod hasn’t seen her husband in twenty years-not since she was promised to him at the age of four. Yet marriage has allowed Mili a freedom rarely given to girls in her village. Her grandmother has even allowed her to leave India and study in America for eight months, all to make her the perfect modern wife. Which is exactly what Mili longs to be-if her husband would just come and claim her.
Bollywood’s favorite director, Samir Rathod, has come to Michigan to secure a divorce for his older brother. Persuading a naïve village girl to sign the papers should be easy for someone with Samir’s tabloid-famous charm. But Mili is neither a fool nor a gold-digger. Open-hearted yet complex, she’s trying to reconcile her independence with cherished traditions. And before he can stop himself, Samir is immersed in Mili’s life-cooking her dal and rotis, escorting her to her roommate’s elaborate Indian wedding, and wondering where his loyalties and happiness lie.
Sonali releases her next book, The Bollywood Bride, on Tuesday, so it’s a good chance to give her writing a try to see if you like it.
Yesterday, Buzzfeed shared pics of shirtless guys with man-buns. Twenty of them, no less. Shirtless? Sure. Man-bun? Hmm.
Man-buns have become more ubiquitous of late (particularly in EverAfter Romance’s home turf, New York City), and they elicit some powerful opinions. The pro-bun lobby cites its general sexiness, noting that there’s the appeal of undoing the bun to release the long, flowing locks. The anti-bun lobby points out that a man-bun is a precious affectation, and makes the bun-wearer look like he’s trying too hard.
Has there been a romance novel yet with a hero who sports a man-bun? What are your opinions on the man-bun: Yea or nay?
It’s FALL! Time for sweaters, cider, pumpkins, and — sniff! — to put away your open-toed shoes.
Does the new season mean that your reading tastes change, too? Do you put away all those “beach reads” in favor of something a bit more substantive?
Does your reading taste change with the seasons?
According to some mystical calculations, this is the day the world ends. So if that is true, what are the five things you would have to do if this was to be your last day on earth?
Some suggestions:
What would you do?
Who are we without our friends? It seems like an excellent time to talk friendships, and how friendships are just as important in romance novels as in real life. Who’s got our back? Our best girlfriend. Who’s there when your dirtbag boyfriend does something that proves what your friend has been saying all along about him? Your friend (and she doesn’t even say “I told you so.” She just passes you the cookies).
Who are your favorite friends in romance?
Base Instincts
by Larissa Ione
September 12, 2015
Riptide Publishing
As a Seminus demon, Raze’s life literally depends on having sex with females. The problem is that he doesn’t desire females, and it’s physically impossible for him to be with males. Thankfully, he and his best friend, Fayle, have an arrangement that keeps him alive… if lonely. He finds some solace in his work as a medic at Thirst, a vampire club known for its rough clientele. But his carefully structured world turns upside down when he meets a mysterious male who makes him want what he can never have.
Slake is an assassin used to getting what he wants, and what he wants is Raze. But he also wants to earn back the soul he sold when he was a much different demon. All he has to do is capture a runaway succubus named Fayle and hand her over to her family. What he doesn’t count on is being caught himself by a web of lies—and his attraction to Raze.
Raze and Slake must navigate a dangerous world to be together. But as Fayle’s jealousy of their relationship turns deadly, they find themselves embroiled in a battle not only for their love, but their lives and souls.
Larissa Ione’s Demonica series depicts a convoluted world filled with demons, angels, and humans. Most of the demonic types have very specific ways of interacting with one another, which sets up immediate conflict (because if you have powers that can destroy other demons, for example, it’s an issue when you try to actually have a relationship with one).
One of my biggest fears is that when I die, I’ll be in the middle of reading a great book, and I won’t get to find out what happens. I fully expect that to be a reality, and I also know that when I die I will likely have hundreds of unread books in my TBR (To Be Read) pile. The TBR pile grows ever larger, with each daily deal, or discount, or autobuy author who releases another book.
You’ve probably got tons of books yet to be read also; how many books are on your TBR pile?
Photo from Flickr.
September is the time when television begins to ramp up again (even though it feels as though there are new shows all the time, doesn’t it?), and with new channels, even shows that weren’t renewed on their original network can find life somewhere else. The Mindy Project‘s fourth season starts on Hulu this month, and Hulu is (not coincidentally) offering a Hulu trial of its services.
When last we saw Mindy Lahiri, she was pregnant with Danny’s baby, she’d opened a fertility clinic, and her baby daddy Danny had flown to India to meet Mindy’s parents. So many open threads! So much drama!
Are you hoping those crazy kids Mindy and Danny get themselves together for real? Do you think Danny will let Mindy choose the baby’s name? (Beyonce, perhaps?) What other relationships are you paying a close eye to on television?
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We’re sorry you just spent more time than you dreamed possible watching small kittens hanging out.