Welcome to Litsy!

This book is both very smart and very sexy, but it‘s important to keep in mind that there‘s no happily ever after until the second book. (This isn‘t really a spoiler because romance novels are known for HEAs.) As a result, this book ends on a major downer, but it gets better! I loved how intelligent both the leads are, and how it felt less like a self-insert story and more like me talking with a very smart friend.

A #romance I‘m currently reading today as I try to relax (cramps got me feeling 😩).

My dog rarely stays still long enough to get a decent pic of her so I had to capture her in the background. She really dislikes getting her picture taken.

Are you reading anything good today?

#romantsy

I can‘t get out to local trails often and pick up the kiddos from daycare on time. After an embarrassing experience with trying to blade around my neighborhood (still working on stopping techniques), I‘ve moved to practicing at a nearby church parking lot. Overall I‘m ahead this week in my #bookfitnesschallenge goals:
Yoga 139/120 minutes
Rollerblading 77/90 minutes (24 minute walk to make up the difference)
1/2 audiobooks
1.5/3 paper books

Lots of interesting sex between English post-doc and newly minted college grad from New York while they discuss neuro somatic responses and attachment theory. (Foster is a sexuality scholar, I believe.) Summer fling turns angst ridden. NonHFN with HFN/HEA potential in sequel. #romantsy

Can't believe it's taken me this long to read How Not to Fall! Smart, quirky and sexy, with a hero who restrains himself BECAUSE MORALS. *swoons* #romantsy

Listening to past episodes of Smart Podcast, Trashy Books, specifically two with discussion with Emily Nagoski, author of "Come As You Are" which I had marked tbr a while back. Discussion was fascinating and she talked about her romance duology being published this year, so I went to start it immediately. A pretty direct counter to everything that was awful about 50 Shades, and I think it worked. I liked it. Will read the next one for sure!

This has potential. I'm rating it as a pick because I DO want to see what happens with the characters who were very likable. Having trouble articulating my criticism but in general I feel she over thought it. She wanted certain things to be present and so it felt like that was the goal rather than letting the story tell itself. I can't really fault that because she addressed all my beefs with the romance genre but at times it felt too didactic.

Third book of #24in48. When I discovered that Emily Nagoski (Come as You Are) had written a romance novel, I knew I had to read it!

I felt the author just didn't get love, relationships, or attachment at all. Also the power imbalance REALLY bothered me. Magnanimous older lover wants to find least harmful way to instruct and then abandon virgin girl. Gross. disappointing bc it put me off her nonfiction book Come As You Are too

I'm pretty much done with this book. Oh my god I love this book! I love the chemistry between Annie and Charles and how everything seems real rather than fake. Love love love. Will most definitely pick up the second book!

Started this book and Am so excited for it. Listened to Emily foster on the smart birches trashy books podcast. So thrilled!

So steamy. Can't wait for the next book!!!

If you want a smart and sexy romance, buy this immediately. IMMEDIATELY.

🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻 this is a romance almost tailor-made for me: science, more science, dance, crazy amounts of earth-shakingly-good sex, science while having sex, Wodehouse, a hot English neuroscientist, and in the middle one blindingly brilliant woman with so much to give. I ugly-cried.

Three pages in and this is hilarious. (PS: this author is actually Emily Nagoski, she of "Come As You Are" fame ?)